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From the FreeP: Jack Parker announces retirement after 40 years as BU head coach

By Tim Healey/DFP Staff

After 40 seasons as the Boston University men’s hockey coach, Jack Parker has decided it is time to sail off into the sunset.
The legendary coach, who has racked up 894 wins and three national championships, officially announced his retirement effective at the end of the season at an Agganis Arena news conference Monday afternoon, with BU Athletic Director Mike Lynch and BU President Robert Brown by his side.
“It has been a great run. I had a great time doing it,” Parker said. “I always talk about BU being a family. I’ve got two daughters and 226 sons and the team that I have here right now are my youngest sons. And I’m not going to have any more children.”
Many of those 226 sons were in attendance Monday afternoon, from members of the 2009 national championship team like John McCarthy and Colby Cohen to 1980 Olympic star Mike Eruzione to former-captain-turned-son-in-law Scott Lachance.
Eruzione, who only had one Division I program recruit him, was particularly reflective in terms of what Parker has meant to not only the men’s hockey program but the university as a whole over the last four decades.
“Just what he’s meant not only as a coach, but as a person and a friend,” Eruzione said. “You see all the former players here, from the old era to the new era, gives you indication of what he has meant to him in their lives. He’s a special man and a special person. I think we’re very fortunate that the university has him associated with us, not only hockey-wise, but the university itself.”
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