By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff
Leading up to Monday night’s showdown with Boston College, Boston University men’s hockey coach Jack Parker said the biggest reason he wanted to beat the Eagles was to give his team some confidence against BC, a team the Terriers were already 0-3 against this season. He wanted his team to know that it could play with the best team in the country.
The Terriers didn’t beat the Eagles on Monday, but they certainly showed that they can play with their archrivals. Sure, the one-goal deficit was the same as the teams’ last meeting, but Monday’s matchup had a very different feel.
Unlike their previous meetings with BC, the Terriers never fell behind by multiple goals. In each of the first three games against the Eagles, BU deflated for long stretches of the game once BC got on the board. In fact, each time the Eagles opened their scoring, they scored at least two more goals before the Terriers could answer.
LOL – we’re so pathetic that we’re now playing the moral victory game?
We played our best possible game and still lost to BC.
How does this prove we can play with BC?
Now that the BU season is over, I’m expecting my classes that have hockey players to have a lot more empty seats for the next couple of months.
Even with the referees helping us out, we still couldn’t beat BC.
great headline!