BC Interruption - The 2016 Beanpot: Complete CoverageA Boston College Eagles Community.https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47285/bci-fave.png2016-02-11T07:28:43-05:00http://www.bcinterruption.com/rss/stream/106427392016-02-11T07:28:43-05:002016-02-11T07:28:43-05:00Hockey East Suspends Miles Wood For One Game
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<p>He will miss tomorrow night's game vs. Merrimack</p> <p>Well, I can't say I saw this one coming. Hockey East has suspended Boston College forward Miles Wood for one game following his hit on BU's Ahti Oksanen in the first period of Monday night's Beanpot final. Wood received a two minute minor on the play, but the powers that be evidently felt it was too much head contact to stand as a two minute minor. Wood will now miss tomorrow night's home game against Merrimack.</p>
<p>You make the call...</p>
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<p>I'm obviously biased but I really thought two minutes was the right call in this situation. There was no intent to make head contact here - it was a shoulder to shoulder hit - but in 2016 you're going to the box if the follow through impacts the head at all (which it clearly does on replay). Additionally, though I don't like the fact that "How injured is the player who got hit?" is a factor in determining how severe a penalty is doled out, it is a factor, and Oksanen was clearly fine to continue on the next shift (as NESN's Andy Brickley points out in the above video).</p>
<p>Seeing this retroactive call makes me even more thankful that we didn't have the usual "Whistle everything" Beanpot crews featuring refs like Benedetto and Hansen who feel like a game needs 15 penalties called. The officials did a good job defusing some tense situations in the game while also letting the game flow and not ruining it with an excessive amount of calls. They were consistent in "letting them play," which was appreciated.</p>
<p>I can't really say I find this decision to suspend Wood for one game to be consistent with what we usually see on a week to week basis.</p>
<p>Wood will return to the lineup Saturday night at Merrimack.</p>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-hockey-2015-2016-season/2016/2/11/10965218/hockey-east-suspends-miles-wood-for-one-gameJoseph Gravellese2016-02-10T07:30:02-05:002016-02-10T07:30:02-05:00BC Women Destroyed The Field At 2016 Beanpot
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<p>The Eagles completely demolished their opposition by a combined 15-0 score</p> <p>The #1 ranked, 30-0-0 Boston College women's hockey team didn't just exorcise their demons from last year's stunning Beanpot final loss to Harvard - they completely and utterly demolished them. The Eagles torched their opponents by a combined 15-0 score, throttling Harvard 8-0 in game 1 and following that up with a 7-0 pasting of #6 Northeastern in Tuesday night's championship game.</p>
<p>The Eagles' Beanpot dominance was the most lopsided performance by any women's Beanpot champion since 1989, when Northeastern outscored their opponents by a combined 20-0, including an 11-0 win over BC, who was at that point just a club team. The Women's version of this tournament was founded in 1979, and featured a number of highly uneven matchups, as Northeastern and Harvard were the city's only two varsity programs at that point.</p>
<p>In the era since alll four programs reached varsity status, there's really nothing resembling what BC did to the field this year. The second most lopsided total score was Harvard's 12-4 margin over the field last year, on the strength of a 9-2 win over BU in the semifinals.</p>
<p>The way Boston College handled two quality opponents in perennial-contender Harvard and #6 ranked Northeastern is hopefully a good sign of things to come for the Eagles, who are seeking their first Hockey East tournament crown since 2011 despite being the league's dominant regular season program the last few seasons. BC will also be seeking their first appearance in the NCAA title game.</p>
<p>First thing's first, though - BC's next task is a Friday afternoon game against the same Northeastern Huskies at Conte Forum. If BC wins that one, they will wrap up the league's regular season crown.</p>
<p>Grant will have the full goal by goal GIF recap of last night's game later on today. Given the way BC obliterated their opponents last night, it's going to take a while.</p>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-womens-hockey-2015-2016/2016/2/10/10957940/boston-college-women-post-most-dominant-beanpot-performance-since-1989Joseph Gravellese2016-02-09T21:32:59-05:002016-02-09T21:32:59-05:00Double Beanpots! BC Women's Hockey Wallops #6 Northeastern 7-0 To Win The Women's Beanpot<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/BC_WHockey/status/697245225094410240">Double Beanpots! BC Women's Hockey Wallops #6 Northeastern 7-0 To Win The Women's&nbsp;Beanpot</a></h3>
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https://www.bcinterruption.com/2016/2/9/10956430/double-beanpots-bc-womens-hockey-wallops-5-northeastern-7-0-to-winGrant Salzano2016-02-09T18:55:02-05:002016-02-09T18:55:02-05:00Women's Beanpot: BC vs. NU GameThread (7:30 PM)
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<p>The Eagles and the Huskies go for the crown tonight at Walter Brown Arena</p> <h3>
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<b>Game Date: </b>Tuesday, February 9, 2016</div>
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<b>Puck Drop: </b>7:30 PM</div>
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<b>Venue: </b>Walter Brown Arena</div>
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<b>Storyline:</b> The Boston College Eagles look to improve to a perfect 30-0-0 tonight in their biggest game of what's been a ruthlessly efficient season. BC attempts tonight to claim a trophy after whiffing on all three attempts last season; they'll have to do it by beating a highly skilled team featuring the leader in the race for this year's Patty Kazmaier Award, Kendall Coyne. Earlier this season, BC edged past the Huskies in a tight contest at Conte Forum; can they repeat the feat and take home the Beanpot crown?</div>
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<b>Interact: </b>Send us your thoughts either in a comment here or over on Twitter if you're heading to Walter Brown Arena or watching along at home. Can BC pick up the Beanpot Double in 2016?</div>
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https://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-womens-hockey-2015-2016/2016/2/9/10951606/womens-beanpot-boston-college-vs-northeastern-gamethread-7-30-pmLaura B - BC Interruption2016-02-09T13:43:59-05:002016-02-09T13:43:59-05:00ANATOMY OF A GAME-WINNER: BC Tops BU In Overtime
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<p>Goal by goal</p> <p>Wow.</p>
<p>Is anyone else's heart rate still elevated after last night's wild and crazy game? By now, <a href="http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/boxes16.php?mbc_bu_1.f08">you all know what happened</a>. But we'll go through the motions anyway.</p>
<p>Early on it looked like BC might win by 6 or 7. The Eagles took 12 of the game's first 13 shots and kept coming at the Terriers in waves, until finally BU was granted a reprieve thanks to a <a href="http://www.bcinterruption.com/2016/2/8/10944424/the-lights-have-gone-out-at-the-beanpot/in/10642739">bizarre power outage</a> that lasted a half hour and sent the teams back to the locker rooms for a short stretch.</p>
<p>But despite BC literally shooting the lights out, they came away with nothing to show for it, and The Terriers found their legs. The rest of regulation featured a much closer battle on the shot chart, and while BC did have most of the good chances, BU's Sean Maguire's goaltending was equal to the task.</p>
<p>60 minutes in, the game had featured just about everything, from a near-brawl including a punch to the jaw from BU's Jordan Greenway, two separate incidents with Terriers bowling over <span>Thatcher Demko</span>, and some of the best team defense you will ever see in a hockey game...</p>
<p>Everything, of course, except a goal.</p>
<p><b>Boston College Goal #1: 1:57 of Overtime<br><span>Alex Tuch</span> (Zach Sanford, <span>Steve Santini</span>)</b></p>
<p><b><i>BC 1, BU 0 -- FINAL</i></b></p>
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<p>It all starts and ends with Alex Tuch.</p>
<p>The puck is in BU's end and it's Tuch pressuring BU, and the Terriers have to chip it out without getting to set up much of a breakout. On its way out, Doherty gets a little hip check on the Terrier going to retrieve the puck and it disrupts him enough so that Santini doesn't face the same pressure that BU did in their own end.</p>
<p>That extra second is what makes the difference, otherwise Santini probably just has to play it safe and dump it out, too. Instead, he has that time to look up ice and find Sanford in the neutral zone to get the puck moving in the right direction.</p>
<p>Sanford pushes it ahead to Tuch, and at this point even though it's early in the overtime, you can tell that the players are already a little sluggish from having to play beyond 60 minutes. BU is up on the blue line, but their feet aren't really moving. Tuch pulls it back and figures he'll just have a go on net.</p>
<p>Even though he's up high, he still makes it a good play by sliding over to give himself a full frontal angle on the net. That's not enough to get him the goal, but the screen out front takes away just that split second extra for Maguire, and those two factors send the puck whipping around the back of the net and sending the BC end of the balcony into cacophony.</p>
<p>It was just the kind of play you're taught to make in a long overtime -- just get the puck to the net.</p>
<p>What an exciting game. After a whole season without any hardware, it's nice to start putting things in their rightful place in the trophy case.</p>
<p>BC is no doubt dinged up, but fortunately Merrimack, sitting only above lowly UMass in the Hockey East standings, is up next for a home and home. It wouldn't surprise me to see a couple Eagles (specifically Eagles whose names rhyme with Catcher Hem Co.) take a breather in one of those games, but after BC's big 2nd half climb in the Pairwise, this is no time for the Eagles to come up with a letdown came.</p>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-hockey/2016/2/9/10951330/goal-by-goal-beanpot-boston-college-bc-eagles-hockey-boston-university-bu-terriers-WOOOOGrant Salzano2016-02-09T10:30:03-05:002016-02-09T10:30:03-05:00Women's Beanpot Final: Game Time, How To Watch
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<p>BC going for the Beanpot Double tonight at Walter Brown Arena</p> <p>How are you feeling this morning? Can you handle any more hockey after last night's craziness? If you can, head on down to Walter Brown Arena tonight on the campus of Boston University as the #1-ranked Boston College women's hockey team gets set to take on Northeastern in the women's Beanpot final. The ladies will look to follow up on the men's win last night and earn BC a Beanpot double, a feat they accomplished in 2014.</p>
<p>A remarkable subplot is that Alex Carpenter has never won a Beanpot while at BC. The Eagles' crown in 2014 came while Carpenter was away at the Olympics. BC fell to Northeastern in 2012 and 2013, and had last year's infamous defeat to Harvard in Carpenter's junior year. The defending Patty Kazmaier award winner will look to lift some big hardware and get that monkey off her back.</p>
<p><u style="font-weight: bold;">The Matchup</u></p>
<p><b>Start time: 7:30 PM <br>#6 Northeastern University (25-4-1) vs. #1 Boston College (29-0-0)</b></p>
<p>The Huskies won the coin toss (Coyne toss?) and will serve as the home team tonight, though the game will be played on a neutral site at BU's Walter Brown Arena.</p>
<p><b><u>Broadcast Information</u></b></p>
<p><b>Streaming: </b>BU's streaming service, <a href="http://www.goterriers.com/collegesportslive/?media=519683">Terrier TV,</a> will stream tonight's game live for free.</p>
<p><b><u>Live Stats/Twitter</u></b></p>
<p>You can follow live stats from tonight's game <a href="http://www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_whockey.html?event=1486328&school=bc&sport=whockey&camefrom=&startschool=&">here</a>.</p>
<p>Follow the two teams on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/bc_whockey">@BC_WHockey </a>and <a href="http://twitter.com/gonuwhockey">@GoNUWHockey</a>.</p>
<p>Our writers will be covering/discussing the game from both at home and on-site: <a href="http://twitter.com/salzano14">@salzano14</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/joegrav">@joegrav</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/arthurbailin">@arthurbailin</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/laurbear90">@laurbear90</a></p>
<p><b><u>Comparing the teams</u></b></p>
<p>Boston College is unsurprisingly at or near the top of the nation in most statistical categories. The Eagles are #1 in the nation in team offense, averaging a staggering 5.31 goals per game, though NU is not far behind at #3 (4.57 G/GM). BC also has the nation'[s #3-ranked defense (1.21 GAA). The Huskies are 13th in that category (2.13 GAA).</p>
<p>A big upgrade for BC over last year is their power play, which sits at #3 in the nation at 28.04%. Last year, BC's power play struggled mightily and came up empty in numerous key opportunities against Harvard in both the Beanpot final and the NCAA national semifinal. Special teams could be an edge for BC; their PK is also #3 in the nation.</p>
<p>Of course the key matchup between these two teams is the head to head duel between arguably the two best players in the nation, Alex Carpenter and Kendall Coyne.</p>
<p><b><u>The Consolation Game</u></b></p>
<p>Host Boston University takes on Harvard in the consolation game as Harvard still tries to figure out what happened after getting dump-trucked 8-0 by BC last weekend. BC's victory may well have sent the Crimson in to a tailspin; they tied much lower ranked Brown over the weekend.</p>
<p>Amusingly, unlike the men's consolation game, you can actually watch this game if you want (free streaming on TerrierTV). Though I don't know why you'd want to.</p>
<p><b><u>Previews</u></b></p>
<p>Here's the <a href="http://www.bceagles.com/news/2016/2/7/MIH_0207160228.aspx">game preview from BCEagles.com</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://bceagles.com/news/2016/2/8/WIH_0208165149.aspx"></a></p>
<p>Also, BCEagles.com's <a href="http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/bceagles.com/documents/2016/1/30/27_Beanpot_HARVARD_Notes_Feb_1_2016.pdf?id=12526">game notes</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/bceagles.com/documents/2016/2/7/29_Beanpot_Boston_University_Notes_Feb_8_2016.pdf?id=12538"></a></p>
<p>You can read <a href="http://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-hockey-2015-2016-season/2016/1/31/10878698/the-2016-beanpot-complete-coverage">BCI's complete Beanpot coverage</a> throughout the day as we prep for the women's final and recap the men's tournament.</p>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-womens-hockey-2015-2016/2016/2/9/10949476/2016-womens-beanpot-championship-game-time-how-to-watch-previews-andLaura B - BC Interruption2016-02-08T23:46:52-05:002016-02-08T23:46:52-05:00Thatcher Demko Sets BC Single Season Shutout Record<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/BCHockeyNews/status/696908630277410816">Thatcher Demko Sets BC Single Season Shutout&nbsp;Record</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>With his 9th shutout of the season, Thatcher Demko set the BC single season record for shutouts tonight - and did he ever do it in style. He backstopped BC to the first ever 1-0 final in Beanpot history, and battled through getting barreled in to twice by BU's Jordan Greenway on breakways that left him briefly down and out.</p></p></div>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/2016/2/8/10947834/thatcher-demko-sets-bc-single-season-shutout-recordJoseph Gravellese2016-02-08T22:59:04-05:002016-02-08T22:59:04-05:00WATCH: Alex Tuch's rocket sends the Beanpot back to Chestnut Hill!<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/adamar108/status/696930789578113025">WATCH: Alex Tuch's rocket sends the Beanpot back to Chestnut&nbsp;Hill!</a></h3>
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https://www.bcinterruption.com/2016/2/8/10947484/watch-alex-tuchs-rocket-sends-the-beanpot-back-to-chestnut-hillGrant Salzano