BC Interruption - 2015 Women's Frozen Four: Complete CoverageA Boston College Eagles Community.https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47285/bci-fave.png2015-03-22T16:43:17-04:00http://www.bcinterruption.com/rss/stream/80163162015-03-22T16:43:17-04:002015-03-22T16:43:17-04:00Live video as Minnesota scores to go up 1-0 on Harvard in the NCAA Championship<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ED562SRqVsk" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>
<div class="source source-img"><p><p>Megan Wolfe scores at the end of the first to put the Gophers up 1-0.</p></p></div>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/2015/3/22/8273547/live-video-as-minnesota-scores-to-go-up-1-0-on-harvard-in-the-ncaaGrant Salzano2015-03-21T12:05:57-04:002015-03-21T12:05:57-04:00The Best: Alex Carpenter Wins 2015 Patty Kaz Award
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<p>Award given to the best player in women's college hockey</p> <p>At Boston College, we already knew that Alex Carpenter was the best player in America. Now, it's official.</p>
<p>Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis, BC's Alex Carpenter was awarded the 2015 Patty Kaz award. The award is given to the top player in all of women's college hockey.</p>
<p>Carpenter went Scorched Earth on women's hockey this season. She was a virtual lock for the award since about a third of the way through the season, leading wire-to-wire in just about every offensive category you can think of.</p>
<p>Here were her mind-boggling numbers entering the Frozen Four:</p>
<p><b>Goals: </b>37 (2nd place: 32)<br><b>Assists: </b>44 (2nd place: 40)<br><b>Points: </b>81 (2nd place: 71)<br><b>Goals per game: </b>1.03 (2nd place: 0.90)<br><b>Assists per game: </b>1.22 (2nd place: 1.16)<br><b>Points per game: </b>2.25 (2nd place: 1.97)<br><b>Game-winning goals:</b> 9 (2nd place: 8)</p>
<p>And she's coming back next year!</p>
<p>Beyond the numbers, Carpenter has a well-earned reputation as a leader, not just at BC but internationally. She wears the "A" on her jersey as alternate captain for the Eagles (as a junior), but is also captain of the US National Team and was one of the top players for the US Olympic team, centering the top line and leading the Americans in scoring.</p>
<p>It's the first Patty Kazmaier award for Boston College, and it couldn't possibly go to a more deserving candidate both on and off the ice.</p>
<p>Congratulations to Alex Carpenter, and here's to another one next year!</p>
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<p>Eagles once again fail to break through to the championship</p> <p>At what point must you accept that BC is the UNH of women's hockey—dominating through the regular season but never finding a way to win a championship?</p>
<p>Last night at a sold-out Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, the Eagles dominated gameplay once again, holding a 44-21 edge in shots, but gave up two third period goals and <a href="http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/women/boxes15.php?wbc_har1.m20">fell to the Harvard Crimson 2-1</a>, ending their season.</p>
<p>The game started well enough for BC. Just seconds into the game, the Eagles appeared to get the scoring started. BC sent a harmless puck in on Harvard goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer from behind the goal line and it appeared to bounce its way across the goal line. The referee signaled "goal," and the Eagles celebrated, but a quick review overturned the call on the ice, saying that the puck was kicked into the net.</p>
<p>It seemed to give the Crimson new life for several minutes, but the game seemed to turn in the Eagles' favor with five minutes left in the first. Miye D'Oench, arguably Harvard's most skilled player, took a brutal hitting from behind penalty on BC's Emily Pfalzer, giving her the gate and putting the Eagles on a crucial 5 minute power play to end the first.</p>
<p>BC's struggling power play managed to throw several good shots on net, but Maschmeyer came up with the save every time, sending Harvard into the locker room scoreless in the upset bid and the Eagles into theirs with a familiar sense of frustration.</p>
<p>The bigger story was that the Eagles couldn't break through with D'Oench being sent to the locker room for the vast majority of the game. Not scoring on the five minute major was not just bad for BC on the scoreboard, but it was a bad foreshadowing for the remainder of the game.</p>
<p>The second period once again saw BC dominate the shots but unable to find the back of the net. Maschmeyer made a couple tremendous saves, and the Eagles managed to rifle a shot off the very inside of the post, once again sending BC into the locker room wondering what they had to do to score.</p>
<p>Then, crushing disappointment. Early in the third period, Harvard's Kalley Armstrong took a harmless shot from the point on what was basically a dump in on a line change. The puck trickled through to Katie Burt but took a couple low bounces and knuckled right past the freshman goaltender, giving Harvard the first goal of the game and the lead.</p>
<p>BC responded well, putting more pressure on Harvard and Maschmeyer, but realistic hope of a tying goal took a terrible blow with 7 minutes left in the game. Harvard's Haley Mullins was called for interference—incredible given that the third period was played with prison hockey rules for the first 13 minutes—and after all of BC's pressure, it looked like this was the break they needed.</p>
<p>Instead, Harvard won the very next faceoff, and Mary Parker went coast to coast, burned past BC's defense and sent a shot into Katie Burt. Burt made the initial save, but the traffic in the crease sent the puck bouncing back to her and the puck and Burt both barely tumbled into the net.</p>
<p>Parker knew the puck was in, but the referee waved off the goal on the ice. It only delayed the inevitable, as the game's second review went the Crimson's way again, putting Harvard up 2-0.</p>
<p>The Eagles redoubled their efforts, and managed to get one back with a full four and a half minutes to go giving them plenty of time to try one last time for the tying goal, but two netmouth scrums, a post, a couple high and wide shots later, the Harvard bench spilled onto the ice to celebrate their berth in the national championship game against Minnesota.</p>
<p>It was another blow in a string of postseason heartbreaks for BC. You can say they played well by looking at the shots on goal, but it's the same thing that's plagued them in years past: they made a ton of shots but were unable to score.</p>
<p>After torching every team they played in the first half, the Eagles seemed to become a victim of their own success. They stopped passing and started shooting, and not taking big, early leads only seemed to exaggerate the problem. BC would panic, taking shot after shot from way up high looking for deflections instead of creating plays to get open shots from the slot.</p>
<p>It's going to a very long offseason for this team. BC ended the season with three losses at the worst possible times: in the Beanpot championship, the Hockey East championship, and the Frozen Four. Hopefully the disappointment makes all of the returning Eagles angry and hungrier than ever to break through next season.</p>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/ncaa-womens-hockey-tournament-frozen-four-bracket-2015/2015/3/21/8269279/heartbreak-again-as-bc-womens-hockey-falls-to-harvard-in-frozen-fourGrant Salzano2015-03-20T23:16:41-04:002015-03-20T23:16:41-04:00Final Score: Harvard 2, BC 1 -- Season ends at the hands of the Crimson<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/BC_WHockey/status/579117388773261312">Final Score: Harvard 2, BC 1 -- Season ends at the hands of the&nbsp;Crimson</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>A disappointing end to a strong season for BC. The Eagles once again do not advance to the national title game. Emily Field scored a late goal to cut into Harvard's lead but it was not enough.</p></p></div>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/2015/3/20/8268645/final-score-harvard-2-bc-0-season-ends-at-the-hands-of-the-crimsonGrant Salzano2015-03-20T22:22:23-04:002015-03-20T22:22:23-04:00END 2: BC 0, Harvard 0 in the Women's Frozen Four<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/BC_WHockey/status/579105353389858816">END 2: BC 0, Harvard 0 in the Women's Frozen&nbsp;Four</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>It's heart attack time.</p></p></div>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/2015/3/20/8268523/end-2-bc-0-harvard-0-in-the-womens-frozen-fourGrant Salzano2015-03-20T20:09:39-04:002015-03-20T20:09:39-04:00Minnesota defeats Wisconsin 3-1, BC vs. Harvard up next<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/Salzano14/status/579071872609849345">Minnesota defeats Wisconsin 3-1, BC vs. Harvard up&nbsp;next</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>Let's go, Eagles!</p></p></div>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/2015/3/20/8268169/minnesota-defeats-wisconsin-3-1-bc-vs-harvard-up-nextGrant Salzano2015-03-20T18:05:37-04:002015-03-20T18:05:37-04:00The puck has dropped on the 2015 Women's Frozen Four!<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/Salzano14/status/579040568451289089">The puck has dropped on the 2015 Women's Frozen&nbsp;Four!</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>Minnesota vs. Wisconsin at 6pm ET, BC vs. Harvard at 9pm ET. Let's go, maroon and gold!</p></p></div>
https://www.bcinterruption.com/2015/3/20/8267769/the-puck-has-dropped-on-the-2015-womens-frozen-fourGrant Salzano2015-03-20T13:30:02-04:002015-03-20T13:30:02-04:00Tale of the Tape: BC Women's Hockey vs. Harvard
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<p>Tale of the Tape</p> <p>It's the rubber match between the top two eastern teams in women's hockey this season. Who has the edge?</p>
<p><b>Record:<br></b>BC: 34-2-2<br>Harvard: 26-5-3</p>
<p><b>Last 13 Games:</b><br>Harvard: 11-1-1<br>Boston College: 10-2-1</p>
<p><b>Top Scorers: <br></b>Boston College: Alex Carpenter, Jr. (37-44--81)<br>Harvard: Mary Parker, Jr. (16-22--38)</p>
<p><b>Scoring Depth, Season:</b><br>Boston College: 10 players in the top 80 in PPG<br>Harvard: 5 players in the top 80 in PPG</p>
<p><b>Scoring Depth, 2nd half:</b><br>Boston College: 7 players in the top 8 in PPG<br>Harvard: 6 players in the top 80 in PPG</p>
<p><b>Team Offense, Season:</b><br>Boston College: 5.11 GPG<br>Harvard: 3.76 GPG</p>
<p><b>Team Offense, 2nd Half:</b><br>Boston College: 4.35<br>Harvard: 4.04</p>
<p><b>Team Defense, Season:</b><br>Boston College: 1.18 GPG<br>Harvard: 1.53 GPG</p>
<p><b>Team Defense: 2nd Half:</b><br>Harvard: 1.08 GPG<br>Boston College: 1.35 GPG</p>
<p>There's a distinct picture being painted here: Boston College has been the most consistently dominant team over the course of the season, but the Eagles cooled off and came back to the pack in the 2nd half. Harvard, on the other hand, had a slow start, but had a stronger 2nd half.</p>
<p>That's evident just looking at the two games between these two teams this season.</p>
<p>Way back in November, the Eagles <a href="http://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-womens-hockey-2014-15-season/2014/11/29/7305931/goal-by-goal-1-boston-college-bc-womens-hockey-ruins-7-harvard-crimson-10-2">absolutely ruined the Crimson</a> at Conte Forum to the tune of a 10-2 score. BC outshot Harvard 42-22, and though the game was actually tied early in the 2nd period, the Eagles opened up the floodgates and just went to town, scoring 5 goals on two different Harvard goaltenders.</p>
<p>It was a different story in the Beanpot championship. The Crimson handed BC <a href="http://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-womens-hockey-2014-15-season/2015/2/11/8023307/boston-college-eagles-bc-womens-hockey-falls-in-beanpot-for-first-loss-harvard-crimson">their first loss of the season</a> after starting 27-0-1. But it wouldn't be fair to say that Harvard outplayed the Eagles—BC still outshot the Crimson 32-17 and looked like they were going to run away with it after scoring early and taking the first 8 shots of the game.</p>
<p>But Harvard came back and took the win with two 2nd period goals, and the Eagles couldn't find the equalizer in the third period, in part because of a brutal 5 minute major call on Alex Carpenter, taking the best player in the nation off the ice for a big chunk of the last period.</p>
<p>Harvard has a lineup almost as deep as BC's, so expect a wide-open game. BC will be favored, but it should be a thriller.</p>
<p>Puck drop on BC's 2015 Frozen Four is at 9pm tonight at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis. Time for the Eagles to go get it.</p>
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