Giving credit where it's due...

Some quotes on the Big Red from BU defenseman Bryan Miller:


With 22 regular season games still to play, time may be on the side of the Boston University hockey team, but history is certainly not.

Since 1990, the Terriers have only twice missed qualifying for the NCAA Tournament, with those sub-par seasons coming in 1998-99 and 2000-01. BU went 14-20-3 in each of those seasons, the only two of the last 12 years the Icedogs lost five of their first 14 games.

That’s bad news for the boys on Babcock Street, who find themselves at 7-5-2 after being dominated and disposed of by Cornell University in a combined 9-2 two-game sweep last weekend.

“We’re not too happy. It was obviously not fun,” said sophomore defenseman Bryan Miller. “We hit kind of a low point in the season, some tough times. You can’t take anything away from Cornell. They’re a tough team, but we didn’t play as well as we could have.”

Cornell outplayed BU so badly it looked like a matchup of men against boys, Terriers’ Coach Jack Parker told U.S. College Hockey Online after Sunday’s game, when BU’s lone tally in a 5-1 loss came when junior forward Mark Mullen converted a shorthanded chance provided by a Doug Murray turnover.

Mullen’s goal came with BU already down 4-0, the result of a Big Red blitzkrieg that gave Cornell a 3-0 lead at the end of the first period. The Red did the same thing the previous afternoon, as well, sitting on those scores until an empty netter secured a 4-1 win.

“Personally, I think they’re the best team we’ve played all year,” Miller said of Cornell. “They don’t have any superstar individuals, but together as a team, they forecheck and pressure like crazy. They get two to three guys on you in their defensive zone. They have a great goalie, and they’re unbelievably physical.”

Recent BU teams have never been a bunch to shy away from physical play, but last weekend Cornell maintained a “big-time” physical edge, according to Miller.

“Our immediate goal is to learn from the past weekend and see what Cornell did to us,” he said. “I know when we played [the University of Massachusetts at] Lowell [and won 3-2], we got lucky to tell you the truth. They outplayed us. BU teams are usually physical and we need to get that back in our game.”

Mark,

Thanks for posting this. Do you have a link to the source? ('m guessing it is an excerpt from some article on BU.)

Jason:

It ran in the student paper:

I tried to grab the link...[www.dailyfreepress.com]

After reading through it a second time and realizing that Miller felt Cornell was better than BC, UNH and Maine (teams that BU had played already), I thought, hey, maybe 9-2 for the weekend wasn't so bad after all.