2024 Awards

[billhoward]

Macklin Celebrini, BU freshman, 32G, 32A, 64 points. Wins over Boston College's Cutter Gauthier and North Dakota's Jackson Blake. Third BU winner in 15 years (Matt Gilroy, Jack Eichel).
https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/04/12_Macklin-Celebrini-Named-2024.php

[RichH]

Mike Richter wouldn't have won the Mike Richter award.

The highest accolade he achieved in college was 2nd team WCHA and he bailed for the pros after two decent but non-spectacular years. Yes, he had a HOF pro career, and that's super. But why does everyone just accept that the best collegiate performance bears that name?

I know, I know. I've been on this soapbox before. But can't we have some grumbling that it seems weird? Obviously, Dryden is a better honoree. Or Hrudy or Turco, or Miller, or even Bruce Bullock. Jesus, Richter shouldn't represent the college pinnacle.

It bugs me.

[billhoward]

1) You sound like a cranky old man. Do you yell, "Hey, you kids get off my lawn"? But ...
2) Yeah, you're right.
3) His bio notes Richter played 666 games in the NHL so it could have been the Mark of the Best Award. He won second place in the Vezina Trophy in his second year. He only played two years at Wisconsin, 33-25-1. Let's see, Ken Dryden went 76-4-1 at Cornell. He embodies the ethic of the college athlete: good jock, good student. And he didn't try to walk over Al Michaels in the announcer booth when the clock counted down and Michaels wound up to say, "Do you believe in miracles?"

[RichH]

1) You sound like a cranky old man. Do you yell, "Hey, you kids get off my lawn"? But ...
2) Yeah, you're right.
3) His bio notes Richter played 666 games in the NHL so it could have been the Mark of the Best Award. He won second place in the Vezina Trophy in his second year. He only played two years at Wisconsin, 33-25-1. Let's see, Ken Dryden went 76-4-1 at Cornell. He embodies the ethic of the college athlete: good jock, good student. And he didn't try to walk over Al Michaels in the announcer booth when the clock counted down and Michaels wound up to say, "Do you believe in miracles?"

1) It should be very clear by now that I absolutely do, bill. :-)

It is interesting, when you listen to the famous line, you can hear Ken exhale "unbeLIEVEable" at the end.

Thanks for the acknowledgment, and well done with the "Mark of the Beast" joke.

[Trotsky]

Greg Brown wins the Spencer Penrose.  Last BC coach to win it was Len Ceglarski in his first year at BC in 1973.

[billhoward]

Greg Brown wins the Spencer Penrose.  Last BC coach to win it was Len Ceglarski in his first year at BC in 1973.

Since Ceglarski and 1973 (actually since 1949), BC had a long title drought until 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2012. And Greg Brown is only BC's fifth head coach in just under a century, mostly because Snooks Kelley was HC 1933-1972, then Ceglarski for two decades, then Jerry York for 18.