Frozen Four

[Jim Hyla]

Got tired of talking about the FF on other threads, so started this.

Unhappily for others, I'm rooting for BU.

First, there's something satisfying about getting beaten by the champion, with some obvious exceptions (Mainly notables from our league that I don't want to win.) rather than beaten by someone who then loses to another team. I'm happy that after beating us Denver goes on to win it all. We lost to the champ.

Second, and maybe more important, I actually have a warm spot for BU from all the rivalry that we had in the 60s & 70s. To me it was great to beat them, but I never disliked them. They were not "The School" in Boston. A true city school, unlike BC. To me their real claim to fame was hockey, and they did it well.

Second choice is Western. To me they have some of an old BU feeling. Not the best school ever, not a big state school with a huge athletic budget. Just a sort of unknown, except to hockey fans, where everyone in the school seems to think that hockey is important. Besides that's where Schafer learned some of his coaching!

[BearLover]

I will be rooting, strongly, against BU because they play by totally different rules than we do. The only reason they got this far is that they plucked a mercenary goalie directly from the USHL halfway through the season. Also, they ended the career of Mike Schafer in the most brutal Cornell defeat since I became a fan. Further, they benefited from a terrible officiating. The facemask penalty on Walsh was a total joke, and the holding penalty on Bancroft was an absolute phantom call and led to the BU go-ahead goal. BU does not deserve to be in the frozen four and I will feel zero sympathy for their fifteen draft picks if they get eliminated in St. Louis.

[617BigRed]

I will be rooting, strongly, against BU because they play by totally different rules than we do. The only reason they got this far is that they plucked a mercenary goalie directly from the USHL halfway through the season. Also, they ended the career of Mike Schafer in the most brutal Cornell defeat since I became a fan. Further, they benefited from a terrible officiating. The facemask penalty on Walsh was a total joke, and the holding penalty on Bancroft was an absolute phantom call and led to the BU go-ahead goal. BU does not deserve to be in the frozen four and I will feel zero sympathy for their fifteen draft picks if they get eliminated in St. Louis.

BearLover right 100 percent here

[kaburke00]

I will be rooting, strongly, against BU because they play by totally different rules than we do. The only reason they got this far is that they plucked a mercenary goalie directly from the USHL halfway through the season. Also, they ended the career of Mike Schafer in the most brutal Cornell defeat since I became a fan. Further, they benefited from a terrible officiating. The facemask penalty on Walsh was a total joke, and the holding penalty on Bancroft was an absolute phantom call and led to the BU go-ahead goal. BU does not deserve to be in the frozen four and I will feel zero sympathy for their fifteen draft picks if they get eliminated in St. Louis.

BearLover right 100 percent here

Second. Though I'm going for Denver. I think Carle is a class act.

[imafrshmn]

I'm rooting for Western Michigan for their underdog stature and the Schafer connection

[scoop85]

I'm rooting for Western Michigan for their underdog stature and the Schafer connection

Ditto

[adamw]

Yegorov not exactly a mercenary. He was committed to BU and came a semester early. Rescued from a junior program that had lost like 24 in a row and was on their 3rd coach of the season, with an utterly ridiculous, inept and corrupt ownership. All the players there were begging out.

All the schools in the Frozen Four would and have done the same kinds of things in various ways.

[stereax]

Yegorov not exactly a mercenary. He was committed to BU and came a semester early. Rescued from a junior program that had lost like 24 in a row and was on their 3rd coach of the season, with an utterly ridiculous, inept and corrupt ownership. All the players there were begging out.

All the schools in the Frozen Four would and have done the same kinds of things in various ways.

Yeah. If you were on Yegorov watch with Devils fans... the Omaha Lancers are an absolute dumpster fire of an organization and everyone cheered when he was rescued from bumfuck Nebraska, lol. Kid's what, 18? And that good in net. Gonna be a problem for a long time, thank god he's not in the ECAC and not our problem specifically.

Fwiw, BU did the same with Lacroix last year (their current #3 but backup next year), bringing him in to start the spring. Nowhere near as good as Yegorov, though.

The Lancers lost... 30. In a row. And had the absolute gall to make headlines like "Lincoln pulls away from Omaha, Yegorov stops 66 of 70 shots on goal" when 1) one of those was an empty netter and 2) he was the ONLY reason they didn't get double digitsed. That team lost twice to the USNTDP under 17 program. It's a fucking joke.

All that to say I hold exactly zero grudges about the midseason addition.

[Trotsky]

The electronics guy from Hogan's Heroes?

[Trotsky]

Got tired of talking about the FF on other threads, so started this.

Unhappily for others, I'm rooting for BU.

First, there's something satisfying about getting beaten by the champion, with some obvious exceptions (Mainly notables from our league that I don't want to win.) rather than beaten by someone who then loses to another team. I'm happy that after beating us Denver goes on to win it all. We lost to the champ.

Second, and maybe more important, I actually have a warm spot for BU from all the rivalry that we had in the 60s & 70s. To me it was great to beat them, but I never disliked them. They were not "The School" in Boston. A true city school, unlike BC. To me their real claim to fame was hockey, and they did it well.

Second choice is Western. To me they have some of an old BU feeling. Not the best school ever, not a big state school with a huge athletic budget. Just a sort of unknown, except to hockey fans, where everyone in the school seems to think that hockey is important. Besides that's where Schafer learned some of his coaching!

I understand this.  I like our traditional rivals to do well in the NC$$.  I always root for Denver, and I even root for Hahvahd when they get there and I am as disgusted typing that are you are reading it.

WMU is my team this time, otherwise the Terriers or Denver.  Pedo State can fuck right off.

[upprdeck]

I thought the BU goalie was awful in the Cornell game. The big issue is we didn't have the speed to take advantage of the mistakes he made much of the night.

[stereax]

The electronics guy from Hogan's Heroes?

I don't think that guy has even heard of hogan's heroes. Just a screen name.

[Tom Lento]

I thought the BU goalie was awful in the Cornell game. The big issue is we didn't have the speed to take advantage of the mistakes he made much of the night.

I didn't think he was awful, he stole a couple of scoring chances and played the game he had to.  He struggled with controlling rebounds off the blocker, and Cornell seemed to be targeting it.

Between shot selection and those amazing stretch passes to the right wing side it sure looked like Cornell had a plan to exploit every hole in BU's game.

Back on topic, I don't share any of the BU animosity, I love the historical rivalry, and the Terriers are my cousin's adopted college hockey team (he went to Iowa, no alma mater to cheer for).

That said, I always liked Denver but they won it all last year after ending Cornell's dream second half run so eh. I also always like an underdog/small school kind of run, so I'll be cheering on WMU.

[ugarte]

Back on topic, I don't share any of the BU animosity, I love the historical rivalry, and the Terriers are my cousin's adopted college hockey team (he went to Iowa, no alma mater to cheer for).

The point of a historical rivalry is to develop irrational animosity, Tom! And develop some hate for your cousin while your at it for not getting your back.

Anyway, rooting for the Broncos. Denver has won too much, Penn State are the Marlins as far as I'm concerned and BU can got o hell.

[Tom Lento]

Back on topic, I don't share any of the BU animosity, I love the historical rivalry, and the Terriers are my cousin's adopted college hockey team (he went to Iowa, no alma mater to cheer for).

The point of a historical rivalry is to develop irrational animosity, Tom! And develop some hate for your cousin while your at it for not getting your back.

I know, I know, but I just can't seem to get worked up about it! Maybe it's the uniform similarity.... like BU is tricking me into not hating them. Those bastards....