Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:Loved hearing Maguire gush about BC when Matheson was selected. He said to the effect "when you draft a kid who is out of Boston College you are getting a high character, intelligent kid who will pay the price and out work everyone to improve." Also said there were 25 guys who played in the NHL this year from BC. I can think of 19 off the top of my head, but that is simply retardedly unfair. God bless Coach Champion, I hope he coaches until he is 100.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:Word out of UVM is their super recruit (stud, ool), Girgensons (went #14 to the Sabres), isn't attending. That's why you have to be so careful when you are targetting top players (like Matheson) to make sure they're 110% coming to BC.
Edit: As for the # of players from BC, here's the list the characters on USCHO came up with:
bignick33 {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:Word out of UVM is their super recruit (stud, ool), Girgensons (went #14 to the Sabres), isn't attending. That's why you have to be so careful when you are targetting top players (like Matheson) to make sure they're 110% coming to BC.
Edit: As for the # of players from BC, here's the list the characters on USCHO came up with:
Gigensons hasn't been planning to attend UVM for some time. I'm not sure if he is even qualified. Word is that both the Bruins and Flyers coveted him somewhat and expressed interest in acquiring Buffalo's pick (#12) until Grigorenko fell into the Sabres' hands. Toronto actually toyed with taking him at 5.
DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:There's talk of Kevin Roy, the USHL Player of the Year who had the most points in over 2 decades opening up his recruitment. He was a Brown commit but absolutely blew up this year. BC & BU have been mentioned but I don't think we have the scholarship space.
http://ushl.com/news.php?action=detail&news_id=1049
I thought we could just make space in Hockey.
Can we put him on a football schollie, we aren't using them for anything important anyway.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:There's talk of Kevin Roy, the USHL Player of the Year who had the most points in over 2 decades opening up his recruitment. He was a Brown commit but absolutely blew up this year. BC & BU have been mentioned but I don't think we have the scholarship space.
http://ushl.com/news.php?action=detail&news_id=1049
I thought we could just make space in Hockey.
Can we put him on a football schollie, we aren't using them for anything important anyway.
Roy did decommit from Brown but the kid says he's not coming to BC. Someone on TOS says NU is the favorite.
DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:Claver, how are we looking between the pipes after Milner is gone?
claver2010 {l Wrote}:DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:Claver, how are we looking between the pipes after Milner is gone?
To be honest, I'm not sure.
Much of the staffs action in the type of goalie they bring in next year will depend on what they think of Brad Barone. Can he be the starter in a couple of years if Billett stumbles or is he nothing more than a 3rd goalie? He never even dressed last year so only the staff knows based upon what they've seen in practice.
Last year, BC carried 4 goalies which is very unusual. Right now we have the luxury of having a big time recruit in Brian Billet on the bench behind Milner. Based off of Milner's 2010-11 campaign and Billett, I predicted it would be Billett's job by January and was I wrong. During our midseason swoon Billett got several starts and the most impressive were his first several, @ Yale (2 GA, 31 saves), @ BU (1 GA, 40 saves), PC (1 GA, 16 saves).
2013-14:
Billett JR
Barone JR
FR
claver2010 {l Wrote}:BC got a goalie commit tonight thanks to the bc hockey blog @bchockeyblog1
BREAKING- BC has received a commitment from Chris Birdsall, a goalie from New Jersey. Birdsall is a 1996 birthday
He's going to play for Cedar Rapids of the USHL this year, from Glenrock NJ
Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:What the heck, why not Dudek?
Birdsall commits to play hockey at Boston College
Friday, August 24, 2012
BY JIM JONES
SPORTS EDITOR EMERITUS
Glen Rock Gazette
Chris Birdsall, the star hockey goalie from Glen Rock, has committed to play college hockey at Boston College, the No. 1 college team in the country. He is currently in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he is playing for the RoughRiders, one of the best junior hockey teams in the country.
Birdsall recently starred for the U.S. Under-17 team that won the Five Nations Tournament in Chomutov, Czech Republic, defeating teams from Germany, Switzerland and the host country. He played on the Glen Rock High School varsity team as a freshman last winter and for the North Jersey Avalanche U-16 team.
He had one shutout and stopped 54 of the 58 shots he faced in the Five Nations Tournament. Boston College head coach Jerry York was in attendance at the tournament. The BC Eagles won the NCAA tournament and were named the No. 1 team in the nation again this year.
Birdsall, 5-11 and 160 pounds, is regarded as technically sound, strong positionally and extremely competitive, with an aggressive style. He is a player who likes to make himself bigger by challenging shooters.
Mark Carlson, president, head coach and general manager of the Rough Riders, said, "We are happy for Chris that he has had an excellent Five Nations Tournament and on his commitment to Boston College."
The 15-year-old Birdsall is the youngest player on the RoughRiders and the youngest goalie in the United States Hockey League. He begins his sophomore year at Cedar Rapids' Washington High School.
#7 Boston College (33-10-1)
USCHO.com Final Ranking: 1
Five Freshman Notables: Michael Matheson (D), Colin Sullivan (D), Frank Vatrano (F), Brendan Silk (F), Ted Doherty (D)
Boston College reloads after winning the National Championship last season with a very well rounded 2012 class. Michael Matheson improved mightily throughout last season and is good enough to make a huge impact for BC this season. Joining Matheson on the blue line will be 2011 seventh round pick Colin Sullivan and Ted Doherty. The two should see a steady dose of ice time with the Eagles losing three defensemen from last season. Frank Vatrano is very underrated and will enters this season with a chip on his shoulder after being passed on at the 2012 NHL Draft.
#1 Boston College
Five Freshman Notables: Steve Santini (D), Adam Gilmour (F), Chris Calnan (F), Ryan Fitzgerald (F), Austin Cangelosi (F)
The Skinny: Three of the five notables have already been drafted and two more could very easily be drafted in 2013.
Ian McCoshen Commits to Boston College
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By WCHBlog on Nov 9, 4:28p
Bruce Bennett
Top prospect Ian McCoshen has committed to Boston College.
Ian McCoshen, easily the top prospect still available to join next year's 2013 recruiting class ended his closely-followed recruitment today when it was announced that he had committed to play his college hockey at Boston College. North Dakota, Minnesota-Duluth, and Nebraska-Omaha were other schools rumored to be in the running for his services.
McCoshen is a 6'3" 207 lbs., physical, defensive defenseman, originally from Hudson, Wisconsin. After playing his bantam hockey at Shattuck St. Mary's alongside other top 2013 NHL Draft prospects such as Nathan MacKinnon, Connor Hurley, and Taylor Cammarata, he has played the past three seasons with the Waterloo Blackhawks of the USHL. He was the only '95 born player to be selected to represent the US at last year's World Jr. A Challenge, and missed out on an opportunity to win a gold medal a second time with that team this year after he was diagnosed with mononucleosis a week before the tournament. Current draft projections have him slotted to go somewhere between the late first round and early second round of this summer's NHL Draft.
It's obviously a huge recruiting coup for the Eagles, who have dominated the recruiting scene in the northeastern United States in recent years, leading to tremendous success on the ice. Adding McCoshen to an incoming group of recruits that already includes the NTDP's Steven Santini and Scott Savage gives the Eagles an extremely bright future as well.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:BC picked up another big time player for next year, Ian McCoshen D out of the USHL
The 2013 class was unfair before this pickup...
http://www.westerncollegehockeyblog.com/western-college-hockey-recruiting-ncaa/2012/11/9/3624320/ian-mccoshen-commits-to-boston-collegeIan McCoshen Commits to Boston College
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By WCHBlog on Nov 9, 4:28p
Bruce Bennett
Top prospect Ian McCoshen has committed to Boston College.
Ian McCoshen, easily the top prospect still available to join next year's 2013 recruiting class ended his closely-followed recruitment today when it was announced that he had committed to play his college hockey at Boston College. North Dakota, Minnesota-Duluth, and Nebraska-Omaha were other schools rumored to be in the running for his services.
McCoshen is a 6'3" 207 lbs., physical, defensive defenseman, originally from Hudson, Wisconsin. After playing his bantam hockey at Shattuck St. Mary's alongside other top 2013 NHL Draft prospects such as Nathan MacKinnon, Connor Hurley, and Taylor Cammarata, he has played the past three seasons with the Waterloo Blackhawks of the USHL. He was the only '95 born player to be selected to represent the US at last year's World Jr. A Challenge, and missed out on an opportunity to win a gold medal a second time with that team this year after he was diagnosed with mononucleosis a week before the tournament. Current draft projections have him slotted to go somewhere between the late first round and early second round of this summer's NHL Draft.
It's obviously a huge recruiting coup for the Eagles, who have dominated the recruiting scene in the northeastern United States in recent years, leading to tremendous success on the ice. Adding McCoshen to an incoming group of recruits that already includes the NTDP's Steven Santini and Scott Savage gives the Eagles an extremely bright future as well.
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