BSRS Weekly Awards 11/26

Another Week of Awesome Awards. Enjoy.

Greg Jennings Award-given to the Terrier who best exemplifies the qualities of Greg Jennings through doin' shit and putting the team on his back. (YOU CAN'T STOP HIM)





Winner- Matt O'Connor,G- OC stole the show this weekend making 92 saves on 96 shots and frustrating Sioux of North Dakota all weekend long. This was the first time this year that Coach Quinn has broken the goalie rotation and O'Connor rewarded him with two great performances. You would expect Quinn to ride OC as the hot hand to see what kind of run the Terriers can get on for the final 4 games of the first semester. His play along with the sweet stache that he is rocking currently made his choice a no-brainer.

Joe Pereira Trophy-  Given to the Terrier who, through grit, hard work, and determination helps the team to victory on and off the scoresheet. Just like Joey did. (Interview can be read here)

Winner- Garrett Noonan- Noonan not only produced on the scoresheet with a goal and two assists over the weekend. He also was the emotional leader for the Terriers as he stood up to the goons from North Dakota without taking any stupid penalties. At one point Saturday night, he had ongoing battles with Luke Johnson, Drake Caggiula, and Stephane Pattyn. Noonan leads the team in points and knows the time and place to stick up for himself and his teammates.

North Dakota,BU Preview- 1,698 miles apart, 0 love lost

It will be 383 days between contests involving the North Dakota Fighting Sioux and Boston University Terriers when the puck is dropped 7:40 Friday night in Agganis Arena. Both teams have lost high end scorers from last season (Danny Kristo- UND, Matt Nieto-BU) and the stats thus far this year are eerily similar between the clubs. Add that to the fact that the fans don't like each other and you have one hell of a weekend series in the middle of November.

                              Grimaldi taking a dive(Jesus wouldn't approve of this) - Photo Credit to USCHO
                                                                                  * Please don't Sioux us

Twitter wars have become common the last two years as you can see last year's domination by BU fans here and this year's domination thus far here. The war continues as UND fans drop to new levels of stupidity with every single tweet. I will never understand why Boston being the location for the Boston Tea Party is an insult but it is in North Dakota. I guess they just don't believe in American values which is why they had their hockey rink funded by a Nazi sympathiser.

Guest Post from @BurntBoats- In response to his twitter war with the classy North Dakota faithful

It’s been a BUSy week in North Dakota

@BurntBoats (or BurndtBoats for the ND fans that can’t spell) here, and before I get started I would like to thank BSRS for allowing me this guest post, as a tweet string would have been so woefully insufficient for this. Last year, BSRS had one of their best posts of all time during the North Dakota weekend about the absurd reactions UND fans had to tweets about their team, unfortunately (fortunately?) I forgot about this when I sent what I thought was an innocuous tweet in response to:

Overnight bus ride, players vomiting, ice packs everywhere, text books out. Keep this in mind when you question their commitment. #NDproud
— Jayson Hajdu (@UNDSID) November 11, 2013

Parsing other tweets UND’s timeline for the day seems to have roughly been:

3pm: Leave for UNO’s rink

5pm-7:30pm: Play game

7:30pm-4:30am: Press conference, shower, get in bus and leave Omaha for Grand Forks

So at 4:30am the players are still not in their dorms, have been out of their hotel rooms for 15 hours, and have been on a bus (some puking) for roughly 8 hours.

Hockey East Pick 'EM Week 5

Here are the updated ranking through 4 weekends and I still am in the lead. This is surprising to no one but everyone is atleast floating .500 besides GW who is...well just not good.  His steadfast refusal to pick BC is something to be admired by all of us though.  Also, we have to give a big shout out to MWW who made his picks with the limited cell service he has down on Long Island due to Hurricane Sandy. Kid is a trooper.

QQ 21-11 (.656) Last 7-3
FM 20-12  (.625) Last 7-3
HS  18-11 (.621) Last 8-2
Raymundo 16-13 (.552) Last 7-3
MWW 15-14 (.517) Last 6-4
GW 11-18(.380) Last 4-6

Week 5
Friday 11/02

BC @ Maine

QQ- BC 6-1- Maine just sucks so hard. I want to pick them here. They should beat BC at home, especially the way they swept BC up here last year but I just don't see it happening.
FM- BC 7-1-Maine this year is literally the worst HEA squad I've ever seen
HS- BC 4-0 - Train wreck
Raymundo- BC
MWW- BC
GW- Maine 5-1 Maine gets off the schneid and Gaudreaubitch is nowhere to be found.

Merrimack @ NU

QQ- NU 3-2- I think this a close game with both goalies playing well but NU sneaks it out at home.
FM-NU 4-3-This game will help to clarify the middle of the HEA standings
HS- NU 3-1- NU is solid this year
Raymundo-NU
MWW- Merrimack
GW- NU 4-3 - Bryan Mountain *clap clap clapclapclap*

BU rises another spot in polls, BC falls from #1

Despite last Friday's loss to Providence, the BU mens ice hockey team rose a spot to #7 in the latest USCHO poll, due in large part to a victory over #3 Denver on Saturday. The polls mean nothing, especially this early in the season but it is good to see that the Terriers are respected nationally as a top 10 team which I believe they really are. The Terriers look to hold pace with only one game this weekend at Atlantic Hockey powerhouse Holy Cross...well Atlantic Hockey contender Holy Cross. Here is the rest of the top 10 and significant others

1. Michigan(+3) 4-0 and just destroying whoever they play even without defenseman Jon Merril

2. BC(-1)- The loss to Denver bumps them down a spot but they still remain one of the top teams in the country and I still hate them. That is all

3. Denver- Took care of business perfectly for us last weekend, winning down in Newton and losing in Boston

4. Colorado College(+3)

5. North Dakota(+1)- took 3 out of 4 points from Maine to make up for last year's sweep at the hands of the Black Bears

6. Notre Dame(-4)- Drop down four spots but they open their new rink Friday night so that should make highlight news whether they win or not

7. BU(+1)- Just gotta keep building off the Denver win and not overlook Holy Cross this weekend

8. Minnesota(+6)- The sweep of state rival Duluth certainly helps this young team gain some confidence

9. Yale(+1)- They still haven't played so I have no idea how they stay in the polls

10. Miami(-5)- They seem to be in for a down year without Miele and Campfer

13. Merrimack- Merrihack just sneaking out wins over Army and Maine so far. Northeastern should test them at Lawler Friday night.

18. Maine(-1)- Managed to take one point in North Dakota and get back to the HE schedule this weekend.

Others receiving votes : Providence- 69, UNH - 12, Lowell-12, Northeastern-3

Also here are the inch power rankings and the usa today poll.