Senior Week: Jake "The Snake" Moscatel

This is the fourth part in a series of posts about BU's 2013 Senior Class. Be on the lookout for a new post each day, culminating with Wade Megan on Friday. You can read part one on Ryan Ruikka here,  part two on Ryan Santana here, and part three on Sean Escobedo here. 

Not many players successfully transfer from Division 3 sports to Division 1 sports, but then again not many players are Jake Moscatel. A beauty in every sense of the word, Jake's journey from an injured player at the University of New England to a starter and fan favorite at BU was certainly a strange one.

Senior Week: Sean Escobedo

This is the third part in a series of posts about BU's 2013 Senior Class. Be on the lookout for a new post each day, culminating with Wade Megan on Friday. You can read part one on Ryan Ruikka here, and part two on Ryan Santana here.

During a BU hockey behind-the-scenes video from last year, Sean Escobedo jokingly said he was actually filming "E! True Hollywood Story: Rags to Riches." It may have been more accurate, however, to replace Rags to Riches with Jake Moscatel's suggestion: "I'm a Sweet Beauty."

Senior Week: Ryan Santana

This is the second in a series of posts about BU's 2013 Senior Class. Be on the lookout for a new post each day, culminating with Wade Megan on Friday. Read part one on Ryan Ruikka here.

Ryan Santana is exhibit A of the type of guy who always went about his business the right way and worked hard for every second of his ice time. Santana started his freshman year after a season with the Vernon Vipers in the BCHL, where he played with future teammate Sahir Gill. They would win the RBC championship that year. Santana began his career with a 0-1-1 line in 2009-2010, collecting his first collegiate point on a Ross Gaudet goal. Despite the unimpressive point total, Santana had a solid freshman season as he made his living grinding it out and mucking it up along the boards. I remember one of the first things I noticed while watching him play was how hard he skated every single shift he was out on the ice. Ryan's work ethic and commitment to each and every shift never wavered in his time at BU.

Report: BU Set to Announce David Quinn as Next Head Coach

Source: #BU will announce David Quinn as new Boston University Hockey Coach tomorrow. #HockeyEast #FrozenFour #TerrierNation #7News
— Joe Amorosino (@joeamorosino) March 26, 2013

According to a tweet from NBC 7's Sports Director Joe Amorosino, BU will announce David Quinn as Jack Parker's successor at BU in a press conference tomorrow.

Quinn, a defensemen as a player, played under Coach Parker for three seasons at BU, posting 48 points in 94 games.  He was diagnosed with Hemophilia B while trying out for the 1988 US Olympic team, which ended his playing career at BU. After finding medication to treat the blood-thinning disease, Quinn signed a professional contract with the New York Rangers and played one season with the Binghamton Rangers in the AHL before playing a season in the IHL for the Cleveland Lumberjacks. Quinn retired after posting 21 points in 60 games with the Lumberjacks.

He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Northeastern in 1995 before spending six years as the top assistant and head recruiter at the University of Nebraska Omaha (1996-2002). He then spent two years as the head coach of Team USA's NTDP U-17 squad, leading them to a 16-7-1 mark in international play.  For his efforts, he was named USA Hockey's Developmental Coach of the Year in 2003.

Quinn then joined Coach Parker's staff in 2004 as an assistant coach, staying at his alma mater until after the Championship run in 2009. By the end of his tenure under Parker, David was BU's head recruiter and associate head coach.

David then became head coach of the Lake Eerie Monsters in the AHL, Colorado's AHL affiliate.  In three seasons under Quinn, the Monsters posted a 115-94 record. This past season, Quinn served as an  assistant coach with the Avalanche under fellow Terrier Joe Sacco.

Thank You Coach Parker

March 23, 2013 is a day that will forever be important to the fans, players, alumni and coaches of the BU Hockey program. Coach Jack Parker finished his 40th and final season on Saturday night with a 1-0 loss to UMass-Lowell in the Hockey East Tournament Championship. Parker retired 14,327 days after he was hired on December 10th, 1973, when Leon Abbott was fired for withholding information about Canadian players eligibility due to their ties to the CHL (surprise, surprise the CHL was involved in eligibility issues for NCAA players). We had been waiting to really look back on his career because we were partially in denial that he was retiring and because there were games still to be played.  Now that the season and his career are over, we can take a look back at his accomplishments and explain why he is the best college hockey coach of all-time (this is a completely unbiased statement).