RPI Recap- BU hockey- refusing to tie since 2011

The BU hockey team played their first overtime contest of the season on Friday night against Rennselear Polytechnical Institute and came out victorious 3-2 on a Cason Hohmann goal.  Freshman Sean Maguire won his 4th start in a row and improved to 4-2 on the season and 3-0 at Agganis Arena. Coach Parker was less than thrilled with the effort through the first 2 periods as BU trailed 1-0 in the first before tying it up on a Ryan Santana goal. The goal was a result of a good drive to the net by Mike Moran  who picked up his first collegiate point with the assist. Senior Jake Moscatel also drove to the net creating the greasy chance for Santana. It was a huge goal to keep the team in the game at the time. The 3rd and 4th lines played very nicely to keep the team in the game during the first two periods. Moscatel saw his first game action as a Terrier due to an injury to captain left wing Wade Megan. RPI scored the lone goal in the second as they continued to outplay the Terriers.  The first two period the team played like they did in the 6-0 loss to Denver.

Post-Lockout NHL Season Predictions

Lockout over, which means your NHL guy is back. Okay, even last year I didn’t write much. Whatever. I'm sorry.

Here are my predictions for each team this year. Take them lightly please.

·         Anaheim – Disney re-acquires Anaheim, names them the Anaheim Kung-Fu Pandas. Selanne quits. Bruce Boudreau looks like a panda.

·         Boston – Bruins sign four more players over the age of 37, makes them all captains. Warsofsky gets called up and scores 74 goals.

·         Buffalo – Ryan Miller gets mad because a Lucic shot a puck at him during a game. Lindy Ruff thinks everything’s a joke. Rick Jeanneret yells a lot.

·         Calgary – who?

·         Carolina – Hurricane’s front office (Mr. and Mrs. Staal) aggressively make offers to NY to get Marc Staal. Semin scores 1 goal all year, but is still named Alternate captain.

·         Chicago – Per CBA rules, the Blackhawks must trade away more of their enforcers. Kane assumes role of enforcer. Dies. Toews is still very Swedish.

·         Colorado – players get too lazy because of the Marijuana laws in Colorado. 0-50 on the season, but concession sales have never been higher.

·         Columbus – Columbus finishes last, but doesn’t get the first round pick. Due to a labor stoppage, they lose the All-Star game, and their top draft pick has season-ending surgery. Oh wait that seems familiar…

·         Dallas – in an effort to rebuild, the Stars lure Lindros and Hull out of retirement. The Hull-Lindros-Jagr line combines for 3 broken hips and 19 concussions. Star’s GM Nieuwendyk apologizes to fans for a 1-49-0 season. Fires self.

Weekly Pick Em Round 12

GW is on the comeback trail as myself and FM are letting everyone else back into it being the nice guys that we are. GW is over the .400 mark for the first time this season. He might just be unstoppable now...or not

QQ 64-49(.566) Last 7-8
FM 62-51(.549) Last 6-9
HS 57-53(.518) Last 8-7
MWW 58-52 (.527) Last 9-6
GW 36-49(.424) Last 10-5
Ray 25-24(.510)

Friday 1/4

Mercyhurst @ Maine

QQ- Maine 3-2- They seem to have figured it out as they took the Florida College classic last weekend with wins over Mn-Duluth and Cornell.
FM--Maine 4-1--even at their worst they were able to beat AHA teams
HS- Maine 4-2- Bears look like they might be getting back on track.
MWW- Maine 3-2- Maine cant be that bad, right?
GW - Maine 4-1

Lowell @ Clarkson

QQ- Lowell 4-1- Clarkson is a middle of the road EZAC team that Lowell should take care of.
FM--Lowell 2-1--Certain to be one of the least watchable games this weekend
HS- Lowell- Lowell is gawna match intah Pawtsdam with a wicked strawng swaggah aftah three straight wins ovah those queah Huskies, Hahvahd fairies and the fackin Bentley Falcons. Those Clackson hahd-ons think theah gawna beat da RIVAH HAWKS? NAWT TONIGHT.
MWW- Lowell 4-2- Lowell is the better team
GW - Lowell 5-0

Yale @ BC

QQ- Yale 3-2- BC dressing 5 freshman D and w/o Gaudreau seems like the time for Yale to beat them. Loss number 561 for Jerry!
FM--Yale 3-2
HS- Yale 5-0- Fuck BC
MWW-Yale 3-0-picking Yale obviously. Screw the Eagles
GW - Yale 3-2

RPI @ BU

QQ- BU 5-0- Grzelcyk is back with the team and will be needed. I expect a big time effort  from the
Terriers in this one. Maguire keeps the shutout streak going at home.
FM--BU 5-1--Complete with a Hatty from Jake Moscatel
HS- BU 4-1- Tough week for RPI, who is going to get spanked by both BU and UNH consecutively
MWW- BU 4-0- BU should be able to pick their heads up after last weekend and get a much needed win
GW - BU 10000000-0

BSRS Regulation Challenge Take 2

As many of you already know from Take 1,we took advantage of some company's screen printing sale and got some BSRS t-shirts for cheap. We decided we are going to give one away for a little competition. Take 1 was 12/8 against Maine and 0 people predicted the 1-0 BU win or Garrett Noonan with the first and only goal. No love for Noons last time which was a little surprising considering how large his fan club is.  Let's give this another try. Same deal as last time.  We are going to use regulation because BU hockey doesn't go to overtime this year (only team in Hockey East). For Friday's game against RPI(Rensselear Polytech Institute-not the computer rankings), you must predict the correct score of the game. You also must submit which player will score the first BU goal as a tiebreaker. All entries must be submitted to our twitter account(@bsrs_blog) or emailed to us at baystateroadsports@gmail.com. If we have multiple winners, then we'll give away multiple shirts or find some other way to break the tie.  It close at 7:30 p.m. eastern time on Friday night. Don't be a loser and tweet at us from 3 different accounts to help your odds. Also, we realize about 4 people are going to enter but we think the shirts are awesome and so should you. BC fans are ineligible to enter because they suck. Maybe someone could mix in a correct guess this time, eh?

MWW's Story Time: Backside Attack

The year was 2009-10 season. The Baystate Road Sports crew and friends were going on one of the best road trips of the year: Conte Forum.

From the beginning: during Christmas break GW and QQ sent out an email about buying tickets to BU vs BC at the end of January. We all agreed and one of them bought the tickets. It was our first Newton-BU BSRS road game together (first ever was against NU at Matthews earlier that season).

 We all made multiple 'Gatorades' with the simple formula of 4 out, 4 in, non shaken. As we left the original home of the blog, a few of us decided to take a different route to Newton to avoid unnecessary and the usual stuffed sausage feeling on the B line heading to Newton. So we walked to South Campus and decided on taking the D Line from Fenway. When we got off the uneventful T ride, we ended up in the middle of nowhere. Accordingly, the person who thought of the plan said we just had to trespass through a country club and we'll be at the Outhouse on the Hill in no time. Amazingly we were all smart and decided to walk an extra few minutes to get to Newton without doing something illegal.

As we took our first steps in the most unholiest place in the New England area, we all realized that we were lost. None of us knew anything about the campus. We all had a general idea where it was and proceeded to walk that way. As we continue our walk, a statue emerged and seemed like a great place to take a piss. Luckily (or unluckily) a Newton employee stopped us before we attempted and asked us why we were here and do we know where we are going since we didn't fit in since we were all in our Scarlett and White and looked confused (everyone got hockey jerseys for the holidays). He happily gave us directions and we again went along our merry way. 

Next, we emerged on a random field and saw the disgusting forum in our sights. We decided to start the chants. On the other side of the field was a bunch of SuperFrauds that decided to try and out chant us. Therefore it seemed like a logical time and place to curse uncontrollably at them. And out of the dark night came the ACC 2nd team running back from Newton. He wasn't so happy about my yelling and said that he will kill me and the usual Sucks to BU. Obviously, I said bring it on (macho man here). Before any possible punches, ropes, shirts were used, one of the crew (pretty sure it was QuackQuack) came in and broke up the verbal argument. After the fight, we took a random flight of stairs to the forum and knew that we needed to backside attack the place since that's where the seats were. As soon as we saw the fuzz, we all finished our 'Gatorades' (some on their second, some were not). We entered the building much to the displeasure of the Newton fans. 

We all decided that we need to stick together cause 'Gatorade' does a number on you. As we watched the game in the forum that was built for basketball but now for hockey & basketball. Some of us decided to directly and indirectly do certain things that could've gotten us into another fight either verbal or nonverbal. By good fortune, nothing came out of it. As the game went along, it went into OT and won by Colby Cohen.

Since the game gave us sometime to recollect our thoughts from the 'Gatorade', we decided not to go long way again and just follow the masses to the stop for the BOSTON UNIVERSITY LINE. As we left the building we were obviously high on the win and started yelling at random people and anyone that gave us good material to us against them. I remember most of the comments but none should be spoken about since I do not want offend any of our readers. The rest of the trip went off without a hitch and we got home safely.