Guest Post by Anonymous 2013 BU Graduate- tAnonymous

Editor's note- Guest post that we just got today. If you send us a post at any point during the year, we will post it 99% of the time. Enjoy.

Class of 2013:  “One for the History Books”

I wish I could convince every BU student, faculty member, alumnus, and friend to go to hockey games.  I really do.  To me, college hockey was college.  It’s where I was home, and people didn’t look twice when I told them I booked tickets to Minnesota (a trip that involved a 9 hour layover period and an overnight Megabus ride from Chicago to Minneapolis both ways) on less than a week’s notice for a sporting event. My loud and awkward nature was generally praised in a sports environment, and I had a pretty cool place to bring my parents when they came to visit me that wasn’t my mound of empty bottles that I somehow called a dorm. I know that I’m never going to be able to convince a lot of people to go to games (and if you are already reading this blog you probably don’t need any convincing anyway), but the guys at BSRS are nice enough to let me try anyway.  So here goes nothing.

Instead of working my way through all of my favorite memories from this hockey season, I decided to narrow the work down a bit with a few Top Moments Lists.  I know, it’s kind of corny and Letterman-esque, but I found that it nearly impossible to sum up an entire year of hockey without sounding long winded, ridiculous, and rather cliché at times anyway. So stay with me here.

At the end of the day, I knew I had to write some sort of reflection on my last year in 118!  Maybe this is a justification for my unhealthy obsession with sports.  I’m sure some of you can relate to me there. Even more, people need to know why I tweeted about an unrequited love for Catamounts, why I wear the same BU hat proudly on days that end in “y”, and why my eyes may or may not have teared up a bit during the last minutes of the Merrimack playoff game at Agganis that sent BU to the Garden again.  If you missed any of the classic moments for BU hockey this year, you should really like this.  If you were there for everything I’m about to talk about, then you should show your friends! Show your dog! Show random kids wearing their orientation lanyards! Or not:

Top 5 Most Exhilarating Moments
5. First Things First: After months of waiting around and getting hyped for my senior year, college hockey was finally back with an exhibition game against the University of Toronto.  I can’t lie that I was really impressed with the turn out, and it’s always fun to laugh at all of the freshman who don’t know a hockey stick from a pencil.  The anticipation of starting my first chant of the year was unbearable, and who wasn’t jumping around well before Jim said my 3 favorite words:  “Let’s play hockey!” I’m not sure if throat calluses are a thing, but I remember losing my voice really early in this one. Fun times. The game was a blowout in favor of the Terriers, but I really just remember the thrill of being back and once again seeing faces, old and new, in a sea of scarlet and white.

4. Hardware On Reserve: After losing two games to UNH already, things were getting tense as BU tried to fend off the season sweep in Durham on a Thursday night in early December.  Really tense.  BU had a 3-2 lead going into the last minutes of regulation, and the Dog Pound had already been hearing quite a bit from the locals.  At least the lights were still working at the Whitt.  Luckily, BU found a way to get on the PK for the last minute with a call on Captain Megan.  It was already bad enough, so why not make it more stressful? Keeping the Ole chant to a reasonable tempo was just not an option. Everyone in the entire arena was on their feet, and even the people in that one row of red seats were going crazy.  The UNH student section didn’t even need their signs and cowbells to coordinate cheers.  But somehow Matt O’Connor was able to keep the puck out of the net, and BU sent a frustrated home crowd back to the woods from where they came.  Did I mention that UNH was the number 1 team in the nation for all of 3 days that week?  So much for that run.

2013 Hatredmeter

This is the 2013 version of the Hatredmeter for each team in the conference. I would do non-conference teams as well but that would take all day thanks to certain schools(looking at you NoDak)

This post is going to focus on which teams I hate most in the conference and why. To clarify, I hate them all but it's fun to rank them accordingly. This may differ for other BU fans and probably will even with my fellow bloggers(Feliz Miguel loves UNH which is quite unfortunate, Hatrick Swayze loves Notre Dame football for some unknown reason) but that's why we have the comment function. However, my guess is that all BU hockey  fans will agree on who is going to come out of this list at #1.

*Notre Dame is being added to conference this season so there are now 10 teams to hate instead of just 9.

10th most hated team(or least hated team in the conference)- UMass- This was a fairly easy decision for me. Their fans may flip me off and yell at me when I'm in Mullins but I fully expect that and respect that from opposing fans. Former coach Toot Cahoon was a BU guy who coached and played for the Terriers. Also former Terrier captain Joe Pereira's younger brother Mike plays for the Minutemen.  Please don't mistake this for me being a fan of their program. Their program is a joke and all their fans leave as soon as the team goes down a goal. They will celebrate like they won the national championship when they beat BU in the regular season because quite frankly, that is as close as they will get. UMass being ranked least hated is basically just admitting that someone has to come in 2nd to BU in the conference this year and if I had to pick, it would be UMass. The really only negative are those jokes from Fight Mass. Last year's ranking- 9

MWWs Food Reviews: Restaurants

Todays topic is restaurants. You are probably saying to yourself "College kids don't really go out to eat unless it is for a special occasion." Well, yes and no. I'd suggest these places for either a special occasion or just for fun. I am looking at my favorite 3 restaurants in Boston. I judge them by taste, price, and of course location.

Alexx and Jarrid Privitera part ways with BU Hockey Program

                                             Photo Credit to Matt Dresens of the BU Hockey Blog

News broke today that rising junior defenseman Alexx Privitera and incoming recruit Jarrid Privitera would be parting with the BU hockey program. While the reasons still remain unclear, Alexx will certainly be missed on the blueline and the loss of Jarrid will hurt the depth of the forwards.  These losses certainly hurt but thankfully come early enough in the summer for the new coaching staff to cover for.  Alexx posted a 2-10-12 line last year in 23 games before being suspended by now former Coach Parker. He did lead the team in blocked shots for a majority of the season and he will be missed offensively and defensively. The defense will still be the strength of this team next season as they return 4 dmen who saw regular ice time(Noonan, Grzelcyk, MacGregor, and Oksanen) along with their 2 goalies who split starts last season .

2013-2014 BU Hockey Schedule Released

The BU Hockey schedule for the 2013-2014 season was released today by the team. The  regular season begins with an exhibition game on Saturday October 5th against St. Francis Xavier and concludes with a game at Northeastern on March 1st. The highlights of the schedule include matchups with conferences rivals such as BC , UNH and  Maine along with non-league programs such as North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State and Cornell. The Terriers also make their second trip to South Bend, Indiana in three season as Notre Dame joins Hockey East in this coming season.  Here are some games we have circled on our schedules already.

1. Season opener vs UMass 10/11
2. 10/19 vs Wisconsin
3. 10/25 @ Michigan,  10/26 @ Michigan State
4. 11/8 vs BC
5. 11/22, 11/23 vs North Dakota
6. 11/30 Red Hot Hockey vs Cornell at Madison Square Garden
7. 1/17 @ BC
8. Beanpot 2/3, 2/10 First round vs BC
9. 2/21,2/22 @ Notre Dame