Guest Post Day 3 - Three Underrated Reasons for this Year's Success

Day 1 Guest Post

Day 2 Guest Post

We've reached our third day of guest posts, and this one was one of the best.  We thought about saving it for last, but screw it. They are all great, after all.  Today's post is brought to you by "The Pastor". Enjoy!

What a season.  Some of the highest highs and some of the lowest lows.  Most people probably want to mark this one down as the low point of BU Hockey.  “Off ice the team are awful people, the coaching staff is too old, 2009 was a fluke, blah blah, blah.” We’ve heard it.  But all things considered, this season is definitely not the low point.  Actually, this season marks a turnaround in restoring this program to its former dominance.  You don’t make the NCAA tournament without skill and more importantly heart.  And you don’t do it in such historic fashion if you aren’t the 2011-2012 Boston University Terriers.

But that’s all the stuff that’s been covered before.  Yet I think there’s still stuff that didn’t get enough coverage over the season that truly made this team contenders.  Yes, believe it or not, this team runs deeper than Chris Connolly, Garrett Noonan, and Kieran Millan.

So here’s what I present to you, the three most underrated reasons why BU Men’s Ice Hockey made it to St. Paul this year:

Guest Post: My Thoughts on the 2012 Men's Hockey Season

Our second guest post comes from "Nick Adams".  Sorry it's a little late. We'll have at least one every day for the rest of the week!

October 1^st, 2011 was perhaps the most pivotal day of my first year at BU, and I remember it well. Walking back from the GSU, I ran across some of my friends decked out in their jerseys, looking like what I considered to be idiots at the time. I reluctantly followed them into Agganis Arena, got one of what would become several pictures with Rhett, and entered section 118 for the first time. That day I saw people being loud, having a good time, and cheering on guys playing a sport that I could never understand. More importantly, I saw the Terriers lose 6-4. This shoddy performance would become the norm over the next few weeks, with some success mixed in here and there. However, on November 13^th the theme for this season was revealed: resilience. This day would mark a 5-0 victory over the Eagles nesting atop Chestnut Hill. The Terriers would experience success over the next few months, including a thrilling victory in New York City that featured the longest and most stressful review of a potential goal I have ever seen and a game-winning overtime goal by Ross Gaudet.

Guest Post - Why Garrett Noonan Deserves ALL THE AWARDS

So this week, we have opened up BSRS to any BU fans willing to write a post for us. This is the first one we received but we will have 4 (or more) coming your way throughout this week. Here is the post straight from Future Mrs. Noonan... No it's not me or GW. We promise.

Everyone has a favorite player. It is almost impossible not to have one. Garrett Noonan is my favorite player (along with half the Dog Pound, I suspect). This post might be completely biased, but Garrett Noonan deserves all the awards this season and these are the reasons why.

Three Terriers Of Beanpots Yet To Come Make U18s

USA Hockey has announced the U18 men's roster that will compete at the World Championships later this year in the Czech Republic and three future Terriers made the final cut to join the team in a sure gold medal campaign at that competition:

D Matt Grzelcyk (Fall 2013)
F Matt Lane (Fall 2012)
F Danny O'Regan (Fall 2013)

Again, seeing Mass. guys of this caliber like Grzelcyk and O'Regan coming our way I think bodes well for our future recruiting since over the last few years it's seemed like many of those kids headed to BC but that's for another day.

A couple future foes also somehow snuck their way in, almost certainly through deceit, bribery and general skullduggery.

F Cameron Darcy - Northeastern (Either Jim Madigan is a great recruiter or he's paying Darcy as if he coached the St. John's Sea Dogs.  Hint: He's not going there for the education or the history or the facilities and he is going there for the money that he is surely being paid.  No other possible explanation)

F Thomas DiPauli - Notre Dame (Had you been trying to repress the memory that they were joining Hockey East after next season?  Me too.)

F Frankie "The Situation" Vatrano - Newton CC, presumably via this place.  (I'm not stereotyping based on his name and nothing else.  No wait actually I am)

Masters Preview

On April 5th to 8th, the Masters will take place at Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia. Some of you might or might not know but Quackquack, George Washington, and I love golf. We all play it and we enjoy watching it (yes, watching golf is very similar to watching grass grow). So I am writing this post for anybody that is interested and wants to know my 2 cents on the tournament.

This golf season is becoming really interesting with Phil Mickelson showing he still has some left in the tank and Tiger Woods returning to his winning ways 2 weeks ago at Arnold Palmers tournament and the young guns (RE: Rory McIlroy etc.) showing up more often on the leaderboard. As of today, the top five favorites are: Tiger (3.25-1), Rory (4-1), Phil (9-1), Lee Westwood(9-1), & Luke Donald (14-1).

As per usual, I think this tournament, if weather is not a factor, will come down to Sunday afternoon, Easter Sunday. The way this golf course is set-up is always fun to watch. You can have one big round and you are on top of the leaderboard BUT the dark side of this course is that if you twitch once you'll be looking at double bogey or worst. Personally, I think the odds don't mean anything. This course is known for repeat winners (RE: Phil & Tiger) so look for past winners to hang around all the way through Sunday. So technically Phil should have better odds than Rory but what does Vegas know they had the NY Giants at 100-1 mid way through the football season and look what happened.

I like, obviously, Tiger because he look awesome two weeks ago, Phil because he had a good week in Houston this past week, Adam Scott because he has Tigers old caddie, Steve Williams, and he knows the in-n-outs of that course better than most caddies, Keegan Bradley based on the fact he has been playing excellent this whole season so far. Possible dark horses are: ANY past winners, Sergio Garcia (hahahaha), Rickie Fowler, and Dustin Johnson.

Side Note: I really just like American and South American golfers. I just have pure disdain for Europeans and other Internationals due to the Ryder and Presidents Cup.


For some of you that don't know the course or wants to see some of the most majestic holes of the course look no further than Amens Corner (11th Green, 12th Hole, 13th Tee box), nothing gets better than those holes in golf. Also pay attention to the 15th hole, 16th hole. Those seem to make or break rounds as well. Typically, the Front 9 is rated on higher difficulty at Augusta than the Back 9. So if you really want to see some tough holes look at the Front 9.

You can watch the Masters on ESPN on Thursday and Friday and CBS on Saturday and Sunday. Also if you are stuck at work or in class bored to death and don't care about backside attack open your computer up and they have a site just for specific holes and important players.

Tigers Infamous Chip:


The Best Ever:


YES, THIS IS CANADIAN ( ALL OF BSRS DISLIKES CANADA) AND THE TOP MOMENT IS BIAS BUT THE OTHER NINE ARE LEGIT