The best College Hockey coverage is at CollegeHockeyNews.com http://www.collegehockeynews.com Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:55:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/images/design/chn2006-text-180px.gif http://www.collegehockeynews.com College Hockey News http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/26_quinn_named_new_boston_university.php David Quinn, a former Boston University Terrier and first-round NHL Draft pick, was introduced today as the team's new head coach at a news conference. Quinn becomes the team's first new head coach since 1973, the year Jack Parker took over from Leon Abbott in mid-season. "It's great to be home. I'm a BU guy through and through," Quinn said. "No question this is my dream job." Boston University ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/24_parkers_career_ends_in_championship.php Jack Parker walked around TD Garden on Saturday afternoon. Hours before the 2013 Hockey East championship game, Parker recalled some of his better evenings in the building. Beanpots and playoff games won, others lost by the slightest of margins. Hours later, his Terriers, the 40th group he led, played yet another unforgettable game on the biggest stage for college hockey in New England. BU lost Saturday ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/23_maguire_steers_bu_to_hockey.php Boston University goaltender Sean Maguire looked to his left and saw Johnny Gaudreau. The puck moved quickly to Pat Mullane and then to Steven Whitney. No matter the sight, the picture was never less dangerous, less intimdating for Maguire -- a freshman backstopping his Terriers into a Hockey East semifinal with rival Boston College. As the puck darted from stick to stick, Maguire followed and braced ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/22_hockey_east_semifinal_preview.php The matchups couldn't be more different. One boasts a battle between two teams that have gone from Hockey East bottom dwellers to title contenders in a matter of two seasons under new coaching regimes. The other matches up long-time rivals, all too familiar with success, and could possibly mark the end of a historic coaching career. That'll be the scene at TD Garden when regular-season champion Massachusetts-Lowell ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/19_past_against_future.php There aren't many constants in college hockey in 2013. Conference realignment, overtures from professional leagues and recruiting competition from Canadian Hockey League teams mean change comes even faster than it always has. In Hockey East, though, there have been a few constants for most of the last two decades. New Hampshire's Dick Umile, Boston University's Jack Parker and Boston College's Jerry ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/14_hockey_east_tournament_preview.php For the first time in 29 years, the Hockey East regular season ended without Boston College, Boston University, Maine or New Hampshire atop the league standings. Massachusetts-Lowell won its first regular-season title since joining the conference in 1984. The River Hawks ranked second in both the coaches and media polls at the beginning of a year following the resurgence Norm Bazin led last season ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/12_parker_meant_a_lot_to_all.php A lifetime. A career. Forty years. It's a long time, and it isn't. Time flies, as they say. All you can hope is that your time adds up to something meaningful, to you, to your family, to others, and to the world. It's easy to wax poetic now. But it's safe to say, through it all, that Jack Parker will leave a meaningful career behind. Meaningful, of course, to his players, and to Boston University ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/11_jack_parker_announces_retirement.php Jack Parker announced his retirement Monday after 40 years as Boston University's head coach. Boston University made the move official at a 3 p.m. news conference at Agganis Arena. The announcement came on Parker's 68th birthday. Athletic director Mike Lynch and BU president Robert Brown joined Parker for the announcement. "I didn't want to go through a farewell tour of the other rinks in the league," ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/11_once_a_terrier,_always_a_terrier.php Jack Parker was driving south. Heading from Boston toward Connecticut -- New Haven, specifically -- to look into a new opportunity. Just a few weeks earlier, Parker led Boston University to a third consecutive ECAC championship and a national semifinal, falling to Minnesota, 4-2, in the 1976 NCAA tournament. Awaiting Parker when he arrived in New Haven was a meeting with Yale athletic director and ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/11_quinn_leads_list_of_potential.php I don’t envy Mike Lynch. The Boston University athletic director is faced with filling the shoes of Jack Parker, the university’s 40-year head hockey coach who announced on Monday that this will be his last season behind the BU bench. An arduous task by itself. But Lynch won’t just be faced with the pressures of hiring the right candidate, he’ll be forced to do so with almost everyone within ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/11_time_with_parker,_always_time.php It was the only time I was ever nervous before an interview. It was September 2009, and it was my first season on the men's hockey beat for Boston University's student newspaper. For the first time, I would be interviewing Jack Parker 1-on-1 (well, 2-on-1 since fellow beat writer Jake Seiner was there as well). For someone like me who grew up as a huge hockey fan in the Boston area, this was a big ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/01_all_four_one.php For much of the early Hockey East season it was a considered obvious that Boston College, New Hampshire and Boston University would be the main contenders for the Hockey East regular season title. But that hasn't panned out -- BC and UNH descended into inconsistency, while BU has struggled mightily since the dawn of the second half. Entering Tuesday night Providence, New Hampshire and Boston College ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/02/22_self-inflicted_wounds.php There was a time, not too long ago, when Boston University was a realistic contender for everything.  The Beanpot. Hockey East tournament. The NCAA tournament. All seemed like realistic goals for this BU team. The emergence of solid young contributors along with the presence of talented upperclassmen made the Terriers a team no one wanted to see in any of these tournaments. That was about three ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/02/14_bus_privitera_suspended_for.php Boston University sophomore defenseman Alexx Privitera has been suspended by coach Jack Parker for the remainder of the season due to on-ice discipline problems. Privitera has had a number of discipline issues this season, most recently earning a game misconduct for a leg check on Harvard's Alex Fallstrom in Monday's Beanpot consolation game. On Nov. 2, he allegedly whacked a North Dakota fan in the ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/02/07_impending_snow_prompts_weekend.php An impending blizzard predicted to hit New England this weekend has already prompted the postponement of all four of Friday's Hockey East games. The game between Northeastern and Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., has been postponed until Tuesday, Feb. 19 at the same time (7 p.m.). Boston University has moved its game against Merrimack, originally scheduled for Friday at 7:30 p.m., to Wednesday, Feb. ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/02/03_beanpot_preview.php From 1980 to 1994, all four Beanpot schools won the historic February tournament at least twice. Although the tournament's attendance and television ratings are currently as strong as they've ever been, that 15-year span is considered the Beanpot's golden age, largely because of the parity. Since then, there has been very little parity. The last 19 Beanpots have been won by either Boston University ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/02/01_freshman_myron_leaves_bu.php Freshman forward Wesley Myron has left Boston University to pursue a pro career, according to a school press release. Myron, a sixth-round pick of the Vancouver Canucks, had two goals and one assist in 21 games this season. Myron had been in and out of the BU lineup over the last two weekends and was not expected to play in the Terriers' game at Massachusetts on Friday. The 20-year-old center had ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100