Terrier Hockey Team Readies For Season Opener
October 12, 2000 | Men's Ice Hockey
The Terrier hockey team will officially open its 2000-01 season on Oct. 13 with a home game against RPI. Faceoff at Walter Brown Arena will be at 7:00 p.m.
A BANNER EVENING: For the 11th straight year, the Terriers will raise a banner prior to the faceoff of their home opener. Dating back to the 1989-90 season, B.U. has had reason to celebrate a Beanpot, Hockey East regular-season or tournament title, a berth in the NCAA finals, or the national championship. On Saturday night (October 14rh), B.U. looks back to last season when the team won its incredible sixth straight Beanpot and sixth Hockey East regular-season title in the past seven years. The parents of two of the key members of that team will be raising the banners. Carolyn and Jim Heron, the parents of assistant captain Chris Heron, will raise the Beanpot banner. Last season, Chris enjoyed his finest collegiate season as he had 18 goals and 25 assists to tie Tommi Degerman for the team lead in points with 43. At season's end, Chris received the Friends/Albert Sidd Award as the team's unsung hero. Annemarie and Bob Corazzini, the parents of Carl, will raise the Hockey East regular-season title banner. An assistant captain on last year's team, Carl also enjoyed his finest season, thus far, with a team-leading 22 goals as well as 20 assists for 42 points. He was also honored at the end of the season with the Eilberg Scholarship as the team's top student-athlete.
NOTES ON OPENERS: Saturday night marks the opening of the Terriers' 80th year of intercollegiate hockey competition. During the previous 79 seasons, B.U. has compiled an overall record of 1168-662-88 for a 62.9 winning percentageB.U. is 10-1 in its last 11 season openers. Since the 1989-90 season, the Terriers' only loss in a season opener was on October 17, 1998 when they bowed to RPI, 4-3, in overtime. As an aside, that is the only year in the past 11 when the Terriers finished under .500Jack Parker begins his 28th year as the Terriers' head coach, and he is 22-5 in his previous 27 openers. The record includes a 3-1 win over Dartmouth in his first collegiate game as the head coach. That game was played on December 22, 1973This is the fourth time in the past five years the Terriers have opened their season against the Engineers, and B.U. is 2-1 in the previous three. They opened the 1976-77 season with a 5-3 win and came back in 1997-98 with a 6-0 blanking of the Engineers. The streak ended in 1998-99 with the 4-3 overtime loss.
COACH PARKER: The veteran coach will come into Saturday night's game with a record of 616-295-58 record in 27 years on the B.U. bench. Only four other college hockey coaches have won more games-Michigan State's Ron Mason, Bemidji State's Bob Peters, former Boston College coach Len Ceglarski, and Wisconsin's Jeff Sauer. Sauer, whose Badgers opened its season last weekend against UMass/Amherst, has just three more victories than Parker-619-616His all-time record against RPI is 14-8-2, while he is 170-69-8 against the ECAC.
TERRIERS IN THIS WEEK'S NATIONAL POLLS: The USA Today/American Hockey Magazine poll had B.U. number six this week, up one spot from last year. North Dakota, which tied both its games in last weekend's Icebreaker Invitational, remained number one. Wisconsin, with its two wins last weekend, moved up to number two. Next, in order, came New Hampshire, Boston College, Michigan, and BOSTON UNIVERSITYThe U.S. College Hockey Online still has not conducted its first regular-season poll. Their pre-season poll had B.U. number seven. Ahead of the Terriers were North Dakota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Boston College, Michigan State, and St. Lawrence.
SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS: Dan Fridgen, who returns for his seventh year as RPI's head coach, will bring a 112-86-19 record into Saturday night's game. His all-time record against B.U. is 2-3-0A year ago, RPI finished with an overall record of 22-13-2 and an 11-9-1 mark in the ECAC. The record placed them third in the final standingsIn this year's ECAC pre-season poll, RPI was picked to finish fifth in the coaches' rankings and fourth in the media poll. St. Lawrence, which eliminated the Terriers in last year's NCAA tournament, is the top pick in both pollsA major task facing the Engineers will be replacing goalie Joel Laing, an All-American last year and a Hobey Baker finalist. He compiled a 17-7-2 record along with a 1.82 GAA and a .947 save percentage. Also gone is Brad Tapper, last year's leading scorer with 31-20-51. The top returning offensive players are Matt Murley (9-29-38) and Marc Cavosie (12-18-30)The only returning goalie with any experience is Jim Palmer, who played only 4:15 last year, did not have any decisions, had a 14.10 GAA and a .667 save percentage.
ON TV: Saturday night's game will be televised live on WHUB-TV, Channel 66. It is one of 10 regular-season that will be aired on Channel 66. Don Orsillo, who broadcast the Pawtucket Red Sox games and filled in for Sean McDonough on a handful of Red Sox games that were carried on Fox, will do the play-by-play of the Terrier games. Mike Eruzione will do the color.
DONT MISS ANY OF THE ACTION: If you have a radio, a computer, or a telephone, there is no reason to miss any of the play-by-place action of this years Terrier team as it is being broadcast by Bernie Corbett and Tom Ryan.
ON THE RADIO: Once again, the Terrier network has three stations. In Boston, you can hear the games on WROL-AM (950), In Worcester, they are carried on WCRN-AM (830). Finally, in Springfield the station is WACE-AM (730).
BY COMPUTER: You will be able to listen to the Terrier games live via the audionet. The address is www.audionet.com/schools/bu.
BY PHONE: If you are out of the signal area of the three radio stations, or you dont have a computer with a modem, you can dial 1-800-846-4700, enter the teams access code of 1155, and listen to the action. There is a cost, and it will be charged to your Visa or MasterCard. The longer you listen, the less per-minute you will be charged. For example, a three-hour call will cost approximately $36.00. You can call the number anytime during the broadcast and pick up the action live.
EMAIL US: We are anxious to receive your comments about the broadcast. You can email us at GiantSport@AOL.com.
ON THE INTERNET: Finally, the WTBU live broadcast of all home games will be available on the Internet. The address is www.bu.edu/wtbu.
