Weekly Hockey Primer: Three Point Weekend, Ranked #4 Nationally

Weekend Recap

Boston College 5, Merrimack 5 (OT)

New Hampshire 5, Boston College 8 - 8 goals!?

The three point weekend was good enough to keep the Eagles in 2nd place in the latest Hockey East standings behind surprising Northeastern.

For his efforts, senior forward Brock Bradford was named Hockey East Player of the Week and INCH Player of the Week. We should think so ... 8 points, 5 goals, 3 assists, +3 and his first collegiate hat trick. Beast mode. Yes, it is still November, but we need to seriously start talking about Bradford for Hobey. Someone get the website name registered ...


Polls and such

Minnesota is your new #1 in the latest USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Poll, after Boston U had a weekend split of UMass and Northeastern. The Eagles are up 1 spot in the polls to #4 this week, but aren't getting any first place love sitting at 6-3-1.

The College Hockey Blog has the Eagles coming in at #5 and asks the question: How good is the Beanpot going to be this year? Boston U is ranked #2 nationally, BC ranked #4, Northeastern #6 and Harvard #18.


Hockey East fan voting

This week's short term fan vote considers the best goal scorer and best playmaker in Hockey East history. There are a lot of Eagle greats on the list and it's a little difficult to chose one (there are 10 Eagles up for best goal scorer of 35 candidates!) Lucky for you, we've done some homework for you. Here are the Eagles stats for best goal scorer:

Player	Years	GP	G	A	Pts	Pts/G
Brian Gionta	1997-2001	164	123	109	232	1.41
David Emma	1987-1991	147	112	126	239	1.63
Scott Harlow	1982-1986	149	105	118	223	1.50
Jeff Farkas	1996-2000	159	88	102	190	1.19
Bob Sweeney	1982-1986	138	78	74	152	1.10
Doug Brown	1982-1986	143	73	89	162	1.13
Nathan Gerbe	2005-2008	123	71	62	133	1.08
Kevin Stevens	1983-1987	158	71	99	170	1.08
Chris Collins	2002-2006	162	63	59	122	0.75
Patrick Eaves	2002-2005	84	47	60	107	1.27

We aren't sure if this is the most goals ... or the best goals ... but regardless, BC Interruption endorses voting for Brian Gionta. Despite not being there in person (doh), five goals in the first period of a home game against Maine (when Maine was ... well ... Maine ... and not the Maine program of the past 2 years) won us over. Voting ends on November 23 so be sure to support your fellow Eagles!


This Week

Friday and Saturday the Eagles face the Massachusetts Minutemen for the first time this year in a home-and-home Hockey East series. The game on Friday night will be played at Conte Forum, while Saturday's match will be played at the Mullins Center. UMass goes into the weekend series with a mark of 5-3-1 overall and 3-2-1 in Hockey East play (good for 4th place).