Now that the ice has melted Matthews Arena and the basketballs have been stored away for the 2012-13 season, all of Northeastern has been given the chance to look back at the seasons of our winter sport teams with clear heads, including Athletic Director Peter Roby. In his semesterly sit down with The News, Roby broke down everything from expectations after the men's basketball team's record-breaking season to hope for men's hockey to bounce back from its last place Hockey East finish.
Undermanned and overworked, the men’s hockey team will have a chance to recuperate and prepare for the 2013-14 season after two losses to Boston University ended its 2012-13 campaign.
It came down to overtime for a Husky men's hockey team on its last breath, but Northeastern couldn't capitalize in extra time and skated to a draw with the University of Maine Black Bears, 4-4, Saturday night. With the single conference point, the Huskies were eliminated from playoff contention.
This year's senior class started out as a big freshman class full of promise. The 10-man class featured two NHL draft picks, Brad Thiessen's replacement, and some players that had posted impressive stats in the United States Hockey League. But the class may not have lived up to its high expectations, and the now seven-man class will graduate with no winning seasons and just one Hockey East playoff appearance.
Senior forward Garrett Vermeersch has been suspended from the men's hockey team indefinitely due to a violation of team rules, head coach Jim Madigan confirmed to The News on Tuesday.
Spread thin and missing freshman forward and 2013 Beanpot MVP Kevin Roy, the men's hockey team fell to Providence College twice in a weekend home-and-home series. The Friars outscored the Huskies drastically in a 6-2 victory Friday at Scheinder Arena and just squeaked by with a 3-2 victory Saturday night at Matthews Arena.
A snow storm, a Tuesday night road game, some melted ice and a game delay might not seem like factors that would help a team pull out a much needed win. But when the men’s hockey team traveled to the University of Massachusetts for a rescheduled match stemming from winter storm Nemo and waited through a 30-minute delay, the Huskies left Amherst with two crucial Hockey East points and a 5-4 overtime victory.
In what was perhaps the most important series of the season, the Huskies had exactly what they have been missing in recent weeks: good defense and solid goaltending. They limited the University of Vermont Catamounts to just five goals in two games, but the Huskies left the weekend with no points because they only scored one goal each night.
In a critical weekend of conference play between two teams stuck at the bottom of the Hockey East standings, the men's hockey team was unable to come away with a single point as the University of Vermont Catamounts swept Northeastern on the weekend, and in the three-game season series, with 2-1 and 3-1 victories.
After a week of built up anticipation and excitement, Northeastern’s hopes of ending the school’s quarter-century long Beanpot drought came up short Monday night at TD Garden.
