James Hagens has said all of the right things when it came to potentially continuing his hockey journey from Chestnut Hill to Causeway Street.
“I love Boston,” Hagens said in a meeting with the media a month ahead of the 2025 NHL Draft. “Being at Boston College, we’re right in the middle of Boston there. So it’s a beautiful city. Only great things to say about it. I love it there.”
Granted, the prospect of Hagens donning a spoked-B for the foreseeable future has been deemed a far-fetched scenario for most of the last year — even as Boston plummeted toward a top-10 pick in this draft.