Last night’s 5-1 win for Boston College men’s hockey over #8 Denver not only represented a great bounceback from two losses, and a win over a quality opponent, but also the end of a long string of futility against the NCHC, college hockey’s dominant conference in recent years.
You have to look back to the Icebreaker tournament of 2016-17 for BC’s last win over one of the NCHC’s power programs, when BC topped Denver 3-1 at Magness Arena. A few weeks later, the Eagles beat the NCHC’s Colorado College 4-1 at home. But after that it was a lot of pain vs.