1971–72 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season

March 2026 August 2023 color:white; background:#CC0000; a #000000 2px white white Boston University Terriers white 1971–72 Boston University Terriers wordmark.svg Boston University Terriers men ECAC Hockey 3rd 26–4–1 15–4–1 12–1–1 5–2–0 9–1 Jack Kelley Bob CrockerJack ParkerAndy Fila John DanbyYear-By-Year Results https://goterriers.com/documents/2017/4/19//1718_mih_recordbook_all_time_results.pdf?id=2883 Boston University Terriers March 26, 2019 Walter Brown Arena National championECAC Christmas Hockey Tournament, championBeanpot, championECAC Hockey tournament, champion NCAA tournament champion 1970–71 1972–73 Boston University Terriers #FFFFFF background:#eeeeee; The 1971–72 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey team represented Boston University in college ice hockey. In its 10th year under head coach Jack Kelley the team compiled a 26–4–1 record and reached the NCAA tournament for the eighth time. The Terriers defeated Cornell 4–0 in the championship game at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts to win their second consecutive national championship. Season Fast start Coming on the heels of their first national championship, Boston University opened their season in a brand new home rink, the Walter Brown Arena. The Terriers would no longer have to share their home ice with Northeastern and christened their new home with a win over Yale. BU visited Brown for their next game and shut out the opposition for the first of four times on the season. The Terriers returned home and escaped with a narrow 2–1 win over New Hampshire then welcomed Harvard four days later and the two Boston powerhouses fought to a 4–4 draw. The Terriers rounded out the first part of the schedule with a pair of wins, the first at Princeton and then home against Ohio, the only ever meeting between the two schools.Series Record vs. All Opponents https://goterriers.com/documents/2017/4/19//1718_mih_recordbook_opponents.pdf?id=2871 Boston University Terriers June 3, 2019 Holiday Tournaments With the Boston Arena Christmas Tournament now retired, BU signed on to play in both the ECAC Christmas Hockey Tournament and the Syracuse Invitational over their winter break. In the ECAC series Boston University opened against Northeastern and downed the hapless Huskies 4–1 to advance. The Terriers then faced Rensselaer in the final and dominated the competition to get their second shutout on the season and capture the tournament crown. Just before the first of the year the Terriers headed to Syracuse and took on Minnesota for a rematch of the previous year's national championship. The Gophers put up a much better fight and the two squads fought to a 3–3 tie after 60 minutes. Because this was a tournament game, however, the two teams would continue until someone scored the deciding goal. In the end it was the Terriers who came out victorious and earned the right to face Cornell for the championship. From the start it was apparent that BU was the better team but even with the Terriers outshooting the Big Red 12–5 it was Cornell who scored first. A power play goal mid-way through the second allowed BU to the tie the game followed by a second marker 4 minutes later. BU continued to out chance their opponent but Dan Brady faltered n the third and allowed two goals on only six shots while Dave Elenbaas shut the door on Kelley's boys to take the championship and improve to 7–0 on the season.December 30, 1971 http://www.tbrw.info/seasons/1972/box19711230.pdf The Big Red What June 3, 2019 The loss to Cornell was only a minor setback for the Terriers but they had already suffered a big loss when after an exhibition game against the US Olympic Team co-starting goalie Tim Regan was lured away to play for the national team. With the Terriers still had the starter from the previous year's championship team in Brady, the duo had split the BU net for the previous two seasons and the Terriers were entering uncharted waters. Life Without Regan The Terriers returned to their regular season with an easy game against College Division Merrimack then hit the road to take on Clarkson, and were soundly beaten by the Golden Knights 2–6. BU rebounded the next night against St. Lawrence before returning home to take on cross-town nemesis Boston College. After defeating the Eagles BU welcomed in two College Division opponents and despite receiving a tough game from eventual ECAC 2 champion Massachusetts, the Terriers were in the midst of a win streak. After wins at Providence and home against Saint Louis Regan returned to the team. In his agreement to play for the national team head coach Murray Williamson would allow Regan to return to BU if Regan was not going to be the starter for the team at the Olympics. When the team decided to stick with Mike Curran and Peter Sears Regan left in the middle of the games to rejoin the Terriers, but with the squad streaking Dan Brady remained in goal. Beanpot Boston University opened the 20th Beanpot with a 4–2 win over BC in the semifinal and, after a narrow victory over New Hampshire, the tournament concluded with the Terriers taking down Harvard 4–1 for their seventh title. After running their win streak to 11 games the third meeting with Boston College ended with a loss and the worst defensive performance all season. The loss was even more damaging for BU since it meant that Cornell, who had lost three conference games since the earlier meeting of the two teams, was now in a virtual tie with the Terriers for the top spot in the ECAC tournament. After winning at home against Providence BU ended their season with a rematch against the Big Red. While Cornell still had one more game to play after the meeting, if the Terriers won the game they would guarantee themselves the ECAC championship. The Big Red opened the scoring once more and, after BU tied the game, Cornell extended their lead to two with goals early in the second and third period. Brady played much better in the second meeting and allowed Boston University to close the gap with a power play marker mid-way through the third but Elenbaas shut the door the rest of the way and Cornell won the ECAC championship.March 1, 1972 http://www.tbrw.info/seasons/1972/box19720301.pdf The Big Red What June 4, 2019 ECAC tournament BU entered the tournament as the second seed and met Rensselaer in the first round. As they had the year before the Terriers easily dispatched the Engineers to advance to the semifinal round at the Boston Garden. Boston University faced Harvard for the third time and finally, after five years of trying, BU was able to return to the ECAC championship game with a 3–1 win. In their way stood only Cornell and this time the Terriers were ready. BU were the ones who started the scoring, getting a goal past Elenbaas less than 90 seconds into the contest and again with under three to play in the first. The BU defense helped Brady by limiting the Big Red to only 5 shots in the opening frame. Cornell was able to cut the lead in half late in the second period but BU reestablished their 2-goal advantage less than two minutes later. The Terriers increased their lead early in the third while Brady shut all further opportunities down and the Terriers won their first ECAC tournament championship.March 11, 1972 http://www.tbrw.info/seasons/1972/box19720311.pdf The Big Red What June 4, 2019 NCAA tournament BU was looking to become the first eastern team to defend its national championship but their efforts were dealt a tremendous blow just two days before the championship began when Dan Brady was felled by a knee injury. Regan, who had played only spot duty over the previous six weeks, was the Terriers' only hope of repeating and when they faced Wisconsin in the semifinal things looked bleak early.1972 NCAA Hockey Championship - Boston University vs. Cornell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsRcmOB6LoY YouTube June 4, 2019 Regan allowed Wisconsin to score a soft goal early in the game but after the rude welcome the Terriers buckled down and insulated their netminder while he got skating legs under him. Once Regan recovered his form the Terriers were able to go on the offensive and score the next four goals to skate away with the win. In the final game BU was once again pitted against Cornell but after being one of the few teams that could beat the Big Red in the past five years, BU was not afraid of the Ithaca powerhouse. Cornell got off to a good start and outshot the Terriers in the first but an ill-advised penalty from Gordon McCormick gave BU their first power play of the game and Ron Anderson capitalized. The game remained that way for over 20 minutes before BU potted their second man-advantage marker, this time from Ric Jordan. All of this was happening while Cornell continued to pepper Regan with shots but none could find the back of the net. Another Anderson goal came before the two-minute mark of the third and the game appeared to be slipping away from the Big Red. Jordan's second goal with 7 minutes left gave the Terriers a near-insurmountable lead and though they were playing for pride at this point, the Terriers still could not score a goal and Regan earned the shutout to give BU the national championship. Tim Regan tied the record for lowest GAA in the tournament (Ken Dryden and Gerry Powers) with a 0.50 mark and was the obvious choice for Tournament MOP. Regan was joined on the All-Tournament Team by Bob Brown, Ric Jordan and John Danby. Brown, Danby and Brady were named to the AHCA All-American East TeamMen's Ice Hockey Award Winners http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_icehockey_rb/2013/MIH%20awards%20for%202013.pdf NCAA.org June 11, 2013 and, while Danby and Jordan ended up on the All-ECAC Hockey Second Team,ECAC All-Teams http://www.augenblick.org/chha/ecac_all.html College Hockey Historical Archives May 19, 2013 Ric Jordan made the Second Team. Brown and Brady made the first team. Bob Brown, after tying for the team lead in scoring, received the ECAC Hockey Player of the Year,ECAC Awards http://www.augenblick.org/chha/ecac_awd.html College Hockey Historical Archives 2013-08-01 the first Terrier so honored. Jack Kelley had announced before the final that he was retiring from college hockey and his team did not fail to give him the send-off he deserved. Kelley's squad was the first (and only as of 2019) eastern team to defend it's championship and though his immediate replacement would turn out disastrously for BU, assistant coach Jack Parker would eventually assume the reins and lead the team for 40 years. Standings BU Schedule |- !colspan=12 style="Boston University Terriers #FFFFFF;" | Regular Season November 27 w no 1971 men Yale Bulldogs Yale Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 6–3 1–0 1–0 December 1 w yes 1971 men Brown Bears Brown Meehan Auditorium Providence, Rhode Island 3–0 2–0 2–0 December 4 w no 1971 men New Hampshire Wildcats New Hampshire Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 2–1 3–0 3–0 December 8 t no 1971 men Harvard Crimson Harvard Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 4–4 OT 3–0–1 3–0–1 December 11 w yes 1971 men Princeton Tigers Princeton Hobey Baker Memorial Rink Princeton, New Jersey 6–1 4–0–1 4–0–1 December 13 w yes no 1971 men Ohio Bobcats Ohio Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 9–1 5–0–1 4–0–1 |- !colspan=12 style="Boston University Terriers #FFFFFF;" | #FFFFFF ECAC Christmas Hockey Tournament December 21 w yes 1971 men Northeastern Huskies Northeastern Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts ECAC Christmas Hockey Tournament 4–1 6–0–1 5–0–1 December 22 w yes 1971 men RPI Engineers Rensselaer Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts ECAC Christmas Hockey Tournament 4–0 7–0–1 6–0–1 |- !colspan=12 style="Boston University Terriers #FFFFFF;" | #FFFFFF Syracuse Invitational Tournament December 29 w yes yes 1971 men Minnesota Golden Gophers Minnesota Onondaga War Memorial Syracuse, New York Syracuse Invitational 4–3 2OT 8–0–1 6–0–1 December 30 l yes 1971 men Cornell Big Red Cornell Onondaga War Memorial Syracuse, New York Syracuse Invitational 2–3 8–1–1 6–1–1 January 4 w yes no 1971 men Merrimack Warriors Merrimack Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 13–1 9–1–1 6–1–1 January 7 l yes 1971 men Clarkson Golden Knights Clarkson Walker Arena Potsdam, New York 2–6 9–2–1 6–2–1 January 8 w yes 1971 men St. Lawrence Saints St. Lawrence Appleton Arena Canton, New York 5–3 10–2–1 7–2–1 January 14 w no 1971 men Boston College Eagles Boston College Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 4–1 11–2–1 8–2–1 January 19 w yes no 1971 men UMass Minutemen Massachusetts Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 6–4 12–2–1 8–2–1 January 22 w yes no 1971 men Vermont Catamounts Vermont Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 7–2 13–2–1 8–2–1 January 26 w yes 1971 men Providence Friars Providence Rhode Island Auditorium Providence, Rhode Island 7–2 14–2–1 9–2–1 January 29 w yes no 1971 men Saint Louis Billikens Saint Louis Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 5–0 15–2–1 9–2–1 February 3 w no 1971 men Colgate Red Raiders Colgate Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 5–3 16–2–1 10–2–1 |- !colspan=12 style="Boston University Terriers #FFFFFF;" | #FFFFFF Beanpot February 7 w no 1971 men Boston College Eagles Boston College Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts Beanpot Semifinal 4–2 17–2–1 11–2–1 February 11 w yes 1971 men New Hampshire Wildcats New Hampshire Snively Arena Boston, Massachusetts 6–5 18–2–1 12–2–1 February 14 w yes 1971 men Harvard Crimson Harvard Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts Beanpot Championship 4–1 19–2–1 13–2–1 February 18 w no 1971 men RPI Engineers Rensselaer Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 7–3 20–2–1 14–2–1 February 23 l yes 1971 men Boston College Eagles Boston College McHugh Forum Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 5–7 20–3–1 14–3–1 February 26 w no 1971 men Providence Friars Providence Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 6–4 21–3–1 15–3–1 March 1 l no 1971 men Cornell Big Red Cornell Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts 2–3 21–4–1 15–4–1 |- !colspan=12 style="Boston University Terriers #FFFFFF;" | #FFFFFF ECAC Hockey tournament March 7 w yes no 1971 men RPI Engineers Rensselaer Walter Brown Arena Boston, Massachusetts ECAC Quarterfinal 8–2 22–4–1 15–4–1 March 10 w yes yes 1971 men Harvard Crimson Harvard Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts ECAC Semifinal 3–1 23–4–1 15–4–1 March 11 w yes yes 1971 men Cornell Big Red Cornell Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts ECAC Championship 4–1 24–4–1 15–4–1 |- !colspan=12 style="Boston University Terriers #FFFFFF;" | #FFFFFF NCAA tournament March 16 w yes yes 1971 men Wisconsin Badgers Wisconsin Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts National Semifinal 4–1 25–4–1 15–4–1 March 18 w yes yes 1971 men Cornell Big Red Cornell Boston Garden Boston, Massachusetts National Championship 4–0 26–4–1 15–4–1 Source: Year-By-Year Results https://goterriers.com/documents/2017/4/19//1718_mih_recordbook_all_time_results.pdf?id=2883 Boston University Terriers March 26, 2019 Roster and scoring statistics No. Name Year Position Hometown S/P/C Games Goals Assists Pts #FFFFFF PIM 12 John Danby John Danby (ice hockey) Senior C Port Credit, ON Ontario 26 26 24 50 14 2 Bob Brown Bob Brown (ice hockey) Junior D Scarborough, ON Ontario 31 14 36 50 36 19 Ron Anderson Ron Anderson (ice hockey, born 1950) Junior W Moncton, NB New Brunswick 31 19 27 46 26 17 Bob Gryp Senior W Merlin, ON Ontario 31 9 36 45 14 7 Ric Jordan Junior D Mississauga, ON Ontario 31 13 27 40 34 21 Don Cahoon Senior W Marblehead, MA Massachusetts 31 13 17 30 14 16 Guy Burrowes Junior W Niagara Falls, ON Ontario 31 12 16 28 18 18 Steve Dolloff Junior C Melrose, MA Massachusetts 31 9 19 28 26 11 Dave Wisener Junior C Pictou, NS Nova Scotia 31 10 10 20 34 25 Peter Thornton Peter Thornton (ice hockey) Junior W Scarborough, ON Ontario 31 8 11 19 31 8 Paul Giandomenico Senior W Walpole, MA Massachusetts 31 9 7 16 10 10 Ray Cornoyea Junior W Chippawa, ON Ontario 22 4 8 12 4 20 Bob Murray Bob Murray (ice hockey, born 1950) Senior D Quincy, MA Massachusetts 29 1 11 12 36 27 Mike LaGarde Senior D Roxboro, PQ Quebec 31 4 7 11 20 5 Bill Flynn Bill Flynn (ice hockey) Junior W Stoneham, MA Massachusetts 23 2 7 9 4 23 Larry Abbott Larry Abbott (ice hockey) Junior D Melrose, MA Massachusetts 16 1 1 2 0 24 Dave Warner Dave Warner (ice hockey) Junior D Niagara Falls, ON Ontario 28 0 2 2 4 10 Jim Connors Jim Connors (ice hockey) Sophomore W Chippawa, ON Ontario 6 1 0 1 0 4 Ray Fowle Sophomore D Niagara Falls, ON Ontario 1 0 0 0 2 3 Dick Brugman Sophomore C Winthrop, MA Massachusetts 0 - - - - 15 Allan Judge Sophomore C Niagara Falls, ON Ontario 0 - - - - - Cliff Hamilton Sophomore C Winchester, MA Massachusetts 0 - - - - 30 Joe Robillard Sophomore G Woburn, MA Massachusetts 2 0 0 0 0 1 Ed Walsh Ed Walsh (ice hockey) Sophomore G Arlington, MA Massachusetts 3 0 0 0 0 1 Tim Regan Tim Regan (ice hockey) Senior G Providence, RI Rhode Island 9 0 0 0 0 30 Dan Brady Dan Brady (ice hockey) Senior G Canton, NY New York 27 0 0 0 0 Total Boston University Terriers 1971-72 Skater Stats https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/633/boston-univ./1971-1972?tab=stats Elite Prospects May 21, 2019 Goaltending statistics No.Name GamesMinutesWinsLosses Ties Goals Against Saves Shut Outs #FFFFFF SV % #FFFFFF GAA 30 Joe Robillard 2 55 0 18 0 1.000 0.00 1 Tim Regan Tim Regan (ice hockey) 9 370 13 136 .913 2.11 30 Dan Brady Dan Brady (ice hockey) 27 1430 53 506 .905 2.22 1 Ed Walsh Ed Walsh (ice hockey) 3 75 3 29 0 .906 2.40 Total 31 26 4 1 69 4 1972 championship game (E1) Boston University vs. (E2) Cornell Boston University Cornell Boston Garden March 18Boston University Championship Teams http://www.goterriers.com/documents/2015/4/27/ncaa-championship-teams.pdf Boston University Terriers 2017-02-26 4 – 0 1 Scoring summary Period Team Goal Assist(s) Time Score 1st BURon Anderson - GW PPBrown and Jordan 10:42 1–0 BU 2nd BURic Jordan - PPBrown 30:51 2–0 BU 3rd BURon AndersonCahoon 41:39 3–0 BU BURic JordanCahoon and Anderson 53:13 4–0 BU Penalty summary Period Team Player Penalty Time PIM 1st#FFFFFF COR Gordon McCormick 8:52 2:00 BUMike LaGarde 18:13 2:00#FFFFFF CORLarry Fullan 18:13 2:00 2nd#FFFFFF CORDave Elenbaas 29:13 2:00 BURon Anderson 29:44 2:00#FFFFFF CORLarry Fullan 29:44 2:00 3rd BUPeter Thornton 43:24 2:00 Shots by period Team 1 2 3 T#FFFFFF Cornell 14 12 13 39 Boston University 8 11 13 32 Goaltenders Team Name Saves Goals against Time on ice#FFFFFF COR Dave Elenbaas 28 4 60:00 BU Tim Regan 39 0 60:00 References 50em Category:Boston University 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