[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5121-S5123]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          BOSTON UNIVERSITY WINS NATIONAL HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP

  Mr. KENNEDY. I will just take this moment, Mr. President, to mention 
that in my State last Saturday, Boston University won the national 
championship in hockey. It was an all-New England contest. They played 
against the University of Maine in a very outstanding, competitive 
game. Boston University represents one of our great universities and 
one of the great centers for hockey. New England takes hockey 
seriously. Other parts of the country do as well.
  But I think it is important to take a moment of time, when we have 
been wondering about the young people of this Nation in the period of 
these last several days, to focus on the quality of the 
competitiveness, of the character, of the discipline, of the 
sportsmanship of real champions.
  Whether it was with the UCLA and Arkansas championship last night, or 
whether it was the superb performance of the University of 
Connecticut's women's team, or whether it was Boston University and the 
University of Maine finals in hockey, I think all Americans ought to 
take some degree of satisfaction about this next generation. I think 
all of us who are fortunate to have those teams in our State certainly 
do.
  Mr. President, it is a privilege to take this opportunity to 
congratulate Boston University's hockey team on winning the 48th annual 
NCAA Division I hockey championship this past Saturday in Providence, 
RI. With their brilliant and convincing 6-2 victory over the University 
of Maine Black Bears, the Terriers completed what the Boston Globe 
called ``college hockey's sweetest triple crown''--winning the annual 
Beanpot Tournament in Boston, the Hockey East championship and the NCAA 
championship all in 1 year. The only other team in school history to 
win this triple crown was the Boston University team of 1972.
  The Terriers completed the season with a record of 31-6-3 overall, 
the second most wins by a BU hockey team. The team was anchored by the 
presence of 14 natives of Massachusetts, including Mike Grier of 
Holliston, an African American and First Team All-American who is a 
role model for hockey fans in Massachusetts and throughout the United 
States.
  For BU, this victory marked their 4th NCAA Division I championship, 
having won previously in 1971, 1972, and 1978. They have appeared in 
the Final Four a total of eight times. In their 74 years of 
competition, they have an overall record of 1046-607-68, for an 
extraordinary.628 percentage. Under the inspired leadership of Coach 
Jack Parker, who graduated from the university in 1968, the Terriers 
have amassed a 491-241-37 record in his 22 years as coach, along with 
two national championships.
  It is a great tribute to Coach Parker and the rest of the Terriers 
that they were able to come back from a difficult loss in last year's 
tournament to win this year's championship in such a convincing 
fashion. I commend them for their impressive victory, and I ask 
unanimous consent that the team roster and articles from the Boston 
Globe on Sunday may be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

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             No. and name               Cl  Pos   Hgt   Wgt    Hometown 
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 1. Shawn Ferullo*...................  So   G    5-8     158  Lynnfield,
                                                               MA.      
 2. Kaj Linna ***....................  Sr   D    6-2     210  Helsinki, 
                                                               FIN.     
 3. Chris O'Sullivan*................  So   D    6-3     199  Dorchester
                                                               , MA.    
 4. Chris Kelleher...................  Fr   D    6-1     214  Belmont,  
                                                               MA.      
 5. Doug Wood**......................  Jr   D    6-1     200  Sudbury,  
                                                               MA.      
 7. Rich Brennan***..................  Sr   D    6-2     200  Guilderlan
                                                               d, NY.   
 8. Bill Pierce*.....................  So   W    6-1     195  Burlington
                                                               , MA.    
 9. Shawn Bates......................  So   C    6-0     183  Medford,  
                                                               MA.      
11. Bob Lachance**...................  Jr   W    5-11    183  Bristol,  
                                                               CT.      
12. Mike Grier*......................  So   W    6-0     242  Holliston,
                                                               MA.      
14. John Hynes.......................  Fr   W    5-9     168  Warwick,  
                                                               RI.      
15. Mike Sylvia......................  Fr   W    5-10    170  Newton,   
                                                               MA.      
16. Ken Rausch***....................  Sr   W    6-0     189  Danbury,  
                                                               CT.      


                                                                        
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           1994-95 BOSTON UNIVERSITY HOCKEY ROSTER--Continued           
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             No. and name               Cl  Pos   Hgt   Wgt    Hometown 
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17. Jay Pandolfo**...................  Jr   W    6-0     197  Burlington
                                                               , MA.    
18. Chris Drury......................  Fr   F    5-10    184  Trumbull, 
                                                               CT.      
19. Steve Thornton***................  Sr   C    5-11    179  Gloucester
                                                               , ONT.   
20. Jeff Kealty......................  Fr   D    6-4     190  Framingham
                                                               , MA.    
21. Mike Prendergast***..............  Sr   W    5-9     182  South     
                                                               Boston,  
                                                               MA.      
22. Matt Wright*.....................  So   W    6-1     180  Belmont,  
                                                               MA.      
24. Jacques Joubert**................  Sr   C    6-2     201  South     
                                                               Bend, IN.
26. Jon Coleman*.....................  So   D    6-0     192  Canton,   
                                                               MA.      
27. Shane Johnson*...................  So   D    5-10    185  Brandon,  
                                                               MAN.     
29. J.P. McKersie***.................  Sr   G    6-1     206  Madison,  
                                                               WI.      
30. Tom Noble........................  Fr   G    5-10    153  Hanover,  
                                                               MA.      
35. Derek Herlofsky***...............  Sr   G    5-10    173  Minneapoli
                                                               s, MN.   
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*Indicates number of letters won.                                       
                                                                        
Note: Head Coach: Jack Parker; Assistants: Blase MacDonald, Mike        
  Enizione, Bill Berglund; Captain: Jacques Joubert; Assistant Captains:
  Rich Brennan, Derek Heriofsky.                                        


                            BOSTON UNIVERSITY                           
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                   No. and name                      Pos.   G   A   Pts.
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 1. Shawn Ferullo.................................      G   0   0      0
 2. Kaj Linna.....................................      D   7  19     26
 3. Chris O'Sullivan..............................      D  21  33     54
 4. Chris Kelleher................................      D   3  17     20
 5. Doug Wood.....................................      D   6  11     17
 7. Rich Brennan..................................      D   5  22     27
 8. Bill Pierce...................................      W   5  13     18
 9. Shawn Bates...................................      C  18  11     29
11. Bob Lachance..................................      W  11  29     40
12. Mike Grier....................................      W  29  24     53
14. John Hynes....................................      W   0   0      0
15. Mike Sylvia...................................      W   9   9     18
16. Ken Rausch....................................      W  12  12     24
17. Jay Pandolfo..................................      W   7  12     19
18. Chris Drury...................................      F  12  15     27
19. Steve Thornton................................      C  16  22     38
20. Jeff Kealty...................................      D   0   5      5
21. Mike Prendergast..............................      W  17  21     38
22. Matt Wright...................................      W   7   9     16
24. Jacques Joubert...............................      C  28  23     51
26. Jon Coleman...................................      D   5  23     28
27. Shane Johnson.................................      D   0   6      6
29. J.P. McKersie.................................      G   0   0      0
30. Tom Noble.....................................      G   0   2      2
35. Derek Herlofsky...............................      G   0   3      3
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               [From the Boston Globe, Apr. 2, 1995]

  Terriers Are Once Again Top Dogs--BU Thumps Maine, Wins Hockey Crown

                           (By Joe Concannon)

       Providence.--They'd been to the doorstep twice in this 
     decade and experienced a wide range of hockey emotions. 
     They'd lost a turbulent 8-7 game in triple overtime to 
     Northern Michigan four years ago, then they'd been blown out 
     by Lake Superior State, 9-1, last year, both games in St. 
     Paul. This time the Green Line team out of a rink on a 
     deadend street in Allston took the limo all the way to the 
     top.
       Boston University, picked as the nation's No. 1 team in 
     October, blew away Maine, 6-2, in the championship game of 
     the 48th NCAA tournament yesterday at the Civic Center, the 
     same building where the Terriers won their last national 
     crown 17 years ago. They also completed college hockey's 
     sweetest triple crown by winning the Beanpot, Hockey East and 
     the NCAA title in the same season.
       The only team to accomplish that was the 1972 BU team led 
     by Ron Anderson, Toot Cahoon, Jake Danby, Steve Dolloff, Ric 
     Jordan, Bob Brown and goaltenders Dan Brady and Tim Regan. 
     The 1995 champions feature goaltenders Derek Herlofsky and 
     yesterday's hero, freshman Tom Noble, and goal scorers Chris 
     O'Sullivan, Jacques Joubert, Steve Thornton, Bob Lachance and 
     Mike Sylvia.
       ``I found out about 5 past 9 [yesterday morning] I was 
     starting,'' Noble, who made 21 saves, said. ``I've played big 
     games before [at Catholic Memorial] but this is the biggest 
     game I've ever played. It's been a dream of mine to play in a 
     national championship game.''
       This was the fourth NCAA championship for the Terriers in 
     eight Final Four appearances. The previous three came in 
     1971, 1972 and 1978. This year's Terriers, who finished 31-6-
     3, won two Beanpot games by four goals and their three NCAA 
     tournament games by the same margin. Doesn't that say it all?
       ``When it was 3-1 and 3-2 at the start of the third was 
     when our senior class and our goaltender took over,'' said BU 
     coach Jack Parker. ``We had another big goal by Shawn Bates 
     and the momentum started to swing.
       ``People asked if the kids were uptight. This group didn't 
     play well uptight. We beat three of the top hockey teams in 
     this tournament when we beat Lake Superior, Minnesota and 
     Maine, and after last year we had the opportunity to get 
     back. The entire season was treading water waiting to get 
     back to this tournament.''
       The Black Bears (31-6-6), who were picked fourth in the 
     Hockey East preseason poll, held a 2-0-2 edge over BU this 
     season, but the teams last met Dec. 3, in Orono. There was a 
     wide edge in quickness for the Terriers yesterday, in part 
     perhaps because of Maine's draining 4-3 triple-overtime 
     victory over Michigan in Thursday's semifinals.
       Even though the Terriers were riddled by penalties, they 
     showed their mettle, even when their 3-0 lead slipped to 3-2. 
     Bates got the third-period explosion going when he slid a 
     pass to Sylvia, who made it 4-2 at 5:23. O'Sullivan jammed 
     the puck in at the 8:30 mark for a 5-2 lead and Lachance's 
     shorthanded goal at 18:47 was the icing on this glorious 
     cake.
       The Terriers scored three powerplay goals and drew 10 
     penalties, four on interference calls in front of the net, so 
     their special teams were a key. ``They moved the puck and 
     handled our pressure,'' said Maine coach Shawn Walsh. ``We 
     couldn't get up to
      the puck. Down low their two defensemen outworked our three 
     forwards. They have a terrific defense and they showed it 
     today. They got the fourth goal and it put a stake through 
     our heart.''
       The Terriers started tentatively, but part of that was 
     attributable to the Black Bears, who took it to BU on the 
     boards and bumped the Terriers off the puck. BU had just two 
     shots on goal in the first 10 minutes. This was a trifle 
     haunting, since the Terriers didn't get a shot on goal in the 
     first 10 minutes a year ago in the crushing loss to Lake 
     Superior State.
       After killing off two power plays, the Terriers got their 
     first chance with the man advantage when Brad Mahoney left 
     for roughing at 13:50. Thornton asserted himself on a 
     faceoff, winning it, following it in and roofing a shot over 
     Maine goalie Blair Allison to stake the Terriers to a 1-0 
     lead at 14:57 of the opening period.
       The game's first big defensive play kept Maine from 
     answering. Wayne Conlan unloaded a shot that trickled away 
     from Noble and wound up casually behind him in the crease. 
     Lachance swept behind his goaltender and fired the puck out 
     of trouble before one of the Black Bears could get to it.
       The tables were tipped slightly in the second period when 
     it was the Black Bears who were denied quality scoring 
     opportunities and the Terriers streaked to a 3-0 lead, Maine 
     didn't get a shot off on an early power play and the Terriers 
     seized a 2-0 lead when O'Sullivan swept into the right post 
     and put in Thornton's rebound at 7:27.
       Less than two minutes later, Joubert followed up his own 
     rebound to convert on a power play set up by Kaj Linna and 
     Mike Prendergast, making it 3-0 at 9:15. Maine cut it to 3-1 
     when Tim Lovell flew in to convert Jamie Thompson's pass on a 
     two-on-one break, beating Noble at 14:51.
       As time was running out in the second period, the Black 
     Bears had a two-man advantage following penalties to Shane 
     Johnson (interference, 18:20) and Linna (slashing, 19:44), 
     but Thornton won the initial faceoff from Dan Shermerhorn and 
     the Terriers left with a shaky 3-1 lead and 20 seconds of the 
     two-man-down situation still to fend off. The first penalty 
     had expired when Trevor Roenick got Maine within 3-2 31 
     seconds into the third, but it was all BU after that.
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           Believe It Or Not, Boston Back in Winner's Circle

                         (By Kevin Paul DuPont)

       Providence--Not every floor has a trap door. The pie at the 
     buffet table isn't always there to be tossed in your face. 
     That big oak tree that shades your house and keeps it nice 
     and cool in the summer doesn't have to come crashing through 
     the roof in the middle of a winter storm.
       Good things can happen to a Boston team. The city that 
     hasn't had much to celebrate since the Celtics won the NBA 
     championship in 1986 now has the Boston University hockey 
     team to cheer all the way down Commonwealth Avenue. (Note: 
     this column will not self-destruct upon your reading the last 
     paragraph.)
       Boston is a winner. It's OK. You can close your eyes, click 
     your ruby slippers, and all the good of yesterday won't 
     vanish before your eyes. Boston is a winner.
       Perhaps bigger news in the '90s: upon leaving the Civic 
     Center last night, no one had asked a state or federal agency 
     to launch an investigation and no one was looking to tell 
     his/her side of the story to ``Hard Copy'' for an extra $50. 
     No one asked the official scorer to come to the side bar.
       It was like the old days: one team won, one team lost, and 
     no doubt a few kegs got uncorked in dorms from Kenmore 
     Square, right on up to West Campus.
       ``This is the greatest team because it's happened right 
     now,'' said BU coach Jack Parker, following his Terrier's 6-2 
     rubout of the Maine
      Black Bears in yesterday's NCAA final. But don't tell that 
     to Mike Eruzione or Jack O'Callahan. They played on some 
     pretty good teams, too.
       ``This team is one in a great line. And it's nice to be on 
     that line.''
       Parker was one shivering slice of life in the minutes that 
     followed his second national championship (fourth overall for 
     BU). While he stood at center ice and answered all the 
     questions for ESPN, goaltender Derek Herlofsky and partner-
     in-crime Rich Brennan conspired in giving Parker an icy 
     shower. Over came the orange tub, hoisted high, and Parker 
     was as wet as if he'd been tossed into the Charles.
       ``I feel old,'' said the shaking Parker, his shirt and 
     pants clinging to his wiry body. ``But I felt old before this 
     started.''
       Winning the NCAA hockey championship doesn't capture 
     America's heart and soul, or the TV lens, the way an NCAA 
     basketball championship can. The US is built for roundball. 
     President Clinton didn't interrupt his afternoon at 
     Pennsylvania Avenue to call Jack Parker and his good ol' boys 
     from Route 128 to congratulate them.
       But no one expects that, especially at BU, a campus of 
     diverse interests with hockey just a small part of a 
     cosmopolitan landscape. When the BU hockey team packed its 
     bags for the trip down here on Wednesday, there was no band 
     playing on Babcock Street, no booster club sending the boys 
     off with a fond fairwell.
       ``Really, it was very quiet,'' said the Terriers' longtime 
     sports information director, Ed Carpenter. ``Just a bunch of 
     college kids taking care of business.''
       [[Page S5123]] ``Maine actually has a more avid hockey 
     following. Understandable. It's watch hockey or get back to 
     the lumberjack matchups. Shawn Walsh's team also came here 
     hoping to take care of business. After falling behind, 3-0, 
     the Black Bears closed
      within a goal on strikes by Tim Lovell and Trevor Roenick.
       But Maine showed the fatigue of Thursday's triple-overtime 
     win over Michigan. Forty-eight hours didn't give the Black 
     Bears enough time to recover. Tired legs and shortcomings on 
     defense brought them up short.
       ``Short shifts,'' read the message board in the Maine 
     dressing room. ``Short passes, Stop and start.'' In other 
     words, economize, don't get into a pass-and-shoot game with a 
     BU team that had rattled off nine straight wins. Don't trade 
     punches with a club that won the Beanpot and the Hockey East 
     title. In the end, it was a breakdown, a pass picked off, 
     that buried the Bears. Bruins prospect Shawn Bates broke over 
     the line on a two-on-one, dished right to Milk Sylvia, and BU 
     had a 4-2 lead with 5:23 gone in the third.
       ``A killer,'' said Walsh. ``It was like someone put a stake 
     right through our heart.''
       The BU dressing room was surprisingly low key. Mike Grier 
     (how come no one calls him Big Country?) packed his red-and-
     white bag and slung it over his shoulder on his way to catch 
     the bus. One by one, his teammates followed, quietly, smiling 
     on cue when asked how it felt to be the greatest college 
     hockey team in the USA.
       ``Feels great,'' said Grier, ``I don't think I can describe 
     yet how it feels, but it feels great.''
       ``I'm tired,'' said Bates, slumping in a chair for a TV 
     interviews. ``This is great. This is everything we wanted.''
       Be careful today if you drive by the BU bridge. Ease off 
     the pedal some if you pass the dorms around 700 Comm. Ave, or 
     the cozy apartments along Bay State Road. The partying 
     promised to be long and hard. Red eyes and slow steps will be 
     the order of the day.
       Boston has a champion this morning. We know it often 
     doesn't get better than that.

  Mr. DOLE addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. DOLE. I think we are still awaiting one phone call before, 
hopefully, we can reach an agreement. I do not want to miss this 
opportunity to talk about the University of Kansas Jayhawks. 
[Laughter.]
  Mr. BUMPERS. The majority leader will be proud in knowing that I 
actually picked Kansas to be in the final four in the office pool.
  Mr. DOLE. So did I. [Laughter.]
  But I think it is fair to say I certainly agree with the comments 
made by both Senators from Arkansas. It is an outstanding team, 
outstanding coach. Senator Pryor indicated the momentum did go back and 
forth. It was tied, two behind, one ahead. It was one exciting game.
  I know it is a lot more fun winning. We have all experienced that 
from time to time. But I do think it says a lot about the coaches, a 
lot about the fans, primarily a lot about the young men who were 
involved in not only the Final Four but the Sweet 16, the whole group. 
They have all done an outstanding job. I know we are all proud of our 
respective teams.

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