On April 7, 2012, Johnny Gaudreau scored “The Goal” to cap off a men’s hockey national championship for Boston College.
Ever since that moment, every year when the calendar turned to the spring, and to championship season in college sports, it had been pain on repeat for Boston College fans - especially the kind of BC fan drawn to a website like this, the one who gets emotionally invested in all 31 of BC’s teams, and takes it all far too much to heart. Pain on repeat, at least once a year - every year. Until today.
In every single academic year from 2012-13 to 2019-20, Boston College had at least one (and sometimes multiple!