If there was ever a team in need of some time off, it was this season’s Boston College Women’s Hockey team.
The Eagles came into the year with some pretty lofty expectations — (“WE’RE STACKED”) — thanks to the return of three of the top six scorers in the country, plus the infusion of a trio of Olympic heroes on the blue line to bolster BC’s main weakness from last season. But wow, did the team struggle out of the blocks. The Eagles stumbled on opening weekend with a sweep at the hands of Minnesota-Duluth, recovered for a nice stretch of games, and then tripped all over themselves into a full-on faceplant heading into the break by losing four out of their last five.