By the 2007-08 season, I had fully gone from a casual Boston College men’s hockey fan to the fanatic I am today. The last home game I had missed was in 2006 (for a close friend’s sweet sixteen), and not counting COVID, I’ve only missed one more since. This was just the right time to be getting so invested in BC hockey, as the 2007-08 season was about to propel the Eagles into years of dominating Hockey East, the Beanpot, and the NCAA.
Like many BC fans, I entered the 2007-08 season still devastated by losing the NCAA Championship games the two previous years, and a little anxious about what the team would look like without Brian Boyle and Cory Schneider.