Junior forward Corey Trivino and sophomore forward Alex Chiasson will both be suspended for the Boston University men’s hockey team’s exhibition game against the University of Toronto Saturday as well as the first two games of the regular season, Terrier coach Jack Parker said.
The Daily Free Press reported Trivino’s suspension on May 3 and Parker confirmed it the next day, but no length was given at the time. On May 6, The Free Press reported that Trivino and Vinny Saponari, who was dismissed from the team, showed up late to a mandatory bike ride that was punishment for a March 17 drinking incident that involved 13-15 players, including Trivino and Saponari. Parker said on Wednesday that there was a chance Trivino’s suspension could be reduced.
Also on May 6, The Free Press reported that another player who had not been named at that point would be suspended for a separate incident that occurred earlier in the season. Parker confirmed on Wednesday that that player was Chiasson and that he had broken team rules. Parker said he hadn’t named Chiasson or announced the suspension earlier because the punishment had not been decided yet.
Parker to miss exhibition game
Parker said he will miss Saturday’s game against Toronto because he has yet to receive medical clearance from doctors following heart bypass surgery over the summer, but that he hopes to be in back in time for the season-opening Warrior Ice Breaker Tournament in St. Louis on Oct. 8. He said he was “almost positive” that if he wasn’t back in time for the Ice Breaker, he’d be back in time for the Oct. 16 game against the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Associate head coach Mike Bavis will handle coaching duties in Parker’s absence.
“I feel pretty well,” Parker said. “Every day is getting better and better. . .I feel 100 percent, but I haven’t gotten the OK from the doctor yet to go back to work.”
BU picked fourth in HE coaches poll
For the second day in a row, the Terriers were picked to finish fourth in a preseason Hockey East poll – this time by the coaches. As was the case with Tuesday’s media poll, they finished behind Boston College, the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire, respectively.
Here’s the rest of the poll:
- Boston College (9) 90
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Maine (1) 80
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New Hampshire 76
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Boston University 59
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Northeastern 54
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Vermont 53
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Merrimack 48
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UMass-Lowell 33
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Massachusetts 26
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Providence 21
Terriers becoming a target
The No. 4/6 BU women’s ice hockey team finds itself in an unfamiliar position heading into its 2010-11 campaign as the favorites to win HE. The Terriers have never been picked higher than third in the conference preseason poll before this season and had not placed higher than 10th in preseason polls.
BU coach Brian Durocher acknowledged that the recognition his team has received before the first puck dropped will affect the way teams prepare for the Terriers this season.
“It really puts the bull’s-eye on your back,” Durocher said. “Each team is probably going to circle three, four, five games a year that are going to be big games, and we’re probably going to be one of those circled games, where in the past I don’t think that was the case.”
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