As Cooch mentioned, BU dropped a 2-0 decision to Providence on Friday, and it was (lucky me) the first BU game I've been to in some time.

While many of the games this season have been difficult, this one was especially irritating given that we not only took a lot of shots, but had a decent number of quality shots as well. Any combination of the usual suspects - lack of a go-to scorer, goaltending, defense - could be blamed for the result (though I'd go more with the lack of offensive punch than anything else this time around).

Looking at the last five years, BU has three 25 win seasons. The other two, though, were 14 win seasons. Making things worse is that getting 14 wins this season would be an accomplishment. Hitting that mark in the regular season would require winning 6 of our last 9 games, which include Monday's Beanpot final against BC (which I'm least worried about, with history and all) and home-and-home series against UMass and UNH.

It's bad enough that I have to list the UMass home-and-home as worrisome. Even worse is that a late season home-and-home against Northeastern will most likely tell if BU even makes the playoffs this year.

(The dark horse in the hunt for the bottom is UMass-Lowell, who had to forfeit 9 games earlier this season for using an ineligible player. On top of some conference forfeits, they still have home-and-homes against UNH and BC and a two game home set versus Maine.)

And then there's the icing on the cake, so to speak - BU is hosting this year's Frozen Four at the FleetCenter. As least we won't have a title run to distract from our hosting duties.