The Dart "All the news that is fitting and to the point." Volume XIII, Issue II Winter 2013-2014 Red Sox Preview from the younger players. I expect Felix By Patrick DuFour Doubrant to have a breakout season and become After defeating the St. Louis Cardinals a future ace for the Sox. The Red Sox should in the World Series, the Sox are faced with a win 93 games and have a shot at the World difficult challenge of defending their title. As Series. This will only happen if players can stay John Farrell puts it, “People say, well, how are healthy, specifically the starting pitching. If you going to defend [the title]? I don’t look at it Clay Buchholz can start over 20 games, the Red as defending; we have to go get it again. And Sox will have an incredible season. Large that’s a drastically different mindset.” John expectations loom over the 2014 Red Sox, Farrell doesn’t want the team’s focus to waver; opposite of a year ago. As we saw last year, he wants them to continue to put hard work in. anything can happen. The Red Sox had a relatively calm offseason. The departures of Jacoby Ellsbury, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, and maybe Stephen Drew are damaging, but controllable. Ben Cherington was able to bring in AJ Pierzynski, Grady Sizemore, and Edward Mujica. By re-signing Mike Napoli, the Red Sox kept a great power hitter in the lineup. My projected starters for 2014 are as BC Hockey Trip follows: Gomes in left, Victorino in center, By Will Fox and Henry DeMatteo Nava in right, Middlebrooks at third, Bogaerts On January 10, 2013, seventh and eighth at short, Pedroia at second, and Napoli at first. grade students piled into two buses to attend a Catchers will vary, based on who is pitching on Boston College vs. Providence men’s hockey both sides and maybe on the emergence of game. The bus ride was a good time for young Ryan Lavarnway. The 2014 Sox have a everyone, and all were excited for the game. BC much deeper bullpen and will see more action came into the game as the number two team in the country. Providence was ranked fifth, so it was planet. The planetarium was a great way for the kids likely to be a great game. to relax and learn. Next, they took on a space The group of Arrows sat in section KK, mission to land a shuttle on Mars. Each person was which didn’t have the greatest seats ever. However, assigned a different task and was able to talk on a all attending were still into the game. The majority headset with people on the shuttle. The launch and of the Arrows were rooting for the Eagles, while a landings were successful. The Challenger Space few decided to cheer for the Friars. Museum was ultimately a great way for them to BC started off the game with an easy goal learn out of the classroom and get to know each from their dominant first line, consisting of Billy other even better. Arnold, Johnny Hockey, and Kevin Hayes. Providence answered with a goal in the first period. Each team notched another goal in the second period. It was all tied up entering the third period. BC’s dominant five goals per game average came alive during the third period. Scoring two goals moderately easily, they sealed the game with an empty-net goal by senior Kevin Hayes. The hockey trip was a great time for everyone because we got to see the best men’s hockey team in the United States Olympic Hockey By Jack Moffatt and Marty White country. We also bonded as a class throughout the The Sochi Olympics were packed with experience. The trip will definitely be a highlight of energizing events, but the hockey tournament was the school year! by far the most exciting. The Russian team came into this tournament with high expectations both because they had a high powered offense and because they were the home team. The Russia versus America preliminary game was a real thrill. Challenger Trip By J.P. Milbury The Russians got on the board first with a second Recently the seventh grade had the privilege period Pavel Datsuyk goal that excited the Russian of visiting the Challenger Space Museum in fans. Then on an American power play, Cam Framingham. The interactive challenges made the Fowler of the Anaheim Ducks ripped an absolutely trip a wonderful experience for all who attended. beautiful shot from the point to beat Bobrovsky low First, the boys had the opportunity to enjoy the to the glove side. Later on in the third period, planetarium that the museum had to offer. They Patrick Kane made a beautiful saucer pass across watched a movie, which went into detail about each the crease to a streaking Joe Pavelski, who made no 2 mistake, burying the puck deep in the net. It was Olympic Issues By Jack Moffatt and Drew Dorsey now 2-1 in favor of the USA. The Russian fans The Olympics ended this past Sunday, and were silenced, shocked, and disappointed, but not all the great memories are written into the history for long. Pavel Datsuyk of the Detroit Red Wings books. However, just before the Twenty-Second scored the equalizer to lock the game at 2. The Olympic Winter Games began, there were some Russian bench and crowd soon exploded in joy at major concerns. Zdeno Chara, the Boston Bruins what they thought was their winning goal. But Captain and Slovakian flag bearer, had a room with because of international rules, the goal was a bed that was too short for him. To make up for it, disallowed since a goalpost was dislodged, though officials had to put a footstool at the end of his bed. only by a tiny bit. The game stayed tied at 2-2 for This was definitely an issue for the six foot, nine the remaining time left in regulation and through a inch defenseman, but it was not life threatening. five-minute four on four sudden death overtime. United States bobsledder, Johnny Quinn The game then went on to a complicated shootout. found himself trapped in his hotel bathroom while In the first three rounds the teams had to vary their in Sochi. He had no cell phone and no way to reach shooters. USA chose T.J. Oshie, Joe Pavelski, and anybody. His attempts to alert his teammates were Phil Kessel. After the first three rounds, the to no avail. Eventually he just started pounding on shootout was tied 1-1. Then the shootout got crazy. the door until he saw daylight. After the incident, T.J. Oshie took five consecutive shots, capping the Quinn tweeted, “With no phone to call for help, I game off with a five hole goal that shook the used my bobsled push training to break out. Olympics. The Russians didn’t come to play against #SochiJailBreak.” Overall the Sochi Olympics were the Norwegians with elimination at stake. This was a success, but they still had more than their fair a shocking upset and put the Russian hockey fans in share of problems. a bad mood for the rest of the tournament. In the semi-finals, the United States team went up against Canada after their women counterparts had lost to Canada in the Gold Medal game. Canada scored a goal and the Americans never came back. After this shutout, the Americans went to the Bronze Medal game and had their worst performance of the tournament. Going into the third period, they were The Boston Bruins down 2-0. They never came back and were By Michael Dailey and Devlin McCool humiliated in their 5-0 loss. Canada beat Sweden in The Boston Bruins are headed into the the final game 3-0, finishing their Gold Medal run. Olympic break in first place in the Atlantic Although there were many great moments, the Division. They have a safe lead seven points ahead American and Russian teams went home unhappy. of the Tampa Bay Lighting. Although they are first 3 in the Atlantic Division, the Bruins are seventh in team since the 2006-2007 season, so most Bruins the league. Boston is behind the Colorado fans are happy that he is finally getting his chance Avalanche by one point, and behind the San Jose to be named the starting goaltender. Along with Sharks by two points. Their first game back from Rask, the Bruins acquired goaltender Chad Johnson, the Olympics is against the last place Buffalo who has been great so far this season. If the Bruins Sabres. It is an expected win considering the Bruins can keep up their performance, they will surely earn have as many losses as the Sabres do wins. The a spot in the playoffs and hopefully make it to the Bruins Captain Zdeno Chara is in his first game finals once again. back from missing two games before the break for carrying the flag for Slovakia. His physical presence will help the Bruins greatly. They are missing Dennis Seidenberg, Adam McQuaid, and Dougie Hamilton, so they need a fresh defenseman to fill their roster space. The Bruins’ forwards consist of many great players including Patrice Bergeron, Loui Eriksson, and David Krejci who all represented their countries in the Olympics. Patrice Bergeron won a gold What a Season By Peter Julien medal with Team Canada, Loui Eriksson earned a silver medal with Team Sweden, and David Krejci All the kids on Fourth Basketball waited participated.