We checked in with Casey Fitzgerald (third round, 2016) and Christopher Brown (sixth round, 2014), who are the co-captains at Boston College in this week's Prospects Update. They're looking to lead the Eagles back to the Frozen Four for the first time since their freshman year. In the years since, they've learned that it's not easy to make it back to the main event.
Now seniors and serving as two of three captains at B.C., Brown and Fitzgerald are instilling that message on a young Eagles team looking to make it back to the Frozen Four in Buffalo this April.
They haven't been to the NCAA Tournament since that freshman campaign despite finishing atop the Hockey East standings in each of the past two seasons. They lost in the conference finals in 2017 and in the semifinals last season.
But after an 0-5 start to begin their senior years, they think they know the recipe to get back.
"The team I had my freshman year, we had a lot of talent," Fitzgerald said. "We were really, really deep, and we could go into games and maybe some guys would slack off a little or something, but we had such high-end talent that we could get the job done every night.
"We have a lot of talent on this team, but I think our goals are we have to come in, we have to be a work horse team, a team that every night brings their work bucket. That's a culture thing, that's a mentality that we've kind of instilled here."
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