
Cotton to Captain Eagles in 2019-20, McPhee Voted Assistant Captain
April 11, 2019 | Men's Hockey
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Rising senior forward David Cotton has been voted as the captain of the Boston College men's hockey team for the 2019-20 season, while classmate Graham McPhee has been selected as the Eagles' assistant captain.
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The pair replaces the leadership trio of seniors Christopher Brown, Casey Fitzgerald and Michael Kim, who spent the last two seasons as tri-captains and are all currently playing in the American Hockey League.
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A Hockey East First Team All-Star for the first time, Cotton is coming off a career year with 23 goals to lead the league. Cotton also led Hockey East with eight power play goals this past season and was named to the New England All-Star Team.
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Nationally, Cotton was sixth in the country in goals per game and tied for 20th in power play goals. He posted eight multi-point games to lead the team and rank 11th in Hockey East. The Texan enters his final season at BC just 12 points shy of 100 in 116 career games.Â
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McPhee skated in 29 games this past season as a junior with three goals and six assists. He missed the final nine games of the season due to injury after blocking a shot on the road against Maine. McPhee played in his 100th career game on Feb. 8 against UMass Lowell.
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Boston College reached its second Hockey East Championship Game in the last three years before falling 3-2 to Northeastern at TD Garden. The Eagles upset a pair of Frozen Four squads in the first two rounds of the Hockey East Tournament, defeating No. 2 seed Providence and No. 1 seed UMass.
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The pair replaces the leadership trio of seniors Christopher Brown, Casey Fitzgerald and Michael Kim, who spent the last two seasons as tri-captains and are all currently playing in the American Hockey League.
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A Hockey East First Team All-Star for the first time, Cotton is coming off a career year with 23 goals to lead the league. Cotton also led Hockey East with eight power play goals this past season and was named to the New England All-Star Team.
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Nationally, Cotton was sixth in the country in goals per game and tied for 20th in power play goals. He posted eight multi-point games to lead the team and rank 11th in Hockey East. The Texan enters his final season at BC just 12 points shy of 100 in 116 career games.Â
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McPhee skated in 29 games this past season as a junior with three goals and six assists. He missed the final nine games of the season due to injury after blocking a shot on the road against Maine. McPhee played in his 100th career game on Feb. 8 against UMass Lowell.
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Boston College reached its second Hockey East Championship Game in the last three years before falling 3-2 to Northeastern at TD Garden. The Eagles upset a pair of Frozen Four squads in the first two rounds of the Hockey East Tournament, defeating No. 2 seed Providence and No. 1 seed UMass.
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