Source: Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune, Thursday, February 23, 1995
 
BC HOCKEY SUSPENDS TEN FOR VIOLATION
by Bill Burt, Eagle-Tribune Writer
 
CHESTNUT HILL - Boston College Eagles hockey coach Jerry York
suspended 10 players "indefinitely" for attending an off-limits bar
after their 4-0 loss at Merrimack's Volpe Complex last Saturday night.
 
Included in the suspension were star goalie Greg Taylor, Tom Ashe,
Mark Wainwright, Joe Harney, Greg Callahan, Jim Krayer and Michael
McCarthy.
 
The bar, Mary Ann's, is in Cleveland Circle on Beacon Ave.  It is
about one mile from the B.C. campus.
 
Because of a history of past problems with hockey players attending
the establishment, it was deemed off-limits by coach York.  Any
player seen there would be suspended.
 
"At the beginning of the first practice after the Merrimack games,
coach York said he had heard that hockey players went to that bar
after the Merrimack game on Saturday," said B.C. assistant coach Jim
Logue.  "He said, 'Did everyone understand what I said earlier in the
season, about suspending players who went there?'"
 
York reportedly said the players who attended the bar should leave the
ice immediately.  Ten players did.
 
"It was strange seeing all those players skate off the ice," said Logue.
 
B.C. will dress only 14 players for Sunday's game at Providence, which
puts the winner in good position for seventh place in Hockey East.
 
The Eagles will play three lines of forwards, only three defensemen
and freshman goalie Mike Correia of Tewksbury, who has yet to start a
game.
 
North Andover's Ryan Taylor, a sophomore defenseman who has played in
only four games this season, will see full-time duty.
 
"It's not that there was any trouble at the place," said Logue.  "In
fact, two of the kids who were there don't drink.  The issue is they
weren't supposed to go there and they knew it.  Jerry is just doing
what he told them he'd do."
 
York is in his first year as head coach after taking over from ex-Bruin
GM and coach Mike Milbury, who quit after questioning B.C.'s "false"
promises with scholarships.
 
Because the suspension is indefinite, it is not yet known if the 10
players will return for B.C.'s next game at Merrimack on Friday, March 3.
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