It sucks having to draw a Jeff Jackson team that plays a craptacular style, but they're a four seed because they're not terribly good. If BC is disciplined, smart and skate hard, they should win this game handily.
This is one of the largest teams York has ever fielded, even on defense. Comparing all the D1 teams, they're 14th in the country in height and 15th in weight. Their biggest problem - they're dead last in average age.
Karow is listed at 6'2", 210, St. Ivany at 6'3", 200; Helleson at 6'3', 190, and 7th d-man Andres is 6'1", 195. Yes, Lovell is too small, but even Warren and Powell (who's better than expected) are 5'11". Helleson is +24, Warren is +16, Powell is +15. Stephen Davis (all 6'0"/216 of him), who decided to play for the Halifax Mooseheads, is lighting it up to the tune of a -14 in the Q. Look at the 2001team - besides Orpik, they didn't have huge d-men.
What I saw against Lowell was BC's large forwards slumping off guys who were taking shots from between the top of the circles and the line, probably because they were up by three goals, possibly were told to keep the play in front of them and to the outside, and most importantly - they didn't expect Knight to have his worst game in an Eagles uniform. Luckily, we saw him have a crappy game to start off the World Juniors, and he bounced back pretty well from that. He's mentally tough.
As far as the forwards, McLaughlin, Nesterenko, and McBain are #'s 2-4 in scoring, and Ambrosio (who I think has hit the freshman wall) is tied for 6th. Losing Hutsko's experience, speed and point-per-game production really hurts, but they have depth that we haven't seen for a few years.
Yes, they could get knocked out in round 1 because of ND's neutral zone trap as low-scoring games are common in the tourney, but I'll take my chances with Jerry.
Rant over. Go Eagles.