from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
Win No. 1,000 came gift-wrapped with a Bay State bow. Jerry York, proud son of Watertown, walked out of Mullins Center Friday night with his BC Eagles owners of an 8-0 shellacking of the UMass Minutemen, and his career résumé reading 1,000-595-108.
Finally, four figures in the win column. No college hockey coach has won more games than York, the 70-year-old former Eagles center. And perhaps no college coach anywhere ever reached such a significant milestone — a feat unlikely to be duplicated — with such a subdued, understated demeanor.
“We’ve always talked about leaving our ego at the door, when you walk in [the dressing room] you’re now a part of a family of BC hockey players,’’ said York, after seeing eight goal scorers execute the beatdown before a crowd of 4,673. “If I was to make a big deal of, ‘Let’s work really hard to get this one,’ it wouldn’t make any sense.
“I really stayed away from that.’’
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