Police: Booze Found In BC Student's Car After MBTA Crash

This is a story that emerged out of Boston over the weekend as three freshman hockey players from the defending national champion Boston College Eagles; Parker Milner, goaltender, and defensemen Phillip Sameulsson and Patrick Wey were involved in traffic accident with an MBTA trolley car. The driver of the vehicle a young woman was not drinking but there was alcohol found in the vehicle. Some of the beer cans in the vehicle were open. The part that makes it more series is some of the passengers in the vehicle fled the scene with their unauthorized alcoholic beverages. None of the passengers in the vehicle were of the legal age to drink alcoholic beverages.

It will be interesting to see how Boston College head hockey coach Jerry York handles this incident. My first question is how the hell do you run into a commuter train? Those things are pretty big, and I am not sure how you miss a big green commuter train. Also, what are 7 people doing in a Jeep it’s supposed to seat five.

BOSTON -- Three members of Boston College's national champion hockey team team are facing alcohol possession charges Monday after they and five other teenagers were in a car crash with a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trolley car late Saturday and police found blood-smeared cans of beer and a bottle of Rubinoff vodka in the SUV.

Police said BC hockey goal tender Parker Milner, 19, freshman defenseman Phillip Sameulsson, 18, and Patrick Wey, 19, were in a Jeep that was hit by a Green Line trolley when the driver, identified as Jane Stanton, 19, tried to make a u-turn across the tracks near the Evergreen Cemetery on Commonwealth Avenue at Greycliff Road.

Eight BC students were in the Jeep at the time of the crash, police said Monday. They originally believed there were only seven students in the five-passenger vehicle. Four were treated for minor injuries.[The Boston Channel]

Links to the story

USA Today; Boston College hockey players charged after car crash with trolley

WEEI; BC hockey players in car accident

Boston Bar Stool Sports; Underage BC Hockey Players Crash Into the Green Line

WBZ.COM; 3 BC Hockey Players Involved In Green Line Crash (with video)

UML goalie cleared of drug charges

I had posted a tweet about Nevin Hamilton's arrest on my twitter account. Recently, Hamilton has been cleared of the charges against him.

UMass-Lowell goaltender Nevin Hamilton has been cleared of all charges stemming from his arrest last month in his hometown.

Hamilton, a rising senior from Ashland, Mass., was arrested on July 24 and charged with possession of a Class B drug. A Framingham man, 23-year-old Adam Neshe, was arrested at the same time and on the same street, facing the same charges.

Today, the university announced that Hamilton has been absolved of all the charges related to the arrest.

“Nevin was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” UMass-Lowell coach Blaise MacDonald said in a statement. “Fortunately, justice has prevailed and he has been exonerated of all charges.” [hockeyjournal.com]