Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations
What's to learn? QPac is a decent team but they will not finish the year in the Top 10.
Friday night that first goal should have been waved off...a player does not have the "right" to race a goalie to the crease and then impede his ability to make a save. NU scored later in the 3rd but the goal wasn't even waved off; the puck was simply retrieved from the net and a face-off.
Saturday night, which I saw live, was equally insane. A high sticking call made on a player sitting on the bench..an interference call for checking a puck carrier...consecutive 5 on 3s...there was no flow to the game whatsoever. Both Cameron (chyea, his name is Cameron, go figure) Lynch and Katie Guay are going to very rough years if they call games as they both did this past weekend.
As for the play, the Big Line played very well even with ZAR's turnover. They jammed the net created traffic and movement and the dirty goals they scored this weekend is what we've come to expect. Gaudette showed up to play and this kid Jozifek was impressive.
What didn't impress me was, as usual. Garret Cockerill. I don't get the coaches' obsession with giving this kid the playing time that he gets let alone on the Top PP. They started last season with him there and he coughed up the puck for shorties - as he did Saturday - shoots the puck with no shooting lane and he continually forces passes into traffic. And why they've put Jeremy Davies on the first unit is a puzzler as well. They did so well with Williams and Sikura on the unit at season's end why would you change that?
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Friday night that first goal should have been waved off...a player does not have the "right" to race a goalie to the crease and then impede his ability to make a save. NU scored later in the 3rd but the goal wasn't even waved off; the puck was simply retrieved from the net and a face-off.
Saturday night, which I saw live, was equally insane. A high sticking call made on a player sitting on the bench..an interference call for checking a puck carrier...consecutive 5 on 3s...there was no flow to the game whatsoever. Both Cameron (chyea, his name is Cameron, go figure) Lynch and Katie Guay are going to very rough years if they call games as they both did this past weekend.
As for the play, the Big Line played very well even with ZAR's turnover. They jammed the net created traffic and movement and the dirty goals they scored this weekend is what we've come to expect. Gaudette showed up to play and this kid Jozifek was impressive.
What didn't impress me was, as usual. Garret Cockerill. I don't get the coaches' obsession with giving this kid the playing time that he gets let alone on the Top PP. They started last season with him there and he coughed up the puck for shorties - as he did Saturday - shoots the puck with no shooting lane and he continually forces passes into traffic. And why they've put Jeremy Davies on the first unit is a puzzler as well. They did so well with Williams and Sikura on the unit at season's end why would you change that?
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