Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
I never buy the lack of hunger excuse. It's an easy cop out. These are college kids...they all want it. They don't wanna lose to rivals on the big stage. BU consistently gets top talent. It's meshing as a team and playing well at the right time that has elluded them. The players change, so I think you have to look at the one constant. He had his typical postgame remarks as well. I don't know how the players and you fans put up with it. It would drive me crazy.
Speaking of parker, I can see him doing a facepalm after watching gaudet on that first maine goal. I've never seen anything quite like that.
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Originally posted by mwade View PostIn the past they've used the 'real' nets for the games and practice nets for warmups for the first game at least (second game depending on timing), but this year, they haven't used the Bruins nets at all. Don't know what prompted the change in policy, but it isn't a timing or lazy thing.
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by claver2010 View PostYup on both counts.
The nets were disgusting again. First noticed it at the Beanpot and assumed they were the warmup nets and would be replaced for the game guess not.
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by J.D. View PostChickod, BU hasn't had consistent success over the past 10 plus years...perhaps that's the problem in regard to lack of fan support. Apathy? Anyway, I'm sure it will be the same way in the final. Will feel like a home game for maine.
And when I say success, it hasn't been the success you all expect.
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
I don't follow BU that closely, so take it with a grain of salt.
Just beware of turnover in the coaching staff. BC hiring York and improving dramatically right away is an exception to the rule. Turnover in a program can be rough.
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
You'd have to think that with Trivino, Coyle and Nicastro in the line, things could have been different. BU's lower level guys saw too much ice time and at the same time, the top guys were gassed by the 3rd period.
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by buoldtimer View PostI hate to say this, but I will anyway...I just don't expect BU to win these games anymore. I don't invest as much emotional energy into BU Hockey as I once did, but when you've seen the script play out in the same manner over the past 15 years, you can't expect any surprises.
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
I hate to say this, but I will anyway...I just don't expect BU to win these games anymore. I don't invest as much emotional energy into BU Hockey as I once did, but when you've seen the script play out in the same manner over the past 15 years, you can't expect any surprises. Prior to 1998, I always expected BU to win a game such as last night's.
With that said, one man's opinion...
1. Rodrigues, sheesh! He missed a wide-open net against UNH last Sunday, also.
2. Penalties. The team has taken bad penalties for several years, now. Despite what JP says, if it's gone on this long, it's his responsibility.
3. The thought of Adam Clendening playing defense at a level higher and faster than D1 is hilarious. It's the exception when he wins a one-on-one battle for the puck, not the rule. He's so easy to knock off the puck.
4. Did someone lock Craig Janney in a donut shop?
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by kbz View PostI am not a Millan fan but I completely disagree. I don't fault him for any of the goals last night.
I watched the rest of the tape. I counted twelve times where a BU guy SKATED AFTER a Maine player to give him a little shove or punch or stick AFTER the whistle. It's happened all year and it has never been corrected. This team is UNDISCIPLINED. They lost this game for three reasons: penalites...penalties...penalties...
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Confession. This loss hurts more than I thought it would. I really wanted to see them beat Maine. And I wanted a chance to win a trophy.
Go Black Bears!
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by blackbearsfan45 View PostHow would Shanahan rule? He'd probably suspend both of them!
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by CDRAL View PostMy opinion is we were done in by issues that have been there all year: 1. Inability to finish off good scoring chances; 2. turnovers, 3. penalties, and 4. we seemed to be over relying on Kieran Millan to deliver us to the promised land.
Did it appear to people as it did to me that we were collapsing into our goaltender and thus creating problems for ourselves?I thought we could have done a better job had we played a more aggressive defense.
I don't understand brackets, tucs etc but I can't imagine us being in Worcester for NCAA. Of course I have been wrong before.
The 3 losses to Maine this year were concluded with empty net goals by Maine
Hopefully Spencer Abbott will be OK, The hit was at the far end from me and I didn't see a replay. There is a shot in the Globe of Abbott down and Sean Escobedo adjacent to him. How would Brendan Shanahan rule?
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by Federal League View PostIn your Union and Sioux win scenario, I think BU would actually be in St. Paul. You'd have UMD 7, Minnesota 8, BU 9, Maine 10. In that scenario, I think they'd keep 8 vs. 9 and 7 vs. 10, so it would be Minnesota-BU in St. Paul and UMD-Maine in Worcester.
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by defkit View PostWhat happened on those two face-offs near the end? Chiasson won both of them, but not very strongly. I would expect the right play is for the closest point man to come get the puck. Both times, Clendening (I think) did not charge the puck, and we blew two great chances to set up a play with the goalie pulled. Frustrating.
I swear that in one of those two 2002 playoff losses to Maine (HE Playfofs or NCAA's, don't remember which), twice we won faceoffs cleanly but split our pointmen and the puck went out of the zone killing chances of setting up a play with the goalie pulled.
Must be some kind of hex when we play Maine.
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Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Part V: At least 6 more games, maybe 13... who's with
Originally posted by sterlippo1 View Post^^^ it seemed like every ten minutes or so they would update the SOG totals in the BC-PC game, i noticed it too. Weird, it is usually done in real time or close to it. What's up with the filthy nets again like we had in the Beanpot? reminded me of the old days in the old Garden
The nets were disgusting again. First noticed it at the Beanpot and assumed they were the warmup nets and would be replaced for the game guess not.
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