BU Hockey '24-'25: Reloaded for another Frozen Four run

[Scarlet]

ELC is very much not small, with max bonuses and everything. ELCs themselves are required to be under a certain amount though. Base salary plus signing bonus is $975k, performance bonuses up to $3.5m. I don't know why he's on cameo, but I'd guess he wanted to.

I wonder if it's like a rookie hazing thing. And he will donate any money he makes. Or something like that.

[Rogie21]

NHL Rookie Scoring: #1 Lane Hutson 30, #3 Macklin Celebrini 28, #7 Cutter Gauthier 17, #8 Will Smith 14
NHL Rookie Goal-scoring #1 Celebrini 13

[DNAEagle]

All talented players and all will be successful in the NHL, just glad I was able to watch them in person. Now we have 10 kids from both teams coming back from the World Juniors. Should be a great second half of the year.

[Scarlet]

Any reason why Saturday's game is at 5:00pm? It can't be to accommodate a Patriots Playoff game. Ahhh, remember the days??

[DLG]

Any reason why Saturday's game is at 5:00pm? It can't be to accommodate a Patriots Playoff game. Ahhh, remember the days??

So the Vermont team can get back to Burlington earlier
A lot of Saturday back to back games start early

[Bomber]

Jay did a nice job of pumping the tires on the "World Juniors Four." Not so much with the goaltending. - But he's not wrong. And he hasn't announced a starter for tonight.

I actually have ZERO idea of what to expect from this team tonight. The Yale loss was brutal (I was there.) I would expect to see a hungry team that is on-top of every puck and committed to playing a clean game. We shall see.

Oh, and it's student break, so the crowd will be .... ? 3.5k? 4k?

BU Hockey: Got Defense?

[Rogie21]

Jay did a nice job of pumping the tires on the "World Juniors Four." Not so much with the goaltending. - But he's not wrong. And he hasn't announced a starter for tonight.

He wasn't going to throw any individuals under the bus, but did say about goaltending:
"It's been below our expectations, I'll say that. We're giving up, I think it's 3.5 goals a game...that has to come down. But we're a team. It's a team game. We have to be better as a team to keep the puck out of the net. We haven’t possessed the puck in the offensive zone as much as we need to. We haven’t created second and third opportunities for ourselves like we need to.

"We’ve always been a good defensive team because we’ve had the puck more. We’ve transitioned fast, made it harder for the other team to get a lot offense going against us. This year has been different. We’ve been in the [penalty] box way too much and that’s really affected our team in finding a rhythm.”

[/QUOTE] I actually have ZERO idea of what to expect from this team tonight. The Yale loss was brutal (I was there.) I would expect to see a hungry team that is on-top of every puck and committed to playing a clean game. We shall see. [/QUOTE]

Anything short of that will be very disappointing.

[Rogie21]

12-9-15
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[mookie1995]

Any reason why Saturday's game is at 5:00pm? It can't be to accommodate a Patriots Playoff game. Ahhh, remember the days??

Stillers game

[Scarlet]

No comments on last night’s game? Glad they won. I didn’t know what to expect to be honest. And with UVM coming in riding a five game winning streak…well, it could’ve been ugly. Thankfully it was not. Six goals aside, it wasn’t the greatest performance but a win is a win is a win.

I was kind of disappointed in how they honored the WJC kids. They didn’t need to do a whole blown up thing but they had the lights low for the anthem and honored them in the dark. It was weird. Who makes that decision?

[Rogie21]

No comments on last night’s game? Glad they won. I didn’t know what to expect to be honest. And with UVM coming in riding a five game winning streak…well, it could’ve been ugly. Thankfully it was not. Six goals aside, it wasn’t the greatest performance but a win is a win is a win.

BU's last 6-1 win before last night was last year's regular season final against the same UVM team. Same goalie. Quinn had a hat trick and Harvey scored, too. Good to see BU hunting and retrieving pucks in the O-zone to create second and third chances. More on the blog.

[BUPhD]

Vermont seemed...not good...for a team that was riding that much of a winning streak. Offense was clicking well enough, but there were still the defensive lapses a better or sharper team would have made them pay more than one goal for.

[Bomber]

This was a very odd game. My grades by period for BU:
- 1st = C-
- 2nd = B
- 3rd = B-.
- Overall = C+

How many off-sides did they have in the first? 7? 12? 25? If felt like 25. The first had "first game together" vibes.

Other random observations:
- Scarlet is right, the WJC acknowledgements were awkward and poorly executed. Like they thought of it 2 minutes before doing it
- Chewy was solid. (He needed that) and made some big saves
- Ryan Green showed what's he's capable of when he takes charge, but that second period turnover...
- Thank God UVM sucks. They missed at least 4 open nets. And were kind of a disaster in their own end
- Eiserman was mister pass-first guy most of the night, which was odd.
- Harvey's goal was a sick snipe. Top 5 goal of the year so far
- Merrimack 5, BC 2. - Didn't see that one coming

BU Hockey: Don't Lose Tonight

PS: I Smell a 2-1 game. Hope BU is the one with the 2.

[BU93]

I like what they tried to do last night and it worked to some extent, but too many turnovers, breakaways and odd man rushes the other way again. Caron was better and that was the difference. Low penalty minutes - finally! Vermont didn’t seem that great, and we had some absolute lasers on net, along with a good bounce or 2. Looking for more clamp down D tonight and no bad turnovers.

[mookie1995]

Who makes that decision?

FOH


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