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  • Federal League
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    Bonino expected to sign with Ducks

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  • BUT09
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    Originally posted by BU Hammer
    Not that anybody here was doubting 3hock, but just got official word from the team that Bonino is in Anaheim, will sign with the Ducks and forego his senior season.
    So there is a fairly good chance that next year's senior class could be Pereira, Victor Saponari, and Kraus?

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  • steakbomb
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    Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
    Question for you all - if BU went out the way Maine went out tonight, would you all be as disappointed? I know I wouldn't be. Maine played great and stayed with BC the whole game. It was a great game and a shame someone had to lose it. I wish the BU-Maine game had been like that.
    Probably but I, like many others, came to grips with the fact that this team would come up short either way. That was a great hockey game tonight no matter who you support.

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  • kdaddy
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    Originally posted by steakbomb View Post
    Question for anyone still out there: if the 2 uvm-bu games at the gut went to bu would we have gotten the last at large bid?
    Prob not..my guess is UMD or Ferris....UMD would move up with that loss to UVM dropping UVM down. BU would also but too many teams to jump over.

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  • Scarlet
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    Question for you all - if BU went out the way Maine went out tonight, would you all be as disappointed? I know I wouldn't be. Maine played great and stayed with BC the whole game. It was a great game and a shame someone had to lose it. I wish the BU-Maine game had been like that.

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  • steakbomb
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    Question for anyone still out there: if the 2 uvm-bu games at the gut went to bu would we have gotten the last at large bid?

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  • Agganis
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    I don't think #6, by himself, would be an optimal choice as captain. Sure he always works hard, but he seems to try to be the friend of everyone on the team, reminds me of McGuirk in that regard. And while he skates his arse off, nothing that I have seen indicates he would get in the face of someone who wasn't doing the same themselves.

    I would definitely support a cocaptaincy with him and #5. Who when the players were meeting with their families and friends after QF game 2 didn't seem to say a word, except when 3 players were talking amongst themselves and laughing he told them there was nothing to be laughing about and then left the room.

    A little good cop/bad cop between the two of them, a la Gilroy/McCarthy and Zancanaro/Vandergulik would be my desired result. Maybe an A for 12 also.

    Also thanks to all the players leaving for all they have done during their years in Boston. I just hope 25 doesn't also end up going, the team would be seriously undermanned on D if that happens. Maybe the coaches would try converting Kilroy back to D, it worked the first time.

    Originally posted by BU Hammer View Post
    Had some people asking at various points this year about the BU 5-on-3s, so I sat down this afternoon and scoured over the BU boxscores from this season and calculated the team's 5-on-3 conversion rates. There's a post on the blog in my signature where you can read about just how bad (and oh boy, was it bad) the BU 2-man-up unit was.
    Good stuff. However the ridiculously small times for some of these PP's just reconfirms my belief that with the status of technology nowadays PP's should be graded in goals per 2 min of penalty time, not conversion percentage.
    Last edited by Agganis; 03-20-2010, 07:55 PM.

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  • BU Hammer
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    Originally posted by buoldtimer View Post
    You beat me to it. I'd planned on researching the 5 on 3 "efficiency" this coming week. By my observation, not only was BU unproductive with the 2 man advantage, it was usually a harbinger of doom once the second penalty was over (opponents scoring within 3 - 5 minutes).
    You'd have to look into that yourself, although there were at least a few times I saw BU scored after the 5-on-3 was over, but while still on the PP. Maybe 2 or 3 additional goals of that nature, something like that.

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  • buoldtimer
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    Originally posted by BU Hammer View Post
    Had some people asking at various points this year about the BU 5-on-3s, so I sat down this afternoon and scoured over the BU boxscores from this season and calculated the team's 5-on-3 conversion rates. There's a post on the blog in my signature where you can read about just how bad (and oh boy, was it bad) the BU 2-man-up unit was.

    The blog entry should be below the live blog for tonight's HE finals, [shamelessplug]which you are obviously all welcome to follow along to tonight starting at 7 p.m.[/shamelessplug]
    You beat me to it. I'd planned on researching the 5 on 3 "efficiency" this coming week. By my observation, not only was BU unproductive with the 2 man advantage, it was usually a harbinger of doom once the second penalty was over (opponents scoring within 3 - 5 minutes).

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  • BU Hammer
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    Originally posted by BU Fan 84 View Post
    Was Nicastro limited due to his arm?

    By the way, I liked the analysis of the 5-on-3 on the blog. Another thing I've been thinking about over the course of the season is the repeated statement that BU is the leader, or among the leaders, in short handed goals, so it's not so bad we had so many penalties. USCHO doesn't have a comprehensive team stats page (I don't think), so I can't look that up, but what I've been arguing is essentially "of course we lead the nation in shorties, we spend most of the game on the penalty kill." It'd be a lot of work, and may not be of any interest to anyone else, but I personally would be interested in seeing some type of short handed goals/penalty minute ratio. I think that's the best way to truly measure short handed goals.
    Actually wasn't too hard -- just got PM's and short-handers from HockeyEastOnline...

    In HE play, BU was second in shorties per PM with .013 SH/PM (5 shorties, 398 minutes), trailing only UNH at .025 (6 SH, 238 PM). After that is BC with .009 (3/318), Maine at .009 (4/427), UMass at .005 (2/366), Northeastern at .005 (2/341), and Vermont with .003 (1/341). Merrimack, Providence, and UML did not score shorthanded in HE play.

    Basically, what that tells us, is that you really can't put anything into "Well we can get take more penalties because we can score short-handed," or anything like that.

    If you look at it as, "Scoring one shorty nullifies one goal let in," then BU's PK in HE play jumps from 78.2% to 81.4%, which is something. Still isn't as good as Providence's 83.7% mark though, and they didn't get any shorties.

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  • theprofromdover
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    Originally posted by BU Fan 84 View Post
    You and your buddies' repeated trashing, belittling and blasting college players, including kids on your own team, over at your Eagle Action cess pool proves that you don't have a clue about college hockey.
    Now you sound like Hokiedope.

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  • mwade
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    gallery added to recap - http://www.uscho.com/recaps/20092010/m/03/19/me-bu.php

    (captions will be added tomorrow)

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  • Scarlet
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    Originally posted by J.D. View Post
    Ha, I should certainly know better, but it wouldn't surprise me with this particular kid.
    Me either, but I certainly wouldn't credit someone like Hokydad with coming up with the news. There are several of us who have better sources.

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  • J.D.
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    Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
    I'm sorry....did you just take the word of Hokydad as gospel truth?? Really???? That's just......yeah. OK. Hmmmmm.
    Ha, I should certainly know better, but it wouldn't surprise me with this particular kid.

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  • Jofa
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    Originally posted by Carmine Scarpaglia View Post
    You are a sweet little nitwit, BUFan84. I have to give you credit. I've never seen a BU fan or anyone for that matter come over the top of a hardcore BC fan and tell them they are a BC expert more than the BC fan. How many times have you actually seen BC play this year MR Expert??.
    Carmine I think your anger with BUfan84 is a little over the top. He compliments the play of the BC upper classman and realizes that the Freshman class is a key component of BC's success as well. From what I have seen no one class "is carrying the team" but its a whole lot of talent from top to bottom. Depth of talent is what is carrying the team. Kreider has been getting some big goals and if he wasnt getting them Gibbons, Atkinson, Smith or JWhitney would be getting them. The word "carrying" implies that there is a need to compensate for less talented or less productive players. I dont see that.

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