Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY
Penalty kill, man.
I'm less annoyed about this game than I was about the last BU game (I mean, obviously).
Few things:
(1) The penalty kill is a dogpile right now. If we fix that we're probably not in very many close games. That's a specific, fixable thing that will pay off once it's better. BU was like 5 for 11 against us and Merrimack today was 2 for 4. Teams are not going to keep scoring on us at a 50% rate on the power play. Looking back I think this is the biggest issue of the "December To Not Remember." Other smaller things just compounded the issue.
(2) The last few games had been a case of us taking pointless shots and making goalies look good. Demers looked AWESOME today. Usually we say "oh we could have had more goals," just based on the shot count, but today we REALLY had a ton of Grade A opportunities that Demers went nuts on. This was the first time I actually felt okay about the goalie looking good, because it wasn't our doing for once.
(3) GREAT response in overtime. Almost won it a few seconds before. Way to dig deep and find a way to get it done.
(4) No Barnes today. I do not expect us to be without her long-term but we have a month off after tomorrow anyway.
Originally posted by FiveHoleFrenzy
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I'm less annoyed about this game than I was about the last BU game (I mean, obviously).
Few things:
(1) The penalty kill is a dogpile right now. If we fix that we're probably not in very many close games. That's a specific, fixable thing that will pay off once it's better. BU was like 5 for 11 against us and Merrimack today was 2 for 4. Teams are not going to keep scoring on us at a 50% rate on the power play. Looking back I think this is the biggest issue of the "December To Not Remember." Other smaller things just compounded the issue.
(2) The last few games had been a case of us taking pointless shots and making goalies look good. Demers looked AWESOME today. Usually we say "oh we could have had more goals," just based on the shot count, but today we REALLY had a ton of Grade A opportunities that Demers went nuts on. This was the first time I actually felt okay about the goalie looking good, because it wasn't our doing for once.
(3) GREAT response in overtime. Almost won it a few seconds before. Way to dig deep and find a way to get it done.
(4) No Barnes today. I do not expect us to be without her long-term but we have a month off after tomorrow anyway.
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