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2016/2017 Lowell Thread: Hoping for Chicago pt 2

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CollegeHockeyRinkReport said:
Some interesting and complimentary comments from Jeff Jackson and David Quinn as well as some insight into Bazin's system:

http://www.sbncollegehockey.com/201...eff-jackson-familiar-with-umass-lowell-system
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Very interesting article. Cuts right to the heart of Bazin's success at UML. Not only does Norm have a solid plan re: realistic recruiting and game planning to his team strength's - most importantly is he gets the buy-in from his players.
 
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bottomdweller said:
Ryan Lohin not being on the All Rookie Team is a joke.
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A lot of this is just done by points, and there were three guys that had more points than him at his position. I'm disappointed for him, but it's not a surprise.
 
BostonSoccerDad said:
Very interesting article. Cuts right to the heart of Bazin's success at UML. Not only does Norm have a solid plan re: realistic recruiting and game planning to his team strength's - most importantly is he gets the buy-in from his players.
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Psychology is so important.

Yesterday the local radio was interviewing some guy who talked about killing good penalties (breaking up a scoring play) versus killing bad/selfish penalties and how one is easier/harder than the other.

Getting 20+ guys to buy into a style is important
 
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Chance for you guys to be in 5th straight title game...unreal.
 
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UMLFan said:
A lot of this is just done by points, and there were three guys that had more points than him at his position. I'm disappointed for him, but it's not a surprise.
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Yeah, I understand that part but if you're just going to go off of points, call it the Top Scoring Rookie Team. He and Hausinger are the first two over the boards for every PK.
 
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Gamby becomes only the second player to win back-to-back Len Ceglarski Sportsmanship Awards. Well deserved.

Looking at the All-Rookie Team, I can make a pretty **** good argument that Wall should be on that team (along with Oettinger), instead of BC's Woll. More wins in league play for Tyler (13 to 11), better GAA (2.29 to 2.43), and he's 7th the league in save % (90.9%) to Woll's 5th (91.6%).
 
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Save percentage is probably the best stat for a goalie
 
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J.D. said:
Save percentage is probably the best stat for a goalie
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It should probably have just gone to Oettinger, imo. He was consistently the best of the three. I wonder if Woll got a bump from his World Juniors performance.
 
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UMLFan said:
Gamby becomes only the second player to win back-to-back Len Ceglarski Sportsmanship Awards. Well deserved.

Looking at the All-Rookie Team, I can make a pretty **** good argument that Wall should be on that team (along with Oettinger), instead of BC's Woll. More wins in league play for Tyler (13 to 11), better GAA (2.29 to 2.43), and he's 7th the league in save % (90.9%) to Woll's 5th (91.6%).
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I wasn't surprised Wall didn't get on the rookie team. I was kinda perplexed that Woll did. I thought Lohin would be a no brainer. There are four points separating 2nd through 7th in frosh scoring. Lohin is tied for fifth in points, but tied for third in goals.

I don't understand their pick of one dman, especially considering that dman is Andrew Peeke. Peeke finished the regular season with 4-9-13 (4-5-9 HE). Jeremy Davies for NU posted 8-15-23 (6-11-17 HE) and Goransson had 5-17-22 (1-8-9 HE). Why Davies didn't make it is mind numbing. I'd make an argument of Goransson over Peeke but if we're judging by league stat line alone it makes sense.
 
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I see Jayson Moy has us playing North Dakota in Fargo based on this weeks bracket blog. It appears that a move off of that #8 pairwise position would be helpful or let's get ahead of BU. Another H.E. Crown should take care of things.
 
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LTI Alum said:
I see Jayson Moy has us playing North Dakota in Fargo based on this weeks bracket blog. It appears that a move off of that #8 pairwise position would be helpful or let's get ahead of BU. Another H.E. Crown should take care of things.
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In order for us to get ahead of BU we need to win HE and BC has to beat BU on Friday. If we were to beat BU in the championship game on Saturday we would still be behind BU. With that said, another way to help avoid heading out west would be for PC to fall to a 4 seed. This would help as if we end up as a 2/3 seed we could still be in the same bracket as PC.

The CHN Bracket Post is much betters then Moy's. Check it out. http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2017/03/15_Bracket-ABCs-Final-Weekend.php
 
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UML03 said:
In order for us to get ahead of BU we need to win HE and BC has to beat BU on Friday. If we were to beat BU in the championship game on Saturday we would still be behind BU. With that said, another way to help avoid heading out west would be for PC to fall to a 4 seed. This would help as if we end up as a 2/3 seed we could still be in the same bracket as PC.

The CHN Bracket Post is much betters then Moy's. Check it out. http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2017/03/15_Bracket-ABCs-Final-Weekend.php
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Thanks for the chn site. The problem with Moy's blog is it just uses current pairwise. We know it will change. North Dakota falling to a 4 helps our cause as well if we stay a 2. I can't do anything but root for a conference title this weekend. The chips will fall where they may. Is there much chance for PC to fall to a 4? They seem to be pretty locked in to a 3. Any chance at all that the committee could place PC anywhere other than Providence. I was surprised to see Air Force at #9 in their projection.
 
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LTI Alum said:
Thanks for the chn site. The problem with Moy's blog is it just uses current pairwise. We know it will change. North Dakota falling to a 4 helps our cause as well if we stay a 2. I can't do anything but root for a conference title this weekend. The chips will fall where they may. Is there much chance for PC to fall to a 4? They seem to be pretty locked in to a 3. Any chance at all that the committee could place PC anywhere other than Providence. I was surprised to see Air Force at #9 in their projection.
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According the CHN Pairwise Probability matrix there is a 38% change that PC could fall to a 4 seed. In order for that to happen we want teams like Penn State, Ohio State and Cornell to win some games in their tourneys.

Really anything can still happen...BU could still finish as the last 1 seed and North Dakota could drop to a 4 and BU could go west as the 1 seed in Fargo and play North Dakota.

The Big 10 tourney starts tomorrow so things should start to become a bit more clear.
 
Patronick said:
I don't understand their pick of one dman, especially considering that dman is Andrew Peeke. Peeke finished the regular season with 4-9-13 (4-5-9 HE). Jeremy Davies for NU posted 8-15-23 (6-11-17 HE) and Goransson had 5-17-22 (1-8-9 HE). Why Davies didn't make it is mind numbing. I'd make an argument of Goransson over Peeke but if we're judging by league stat line alone it makes sense.
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I like Jeremy Davies, but Peeke really came on in second half. Peeke is a better 2-way defenseman than Davies who is more of an offensive defenseman. I also really like Kovacevic. A lot of good freshman d and g this year.

I'd take Lohin over a lot of freshman F in Hockey East because of what he does on the dot and away from the puck.

I'll make a prediction. The 3 best senior forwards in Hockey East for the 2019-20 season are Matt Filipe, Ryan Lohin and Josh Wilkins. A lot of (all) of BU's big guns will be gone.
 
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UML03 said:
In order for us to get ahead of BU we need to win HE and BC has to beat BU on Friday. If we were to beat BU in the championship game on Saturday we would still be behind BU. With that said, another way to help avoid heading out west would be for PC to fall to a 4 seed. This would help as if we end up as a 2/3 seed we could still be in the same bracket as PC.[/url]
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I'll take a 4-1 Lowell win with the last 5 minutes of the 3rd period garbage time and a BC win 3-2 in 4 OT's please.
 
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