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Boston College Hockey 2009-2010

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Hokydad said:
What was it, your first game?

Petrcki head butt and about 45000 worse didnt offend you?

Come on, get real

Bad call
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not sure what you are angling for here. but as soon as i saw that shove into the boards, i couldnt help but think of you ogling over lyles' big muscles.
 
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Just wanted to say props to the person who made the sign(s) congratulating Warso and Kreider last night. I have a feeling it was someone on here.
 
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what a disheartening loss. they waved off two goals, one after a review, and our weaknesses were really exposed. "patches" alber is a complete non-factor, and malcolm lyles actively hurts the team. He took two bad penalties, the second with just 5 minutes left in the game, which really hurt us, and on one play he lazily tried to slap the puck to keep it into the zone and missed badly, costing us. I really wish cross and wey would come back quick, because lyles makes the game harder to win for us.
ultimately, there were a lot of bad calls and missed calls that seemed to benefit them, but the moral of the story is that lyles is a cancer that needs to be cut from the rest of the team so that they can win. unfortunately, we have nothing else for the time being.

on another note, tsongas arena was pretty nice, but also pretty empty. the sound guys blatantly pumped fake crowd noise into the arena to try and stimulate the crowd, and the band regularly played during play (especially the drummers). but the worst was the guy who took a microphone and started heckling muse during the play. Im fairly certain you cant use a microphone to harass the goalie while play is going on. using a microphone has to be against some sort of rule. but i should stop before it sounds like whining because bc is going through a midseason skid :p
 
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tomwarns said:
what a disheartening loss. they waved off two goals, one after a review, and our weaknesses were really exposed. "patches" alber is a complete non-factor, and malcolm lyles actively hurts the team. He took two bad penalties, the second with just 5 minutes left in the game, which really hurt us, and on one play he lazily tried to slap the puck to keep it into the zone and missed badly, costing us. I really wish cross and wey would come back quick, because lyles makes the game harder to win for us.
ultimately, there were a lot of bad calls and missed calls that seemed to benefit them, but the moral of the story is that lyles is a cancer that needs to be cut from the rest of the team so that they can win. unfortunately, we have nothing else for the time being.

on another note, tsongas arena was pretty nice, but also pretty empty. the sound guys blatantly pumped fake crowd noise into the arena to try and stimulate the crowd, and the band regularly played during play (especially the drummers). but the worst was the guy who took a microphone and started heckling muse during the play. Im fairly certain you cant use a microphone to harass the goalie while play is going on. using a microphone has to be against some sort of rule. but i should stop before it sounds like whining because bc is going through a midseason skid :p
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The attendance was 5,711 and the place was pretty packed...not sure what game you were at tonight.

One of the members of the pep band does that scream at the other team's goalie through the microphone, which of course isn't supposed to happen...not that they listen to me. But they don't pump any crowd noise into the building...see last night's game vs. Merrimack as an example of a game with stretches of dead silence.
 
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there were a couple of times, especially late in the game, where we could hear the crowd noise coming from the press box area right behind us where there were no fans. especially when they had the noise meter on the board, you could hear it. although i guess it did fill up by the end of the first. it was a nice place, and i would definitely consider going to another road game there. the star wars thing after the second period was perhaps one of the weirdest things ive seen on a hockey rink, but it was pretty funny. we were all taking pictures, it was pretty cool.
 
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Patronick said:
The attendance was 5,711 and the place was pretty packed...not sure what game you were at tonight.
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I'll agree, there was a very good crowd tonight. I thought the crowd was pretty thin at the start of the game but it really filled in during the first period.
 
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Hokydad said:
Petrcki head butt and about 45000 worse didnt offend you?
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Are you kidding? The Petrecki headbutt was awesome.
Federal League said:
Just wanted to say props to the person who made the sign(s) congratulating Warso and Kreider last night. I have a feeling it was someone on here.
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That would be me and Joe. Warso gave us a nod and little stick tap on the glass to thank us after warm-ups too. Pretty cool of him.

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I didn't think BC deserved to win today. Way too many defensive breakdowns. While I wouldn't go so far as saying that Lyles is a "cancer that needs to be cut from the team" (yikes... lol) he really is struggling. If someone comes in one-on-one on him, it's come to the point where we're expecting him to get beat and take a penalty because of it. It happens, unfortunately, pretty regularly.

I'm rooting like hell for the guy though, because it's tough to come off the bench like that and be such an important player on a national championship-caliber team. Same with Patch Alber (though I haven't noticed him as much, which is a good thing for a D-man).

Sneep is back to his Sneepy self, but we love him anyway.

What the hell was with the no icing call at the end that led to the ENG? It really didn't matter that much, but what in the world was that about?

We really need Cross and Wey back. Our guys are costing us games with defensive breakdowns in our own zone and it's absolutely killing us. It's probably our one flaw right now, as our goalies appear to have stepped it up. Muse played extremely well today.
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
What the hell was with the no icing call at the end that led to the ENG? It really didn't matter that much, but what in the world was that about?
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schaus cleared it out of the neutral zone from behind the red line but a bc forward was right in his face and got a piece of it as he released, which is why it kind of waffled off the straight-line course for the net that it started with and ended up in the corner. his contact on a flat puck was too good and strong for it to move like that otherwise.
 
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Well, it's fair to say BC didn't catch many breaks this weekend, especially from the officials, but York said it best about not being able to close out games here. Nice to see Jerry give his two cents on the refs this weekend, doesn't happen often. I would think the players like seeing him go to battle for them when it's necessary.

Goaltending--solid this weekend.

Defense: Ugh. Lyles is very good at covering up for his d partner when going back to retrieve a puck or winning a race to the puck, but when forwards are skating at him, there's trouble. He gets too close to them, a little too aggressive and ends up taking some penalties. That being said, I thought he made some nice plays during the game.

Sneep--let me try and put this gently. He's not helping the team--at all. He is just a disaster when the puck's on his stick and continues to display almost zero hockey IQ. His botched play at the blue line on the PP led him to taking down a UML player which led to UML scoring the first goal. Of course, Shea pretty much gift wrapped that one on the PK.

Samuelsson--I believe he's the one who got beat by Worthington?

There is no question that defense has all of a sudden become an issue without Cross and Wey--and in them we're only talking about a sophomore and a freshman. That's why it's even more important that your lone senior step up his game. Problem is he's incapable of it. It just isn't going to happen.

Forwards: Gotta love the effort in the 3rd. Two disallowed goals and then come back and score--again. Kreider then hit the post...

Almeida--deserves some props. He's played very well recently.

Lombardi--love this guy. He brings it every shift.

Now is not the time to give up on this team. If they can get Wey and Cross back in the lineup, let's see what happens. Providence and Harvard next up on the schedule--two games they need to win.
 
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I was at the BC-Lowell game last night. BC seems to have a nasty habit of sleep-walking through the first two periods before 'waking up' in the 3rd. They held to form last night, too, but give Lowell credit for playing the exact type of defensive game needed to neutralize BC's supposed superiority. Clearly BC hasn't been the same since the Christmas break.

I was sitting at the end where the two disallowed goals happened. The first one, I couldn't tell. The second one, the net clearly came off the moorings before the puck went in. I'm theorizing that York argued that Lowell knocked the net off, which might have resulted in a BC penalty shot (?).
 
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Hi gang!

Been awhile since I sent a note...post Denver I think.

It has been a pretty tough stretch since the first of the New Year.
That said this club is going to be just fine...let me say that again, this team is going to be just fine!

Wey will be back sooner then later and Cross will be right behind him. They will both come hungry and ready to go. Their return will be a lift emotionally and their play as a pair or individually will be valued and beneficial to an improved team defensive effort going forward.

The club is missing the opportunities that these two can create in their own end but more importantly the nuetral zone activity they both generate that turns an oncoming opponents offensive threat into a BC odd man rush instantly because of strong gap control and an aggressive defensive mentality that these two play with, particularly Wey.

This team WILL be fine and is going to contend for "trophies" before the year is over. Stay the course, as I have said since October because they are very young and continously learning.:)
 
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I agree with the 'be fine' thesis with a qualification. BC seems to be a team of streaks...a good one followed by a bad one. The question is, what kind of streak will they be on when the HE and NCAA Tournaments come along?

I'm hoping that BC doesn't end up #2 while BU ends up #7. I don't think BC can or will catch UNH for the #1 spot, but I do think they'll remain #2. That means BU would have to fall out of the Tournament altogether or at least to #8 where UNH can deal with them.
 
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Chris_NH said:
I'm theorizing that York argued that Lowell knocked the net off, which might have resulted in a BC penalty shot (?).
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That's what I figured. It was pretty obvious to me all the way on the other side of the arena that the net was off way before the puck went in.

Yes, the defense is struggling right now. I feel for the Dmen because our four regulars obviously have increased pressure with Cross and Wey out, especially the ones paired with D w/ little experience. Hopefully they can hold it together until Wey comes back, but it's looking rough right now.

As for hokydad, wow, I don't even know what your point is there. Yes, I have, in fact, seen worse penalties in my life.

For example:
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That was a worse penalty, yes.

This one was more clear as well:
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However, just because there were worse infractions in the history of sport doesn't make that any less of an obvious penalty. Sorry.

He took his hand off of his stick, wrapped up the BU player and threw him into the boards from about two feet off.

Not dirty or anything, just clearly letter-of-the-law boarding.
 
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We've been through the ruling before and a referee can allow a goal if the goalnet is dislodged and it is obvious that the puck was going into the net. For some reason the referee did not even want to review this. He needs to read the rulebook to understand the rule.
 
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