Well, I spent money watching Greg Brown lose so you didn't have to.
Kept notes as the game went along.
First period:
- Pelletier another penalty. This is becoming a pattern.
- Vanhannen and Hemming again look great. VH should have had 2 goals in the first.
- Conmy rang the bar
- BC had most of the good chances
- Both goalies leaving lots of rebounds
- Dean bad decision to try to go thru everyone in the neutral zone, coughed it up on the DU Goal. The DU player made a play no BC player is capable of to snipe it using the BC defenseman as a screen.
- BC 4 of 12 on faceoffs. JFC
Second Period:
- Great start, they came out flying, Mutryn stuffed on break-in. BC defense goes to sleep and DU scores on the counter-attack seconds later. Might have been a bad line change? IDK. Terrible.
- Losing faceoffs --> less possession -> more penalties on BC, not enough PPs
- Cloutier is a rebound machine
- VH wide open after penalty was killed, hit goalie in center of the chest on feed from Dean behind the net
- Now Stiga also hits the DU goalie in chest
- This team would struggle to put pucks past a shooter tutor.
- Thoroughly outplaying DU, tied in two shifts.
- Not a great Stiga call kills momentum on an incidental neutral zone collision with BC puck possession, DU player falls down so... BC penalty.
- Sondreal SH breakaway stopped
- Here we go again, two guys fall over each other at buzzer with no sticks involved, completely bogus cross-checking call on Dean. Lol he fell down and they gave him a cross-checking penalty.
- 14 of 35 on faceoffs after 2.
Third period:
- DU scores right off the bat on the PP. Screwed by bad call. That being said, Cloutier never even tried to locate the puck with a DU player screening him in front. He just went down with his face blocked. Rudolph sniped from the point. Can we get guys that can hit the corners like this?
- Another penalty coming, DU delayed penalty goal. That's the ballgame.
- And a stupid Resendes penalty that we need to suffer through every game.
- 0 SOG thru 10 mins
- Final faceoff numbers: 22 of 52. 42%.
Final thoughts:
- IDK how good this DU team really is. But it's Carle so you know they will find a way to win and do the little things necessary.
- Greg Brown still sucks and Carle is his daddy.
- BC honestly outplayed DU thru 2 periods and had the lion's share of the Grade A opportunities. DU capitalized more efficiently, had better goaltending, and is a much smarter team.
- BC is an incredibly stupid team. But they battled. They really did battle. D was actually decent IMO especially considering the rebounds they had to deal with.
- Hemming is the best guy on the ice pretty much every game. He's a top 10 NCAA player and should be in the Hobey discussion.
- Faceoffs still suck because Greg Brown is still the coach and he sucks.
- Cloutier also battled. Still looks like he's unsure of where he is. The rebounds were crazy, even DU announcers pointed it out. .870 save percentage isn't going to cut it.
- BC is 1-3, this season is OVAH but I wouldn't rule out a split after what I saw tonight.
- Good depth at forward but still too many passengers. Half of these guys play an entire game and you forget they are on the team.
- BC may need to find some sort of enforcer BEHIND the bench.
- It's bad.
I know a lot of you had questioned putting Henriquez in last weekend vs SCSU but I didn't mind it. I think the rotation needs to continue especially considering that this season is now a lost cause.
What is the status of Greg Brown's gd contract?
