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Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
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mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
ironic that we've had what, one defenseman who was that old... and if he chose to he could have left well before he reached that age to play professionally.
ironic that we've had what, one defenseman who was that old... and if he chose to he could have left well before he reached that age to play professionally.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Nice!
Nice!
SteveF
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Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
team defense includes the forwards backchecking.. he didnt ever mention that in the report, but based on all his comments about lack of effort - this would probably be one of the first things to go. that can make any defense look really bad
team defense includes the forwards backchecking.. he didnt ever mention that in the report, but based on all his comments about lack of effort - this would probably be one of the first things to go. that can make any defense look really bad
Federal League
I like hockey.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Good point. This is actually something that hasn't been talked about enough this year (I guess that's what happens when you have crappy media coverage
). There have been so many times this year when no one's picked up the high man on the rush or a defenseman jumping up on offense. There have also been a number of times when I've seen forwards just glide on the backcheck and make little to no effort to actually try and break up the play.
Good point. This is actually something that hasn't been talked about enough this year (I guess that's what happens when you have crappy media coverage
). There have been so many times this year when no one's picked up the high man on the rush or a defenseman jumping up on offense. There have also been a number of times when I've seen forwards just glide on the backcheck and make little to no effort to actually try and break up the play.candycanes99
HAVE SOME CLASS
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
LW lock time.
Good point. This is actually something that hasn't been talked about enough this year (I guess that's what happens when you have crappy media coverage
LW lock time.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuUTEOJuEmk
for those that didn't see it. typical yip, gets on ice...checks, checks again, maybe should've been called, scores. the announcer had that line in the back of his head...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuUTEOJuEmk
for those that didn't see it. typical yip, gets on ice...checks, checks again, maybe should've been called, scores. the announcer had that line in the back of his head...
25 N Countin'
National Championships are awesome
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Chris Connolly on the third or fourth goal against RPI just coasted to the slot, watched a kid beat him there and didn't move as the kid scored. Considering backchecking forwards can sometimes be hard to pick up, the fact that he was so blatantly coasting and not working at all was glaring to me. It was something so obvious that can never happen, and was completely indicative to me what this team is about.
Good point. This is actually something that hasn't been talked about enough this year (I guess that's what happens when you have crappy media coverage
Chris Connolly on the third or fourth goal against RPI just coasted to the slot, watched a kid beat him there and didn't move as the kid scored. Considering backchecking forwards can sometimes be hard to pick up, the fact that he was so blatantly coasting and not working at all was glaring to me. It was something so obvious that can never happen, and was completely indicative to me what this team is about.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Love Nick LaSpada ( best athlete in Mass) and Guy DePlacido though, my best to them.
Love Nick LaSpada ( best athlete in Mass) and Guy DePlacido though, my best to them.
yankeefn01
my cats breath smells like cat food
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
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Yip-pee!
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Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Appreciate the links, Mookie. Might one day become a FoH, but probably not a great idea as a broke college student who's covering the team.
Still, though, some interesting thoughts from Parker. I'm surprised to see Warsofsky's name on the list of guys he thinks have been disappointing, but most of that stuff was just recycled from what he's been saying all fall.
I'm curious to see what this team looks like after the fall break. They all seemed to agree that a couple weeks away from Agganis was going to be good for the psyche. We'll see, I suppose.
Appreciate the links, Mookie. Might one day become a FoH, but probably not a great idea as a broke college student who's covering the team.
Still, though, some interesting thoughts from Parker. I'm surprised to see Warsofsky's name on the list of guys he thinks have been disappointing, but most of that stuff was just recycled from what he's been saying all fall.
I'm curious to see what this team looks like after the fall break. They all seemed to agree that a couple weeks away from Agganis was going to be good for the psyche. We'll see, I suppose.
Federal League
I like hockey.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Agreed. Absolutely sucked that he tore his ACL and MCL in the first quarter of the state semis. With him, we had a chance of winning the state championship. Without him, we had no shot at beating Everett. Obviously no hockey for him this year, either. Good news is he's only a sophomore, so we still have two more cracks at it before he leaves.
But enough high school football talk. What are we expecting for a crowd on the 2nd? Will we even crack 3,000?
Agreed. Absolutely sucked that he tore his ACL and MCL in the first quarter of the state semis. With him, we had a chance of winning the state championship. Without him, we had no shot at beating Everett. Obviously no hockey for him this year, either. Good news is he's only a sophomore, so we still have two more cracks at it before he leaves.
But enough high school football talk. What are we expecting for a crowd on the 2nd? Will we even crack 3,000?
collegefan06
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Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Some scattershooting of thoughts with too much time on my hands:
I'm glad to see parker somewhat acknowledging his over use of a small group of players that had good seasons last year. This, in my mind, would lead one to conclude he needs to give others that show work ethic and heart in practice and the little time on the ice in games a larger role coming out of Christmas break to see if they can make a positive impact with larger roles.
I also noticed he talked about all "3" goaltenders when he mentioned it would be a strong suit for the team. He than went on to talk about the horrible save percentage year to date. The horrible save % and w-l record is with the two that have played.
He says he thinks those two can easily turn that around given their history (haven't seen any indication Rollheiser can be effective this year or last...he had a couple of shutouts with one or two scoring ops with last year's team in front but in tough games has not done much in my mind to demonstrate they can actually win a game on his back). I guess he should either refer to only "2" goalies as that's all he uses or give Kraus a shot once and for all. I'm tired of him implying Kraus can play when we never finds out in a game if that kid is a D-1 goalie.
I agree with other posters discussion of lack of back checking among forwards and wonder why that is not mentioned by him. That is effort and if there are no consequences to lack of effort its poor coaching because it reinforces that lack of effort will be tolerated.
Reading that letter depressed me because there seems to be nothing in there suggesting anything will change as the year goes on.
The recruiting and replenishment of talent does not seem to look too good going forward and the lack of planning to replace the enormous loss of talent last year is biting the Terriers in the a** this year. The loss of Quinn will only become a more glaring issue as time goes by.
I'm afraid the next few years could give us Terrier fans a real understanding of what its like to cheer for Providence or Merrimack.
mookie,
it's clear the closest you came to playing a sport is standing along the glass at your 7 year olds hockey games.
Of course its up to the players to do their part on the ice including playing with passion, grit, heart, smarts and determination. When it comes to playing with smarts, I believe, apparently unlike you, that these boys have all been "taught" positionally where to be on the ice and that the group of returning players demonstrated all of the above throughout last year.
So, if that is the case, what's the problem with them this season? Did their passion, focus, work ethic, grit, smarts, etc suddenly abandon them? Why did they have it last year and not have it this year?
From my perspective, there are a number of reasons for this including 1. that the coaches rely heavily on a small group of players over and over not figuring out whether there are others on the team that, with consistent ice time, can bring this team more of what is lacking on the ice. With the amount of ice time this corp group sees they aparently don't have legs in the third period.
I also believe...and all it is is my opinion.... 2. that JP is a negative coach by nature. He accentuates the negatives behind closed doors with the players because that is his personality. With a young team lacking the unbelievable leadership of MG and JM to counteract his negativity, this team fullfills its coaches negative messages to them.
3. This team is lacking in doing the little things like smart line changes and short crisp shifts. If this is the players fault, bench them and send a message. I know this team doesn't have the third and fourth line depth of last years but compared to most teams they play the talent top to bottom exceeds the competition. If it doesn't then go back to your post about coaches duties....are they good at shopping?
This isn't a one year phenominon. Look at the Terriers performance this decade. They have struggled, not been able to win the big games and generally disappointed their fans each season, except for last year.
I am not excusing the players. They certainly are responsible too. They have to do it when the puck drops and be prepared to execute the game plan the coaches have prepared. Coaching should be about physically and mentally preparing a team to succeed. Among the most important prep items at this level and above, I believe is leadership and mental preparation. That is what separates success from failure. It is also my opinion most teams take on the personality of their coach and with the exception of last year I think that has been the case with the Terriers the last 10 years.
Therefore, I am concluding that the coaches have not prepared these players to mentally succeed as well as they are capable of. Is that all the coaches responsibilty? No, the players share in it and have responsibility too. With a senior class like last year's leading the way and neutralizing the negativity, that team acheived amazing success and had more mental toughness than I've seen from any team any where in a long time.
That is all I'm trying to say.
Mookie, in closing, your personal characterizations are humorous and only the more so when I review your many posts and consider the source.
Some scattershooting of thoughts with too much time on my hands:
I'm glad to see parker somewhat acknowledging his over use of a small group of players that had good seasons last year. This, in my mind, would lead one to conclude he needs to give others that show work ethic and heart in practice and the little time on the ice in games a larger role coming out of Christmas break to see if they can make a positive impact with larger roles.
I also noticed he talked about all "3" goaltenders when he mentioned it would be a strong suit for the team. He than went on to talk about the horrible save percentage year to date. The horrible save % and w-l record is with the two that have played.
He says he thinks those two can easily turn that around given their history (haven't seen any indication Rollheiser can be effective this year or last...he had a couple of shutouts with one or two scoring ops with last year's team in front but in tough games has not done much in my mind to demonstrate they can actually win a game on his back). I guess he should either refer to only "2" goalies as that's all he uses or give Kraus a shot once and for all. I'm tired of him implying Kraus can play when we never finds out in a game if that kid is a D-1 goalie.
I agree with other posters discussion of lack of back checking among forwards and wonder why that is not mentioned by him. That is effort and if there are no consequences to lack of effort its poor coaching because it reinforces that lack of effort will be tolerated.
Reading that letter depressed me because there seems to be nothing in there suggesting anything will change as the year goes on.
The recruiting and replenishment of talent does not seem to look too good going forward and the lack of planning to replace the enormous loss of talent last year is biting the Terriers in the a** this year. The loss of Quinn will only become a more glaring issue as time goes by.
I'm afraid the next few years could give us Terrier fans a real understanding of what its like to cheer for Providence or Merrimack.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
My take on the letter is that he's correctly diagnosed the problem, which makes me feel good because often in his comments after a game I wondered if he was watching the same game as the rest of us (praising the team's effort against BC for example when they gave up half way through the 3rd period only 2 goals down). Turns out he is after all. He also is accepting blame, something I rarely see out of the coaches here who sometimes forget that player development is part of the job.
What he does with all this remains to be seen, but at least he's passed the first hurdle.
Some scattershooting of thoughts with too much time on my hands:
I'm glad to see parker somewhat acknowledging his over use of a small group of players that had good seasons last year. This, in my mind, would lead one to conclude he needs to give others that show work ethic and heart in practice and the little time on the ice in games a larger role coming out of Christmas break to see if they can make a positive impact with larger roles.
I also noticed he talked about all "3" goaltenders when he mentioned it would be a strong suit for the team. He than went on to talk about the horrible save percentage year to date. The horrible save % and w-l record is with the two that have played.
He says he thinks those two can easily turn that around given their history (haven't seen any indication Rollheiser can be effective this year or last...he had a couple of shutouts with one or two scoring ops with last year's team in front but in tough games has not done much in my mind to demonstrate they can actually win a game on his back). I guess he should either refer to only "2" goalies as that's all he uses or give Kraus a shot once and for all. I'm tired of him implying Kraus can play when we never finds out in a game if that kid is a D-1 goalie.
I agree with other posters discussion of lack of back checking among forwards and wonder why that is not mentioned by him. That is effort and if there are no consequences to lack of effort its poor coaching because it reinforces that lack of effort will be tolerated.
Reading that letter depressed me because there seems to be nothing in there suggesting anything will change as the year goes on.
The recruiting and replenishment of talent does not seem to look too good going forward and the lack of planning to replace the enormous loss of talent last year is biting the Terriers in the a** this year. The loss of Quinn will only become a more glaring issue as time goes by.
I'm afraid the next few years could give us Terrier fans a real understanding of what its like to cheer for Providence or Merrimack.
My take on the letter is that he's correctly diagnosed the problem, which makes me feel good because often in his comments after a game I wondered if he was watching the same game as the rest of us (praising the team's effort against BC for example when they gave up half way through the 3rd period only 2 goals down). Turns out he is after all. He also is accepting blame, something I rarely see out of the coaches here who sometimes forget that player development is part of the job.
What he does with all this remains to be seen, but at least he's passed the first hurdle.
Federal League
I like hockey.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Not too surprised. He played well in the UND exhibition (I haven't seen or heard anything about last night's exhibition because it wasn't broadcast anywhere), but this team is just stacked on defense. The good news here, at least for BU, is that they'll have 6 d-men for the UMass game.
Chris Brown of Michigan was the last forward cut, BTW.
Not too surprised. He played well in the UND exhibition (I haven't seen or heard anything about last night's exhibition because it wasn't broadcast anywhere), but this team is just stacked on defense. The good news here, at least for BU, is that they'll have 6 d-men for the UMass game.
Chris Brown of Michigan was the last forward cut, BTW.
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Good news on this day of festivus, we still CAN put up a 30 win season.
Good news on this day of festivus, we still CAN put up a 30 win season.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
hah.
For the restivus.
hah.
Good news on this day of festivus, we still CAN put up a 30 win season.
For the restivus.
candycanes99
HAVE SOME CLASS
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Yiiiiiip!
As a side note, I hate the Avs PBP guy. He gets really annoying. Imagine the shouting in that clip, but on every single play including dump ins.
Yiiiiiip!
As a side note, I hate the Avs PBP guy. He gets really annoying. Imagine the shouting in that clip, but on every single play including dump ins.
Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
Terriers' national championship one of Boston's top sports moments of 2009.
Terriers' national championship one of Boston's top sports moments of 2009.
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