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Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR

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buoldtimer said:
I received a phone call from a friend a few minutes ago. He said he was driving along Comm Ave late last night and saw an odd sight. Two HAA facilities workers were carrying a ping-pong table up Agganis Way away from the BU Men's Hockey locker room. Any insights?
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I saw that too, but I'm not so sure they were HAA workers.
These fellows carrying the table were pretty small and wore curly toed shoes with bells on the end... and a stocking caps with a long, long tail.
Actually, they looked an awful lot like... elves. :eek:
 
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FiveHole12 said:
I saw that too, but I'm not so sure they were HAA workers.
These fellows carrying the table were pretty small and wore curly toed shoes with bells on the end... and a stocking caps with a long, long tail.
Actually, they looked an awful lot like... elves. :eek:
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Maybe Parker was so mad after last night's game that he gained 150 pounds and an incredibly long white beard?
 
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Some thoughts on the game:

--KM looked great through the first two periods. Specifically, his rebound control was incredible and he was moving post-to-post very quickly. He even made some circus saves with the paddle of his stick on the first BU powerplay. I don't know what happened in the 2nd intermission, but Millan wasn't controlling his rebounds like he did in the first two periods.

--Did anybody see what happened on the second BC goal? Did it tip off Millan's glove or off a defenseman?

--Once again, I have to blame this on the defense. The first two periods were solid, but even then, there were A LOT of breakdowns that led to the puck lying in front of the net, waiting for BC to slam it home. It was only in the 3rd that BC started taking advantage of the breakdowns. Colby, Nicastro, and Shatty were the causes of a few I can remember.

--I'm not saying that this cost us the game at all, nor am I saying it really affected the game, but did anyone else notice how much the refs were getting in the way of the play? There were a few times they skated right between the puck and a BU player as we were closing in on it. Just seemed to happen more frequently than it has in other games.
 
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BUtiful said:
--I'm not saying that this cost us the game at all, nor am I saying it really affected the game, but did anyone else notice how much the refs were getting in the way of the play? There were a few times they skated right between the puck and a BU player as we were closing in on it. Just seemed to happen more frequently than it has in other games.
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I feel like that's been a recurring theme the entire season with HE refs not just this game, but maybe you're right.

Any explanation for the non-sellout? When I bought my ticket at Agganis on Monday it was already SRO.
 
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It was a long, cold, wet walk back to the car tonight. Still, that walk was preferrable to being in the BU locker room, I bet.
 
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Few observations:
BU

-Forwards don't backcheck as well as they need to. Opponents high man is getting too many chances.
-4 of 6 d-men are pourous, give way to much gap- move up the **** ice with the play before they attack or transition .
- 1 dman should sit.
-most forwards regularly shoot from bad angles and seldom look for a trailer. BC creates openings with lateral movement.
BC uses the drop and cross when attacking, BU seldom does. TAKE SOME RISKS!!
-forwards are weak in front of the offensive net. Put somebody tough to screen (#2) on the pp
-centers miss checks low in offensive zone
-powerplay is 1 dimensional. one pass down. back, across ,SHOT(cycle the **** puck low to create an opening high. They need to create openings using movement!!!!) TRY SOMETHING NEW!!!

Few #s

#25 -10 (way overplayed, send to third line get off PP, no creativity, one dimensional (not a 25 min guy)
#3 -6 (needs a better partner) #2 or #5 move #7 up to second line d
#5 +1 (1st line PP) top pp guy. Best d skater and great creativity,
#2 -1 ( 2nd line PP) moves puck well, shoots low hard, let him forecheck more, he will break pucks loose.
#10 (lazy ineffective, I think he's scared, brutal on faceoffs.)
#11 -10 Needs to hit on the side of the puck when forechecking so after the hit he gets control. Needs to vary his attack, too predictable, needs to be more lateral when attacking to get dman moving the wrong way.
#13 +4 Good in o-zone at time needs to toughen in the d zone. Doesn't have a finisher on his line like last year. Seems really frustrated.



BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, TIME TO REASSESS and make some changes.

What do you think??
 
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smartest man on comm ave.....

David Quinn.

;)
 
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The better team won tonight. But...

How frustrating was that 2nd period? That was the first time I saw real fight and determination out of this team. They fought and won most puck battles. They were given a freakin 5 on 3. Yet, no ability to make that one extra play or shoot the puck with authority. Just a bunch of muckers trying to get the puck to the net. *Sigh.*

How come they didn't bring the above intenstity to the table in the 1st?

Does anyone remember any stellar saves by Muse? He's good. He did his job, but BU is making an awful lot of goalies look like world beaters.

At least I got to enjoy my son flirting with college girls.

I'm sure Scarlet loved driving home in snow after that game. She loves driving in snow. ;)

BU Hockey: Lost
 
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Just posted this in the game thread, but I'll post it here, too. Grades and transcripts are up on the blog.
 
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What's our record?

Four, eight, and three.

'Four, eight, and three.' How'd we ever win four?

It's a miracle!

:mad:
 
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The complete lack of posts on this thread following a BC game says it all. :(

BU Hockey: May Need to Bring Back the Apathy Busters
 
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Big game Friday..... On the verge of making history!

No BU team has started a season with three months of sub .500 hockey since the 61-62 terriers went:
3-5-1
0-6-0
3-6-0

they need a win to finish December 1-1-1

nice.
 
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stripes99 said:
#25 -10 (way overplayed, send to third line get off PP, no creativity, one dimensional (not a 25 min guy)
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Say what you will about Colby's defensive play, but the kid is on scholarship because he has an NHL slap shot. His job is to wind up and drop bombs on the PP, and that's exactly what he does and did last night against BC.

Colby is such a weapon on the PP, Cornell coach Mike Schafer said he centered his entire penalty kill at Red Hot Hockey around taking away Colby's shot. That's how dangerous he is.

If you want to talk about splitting Colby and Shatty, I guess that's fair enough. I actually talked on the blog last night about the effects of giving Shatty and Colby the 20+ minutes per game that Strait and Gilroy filled last year, and how I think forcing them to play those extra minutes just puts the microscope on every defensive blunder (and with Colby, well, yeah).
 
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BU Hammer said:
Say what you will about Colby's defensive play, but the kid is on scholarship because he has an NHL slap shot. His job is to wind up and drop bombs on the PP, and that's exactly what he does and did last night against BC.

Colby is such a weapon on the PP, Cornell coach Mike Schafer said he centered his entire penalty kill at Red Hot Hockey around taking away Colby's shot. That's how dangerous he is.

If you want to talk about splitting Colby and Shatty, I guess that's fair enough. I actually talked on the blog last night about the effects of giving Shatty and Colby the 20+ minutes per game that Strait and Gilroy filled last year, and how I think forcing them to play those extra minutes just puts the microscope on every defensive blunder (and with Colby, well, yeah).
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First of all, you are a great addition to this forum. Solid post. Secondly, speaking to "Colby moments": How 'bout that circus act at the end of the 2nd that almost resulted in a goal? Oy. Haven't seen as much of that this year, but he sure can get in his own way sometimes.
 
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BU Hammer said:
Say what you will about Colby's defensive play, but the kid is on scholarship because he has an NHL slap shot.
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Granted but that is the only thing that even comes close to playing NHL. Unfortunately its the rest of his game that is a serious detriment to the team. I see him as the # 5 or 6 defensive defenseman and this is not NHL or even AHL. The other part is that when he winds up for the big boomer he should try something different ie. shoot to the side for deflection when the other team has 4 players in front, toe drag around the sliding d man etc. Just no creativity.
He has 1 point off the PP, yikes even Gryba, and Nicastro are better than that.
 
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Happy gilmore has an NHL level slapper too! :D
 
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stripes99 said:
Granted but that is the only thing that even comes close to playing NHL. Unfortunately its the rest of his game that is a serious detriment to the team. I see him as the # 5 or 6 defensive defenseman and this is not NHL or even AHL. The other part is that when he winds up for the big boomer he should try something different ie. shoot to the side for deflection when the other team has 4 players in front, toe drag around the sliding d man etc. Just no creativity.
He has 1 point off the PP, yikes even Gryba, and Nicastro are better than that.
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I'll respectfully disagree, Stripes. Based on the way Colby played last night, that'd be a fair observation, but numerous times throughout the season (the second UNH game in particular), Colby showed tremendous vision, and having watched him all season, I'd argue he has a great feel for when to wind up and shoot and when to go to the slap-pass to one of his wings.

The only real trouble Colby has had on the PP has been on passing plays working along the boards and on D-to-D passes with Shatty, where sometimes he tries forcing the puck. Seems like some games he really struggles forcing the puck, and some games he's simply phenomenal working the point with Shatty.

BC was pretty conservative last night on the PK. I have a feeling Colby simplified his game and went to the slap shot more just because he found himself with room to take the shot and with traffic in front. Parker was pleased with the PP's strategy yesterday, and if Colby's doing what Parker wants, I'm not going to say he's at fault.

That, of course, only speaks to his play on the PP. Personally, I think Colby might still be hampered a bit by his hip, which he got a pain-killing shot in a week ago. Parker said last night Colby's at 100 percent, and he's usually pretty honest and reliable from what I can tell, but part of me is hunching that Colby's still in some pain. Total supposition though, I have nothing to verify that.
 
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