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Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread Part the One

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Some random thoughts after catching the game on ESPNU.

- Bomber - you are not the only one who has matched last years loss total (see #31). Perhaps someone has mentioned this already.

- This team will get better, but offensively, they sure have lost a lot. Me thinks we are truly feeling the effect of the Zach and Luke forward recruiting class right now (Kane"itis"). It helps when your seasoned seniors are also your scoring contributors.

- Nicastro looked very impressive to me.

- The first goal was a major deflection. Can't pin that one on Kieran. The team then fell asleep for a little while.

- Knowing Parker, he will not hesitate to give the freshmen an opportunity to move up the line chart. I hope we see the Zach Cohen magic from last year, but Parker won't gie him 10 games to get it together. Too many other guys that want a chance.

- Why do we always suck at faceoffs? I mean for decades we have been the weak faceoff team. It's always been a big deal when we actually get a good faceoff artist, because it goes against our normal approach.
 
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I won't lie to you defkit. Since I started watching BU Hockey I have always wondered why we are so bad on faceoffs.

Colin Wilson was ok with us, now he's in the NHL and he's 50-50. In the NHL!

Seems a bit odd, right?
 
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defkit said:
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- Why do we always suck at faceoffs? I mean for decades we have been the weak faceoff team. It's always been a big deal when we actually get a good faceoff artist, because it goes against our normal approach.
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As someone who has griped about faceoffs for years, I agree--nearly completely. Last season was an exception. Even in some games when BU was losing faceoffs early in a game, the team got it done in the third period.

## FACEOFFS GP W L Pct
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14 Glass, Andrew 15 2 0 1.000
18 Yip, Brandon 45 19 14 .576
33 Wilson, Colin 43 418 341 .551
26 Popko, Luke 45 304 264 .535
13 Bonino, Nick 44 373 362 .507
25 Cohen, Colby 43 2 2 .500
10 Higgins, Chris 42 21 23 .477
9 Trivino, Corey 32 120 134 .472
15 McCarthy, John 45 33 39 .458
12 Connolly, Chris 45 83 116 .417
21 Lawrence, Jason 44 7 13 .350
27 Saponari, Vinny 44 14 33 .298
6 Pereira, Joe 34 2 5 .286
17 Saponari, Victor 6 1 8 .111
11 Cohen, Zach 41 1 12 .077
16 Gilroy, Kevin 12 0 5 .000
5 Warsofsky, David 45 0 1 .000

Why was Colby taking faceoffs?
 
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Terrierbyassociation said:
I won't lie to you defkit. Since I started watching BU Hockey I have always wondered why we are so bad on faceoffs.

Colin Wilson was ok with us, now he's in the NHL and he's 50-50. In the NHL!

Seems a bit odd, right?
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I disagree with one point, Colin was excellent with us. As the chart says, he was at 55% last year and I remember him being really good his freshman year as well.

But I do agree that for the most part, my years as a BU fan have been marked by mediocre at best faceoff guys, which can be very frustrating when you're trying to make it out of a hole and not gaining those easy possessions in the offensive zone.
 
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Forwards:
Zach Cohen-Nick Bonino-Alex Chiasson
Chris Connolly-Corey Trivino-Joe Pereira
Wade Megan-Luke Popko-Vinny Saponari
Andrew Glass-Ryan Santana-Kevin Gilroy

Defense:
Colby Cohen-Kevin Shattenkirk
Sean Escobedo-Max Nicastro
David Warsofsky-Eric Gryba

The lines during practice. Interesting shakeup.

Looks like the two bruisers paired with the playmaker on the top line, two speedsters with Trivino, and Saponari put on the third line. Popko still confuses me, he seems like a good guy for the 4th line.

I am very surprised with how well Santana has done. Didn't have him figured into the BU lineup but he's impressed so far.
 
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the talk about faceoffs is interesting... a lot of you seem to think BU has stunk in the faceoff circle for many years. At what time do you put the start date for this phenomenon? early 2000s?

as an aside, I remember in the '95 national title game the thing that impressed me the most was that it seemed like BU won at least 2/3 of the faceoffs, and ended up outshooting Maine 39-23 or something like that. from watching the game I felt that the faceoffs and resulting shot advantage was the main reason we won that day. Faceoffs are certainly a big part of the game.
 
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I started watching in '97, and seem to remember it being a problem then too...

Course, the 'traditional slow start to the season' is also a recurring problem save for last year... so we might be back to old tricks?
 
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Once again BU never fails to dissapoint.

Has anyone tried to email their tickets to a friend this year?

Instead of receiving a .pdf with the tickets, the person you are sending tickets to now has to create an agganis account and log in prior to printing out tickets. Nothing like adding another step to the process and making things more difficult for everyone.

:mad:
 
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BU-Grad said:
as an aside, I remember in the '95 national title game the thing that impressed me the most was that it seemed like BU won at least 2/3 of the faceoffs, and ended up outshooting Maine 39-23 or something like that. from watching the game I felt that the faceoffs and resulting shot advantage was the main reason we won that day. Faceoffs are certainly a big part of the game.
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First goal (video) in that title game by Steve Thornton. I haven't seen a move like this by Terrier since that game. Both of his wings were All-Americans that year, yet Thornton was voted MVP. This is one of the reasons why. Two other centers on that team, Jacques Joubert and Shawn Bates were strong on faceoffs, too.

Another nice goal off a faceoff was McGuirk's to win the 2007 Beanpot in overtime. But those are pretty unique results. What you want more of are faceoff wins like Wilson's in the FF semi vs. UVM that produced a quick, strong shot by Yip and Wilson went to the net to clean up the rebound. Or something that happened frequently when Brian Collins was at BU. Clean draw win back to Meyer who'd drift to his right and fire a shot on goal while Collins and a wing would crash the net.

And in the d-zone, especially killing a penalty, more wins are critical.
 
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ericredaxe said:
Once again BU never fails to dissapoint.

Has anyone tried to email their tickets to a friend this year?

Instead of receiving a .pdf with the tickets, the person you are sending tickets to now has to create an agganis account and log in prior to printing out tickets. Nothing like adding another step to the process and making things more difficult for everyone.

:mad:
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Done it twice so far and haven't heard anything like that from the recipients.
 
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weighart said:
For those interested, I will be signing copies of Burn The Boats at a table near the concession stand from 6-7 p.m. before tomorrow's game.
SW

www.buhockeybook.com
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I got it and finished it the same day. It was a solid fun read. At times it felt like your play by play was a bit rambling.

The formatting was off, it seemed like your indents were very inconsistent but the content was superb.
 
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slurpees said:
I think you have the wrong game - that was BU-Michigan in the season opening tournament in Ohio.

This is the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alSvaF1hpqs&feature=player_profilepage
http://www.uscho.com/box/?date=20041203&vis=bc&home=bu&gender=m
This one is special to me since it was my first BU hockey game.
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Thank you for posting this. I did indeed miss this game. What a classy move by York to have his kids shake Jack's hand. Stuff like that makes it harder to hate him/them. :)

And how awesome is Emrick?
 
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Bomber said:
....What a classy move by York to have his kids shake Jack's hand. Stuff like that makes it harder to hate him.... :)
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without any doubt, he is the best. (of course i can never say this out loud. :o )
 
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