Re: Boston University 2011-2012 Season Thread: Part III: Now What?
I think you meant "shoddy."
But anyway, a slightly different take. First of all, the refs weren't why they lost. It was inevitable that when two red-hot teams meet that someone has to lose. What I like about this team "post Coyle and Trivino" is that they seem to play for 60 minutes, unlike most recent teams which took half the game off. But if you're really honest, you have to look at one fact. We can be all giddy about the whole "addition by subtraction" thing, but often times a team will get a small bump initially but long term things finally go back to "normal." What I look at is that in the two games against the hottest, toughest, whatever you want to call it competition (Notre Dame and Maine), they have had difficulty generating offense. One PP goal and a shot off the goalie's back (albeit a nice play) was a little weak. So I don't think we can yet say that they "don't miss" Trivino's scoring. Maine plays a shut down style and BU didn't really get many good chances. Yeah, they seemed out of sync, but that's because their "possession" game didn't work very well. It seemed as though, except for a brief period after the lights went out, that the puck was in the BU end all night and Maine had several good rushes. I DO think they also seemed to run out of gas a little. Regarding Clendenning, he looked slow all night. Maybe he wasn't feeling well - it almost seemed that way. Hopefully they'll bounce back tonight.
On another note, I haven't been to as many games this year, but the crowd was disappointing. You've got a red hot Terrier team playing another hot team and a rival (and a team that could very well [ don't laugh ] win Hockey East, and it was just dead. They can "announce" 5,000 all they want, but there weren't more than 3,800 there last night, at least at the beginning of the game (before they let people in free). It's pretty tough to get any energy going when we score a goal to tie the games and everybody except the students just sits there. There's like a "yay" that lasts about a tenth of a second and that's it. Half of the people cheering don't even stand up. I got up and yelled and pumped my fist and then I looked around and everyone is just sitting there. SO I felt like an idiot and just sat back down. But then again, I'm preaching to the choir and I guess I should "get over it" because it is what it is and won't ever change...
I love the BU program but sometimes I wish I had gone to a school out of the city where there is actual PASSION and the building rocks...BESIDES for a game against BC.
I think you meant "shoddy."
But anyway, a slightly different take. First of all, the refs weren't why they lost. It was inevitable that when two red-hot teams meet that someone has to lose. What I like about this team "post Coyle and Trivino" is that they seem to play for 60 minutes, unlike most recent teams which took half the game off. But if you're really honest, you have to look at one fact. We can be all giddy about the whole "addition by subtraction" thing, but often times a team will get a small bump initially but long term things finally go back to "normal." What I look at is that in the two games against the hottest, toughest, whatever you want to call it competition (Notre Dame and Maine), they have had difficulty generating offense. One PP goal and a shot off the goalie's back (albeit a nice play) was a little weak. So I don't think we can yet say that they "don't miss" Trivino's scoring. Maine plays a shut down style and BU didn't really get many good chances. Yeah, they seemed out of sync, but that's because their "possession" game didn't work very well. It seemed as though, except for a brief period after the lights went out, that the puck was in the BU end all night and Maine had several good rushes. I DO think they also seemed to run out of gas a little. Regarding Clendenning, he looked slow all night. Maybe he wasn't feeling well - it almost seemed that way. Hopefully they'll bounce back tonight.On another note, I haven't been to as many games this year, but the crowd was disappointing. You've got a red hot Terrier team playing another hot team and a rival (and a team that could very well [ don't laugh ] win Hockey East, and it was just dead. They can "announce" 5,000 all they want, but there weren't more than 3,800 there last night, at least at the beginning of the game (before they let people in free). It's pretty tough to get any energy going when we score a goal to tie the games and everybody except the students just sits there. There's like a "yay" that lasts about a tenth of a second and that's it. Half of the people cheering don't even stand up. I got up and yelled and pumped my fist and then I looked around and everyone is just sitting there. SO I felt like an idiot and just sat back down. But then again, I'm preaching to the choir and I guess I should "get over it" because it is what it is and won't ever change...
I love the BU program but sometimes I wish I had gone to a school out of the city where there is actual PASSION and the building rocks...BESIDES for a game against BC.
