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Boston University 2012-13 Season Thread -- Part II

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pirate said:
One hope is that it is better to get this out of the system now than March...not saying we will, but after the Pats and BU had such a stellar weekend, I'm grasping for positives.
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Took a friend to his first hockey game ever Saturday night. Here's his best quote, "How come the Lowell players seem to know where one another are on the ice and BU looks disjointed?"

Here's to hoping that the team that beat BC, UNH, and NoDak appears again....It all seemed to go downhill rapidly after Cisse left. You don't suppose there's more to that story than meets the eye, do you?
 
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Jacques Joubert said:
Took a friend to his first hockey game ever Saturday night. Here's his best quote, "How come the Lowell players seem to know where one another are on the ice and BU looks disjointed?"

Here's to hoping that the team that beat BC, UNH, and NoDak appears again....It all seemed to go downhill rapidly after Cisse left. You don't suppose there's more to that story than meets the eye, do you?
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Maybe everyone is trying to fill his spot as the worst player on the team?
 
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Jacques Joubert said:
Took a friend to his first hockey game ever Saturday night. Here's his best quote, "How come the Lowell players seem to know where one another are on the ice and BU looks disjointed?"

Here's to hoping that the team that beat BC, UNH, and NoDak appears again....It all seemed to go downhill rapidly after Cisse left. You don't suppose there's more to that story than meets the eye, do you?
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It's funny, I went back and thought about what changed before this downturn started, and the only thing that really popped out, other than the time off, was Cisse leaving. It didn't make sense that him leaving would affect on-ice quality of play since his impact was minimal at best, but it begs the question to be asked, at least. Though, IIRC, he did leave before we won at UNH, so who knows.

To your point about your friend's question, I thought the same thing during the game. More so from the perspective of it seemed every time our defender got the puck on his stick in his own zone, instead of controlling it and looking to make the correct and smart play, he just looked to make a play, of any kind, whether it was to a BU player, a Lowell player, or to no one, almost to the point that it was a giant game of hot potato. There were so many errant passes in the zone, weak clearing attempts, and general discombobulation, and it was terrible to watch. They got the puck on their stick and immediately got rid of it to no one in particular.
 
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I also meant to say that if Noonan really didn't spear the goalie, good luck with having Bertagna overturning that DQ for Noonan. Pigs will fly before that ever happens.
 
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J.D. said:
I also meant to say that if Noonan really didn't spear the goalie, good luck with having Bertagna overturning that DQ for Noonan. Pigs will fly before that ever happens.
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Given the sheer nuckleheadedness involved, I sure hope that Parker isn't tying to get Noonan off the hook. Like I said earlier, I hope he adds another game himself.
 
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brassbonanza said:
It's funny, I went back and thought about what changed before this downturn started, and the only thing that really popped out, other than the time off, was Cisse leaving. It didn't make sense that him leaving would affect on-ice quality of play since his impact was minimal at best, but it begs the question to be asked, at least. Though, IIRC, he did leave before we won at UNH, so who knows.
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I dont know... somehow I'm not thinking that Cisse was the straw stirring the drink here...but maybe he was more of a locker room guy than we realized... guessing thats not it though.

brassbonanza said:
To your point about your friend's question, I thought the same thing during the game. More so from the perspective of it seemed every time our defender got the puck on his stick in his own zone, instead of controlling it and looking to make the correct and smart play, he just looked to make a play, of any kind, whether it was to a BU player, a Lowell player, or to no one, almost to the point that it was a giant game of hot potato. There were so many errant passes in the zone, weak clearing attempts, and general discombobulation, and it was terrible to watch. They got the puck on their stick and immediately got rid of it to no one in particular.
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I did not see the Lowell game, but to me on Friday night it looked like the biggest thing is we had absolutely no answer to NU's aggressive forechecking. Was Lowell using a similar aggressive forecheck? Is the lack of a couple of blueliners that can carry the puck through that is this teams Achillies heel?
 
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ericredaxe said:
I did not see the Lowell game, but to me on Friday night it looked like the biggest thing is we had absolutely no answer to NU's aggressive forechecking. Was Lowell using a similar aggressive forecheck? Is the lack of a couple of blueliners that can carry the puck through that is this teams Achillies heel?
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They were aggressive, but it didn't seem like either team was being (nor needed to be) aggressive in any particularly skilled way. In other words, simply skating at the BU defender with the puck was enough to spook them into a forced drop pass or a rushed clearing attempt. Any team with marginally skilled players (read: any D1 team) can accomplish this.
 
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I'm going to guess that there hasn't been much fun at practice since Saturday.
 
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Do we know exactly what the extra game is for? Is it for the spear? I really can say I'm not a fan of adding on to a suspension for a single infraction that is already addressed by the automatic DQ.

If this is cumulative, however, I'm ok with it. Looks like he had a 5 minute major for slashing at 19:56 of the third period on Friday night and then the 5 minute major and DQ for spearing on Saturday night. Plus all the diving he's been doing. Hopefully he will clean things up. Is it fair to say he's been the aggressor in some of these instances?

I'm really surprised BC didn't get Noonan with all these slashes and dives - he would have fit right in!!!! You'd think Parker would pass on a player like this.
 
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By no means am I saying every BU player does this, but with Noonan...you can clearly tell he looks for trouble out there. He is the instigator/aggressor in most instances.
 
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