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Brown Hockey 2014-2015 - Onward and Upward

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kdiff77 said:
Hope everyone had a good Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Boxing Day/Festivus/time off from work/school! :)

Now that we've gotten the long-winded PC stuff out of the way:

I think I'm heading to Dartmouth on Friday with a friend of mine who is a BC fan. Not sure what to expect, which is kind of fun- usually, I have some sort of idea of how a game is going to turn out, but with BC's general inconsistency this year and a few regulars off at the World Juniors, anything. could happen. We could get blown out or win by multiple goals. I would not be surprised either way.

Here's to a vastly improved second half of the season. The freshmen should start putting it together soon (if I keep saying it, it's bound to come true, right?
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Weather permitting - nasty squalls predicted along the back roads - I am planning on attending as well. I will be wearing my Brown sweatshirt and BC stadium khaki pants.

I certainly was too optimistic at the start of the season, based on press reports. I should have realized it would take some time for the heralded freshmen class to ad just to DI. Now the adjustment time is over and I am looking forward for that class and the Lorito line to put up some good numbers.

On a somewhat related note, over the holidays I was on campus at The Berkshire School and Salisbury watching my grandson in a youth hockey tournament. It was my first time ever on a prep school campus. I was truly taken back at the grandeur, and I mean grandeur, of both schools' hockey facilities; and the athletic facilities as well.. I am sure a lot of D1 programs' facilities pale in comparison. Brown has recruited a lot from those schools over the past few years and now I can see why. Their facilities looked like the facilities for the US development teams. Are the facilities at the other prep schools that make up that NE league as good or better than B and S?
 
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Mike Hutter said:
Weather permitting - nasty squalls predicted along the back roads - I am planning on attending as well. I will be wearing my Brown sweatshirt and BC stadium khaki pants.

I certainly was too optimistic at the start of the season, based on press reports. I should have realized it would take some time for the heralded freshmen class to ad just to DI. Now the adjustment time is over and I am looking forward for that class and the Lorito line to put up some good numbers.

On a somewhat related note, over the holidays I was on campus at The Berkshire School and Salisbury watching my grandson in a youth hockey tournament. It was my first time ever on a prep school campus. I was truly taken back at the grandeur, and I mean grandeur, of both schools' hockey facilities; and the athletic facilities as well.. I am sure a lot of D1 programs' facilities pale in comparison. Brown has recruited a lot from those schools over the past few years and now I can see why. Their facilities looked like the facilities for the US development teams. Are the facilities at the other prep schools that make up that NE league as good or better than B and S?
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Those are 2 of the nicest facilities in the Northeast, truly amazing for High Schools.
 
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Scratch my last post; I won't be making it after all. Anyone know how to watch?
 
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Not a good weekend results-wise but they looked good at times. Those are two tough opponents, so maybe the team will gain some confidence going into the Mayor's Cup and the Yale weekend.

This is a brutal stretch!
 
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Past two games shows some progress in the team reaching its potential. Good to see Lappin and Naclerio get some points. Ernst seems to be getting more confidence with more playing time. Is he #1 now? Willman seems to have adjusted to D quite well. Another Jake Goldberg find?

Kdiff, you are right about the brutal stretch - It would be nice to see a W next weekend against PC.
 
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Mike Hutter said:
Past two games shows some progress in the team reaching its potential. Good to see Lappin and Naclerio get some points. Ernst seems to be getting more confidence with more playing time. Is he #1 now? Willman seems to have adjusted to D quite well. Another Jake Goldberg find?

Kdiff, you are right about the brutal stretch - It would be nice to see a W next weekend against PC.
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I'm hardly feeling as positive as the rest of you after this weekend. The fact of the matter is that the special teams are still not good, there is no depth at defense, and our goaltending is simply average. I thought Lappin's goal was a good one - but it's one goal. Lafferty, to me, was probably the standout of the weekend. His helper on the power play goal against Denver was a thing of beauty, as was his goal a period later.be visi

As for the rest of the team... I don't know who really played well, to be honest. Naclerio continues to be an enigma. There was one sequence in one of the games where he lost his stick and rather than play the body in the corner, he skated to his stick, which allowed the Denver player to get free and, of course, eventually score. His penalty against BC was atrocious. And the faceoffs have been less successful than in the past. For the rest, Tim Lappin had some good moments, but he was -4 against Denver, and Pfeil was easily -2. (I can't remember the last time I felt like Pfeil played a complete game, though). Lamacchia was overmatched against Denver.

Tyler Wood is probably, on paper, our #2 defense, but he took at least two bad penalties this weekend. To me, the top D-man this weekend was either Joey D or Max Willman - though I don't think McArdle or Tegtmayer were poor, just, well, young.

This team needs leadership from someone, anyone. I continue to think it has talent, but the fact that multiple players (and lines) remain invisible is not a good thing. But to go through the next two weeks winless could be a disaster and could signal a 5-6 win season if this doesn't turn around in a hurry.
 
BrunoFan00 said:
I'm hardly feeling as positive as the rest of you after this weekend. The fact of the matter is that the special teams are still not good, there is no depth at defense, and our goaltending is simply average. I thought Lappin's goal was a good one - but it's one goal. Lafferty, to me, was probably the standout of the weekend. His helper on the power play goal against Denver was a thing of beauty, as was his goal a period later.be visi

As for the rest of the team... I don't know who really played well, to be honest. Naclerio continues to be an enigma. There was one sequence in one of the games where he lost his stick and rather than play the body in the corner, he skated to his stick, which allowed the Denver player to get free and, of course, eventually score. His penalty against BC was atrocious. And the faceoffs have been less successful than in the past. For the rest, Tim Lappin had some good moments, but he was -4 against Denver, and Pfeil was easily -2. (I can't remember the last time I felt like Pfeil played a complete game, though). Lamacchia was overmatched against Denver.

Tyler Wood is probably, on paper, our #2 defense, but he took at least two bad penalties this weekend. To me, the top D-man this weekend was either Joey D or Max Willman - though I don't think McArdle or Tegtmayer were poor, just, well, young.

This team needs leadership from someone, anyone. I continue to think it has talent, but the fact that multiple players (and lines) remain invisible is not a good thing. But to go through the next two weeks winless could be a disaster and could signal a 5-6 win season if this doesn't turn around in a hurry.
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I'm kind of fishing for positives at this point. All we can do is hope they'll (dramatically) turn a corner in the coming weeks. A couple wins in rivalry games against Providence and Yale could provide a spark.

The defense and goaltending is an unmitigated disaster. They're young, but I also am starting to think they just aren't very talented (Wood possibly being the only exception). Earlier this year, I said we might need to win games 6-5 this year. This has proven to be true, but the offense hasn't found any chemistry or consistency yet. If we can start scoring 3 or 4 a game, we'll win some games, but until then we can expect to lose most games 4-2 or so.

Ernst has been alright (and certainly better than Steel), but he's not a starter at this level. I wonder if Maher is any good?

Remember when Blake Weyrick was supposed to come here and save the program? That would've been nice.
 
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I know this is going to come out horrible but after watching this weekend's games

Maybe it's not that bad, but Brown is currently the worst statistical team in college hockey.

55th in scoring offense
55th in scoring defense
Dead last in scoring margin (-2.31 goals per game)
56th in power play
59th by a solid 3% to the 58th team in penalty kill

The only thing Brown is kind of decent at doing is getting penalties - they're 20th there.

Here's the thing - at some point someone needs to grab the bull by the horns. It can't be the coach. They have to be able to have someone in that locker room smash someone else in the mouth and say, "guys this losing stuff stinks so let's just not do it anymore."

Body language is in a dangerous spot right now. In losing both these games this weekend, there was a definite lack of frustration with the way things are going. The BC and Denver games were incredibly frustrating to watch......it would have been nice to see someone at least show that they were frustrated. Instead, body language looked up and said, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4jGSvxCRp4

Unfortunately, the problem isn't in net or in scoring or in chemistry - I think it might be more deeply rooted than anything on the ice. I agree there are issues with the defense because there aren't enough warm bodies, but at the same time, I don't think there's one single thing that needs to be fixed over the other. This is a fabric of the players problem. And if nothing else, they have time to figure it out, but if they don't, this is going to be a really lost season a lot faster than it won't be. Right now, they can't score, they can't stop people from scoring, and they're getting killed out there with good teams on the horizon. The key is to figure it out a heckuva lot sooner because the season goes by a lot quicker than it doesn't.
 
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So this would be a bad time for trash talk right?

I think the one thing Brown has going for them is that PC seemed to struggle against CC and the Tigers aren't exactly world beaters.
 
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Jon said:
So this would be a bad time for trash talk right?

I think the one thing Brown has going for them is that PC seemed to struggle against CC and the Tigers aren't exactly world beaters.
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We can resume trash talking next year (when, presumably, Brown will have won more than three games by January). For now, I think we're all just trying to get this weekend over with as quickly as possible.

If we can score 6 goals (HA!), we might have a chance at winning.
 
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BrunoFan00 said:
I'm hardly feeling as positive as the rest of you after this weekend. The fact of the matter is that the special teams are still not good, there is no depth at defense, and our goaltending is simply average. I thought Lappin's goal was a good one - but it's one goal. Lafferty, to me, was probably the standout of the weekend. His helper on the power play goal against Denver was a thing of beauty, as was his goal a period later.be visi

As for the rest of the team... I don't know who really played well, to be honest. Naclerio continues to be an enigma. There was one sequence in one of the games where he lost his stick and rather than play the body in the corner, he skated to his stick, which allowed the Denver player to get free and, of course, eventually score. His penalty against BC was atrocious. And the faceoffs have been less successful than in the past. For the rest, Tim Lappin had some good moments, but he was -4 against Denver, and Pfeil was easily -2. (I can't remember the last time I felt like Pfeil played a complete game, though). Lamacchia was overmatched against Denver.

Tyler Wood is probably, on paper, our #2 defense, but he took at least two bad penalties this weekend. To me, the top D-man this weekend was either Joey D or Max Willman - though I don't think McArdle or Tegtmayer were poor, just, well, young.

This team needs leadership from someone, anyone. I continue to think it has talent, but the fact that multiple players (and lines) remain invisible is not a good thing. But to go through the next two weeks winless could be a disaster and could signal a 5-6 win season if this doesn't turn around in a hurry.
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I believe we all knew pre-season that defense would be a weakness but that more goal scoring which we also believed would happen and overcome defense lapses did not occur. Once the offense plays up to its potential, we may be all right. Of course, that assumes we are correct in our view of potential. It seems like some are not.

I still see some good signs - Lorito, Nick Lappin (overcoming DQs), Tim Lappin are playing well and Jacobson seems to be playing like he did his freshmen year before his knee injury. Pfeil has his moments but it looks like he missed Robertson at times. I did not see that referenced Naclerio play. yes, I am the eternal optimist but now with lowered expectations I still see this team in the hunt for home ice in the playoggs.
 
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Why no shake hands??? Don't blame PC for the goal getting overturned...I thought there was 3 borderline hits by Brown that if they happen tomorrow night with Hockey East officials, they will toss them for.
 
The Zlax45 said:
Why no shake hands??? Don't blame PC for the goal getting overturned...I thought there was 3 borderline hits by Brown that if they happen tomorrow night with Hockey East officials, they will toss them for.
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Did you read Divver's game recap? Sounds like both sides are getting heated- Leaman called Brown dirty, Whittet said PC dives. I can only imagine tomorrow is gonna get real nasty, and probably not in a good way.

I agree, by the way, with both coaches. The two Brown hits that were penalized were stupid and dangerous (not sure about the third you mentioned), but in other cases, I noticed PC players going down easy and looking right at the ref.

I hope tempers summer down by tomorrow and no one gets injured.
 
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The elbow to Demopoulous head is the third one that the trainer came on the ice for...

If PC was diving, there is an embellishment call that can be made.
 
The Zlax45 said:
The elbow to Demopoulous head is the third one that the trainer came on the ice for...

If PC was diving, there is an embellishment call that can be made.
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Ok, we get it. Your guys are model citizens and Brown is a bunch of thugs. Go pick a fight with someone else.
 
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