Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising
The power play is horrible and yet he says it has nothing to do with hockey, it's all in their minds. We don't have to change a single thing on the ice. Umm ... ok, is he even watching the games he's supposedly coaching?
His entire offensive scheme is a joke. He preaches dump and suck and cycle the puck behind the net. We end up with three forwards standing around behind the goal line. Because that's where the goals are scored. When we pop the puck up front, no one is there. Our entire offense is cycle behind the net, then make a slow pass along the boards to the points for harmless slap shots from the d-men. Grade A scoring chances right there! There is no attempt to get the goalie and the defense moving north-south. We never have guys on the opposite door step waiting for tap-ins or rebounds. We never pass the puck from faceoff dot to faceoff dot to get wristers past a goalie trying to get back to the other post.
Even if we did those things, the forward lines have developed no chemistry over the course of the season because he is constantly changing the lines. Like almost every game, every line is different. I think he's finally settled on a Greenway-Keller-Carpenter line over the past ten games or so. Other than that, it is a total crapshoot every single night. In 14-15, he said the best thing he did was not coach the top line. This season, he has completely over-coached with this almost obsessive compulsion to switch line combos or use different players in different roles. It's really ruined any chance for them to have success.
We know the talent is there. The coaching staff has really let them down and it's a shame. The coaches are the ones who are supposed to be professional and I think they've been a complete and utter joke this season. Even going back to last year, the inconsistency is maddening.
You can go a little deeper too and look at individual decisions. He decides after the first Merrimack game that some changes need to be made. I think he unfairly picks MacLeod to sit the second game. Ok, he took some bad penalties, but so did several other players. McAvoy took the stupid major but nope, can't send him a message. Let's pick MacLeod, presumably because the PKers on the ice happened to let in goals on his rather than anyone else's. So MacLeod sits. Do you play the Dman with six assists in six games against Merrimack? No, of course not; that is literally a lay-up coaching decision and he can't do that right. The second Merrimack game, many players play the laziest, most disinterested games of their lives. McAvoy is the worst of the worst. Does he sit? Nope. What the hell was with his Patrick Curry obsession? He's not a first-line players; everyone knew that but it didn't stop Quinn from rolling him out there for a month anyway. Bellows showed he can in fact play hockey at a high level. But he can't seem to do it at BU. Whose fault is that? Special teams are a complete disaster at this point. The power play has been ****ing awful all season long and he has never managed to do anything with it, at all. That is the number one aspect of the game where coaching can play the biggest role. And it's the worst aspect of this team. How can you have four and a half months of coaching and still be running this power play out there? And for the love of god, please put the ****ing D-men at the points! How many times do our players miss the net by ten feet and have the puck roll along the boards and right out of the zone because we have one player on the blue line (in the center)??
What's the one aspect of the team that David Quinn has no influence over? Goaltending. And is it just a coincidence that the only place we are getting results is in net?
yippee!!!!
icing on the cake