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BU: '22-'23 Season: Sail The Boats
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Every team goes through a funk but BU picked a crappy time to do it. Played like crap vs NU and even worse tonight. Granted tonight was pretty meaningless other than pairwise but it’s still ugly. The power play is atrocious. Hopefully a return to league play this weekend will set the ship back on course.
Have agreed with most of moves this season but saw no reason to change productive 1st line with someone who has been out over a month
Sheesh, tough crowd. You guys lost two in a row. It happens. Lost tonight on a horrible goal given up by Commesso. Ultimately I'm not sure anyone in Hockey East is gonna fare well in the NCAA tournament. Tonight was a PWR killer relatively speaking but losing two games in mid February doesn't define the season for BU. Time to get it back on track.
ericredaxe
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As it turns out, an Alien may have replaced Comesso as well.
brassbonanza
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A whole lot of overreactions here tonight, but this is spot on. Not only did he shift the 1st line, that change cascaded down and shifted all four lines. IMO, that was a major unforced error by Jay and the coaching staff. Phillips is a solid player, but does not command 1st line minutes and would've slotted in nicely on the 4th line to reintegrate after two months out.
That game was a disaster in every way, but calling that 3rd goal O'Connor 2.0 is nonsense.
Emotional sports fans live in the land of hyperbole. Surely you are aware of this by now. : )
I'm sure if you asked Drew he would own up to the fact he should have had that shot easily and that it was an ugly, ugly goal. Its significance is compounded by the fact that it happened late in a tie game against our #1 rival.
Having said that, the team that deserved to win, won. BU was hot garbage all night.
This is Jay's first test of adversity. It will be interesting how the team responds.
BU deserved to lose vS NU and deserved to lose vs BC. They were outworked in both games and it was evident watching. Not sure if they are tired or too full of themselves but we will see if this team can grind through some adversity and get back at it. The offense has completely been out of sync lately - missing passes, falling down....its been ugly. The power play is awful as well. They seem to have a lot of offensive players struggling at the same time. You aren't going to win many games scoring 1 or 2 goals.
I don't see a Hockey East team as a National contender at this point. BU is probably the best of the bunch but they play like an NHL regular season team and this would be playing in an NHL playoff series where teams get physical and that doesn't suit their strengths. Playoff hockey is a totally different animal. BU isnt a big tough team - they are a smaller fast/skill team and that can be shut down by a defensive minded system as we have seen. Does BU have a guy that you feel can come thru in the clutch to score a goal? There are a few good teams in Hockey East but I don't think there is a "GREAT" team. It seems teams like Denver, Western Michigan, St Cloud state, Minnesota are built for playoffs...dont see that in any HE team.
Harry Cleverly
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Take off the blinders. Jeez.
I still think they're trying to make the perfect play. That's great when you're rolling. But when you hit a slump, you have to go back to basics. SHOOT the puck...maybe it will go in. Better than not getting off a shot at all.
I’m sure this gets brought up all the time, but will the men’s team ever go back to the primary uniforms the women wear?
im sure I’m the minority but I really don’t like any of the three current options.
The primary red is too much red and shoulder stripes look weird.
The Boston University ones are terrible
The Terrier throwbacks aren’t good. The terriers is awful and the black outline is terrible.
im sure I’m the minority but I really don’t like any of the three current options.
The primary red is too much red and shoulder stripes look weird.
The Boston University ones are terrible
The Terrier throwbacks aren’t good. The terriers is awful and the black outline is terrible.
Ya that was a very bad goal. I was looking at Benson's save percentage yesterday and surprised to see that Commesso only has a .909 on the year. Even in just Hockey East games he's down the list.
ericredaxe
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IIRC, they wore them a handful of times last year.
Also not a fan of the 70's terrier with the black outline on the lettering.
My favorite rotation if we are going with 3 jerseys would be the "primary" (not sure its official name), candy canes, 50's throwback style (Boston University ones).
More to the point, it was very quickly after BU scored to tie it. BU should have had all the momentum after that goal and BC scored shortly thereafter to end that.
Harry Cleverly
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Love those the best, by-far. With the Terrier on the front instead of a number. Clean and very sharp.
The old standby Red Wings jerseys are okay.
His stats are off because of two games - Michigan when they had a 5 on 3 for 5 minutes and BC game when he was sick. Doesn’t help goalie stats the way BU plays either. Run and gun with 4 forwards on the ice. BU is trying to outscore you not limit your chances like some other teams. BU may have one defensive defenseman in Weber who plays regularly the rest are offensive dman. There is nothing more deceiving than goalie save percentage.
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