WNEU and Wentworth don't seem to stream their games.
Both schools stream their games. The Wentworth/Salve game was unavailable on Friday night due to an internet issue at the rink, which happens from time to time.
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Does anyone know what is going on with Salve? Losing to Wentworth last weekend was somewhat of a surprise; Wentworth could pull a few more surprises, but six days later losing to Western new England is a shocker.
Looking at the Box Score, Wojtala didn't start the game. They started the Sophomore goalie who gave up 4 on 7 shots in just under 16 minutes. Too big a hole for even Salve climb out of!
I can understand why they may have wanted to give their ace goalie the night off. He has to be getting tired with all of the minutes he has collected and with how well he has played. Calculated coaching decision that went south quickly.
Other than the really shaky start, the game seemed pretty benign.
I didn't get to watch any of the Nichols/Curry game, the third period and overtime must have been fun. Should be a barn burner this afternoon at Nichols.
What a strange weekend in the Conference. Wentworth totally dominated UNE at home after giving up 9 goals the night before,5 in the third period. Curry takes 3 points away from Nichols and WNEU take the home game against Salve and the travels to Newport and goes to overtime before losing.
A weekend where the top teams should have cleaned up and separated themselves, the league went from, maybe five teams who could contend to maybe seven teams who could contend.
It looks like Becker is the only team that is an easy walkover, and that could change next week!
I don t know if this means the conference has improved or gotten weaker!
The first night of the first big weekend is in the books. UNE, Salve and Curry all held serve, meaning that Endicott, Nichols and Wentworth have big tasks today. I was at the UNE/Endicott game last night and I was quite surprised by Endicott's play. The refs were calling a pretty tight game, but each penalty they called was legit. Endicott seemed to "chirp" on each call. At one point the Endicott coach went off on the refs before he settled down. One interesting call was a double minor for roughing on UNE's Fleurant and a major face masking call on Endicott's Hayes. The two were tangled up in the neutral zone, fell to ice and appears that both were engaged in the grabbing and pulling. Hayes reached up as the whistle was blown and grabbed Fleurant's facemask and pulled it off his helmet. When the calls were made Fleurant has the double minor for roughing and Hayes had the facemasking and game misconduct call. I wondered if he hadn't grabbed the facemark, would Endicott have a 4 minute man up?
At one point in the third, UNE up 5-1, Olson from Endicott, and a UNE player were chirping at each other and the linesman got between them. Olson put his hands on the smaller linesman's shoulders to move him out of the way. From my vantage point, it was a pretty flagrant grabbing of the official and definitely worthy of the call. The linesman was pretty upset and grabbed the player's jersey to escort him to the box and when they got to the gate, the linesman gave him a pretty good shove into the box. I don't think Olson liked it and put on a pretty good show of stumbling as a result of the linesman's shove. The linesman was visibly upset that the player had grabbed him.
The game was played at a pretty high pace, for the most part. Endicott really seemed to be taken off their game by how tightly the refs were calling the game, but, as I said, all the calls were legit, even if tight!
We'll have to see if the same teams can up their games today. It's a big day for Nichols and Endicott.
I don't have a dog in the fight and cannot comment on the officiating at this specific game but overall I think the officiating across D3 has been as inconsistent and as poor as I've seen in years. I won't name any specific officials but I've seen enough to know three of them who frequently do not stay up with the play while letting as many as three players lag behind them as they look up the ice. When I know one of them is officiating I watch the players behind the play because I know they will be sending cheap shots and the official cannot see them. I also think many of the linesmen need a class on positioning as more and more offsides are missed because of officials being far out of position.
2nd night in the CCC was interesting to say the least. Endicott/UNE looked like they were missing a few players. At least 3-4 on Endicott side and one for UNE, Was not surprised UNE won given the rosters BUT didn’t think it would be blowout. Thought Endicott would have some fight in them after last night, especially at home.
Salve looked real good this weekend. Two very close games vs. Nichols who plays everyone tough. EN’ers in both games sealed it for Salve. Salve’s confidence looks like its back. Defensively, They shut down Nichols and offensively they generated opportunities. Officiating tonight was not good. Too many calls that were questionable at best. Salve needed this weekend to get on track and they took two big wins. If they don’t look past Becker next weekend the last game at UNE should be a great one.
Now for possibly the team in the CCC who may be playing the best hockey, Curry. Starting with the big win over UMBoston right up to wins over Endicott and Nichols this team is tough to play. Skilled and gritty.This team could win it all.
Next weekends big series UNE/Nichols and Endicott/WIT, Salve better be ready to play vs. Becker and same goes for Curry vs. WENU.
I agree with you about Curry. If they take care of business over the next two weeks, and UNE, Nichols and Salve beat up on each other, Curry could finish as the Conference's top seed.
I didn't listen to the broadcast (watched with the sound off!), but I did notice the absence of Olsson. I also noticed the real lack of intensity in the Endicott effort. Are there things going on with the Gulls? I did hear some parents in the stands on Friday night voicing dissatisfaction with particular parts of the teams play, most notably the PP. Although, to hear parents complain is not unusual.
Looking forward to last two weekends and then on to the Conference playoffs!