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NCAA Semifinal -- #2 BC vs. #3 Harvard: Oh, hello.

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While they're both here maybe UW and BC would be interested in playing tomorrow to settle some west vs east questions.
 
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Exciting game! Congratulations to both teams.....it's been a year to remember for the friendly rivalry between Harvard and BC. Lots of achievements to go round.
 
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Veritas said:
I had to leave the TV for the bathroom for a minuute and D'Oench got a major and misconduct.
What did she do??
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It looked like she was slashing a BC player behind the net and then boarded her when her head was down. Not what you'd expect from her at all. The major seemed to be warranted; I don't know whether the misconduct is automatic or discretionary so I can't comment on that
 
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It all comes down to goaltending doesn't it......
Oh and maybe some coaching thrown in there for good measure
 
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Watson Rink said:
It looked like she was slashing a BC player behind the net and then boarded her when her head was down. Not what you'd expect from her at all. The major seemed to be warranted; I don't know whether the misconduct is automatic or discretionary so I can't comment on that
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Yeah! That is very un-D'Oenchlike. Will the misconduct affect her for Sundays game??
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
So did bc take Harvard lightly this time? ;)
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I don't think so... but I still wonder if they can't get it out of their heads that they beat this Harvard team 10-2, and can't understand how on Emerance & her D were going to be to prevent that from ever happening again. But unfortunately for BC, they don't get the Beanpot title and NCAA final berth based on a 13-7 season series goal aggregate. I feel for them.
 
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TicTacToe said:
Lots of pressure for the young freshmen goaltender!!!
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In fairness, I wonder if it surprised her that Armstrong's soft flip towards the net ever got past two of her D who seemed to have Armstrong completely cut off; and the soft flip may have been knuckling. Parker deserves a lot of credit for outskating the D on her shorty, getting position on the D to drive to the net and then follow the puck into the crease and whack at the loose puck all alone with the goalie getting no assistance from her D.
 
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Watching it live I thought BC completely lacked intensity until after Harvard scored their second goal. Had it kept going, BC would eventually have tied it up but seven minutes just didn't leave them enough time. Prior to that, BC had some chances but they really let Harvard dictate the pace of the game. And though the shots were lopsided, I didn't think Maschmeyer had to make anything like the number of great saves that Leveille did in the first game.

The key play of the game came late in the first period. The puck slid to Trevigno off to Maschmeyer's right and she had almost the whole net to shoot at. Maschmeyer got across but if Trevigno gets any elevation at all that's a goal. I said at the time she needed to bury that puck but she just slid it on the ice right into Maschmeyer's pads. It was a hell of a play for Maschmeyer to get even that much coverage but BC should have been up 1-0 at that point and it's a whole different game.
 
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I thought the Saint Cloud State band was fairly clearly superior to the Eden Prairie High School band. The EP band was at least used to playing on behalf of a team nicknamed the Eagles and perhaps that is why it seemed that their performance improved during the course of the game. Or maybe it was just that they hadn't had any rehearsal anytime recently and after two or three tries at various Journey "classics" they started to find some traction. Very clearly point Saint Cloud, very clearly at Sunday's game the Gopher pep band will absolutely smash the makeshift locally hired "Crimson" band.

Where was Baldwin?
 
Re: NCAA Semifinal -- #2 BC vs. #3 Harvard: Oh, hello.

Grant and Joe are out listening to jazz (nice!) and my family are asleep so I have some space to collect my thoughts.

What a frustrating game for BC fans. It felt like BC dominated possession and zone time for the first two and a half periods and weren't able to get the puck in the net. Maschmeyer was good but the finishing wasn't there: the crisp passes that got the puck up the ice didn't manage to find targets once we were in the zone. Harvard did a great job getting skaters back to cover the net and we didn't find a way around them. We didn't cover the Harvard breakaways as well.

It was a quality, skilled game. Both teams executed on their gameplan. During the Minny/Wisco semi I said to Joe and Grant that I was more scared of Harvard than either of the WCHA teams, and obviously that was correct in a trivial sense, but I stand by it. Had BC made it through they were clearly the better team than Minnesota: they play a similar game, but BC are crisper, faster, and more highly skilled. I'll be interested to see if Harvard's game plan works against Minnesota the way it worked against BC. Minnesota seem better set up to cope with grinders than this BC team.

I liked that the fourth line saw ice time (though I didn't understand why Meghan Grieves was on in the last minute with Burt pulled -- she's great but for a possession in the zone game I would have thought you wanted Kate Leary or Trivigno). I liked that Emily Field scored one of her classic potentially momentum-changing goals in her last game as an Eagle (I will miss Emily Field). I hated our power play and the sense that we didn't know what to do with an opponent who was active in their zone. I don't understand how a team full of people who are used to winning in other contexts can blow three big games in a row. I don't understand it.
 
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Either way, the NCAA needs to do something about the #1 and #2 seeded bands meeting in the first semifinal.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I thought the Saint Cloud State band was fairly clearly superior to the Eden Prairie High School band.
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The EP band played a mash-up of the national anthem with itself which was quite avant garde, though not what the crowd seemed to be expecting.
 
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Eeyore said:
Watching it live I thought BC completely lacked intensity until after Harvard scored their second goal. Had it kept going, BC would eventually have tied it up but seven minutes just didn't leave them enough time. Prior to that, BC had some chances but they really let Harvard dictate the pace of the game.
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That's funny, I had completely the opposite impression: I thought BC were dominating until the second Harvard goal and then they kept trying the same things but without conviction.
 
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