I arrived in Boston late tonight because every street seems like a one way street with traffic and cars covered with snow the side streets are un passable. However when I got to my seats they were just singing the national anthem. I was with the CT friends and UCONN fans tonight who just as we had stepped in from St Boltoph Street immediately spotted Jim Calhoun in the lobby and made their way over to say hello. He sat in the varsity club next to the heavy hitters from EMC. I thought it was a bad omen until we were up 5 at the end of the 1st and in route to a 9 to zip shelling of the other Huskies in Blue.
The stands were nearly empty tonight with likely less than 1000 in attendance due to a number of factors and it was not exatly the envirnment I was hoping for. It didnt matter because everything NU shot wound up in the back of the net. Our Hounds even had a no call goal, that could have gone the other way but video evidence was not conclusive.
They also hit 2 or 3 posts and could have scored 12 goals tonight. I have never seen a goalie not pulled under such a mental lapse because lots of the NU goals were soft. That said this was the same UCONN net minder who before his notch in the win column at Lowell gave up 10 to PC. That’s 19 goals allowed in 5 periods of hockey. The Blue Husky coach was quoted as saying her wanted his net minder to work through it. What a poor head coaching decision because this kid was rattled form the get go.
Anyway, the real hockey Huskies skated circles around the Hartford variety for 3 periods scored on 2 PP and didn’t give up a goal in 5 Blue Husky opportunities. Nice job NU. Jim Madigan again looked like a real coach again tonight, even arguing on a eventually overturned CT goal at he end of the 1st.
Don’t look now but we are 19th in the Pairwise and if we can grab a few more points who knows an NCAA birth is a possibility. This team has played tremendously since Thanksgiving and given the horrendous start really should be given solid props for their resilience and belief that they can play with anyone because the truth is they can. Of course they will live and die with the final 2 games against BU. However, again Witt looked sharp, Aston Reese was on fire and don’t blinnk an eye as KROY could win the scoring title. What a strange season it has become. Wonderful momentum, hofully they can keep it up in Hartford tomorrow night!
