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Quinnipiac Bobcats 2016-17 - It's 873 miles to Chicago...

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Huge game tonight. The boys need to show up in Cambridge. A win tonight will be huge. Most of all they need it for confidence reasons. This slide that they're in has to be a little painful. Time to try and right the ship.

Go Q!
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
Huge game tonight. The boys need to show up in Cambridge. A win tonight will be huge. Most of all they need it for confidence reasons. This slide that they're in has to be a little painful. Time to try and right the ship.

Go Q!
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Most of all they need it for pairwise implications. It's the biggest game of the season. Without this win the path to an at-large berth really diminishes which would force them to have to win the conference tournament.
 
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Rand just got bounced from the game for arguing, now 4-1 Harvard.
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
Huge game tonight. The boys need to show up in Cambridge. A win tonight will be huge. Most of all they need it for confidence reasons. This slide that they're in has to be a little painful. Time to try and right the ship.

Go Q!
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You guys did show up in the first period and for the start of the second until the Pecknold ejection. Then you seemed to lose composure and focus. The multiple penalties obviously hurt but it seemed like you guys were a man up the entire third period so the game swung in your favor quite a bit.

Harvard needs to practice hitting an empty net. Geez, was that embarrassing when Kerfoot and Krushko (his first attempt) missed out in front. Ugleeeee.
 
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Refereeing was a joke. That second Harvard goal -- if that's not a kicking motion, then they should just abolish the rule. I'm glad Rand got bounced -- it's good to stick up for your team when the refereeing is that bad.
 
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ZYanksRule said:
Refereeing was a joke. That second Harvard goal -- if that's not a kicking motion, then they should just abolish the rule. I'm glad Rand got bounced -- it's good to stick up for your team when the refereeing is that bad.
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I honestly looked at the replay and didn't it was a distinct kicking motion.
 
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QUAlum2004 said:
I honestly looked at the replay and didn't it was a distinct kicking motion.
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Puck is going backwards, it hits the skate, which then thrusts forward and the puck trickles in. That's a kick in my book, and I think Rand was right to be livid.
 
ZYanksRule said:
Puck is going backwards, it hits the skate, which then thrusts forward and the puck trickles in. That's a kick in my book, and I think Rand was right to be livid.
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But to get that call you need a distinct kicking motion. That hit the skate and redirected into the goal. He turn his skate towards the goal to kick the puck in. It went off the back of his skate and he was figthing in front of the net for the puck. That is what I call a bad break for Quinnipiac.
 
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ZYanksRule said:
Refereeing was a joke. That second Harvard goal -- if that's not a kicking motion, then they should just abolish the rule. I'm glad Rand got bounced -- it's good to stick up for your team when the refereeing is that bad.
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It wasn't a direct kicking motion. I was looking at the replay from my seat at the game. Nathan slid his skate towards the post as he was skating away from the goalie. And it wasn't a smart move by Pecknold to get bounced. Your team lost its composure and the game in the process. How does that help you in the PWR going forward?
 
Skate79 said:
It wasn't a direct kicking motion. I was looking at the replay from my seat at the game. Nathan slid his skate towards the post as he was skating away from the goalie. And it wasn't a smart move by Pecknold to get bounced. Your team lost its composure and the game in the process. How does that help you in the PWR going forward?
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It doesn't help at all in the PWR. Quinnipiac essentially has very little path to an at large berth at this point due to a weak non conference schedule outside of BU and BC.
 
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Skate79 said:
It wasn't a direct kicking motion. I was looking at the replay from my seat at the game. Nathan slid his skate towards the post as he was skating away from the goalie. And it wasn't a smart move by Pecknold to get bounced. Your team lost its composure and the game in the process. How does that help you in the PWR going forward?
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From that definition, the only way it becomes a distinct kicking motion if if the player's skate leaves the ice. For me, if the skate is thrusting towards the goal I think that's a kicking motion. I think that's intentionally pushing the puck into the net with a skate, and I think that should be no goal. In the NHL you'd definitely see that goal called back occasionally (not every time, but probably 50-percent of the time you'd see that called back).
 
ZYanksRule said:
From that definition, the only way it becomes a distinct kicking motion if if the player's skate leaves the ice. For me, if the skate is thrusting towards the goal I think that's a kicking motion. I think that's intentionally pushing the puck into the net with a skate, and I think that should be no goal. In the NHL you'd definitely see that goal called back occasionally (not every time, but probably 50-percent of the time you'd see that called back).
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Pecknold lost his composure and than the captain took a dumb penalty. To me, that speaks of larger issues (leadership) within the Quinny locker room. Been a tough stretch and hope that they can turn it around.
 
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ZYanksRule said:
From that definition, the only way it becomes a distinct kicking motion if if the player's skate leaves the ice. For me, if the skate is thrusting towards the goal I think that's a kicking motion. I think that's intentionally pushing the puck into the net with a skate, and I think that should be no goal. In the NHL you'd definitely see that goal called back occasionally (not every time, but probably 50-percent of the time you'd see that called back).
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It's a matter of semantics but Nathan's skate was sliding toward the post, not directly towards the goal and there was no thrust to kick it in. It would have been obvious to all - he was moving away from the goal rather than directly into it. If he was pushing his skate directly into the goal, it would have been waved off.
 
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bothman said:
Pecknold lost his composure and than the captain took a dumb penalty. To me, that speaks of larger issues (leadership) within the Quinny locker room. Been a tough stretch and hope that they can turn it around.
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Rand vs Chip McDonald... the never-ending saga.

As for the leadership comment, I totally agree. There is a lack of something and none of the 4 guys wearing the letters are leading by example. Connor Clifton took a couple of bad penalties last night. Derek Smith's game is not what it was last year (to be fair he hasn't been himself since his injury last season). Tim Clifton started the year on fire and has cooled quite a bit. Tommy Schutt's game also seems to have faded a bit. The cohesiveness we've seen the teams have the past 3 or 4 seasons isn't there.

I still think there's time to right the ship and salvage a top-4 league spot. The PWR may be out of there control but they need to win the games they should win. This trend of starting the game on fire and controlling the 1st period then not sustaining that for the rest of the game needs to stop. It takes a full 60 minute effort.
 
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bothman said:
Pecknold lost his composure and than the captain took a dumb penalty. To me, that speaks of larger issues (leadership) within the Quinny locker room. Been a tough stretch and hope that they can turn it around.
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I don't know what Pecknold said -- obviously it was something, because the ref was skating away before throwing him out. I do agree that the leadership group hasn't done a good enough job. That being said, this team was highly overrated at the start of the year because of last season, and where they are right now -- a fringe tournament team on the back end of the top 20 -- is probably where they belong this season.
 
ZYanksRule said:
I don't know what Pecknold said -- obviously it was something, because the ref was skating away before throwing him out. I do agree that the leadership group hasn't done a good enough job. That being said, this team was highly overrated at the start of the year because of last season, and where they are right now -- a fringe tournament team on the back end of the top 20 -- is probably where they belong this season.
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Ref took game away from players in 2nd period. Would not allow kids to play hockey.The players that returned from Jrs got whistles cause they were forced to adjust there style from Jrs round. Rand had every right to ask for review. Ref made it about him. Harvard PP is deadly. Paul Pearl has helped lock that PP in for Harvard
 
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The Maine loss is a huge killer right now. We'd be 13th in the pairwise if not for that loss. If not for the sweep against Princeton we would be 8th with those three extra wins. That is the difference right there.
 
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