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Quinnipiac Bobcats 2017-18: Chase the dream...

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Same to you Mark, you coming to Hamilton in early January ??
 
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Hopefully no turkey hangover. Need to keep moving forward tonight and build on last weeks home dominance. Keep doing the little things.

Go Q!
 
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I feel like this weekend for QU is a must sweep. They cannot really afford too many more slip ups where they currently are in the PWR & their average SOS likely won't improve much through the course of the season with many teams in bottom third of PWR remaining
 
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QUAlum2004 said:
I feel like this weekend for QU is a must sweep.
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They certainly need to beat the teams below them. On paper, we're a better team than UMass. Of course, that means nothing when the puck drops. They've got to play their game.
 
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I had no idea you could call a penalty because a kid gets injured. That's a new one. Ridiculous call on Duane. That's a good hockey hit right there. Not a minor and CERTAINLY not a major. I hope the kid's OK, but that was a full-body hit and in no way a head-shot. Embarrassing, as usual, from ECAC refs, and Rand was right to be furious.

In other news, our finishing issues continue. Not sure whether that can be coached, and not sure whether it can be fixed in-season. As Rich Coppola said at some point, there's no Sam Anas on this year's team. No game-breakers.
 
ZYanksRule said:
I had no idea you could call a penalty because a kid gets injured. That's a new one. Ridiculous call on Duane. That's a good hockey hit right there. Not a minor and CERTAINLY not a major. I hope the kid's OK, but that was a full-body hit and in no way a head-shot. Embarrassing, as usual, from ECAC refs, and Rand was right.

It almost looked like UMass talked them into the penalty. Puck was placed at the dot outside the blue line. UMass was chirping and then the penalty was called. No hand went up on the play and play appeared to be stopped for an injured player not a penalty.

Aside from that, Duane wins his share of face offs and he’s a big body, but he slows down Jermain and Aldworth, can’t handle the puck, turns it over and takes bad penalties. Is it maybe time to give someone else some ice time?
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QUFan said:
It almost looked like UMass talked them into the penalty. Puck was placed at the dot outside the blue line. UMass was chirping and then the penalty was called. No hand went up on the play and play appeared to be stopped for an injured player not a penalty.
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That's the way I saw it as well. I didn't see the hit but there were no hands in the air. Rand spent several minutes after the game speaking with Feola.

Aside from that, Duane wins his share of face offs and he’s a big body, but he slows down Jermain and Aldworth, can’t handle the puck, turns it over and takes bad penalties. Is it maybe time to give someone else some ice time?
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Duane has certainly picked up his game this season but the past 2-3 weeks he's been extremely selfish with the puck. He needs to dish it off to his linemates.

They had the effort tonight but still some sloppy play and not finishing did them in. The last couple of minutes with Shortridge pulled were certainly exciting. I can't figure out how we didn't score there.

Tomorrow becomes a must win. No way they can afford to be swept by UMass. A win doesn't really help them but a loss could be catastrophic later in the season as the pairwise becomes relevant.
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
That's the way I saw it as well. I didn't see the hit but there were no hands in the air. Rand spent several minutes after the game speaking with Feola.

Duane has certainly picked up his game this season but the past 2-3 weeks he's been extremely selfish with the puck. He needs to dish it off to his linemates.

They had the effort tonight but still some sloppy play and not finishing did them in. The last couple of minutes with Shortridge pulled were certainly exciting. I can't figure out how we didn't score there.

Tomorrow becomes a must win. No way they can afford to be swept by UMass. A win doesn't really help them but a loss could be catastrophic later in the season as the pairwise becomes relevant.
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To me the pairwise is already relevant. They are playing themselves right out of any at-large chances at the moment.
 
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ZYanksRule said:
I had no idea you could call a penalty because a kid gets injured. That's a new one. Ridiculous call on Duane. That's a good hockey hit right there. Not a minor and CERTAINLY not a major. I hope the kid's OK, but that was a full-body hit and in no way a head-shot. Embarrassing, as usual, from ECAC refs, and Rand was right to be furious.

In other news, our finishing issues continue. Not sure whether that can be coached, and not sure whether it can be fixed in-season. As Rich Coppola said at some point, there's no Sam Anas on this year's team. No game-breakers.
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Personally I don't think this can be corrected in season. There is no high end finishing talent on this roster. Tufto is good but more of a distributor and a freshman. The bottom 6 can be easily defended and the top 6 doesn't scare anyone at all. If the defense doesn't contribute offensively then we are in big trouble. 5 times this season this team has scored 1 goal. 4 losses in and a tie in those games.
 
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QUAlum2004 said:
To me the pairwise is already relevant. They are playing themselves right out of any at-large chances at the moment.
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That's why I say tomorrow is a must win. What I meant about the PWR is that it's fluid. Lots of things affect it but the only control you have over it is to win.
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
That's why I say tomorrow is a must win. What I meant about the PWR is that it's fluid. Lots of things affect it but the only control you have over it is to win.
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Problem with Quinnipiac is their strength of schedule stinks. Their best OOC win is Northeastern and they are sitting at 17 right now. The remaining OOC games are against the likes of UMass, UConn, 2 against Maine and 2 against Arizona State. None of those games help strength of schedule. They really need to up there SOS and start going out to the elite teams in the west instead of playing some of the Hockey East bottom feeders.
 
QUAlum2004 said:
Problem with Quinnipiac is their strength of schedule stinks. Their best OOC win is Northeastern and they are sitting at 17 right now. The remaining OOC games are against the likes of UMass, UConn, 2 against Maine and 2 against Arizona State. None of those games help strength of schedule. They really need to up there SOS and start going out to the elite teams in the west instead of playing some of the Hockey East bottom feeders.
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Clarkson 2x , Harvard 2x, Cornell and Colgate will help pairwise. Team needs maturity to understand down 1 goal is not end of world. ECAC refs seem to be focused on Q for bad calls, last week vs Yale and last night vs UMass a joke.Q will rebound strong tonight all part of the maturation of group! Go Q!!
 
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Hank81 said:
Clarkson 2x , Harvard 2x, Cornell and Colgate will help pairwise. Team needs maturity to understand down 1 goal is not end of world. ECAC refs seem to be focused on Q for bad calls, last week vs Yale and last night vs UMass a joke.Q will rebound strong tonight all part of the maturation of group! Go Q!!
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Clarkson and maybe Cornell will help pairwise. I am not sold on Cornell. They have played a cream puff schedule so far (SOS 37). Clarkson is the real deal. Colgate is another team while good doesn't have a good strength of schedule (42). Harvard has stunk so far this year. Quinnipiac's OOC schedule is a killer with so many Hockey East bottom feeders.
 
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QUAlum2004 said:
They really need to up there SOS and start going out to the elite teams in the west instead of playing some of the Hockey East bottom feeders.
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QUAlum2004 said:
Quinnipiac's OOC schedule is a killer with so many Hockey East bottom feeders.
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A couple of things...

First, like recruiting, scheduling can occur 2-3 years out so it's not always easy to determine who will be weak or strong. Who could have predicted that BU and BC would have terrible starts to their seasons? Second, Rand has said a few times at the banquet that many of the western teams simply won't do reciprocal agreements... they want us to go there but don't want to come here. I think he's right in thinking we're worthy of hosting D-I powers in our barn and shouldn't settle for always being on the road. Much like BU and BC, it can take time to get the bigger fish.

Regardless of SOS, we need to win the games we're supposed to win, and steal a few that we aren't. Losing to lower (PWR) teams hurts way more than beating them helps. Win the games you're supposed to and the numbers sort of take care of themselves.

On the road to Amherst tonight. A short trip with big implications. With all the PWR talk, a loss tonight could be then end of hoping to qualify for the NCAA's on numbers alone. They need to find the same fire they had last weekend. The difference between last night and last week was in the way they took advantage of their chances. Need more rubber on net and more bodies in front. Show no mercy and take no prisoners.

Go Q!
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
A couple of things...

First, like recruiting, scheduling can occur 2-3 years out so it's not always easy to determine who will be weak or strong. Who could have predicted that BU and BC would have terrible starts to their seasons? Second, Rand has said a few times at the banquet that many of the western teams simply won't do reciprocal agreements... they want us to go there but don't want to come here. I think he's right in thinking we're worthy of hosting D-I powers in our barn and shouldn't settle for always being on the road. Much like BU and BC, it can take time to get the bigger fish.

Regardless of SOS, we need to win the games we're supposed to win, and steal a few that we aren't. Losing to lower (PWR) teams hurts way more than beating them helps. Win the games you're supposed to and the numbers sort of take care of themselves.

On the road to Amherst tonight. A short trip with big implications. With all the PWR talk, a loss tonight could be then end of hoping to qualify for the NCAA's on numbers alone. They need to find the same fire they had last weekend. The difference between last night and last week was in the way they took advantage of their chances. Need more rubber on net and more bodies in front. Show no mercy and take no prisoners.

Go Q!
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I'd restart the series with St. Cloud we have had in the past as the number one thing I'd do. Second I'd be willing to play on the road at some of these bigger schools for exposure and to increase the SOS even if it meant they were not always going to come back to Hamden. SOS is important in my opinion and OOC games against UMass, Maine, UConn, Vermont and Arizona State are just not going to cut it if you want to make the NCAA's via an at large berth especially if the ECAC has a down year.
 
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going forward, the only upside is giving the kids ice time and just build for the next 2-3 year wave. back to basics.
 
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