they do not practice it
it is not a priority, Tim does not work on the little things.
watch the D in warm ups, it is pathetic... passes to the skates over and over and over... only 2 of them can "catch" a pass, the rest stop it.
I wish you could have seen the warm ups years ago when Shawn's defensemen could all handle the puck just a little less well than Leveille, now they play like it is a brick and their sticks have no curves. It is not THAT hard to learn softer hands, you practice with a shot put to learn to roll your wrists, you practice with a golf ball to work on speed (and wrist roll)... you practice, practice, practice...
watch Merrimack and Lowell on the PP... you will see tape to tape passing. They are not ask fast or skilled as Maine's players, but they do little things much better.
21-0 Pats. McCourty strips the ball and Guyton returns it.... under review
That will be reversed and 20-0 at the moment. Soon to be 14-0.
interestingly enough, both teams are playing on the same iceUMass announcers says the ice is in terrible condition. If UMass is complaining about it, it must be pretty bad.
KIA the only thing I can say about this when you talk about power-play, is last year Maine had the #1 ranked power-play in the country! So obviously last year we were doing much of this right. All of a sudden it is the coaches fault? It is a team effort so failure to at the very least get out of this funk on power play falls on everyone. But for cripe sales we were #1 in the entire country last year on the power-play, all of a sudden they can't pass the puck and it is Tim's fault! They have a better team, and better weapons this year (Diamond was not a weapon until Hockey East) so let's figure it out. And let's play 40 minutes of hockey!