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UMass Lowell 2021-2022: Which way are we going?

Sean Pickett said:
Of course scoring first is important. Over the past 4 seasons in men's college hockey the team that scores first is a combined 2490-956-333, 0.703. In the postseason over the past 5 seasons teams have a combined 245-104, 0.702 record. Only 27.2% of those teams never lost the lead after scoring the first goal of the game, but it does show the importance of the first goal.

When taking a 2 goal lead in a game the past 4 seasons teams are a combined 2689-256-146, 0.894 and in the past 5 postseasons teams are 236-30, 0.887.

Merrimack is 6-3 when scoring first in the HE Tournament and 6-0 when taking a 2 goal lead over the past 11 seasons. They are 10-5-1 when scoring first this season and 15-2-0 when taking a 2 goal lead.

BTW, according to my stats UML is 17-0 in Hockey East Tournament games when taking a 2 goal lead (of course, I may have made a mistake entering the data).

Sean
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My numbers are all postseason, so it includes the NCAA tournament.
 
Patman said:
Not much to talk about tonight. Most results went well tonight with the exception of union Clarkson. ECAC is a one bid league and Clarkson is IIRC the top spoiler. They won tonight. Meanwhile any at large charge Omaha could have made got snuffed out tonight. I suppose Miami could come back on Denver but I don't care right now

All of this is slivers. Important game is tomorrow. Get loud
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Yup, this should be a tough one. Just need to stay out of the box and take care of business.

Is this the last season for Bob Ellis?
 
boblav1 said:
Yup, this should be a tough one. Just need to stay out of the box and take care of business.

Is this the last season for Bob Ellis?
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No way. You know how sentimental Bob is. Unless there's other issues Bob would have mentioned it long ago. That's my personal take. I could be wrong.
 
2-1 Lowell... the goal we gave up seemed to come after a series of defensive lapses. Gotta sharpen up. That UML penalty? What for?!?!?! I didn't see anything. Color guy on the NESN broadcast, Merrimack fanboy? Buried opportunities making a big difference for Lowell. Scoreline is accurate, the one that was given up was disappointing.
 
game far from over, don't like going full D for 20 minutes, penalty plus a 6x4 makes it 5-2... if they pull the goalie. Lowell's ENG strategy is a pure shell, you can't play 8 minutes like that if that's what happens
 
empty net 8 to go, ain't going to say I told you so... because we aren't going to give up 4 goals this way, christ, are you mad? 3 i could see happen if we can't get our changes.

edit: color guy openly hoping we give in... Fuck you.

edit #2: spelling, might have had a couple. This color guy is embarrassing.
 
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Came out of the gate juiced and that set the tone for the rest of the game. Sweet revenge. Listened to Bob Ellis, much better than the TV crew. He is such a fan of the game, he even gets excited when the other team scores or makes a great play. I thought he said last year was going to be his last but decided to he didn't want to end it with a covid shortened season. Hope he sticks around for a couple more seasons, he's a joy to listen to. To the Garden!
 
Anyone know what the UML sections are at the Garden? Was great to see Lowell skating around with a chip on their shoulder last night. Looked like the first half team.
 
It is hard to believe this is the first time back to the Garden for this team since 2017. Understood they would have been there last year, still hard to believe how quickly time flies. Happy for the kids to get the opportunity to play there.

On a side note, my daughter transferred to UML from a southern school and has fully embraced this team and going to the games. She absolutely loves it. Selfishly I love the fact that I have someone to talk intelligently during the game. For example last night at the game, just before Merrimack cut the lead 2-1, my wife asked me if this was the Beanpot. That made my head hurt, although I admired her effort to try and become engaged. OTOH, my daughter was able to spot the defensive breakdown that led to the goal.

And one more side note - this is an incredible year for NU Husky hockey with the women's team punching their ticket to the Frozen Four and men's team with a chance to win their second HE championship in four years.
 
It was a fairly late arriving crowd. We had a few merrimack fans a couple of rows in front of us. I yelled out after the first penalty (after the same ref mossed to blatant calls on merrrimack) good to see its 9 on 5 again... nothing really changes huh. The woman (who mustve been a players mother) looked back at me... i go im not wrong
 
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