Chuck, that incident was only a few months after the Red Wings-Avalanche brawl. Perhaps Guite and Mowers could star in a New England version of Unrivaled. Probably wouldn't be as good as the Tri City Dodge commercial, though.
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UNH Men’s Hockey 22-23: the start of something new, or more of the same?
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Chuck, that incident was only a few months after the Red Wings-Avalanche brawl. Perhaps Guite and Mowers could star in a New England version of Unrivaled. Probably wouldn't be as good as the Tri City Dodge commercial, though.
Chuck Murray
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You see, it's things like this that you don't get anywhere else.
FWIW I'll betcha UNH sneaks a point or two out of the BU weekend. BU will be overconfident, and it will bite 'em.
HockeyRef
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That would be fun...we have beaten them here...rare but we have.
UnH last swept BU in what season?
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Doubt that I ever will get back to Libby’s to collect my trivia quiz winnings, but the last time we beat BU at the Whitt was 4-3 on 14 February 2015, and last time we won at Agganis was 3-1 on 17 Feb 2014, which completed our last sweep as we won 4-3 at the Whitt three nights earlier.
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d.gerry
Five for Fighting
And then… the inevitable.
d.gerry
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Wasn’t at the game, had a going away party for a family member heading to Parris Island on Monday for Marine Corp boot camp, Oorah! Looks like the game had a bit of excitement, but alas a late game collapse squashed any hope of an upset (even a tie would qualify as an upset). Anyone at the game see any positives that can be taken from tonight?
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Good effort tonight, played BU pretty even for 50 minutes.
Hard to argue the spearing call, but still not sure how the refs, who seemingly loved to match 'em up all night, missed the blatant cross check in front of the net that led in to it.
If UNH was able to regularly output the effort that they did tonight they would have a much better record this season.
Hard to argue the spearing call, but still not sure how the refs, who seemingly loved to match 'em up all night, missed the blatant cross check in front of the net that led in to it.
If UNH was able to regularly output the effort that they did tonight they would have a much better record this season.
HockeyRef
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Exactly what Mr. Hr said...the intensity was definitely there. Cant deny we were knocking. Despite the score perhpas this game teaches them about giving a full effort. Excellent points C9...
Also think BU may have been looking past us but did their thing to win in the end. At least....wasnt a blow out. How 'bout that shortie?!?
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I had 6-2, HR had 6-1 so I guess I win. I was upstairs for the 5-minute penalty but I will take that intensity over complacency all day. There were a lot of penalties tonight that were suspect at best.
anyone who wants to go to Agganis tomorrow hit me I up, I have an extra ticket to give away.
So based on MS7 having another year this is why Rob and Liam will leave. They do not want their last year to be in this mess.
Question of the night, we celebrated Friends of Ski Team who as in the UNH box, but we can't have a Friends of UNH hockey?
HockeyRef
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Yes I saw/heard that FOSkiing...what's up with that? Maybe Darius has insight. Anyway, aren't Cronin and Devlin sophomores? Regardless the thought of players jumping ship does kind of
unnerve me. Agree; after a so so first we picked it up and got 3 but as Chuck likes to say, good teams find a way to win and bad teams....BUT...I was encouraged we gave them a game.
What's up with Commesso? Is he injured? Didn't see him on the line sheet...
Wonder if Fess is going to get a game suspension for his spearing penalty...
HockeyRef
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He definitely is a bright spot! His second goal was a beautiful snipe and I was bummed I didn't have a hat to throw just in case...he scored a third.
Ans to my q about the last time we swept BU was in 2013-14 season. David Quinns first year with the team, pre Eichel (who came in the next season and of course the rest is history with a Bean Pot W and a FFour runner up trophy. Top of my head can't remember if BU was HE champs that season (thinking UML was?) or not too tired / lazy to look. In my tenure as a fan I've only seen one W and one tie at the Agganis (Snively you and I sat together at that game we tied and would like to add we were up like 3 to zip think the game ended 4-4). Like I said we typically play them better at home so tomorrow night kind of scares me as I'm sure adjustments will be made. Hope the 'Cats bring the fight they brought tonight...and can sustain it.
PullTheGoalie
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Commesso was sick. Not sure if he's available tomorrow.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Fessenden was channeling his inner Billy Smith or Ron Hextall on that one. Agree 100% that the preceding incident was inexplicably ignored, and that's what likely spurred Fessenden to "do his thing". But in these days of video replay, you can't jeopardize yourself or your team with that and hope to get away with it. Still think that all things considered, it should have been matching minors, but when you are a losing program, you're never going to get that kind of respect. I didn't see what MS7's reaction was, but I can tellya, only Jack Parker could lose his sh!t on a par with Dick Umile to shame the refs into cutting things a little more closely to even-up on something like that.
Another "officiating" issue that annoyed the crap outta me ... the first BU goal couldn't have been any clearer to have been in and out of the net, yet the whole crew misses it, and it takes 3+ minutes to go back and confirm it??? Why do we not have goal judges any more? Was the cost of the exercise SO onerous that in this world of endless bureaucracy, we decide to draw the line on excess overhead at a $50-per-night goal judge??
Finally ... the winning BU goal gets scored because UNH's Muselik is crouched down so low at the near side post that he opens himself up to have the back of his head/shoulders exposed to a "bank shot" from at or behind the red line. I hate the frickin' technique SO much, I can't even begin to tolerate it. I mean, kudos to the BU kid for recognizing the opportunity, and cynically but opportunistically hitting the target square on. But it's a goal you would never have seen in hockey until the last decade or so with the teaching of the position from the "on the knees" default. It's unathletic, it's ugly, and you need to raise the crossbar another 6"-12" to eradicate the blight from the game. JMHO.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Regarding my earlier prediction ... tonight was the night for UNH to spring the trap and get a point or two (or whatever points you get for a tie through regulation these days) ... tomorrow night, BU strolls home 6-1, and then it's 5 out of 6 non-conference games on the overlap of 2022 into 2023. Tomorrow night is shaping up to be loss #10 in a row, and then ASU (8-8-0) will have a chance to make it an even dozen before the break.
Coach Souza, please resign.
Coach Souza, please resign.
I only brought it up in the first place because someone said (and I paraphrase because I don't feel like going back to get the exact quote) "What's it like being cancelled by a BU fan?" But it wasn't I who did the cancelling...otherwise I would have said nothing (which I will be sure to do from now on).
My comment on the game: This is the first time I have seen UNH this year and I am CERTAINLY not going to offer an opinion on the MS7 tenure. To my eyes, if UNH played with the same intensity and effort every night as they did last night, one would think they would have a better record. Of course (and as I BU fan all I have to do is go back to the "Albie years"), we also realize that part of coaching is to try to ensure that a team DOES maintain a more consistent level of performance. Great coaches emphasize that all the time...some coaches believe they should just be able to write out the lineup card and everything else will take care of itself.
HockeyRef
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Watched part of the replay last night and Souza was not happy...gave the official an earful I mean he was just BS. At least we survived the 5 min major with only one goal scored. As per that first goal even I could see it from our seats we were just waitung for the next stoppage of play...
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