I totally understood what you were saying. I was responding to hockeyRef’s Facebook comment.
You were right all along
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UNH Wildcats 2018-2019: Souza the Opportunity or Louza the Opportunity
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I totally understood what you were saying. I was responding to hockeyRef’s Facebook comment.
You were right all along
Greg Ambrose
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d.gerry
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No worries, guess I misunderstood where you were going with your comment.
Re: UNH Wildcats 2018-2019: Souza the Opportunity or Louza the Opportunity
UNH as they became tired reverted to trying to jam the puck up the boards to clear the zone. Maine D we're sitting in zone waiting.
There have been times this year where UNH plays a 3 man game with a short pass coming off the wall into faceoff dot and a cleaner escape from the zone.
In the 3rd there was just too much scrambling and scaling the puck around.
UNH as they became tired reverted to trying to jam the puck up the boards to clear the zone. Maine D we're sitting in zone waiting.
There have been times this year where UNH plays a 3 man game with a short pass coming off the wall into faceoff dot and a cleaner escape from the zone.
In the 3rd there was just too much scrambling and scaling the puck around.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Re: UNH Wildcats 2018-2019: Souza the Opportunity or Louza the Opportunity
Let's not forget … this is NOT a veteran team, nor is it a team that's used to winning games at this level. There are going to be hiccups and learning experiences - for players and coaches alike. Also, it's natural that a team that's two goals down (or really, any goals down within reach) is going to play with more attacking urgency, and a team with a two goal lead might think a little more defensively. To the trailing team, there is nothing to be lost if you open up, get burned, and lose by 5 goals. You still lose, so you take that chance to try to get level, and then you try to win the game. It's one of the reasons why SOG's are the mostly meaningless stats they are. UNH never trailed last night, yet UMaine led in shots, by quite a bit. Irrelevant, again.
UMaine just had one of those nights where they had to gamble, and managed to get level. Did UNH's tactics contribute to that? Some knowledgeable posters say it did. I can't say, since I wasn't there - I listened on the radio on my way back from Hartford. But UMaine probably spent themselves doing just that, and had nothing left after. And UNH won in OT, which is all that matters. Ironically, they won it off an O-zone faceoff, which has been a huge focus of past complaints against the last coach and his staff.
UNH is 3 points out of home ice for the QF round. Win tonight, UNH is due for a feature write up on USCHO, sellout crowds are back at The Whitt, and suddenly and unbelievably, MS7 may even be pushing Coach Carvel for Penrose and HE COTY honors.
Gildon may have a reason to stick around, and many others now have a reason to come to Durham.
It's still early days, but what's not to get excited about?
Let's not forget … this is NOT a veteran team, nor is it a team that's used to winning games at this level. There are going to be hiccups and learning experiences - for players and coaches alike. Also, it's natural that a team that's two goals down (or really, any goals down within reach) is going to play with more attacking urgency, and a team with a two goal lead might think a little more defensively. To the trailing team, there is nothing to be lost if you open up, get burned, and lose by 5 goals. You still lose, so you take that chance to try to get level, and then you try to win the game. It's one of the reasons why SOG's are the mostly meaningless stats they are. UNH never trailed last night, yet UMaine led in shots, by quite a bit. Irrelevant, again.
UMaine just had one of those nights where they had to gamble, and managed to get level. Did UNH's tactics contribute to that? Some knowledgeable posters say it did. I can't say, since I wasn't there - I listened on the radio on my way back from Hartford. But UMaine probably spent themselves doing just that, and had nothing left after. And UNH won in OT, which is all that matters. Ironically, they won it off an O-zone faceoff, which has been a huge focus of past complaints against the last coach and his staff.
UNH is 3 points out of home ice for the QF round. Win tonight, UNH is due for a feature write up on USCHO, sellout crowds are back at The Whitt, and suddenly and unbelievably, MS7 may even be pushing Coach Carvel for Penrose and HE COTY honors.
Gildon may have a reason to stick around, and many others now have a reason to come to Durham.
It's still early days, but what's not to get excited about?
Re: UNH Wildcats 2018-2019: Souza the Opportunity or Louza the Opportunity
Chuck,
No disagreement here. Maine did push and I don't think UNH had the best response. My hope and my point is that a 3-2 OT win should be a learning experience, probably more for the coach than the players...
It was a very nice offensive zone faceoff win and play in OT. Something I don't recall Umile teams doing often.
Chuck,
No disagreement here. Maine did push and I don't think UNH had the best response. My hope and my point is that a 3-2 OT win should be a learning experience, probably more for the coach than the players...
It was a very nice offensive zone faceoff win and play in OT. Something I don't recall Umile teams doing often.
Hey, it really is a sell out; no joke. When was the last one?
I am in front of ticket windows hobknobbing.
Responding mainly to the discussion about last night...
I think far too often we forget that there is another NCAA DI team on the other side of the ice. UNH is not notably better than Maine - as evidenced by two previous OT games.
UNH came from two behind in the first meeting and Maine came from behind by a pair last night. Yesterday, was as much a Maine push as it was a UNH lapse.
This is the type of stuff that happens between two evenly matched opponents - and it could absolutely happen again tonight...
Nice mojo, Ref!!
HockeyRef
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That line had an excellent shift lots of chances...welp let’s see what we can do in the third!
They’ve had multiple strong shifts tonight. No complaints
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