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UVM 2016-2017 Season: Go Cats Go!

jcarter7669 said:
We have a drop off nearly every season this time of year. My own personal opinion of this is as the season progresses other teams get better, while UVM seems to be stagnant through the season with very little improvement. It seems to me at least, Sneddon et al can recruit good players, they just don't make them better. The team doesn't develop chemistry and doesn't gel. Likely because they never have consistent lines. Unfortunately coach never seems to figure that out. How often did Gilligan switch up St Louis, Perrin, Ruid? He didn't, why because they worked good together, they anticipated each others positions and knew each others capabilities.

Sneddon would do well to learn the lesson that you put together solid lines and then keep them together.
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I have seen this said about players before from fans of many teams, in particular in regards to seniors.

One of the issues in this era is good young players never reach senior year, they leave early. Players brought in at a later age by end of sophomore year are what they are, by and large they aren't going to have long illustrious pro careers

UVM is the 7th oldest team in NCAA. Counter that BU, BC, and ND are the 3 youngest and Providence 9th youngest. They have the highest ceiling to grow as season progresses so logically the reverse affects the older teams

Hockey East in general is young. UVM is 19 places ahead of the next oldest HEA team in national average. That team is UMass so do we need to say more
 
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Silver lining......

Much better on Face-Offs last night.....

We got better or UNH is not good.....

Go Cats Go!
 
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cavbim said:
I have seen this said about players before from fans of many teams, in particular in regards to seniors.

One of the issues in this era is good young players never reach senior year, they leave early. Players brought in at a later age by end of sophomore year are what they are, by and large they aren't going to have long illustrious pro careers

UVM is the 7th oldest team in NCAA. Counter that BU, BC, and ND are the 3 youngest and Providence 9th youngest. They have the highest ceiling to grow as season progresses so logically the reverse affects the older teams

Hockey East in general is young. UVM is 19 places ahead of the next oldest HEA team in national average. That team is UMass so do we need to say more
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I think this is certainly true to a point, but I don't think it accounts for more then 50%. The team doesn't progress, it doesn't develop any real synergy. The 4th line always ends up being the best line at the end of the year... why is that? Perhaps because that line stays consistent throughout the entire season for the most part.
 
GreenCat said:
Critical win.
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Surprised to see Abramson back in the lineup but he added some needed menace on the back end. Lekkas still not up to where he was at the start of the year. When is Santa ready to come back?
Defence was more effective with O'Donnell sitting. Phillips played well and even Muscoby was steady.
Need a big effort from Abramson and Hamilton against BC.
 
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The officiating was ... interesting. And by interesting, I mean bad. The first penalty called against UVM was especially bad, they were hit 3 or 4 times after the whistle by the UNH players while the ref's were watching, and literally the first time they raised their hands to defend themselves they got called off. I heard Sneddon screaming at them from ice level after the elbowing call. What amazed me though was the charging call. Charging is a penalty for taking more than 2 steps into a check, or for leaving your feet as you deliver it. Shaw was gliding into the hit and stayed stationary. I just don't understand hockey Hockey East officials can continue to call that a penalty for hitting too hard. They have been consistent to be fair over the years, and Shaw should have known they were going to call that, but it doesn't mean it is a penalty.
 
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I agree with the Charging call issue. Hockey East refs have always called a hard hit charging. They don't seem to understand that you can lay a hard hit cleanly. It is unfortunate that the best league in the NCAA has some of the worst officiating. I love being a member of HE for every reason except the officiating, which is and always has been horrendous. It's not like there is one or two bad officials, it's pretty much all of them.
 
jcarter7669 said:
I agree with the Charging call issue. Hockey East refs have always called a hard hit charging. They don't seem to understand that you can lay a hard hit cleanly. It is unfortunate that the best league in the NCAA has some of the worst officiating. I love being a member of HE for every reason except the officiating, which is and always has been horrendous. It's not like there is one or two bad officials, it's pretty much all of them.
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You can blame the refs but you have to blame the league. The NCAA has long struggled with the contrast between its notion of being a pure league playing hockey without a hint of violence and a feeder for pro hockey. Check the long standing debates over wearing cages versus shields.
 
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Hoser said:
You can blame the refs but you have to blame the league. The NCAA has long struggled with the contrast between its notion of being a pure league playing hockey without a hint of violence and a feeder for pro hockey. Check the long standing debates over wearing cages versus shields.
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But it's not NCAA wide... sure there is a level of contact that is unacceptable at this level, but that doesn't mean that HE has to sissify it further... which they do. So I blame both the refs and the league.
 
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O'Donnell replacing Moriarty, a move I agree with (Felt like Moriarty was hemmed in his own zone all weekend last weekend). Only change. Santa still out.
 
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VTALUM said:
Good to see Mr. Sneddon has the boys peaking at juuuuuust the right time yet again! AD....let's think about giving coach a raise?
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I feel like at this point Schulman is getting tired of coaching searches lol. Four in not even a year at the helm.
 
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TovarishchLisa said:
I feel like at this point Schulman is getting tired of coaching searches lol. Four in not even a year at the helm.
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Good opportunity to thank TovarishchLisa for the great updates, especially on the recruiting thread. Not sure how you gather all the info, but it's fun to read! Vlad D....the "Russian Rocket" looks like a real D1 player.
 
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VTALUM said:
Good opportunity to thank TovarishchLisa for the great updates, especially on the recruiting thread. Not sure how you gather all the info, but it's fun to read! Vlad D....the "Russian Rocket" looks like a real D1 player.
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I just get the info off the respective leagues' websites for the recruitment thread haha

And yeah, I feel like I'm gonna spend the next couple years teaching people how to spell/pronounce "Dzhioshvili" but that kid is bloody good. (His brother plays pro in Russia, FWIW)
 
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TovarishchLisa said:
I just get the info off the respective leagues' websites for the recruitment thread haha

And yeah, I feel like I'm gonna spend the next couple years teaching people how to spell/pronounce "Dzhioshvili" but that kid is bloody good. (His brother plays pro in Russia, FWIW)
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Joe shuh fee lee? The kid posts his own goal highlights on his Twitter page; doesn't seem shy or meek ha
 
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VTALUM said:
Joe shuh fee lee? The kid posts his own goal highlights on his Twitter page; doesn't seem shy or meek ha
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JEE-osh-vee-lee. Like the "g"s in "George". I'm a Russian minor.

Also, this women's game has turned into a track meet. Feel like we just went 10 minutes without a whistle
 
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