Yale Bulldogs Hockey 2011 -2012

[klumpmypants]

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How professional can you actually be if you use the description "whiny a$%hole" to describe Yale's sports information director? You lost my sympathy once I read that.

Wish I never had it in the first place if you're that gutless. Is it because he's a sports information director that he's not a "whiny a$%hole" or because he's from Yale? I must have missed when sports information directors became infallible. Pope Steve I is he?

 

[Wholin1]

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Color me shocked. An arrogant Yale coach (and SID)? Maybe they're taking another look at his Rhodes Scholar application.

 

[LTsatch]

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Sssooooo... what do you guys think about the upcoming weekend, Quinnipiac has been strong lately and it should be a close game, we need to beat Princeton and start the second half well.

 

[LTsatch]

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Yale Bentley video, Agostino's goal was very cool

http://www.ecachockey.com/men/video/2011-12/20120101_Yale_Bentley-desktop.flv

 

[Yale84]

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FYI, the Yale ticket office has tickets for the Quinnipiac away game on February 25 (the last regular season game) - otherwise, it's sold out.

Looking forward to the weekend. May some of the momentum from the Bentley game carry over!

 

[cornellgradyalefan]

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Sssooooo... what do you guys think about the upcoming weekend, Quinnipiac has been strong lately and it should be a close game, we need to beat Princeton and start the second half well.

Yes, lets get back to hockey. I think the Bulldogs are primed to sweep this weekend series. Lets not forget they blitzed Union on the road way back in November before they lost focus. Since focus seems to be back and their talent is better than either QU or PU I am predicting sweep.

 

[LTsatch]

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FYI, the Yale ticket office has tickets for the Quinnipiac away game on February 25 (the last regular season game) - otherwise, it's sold out.

Looking forward to the weekend. May some of the momentum from the Bentley game carry over!

Thanks for the heads up about the last game! I picked up two tix today and they still had a two inch deep handful of them. I was a little disappointed then while searching for a good seat that the allotment did not have any seats higher than row four in any of the four sections which were given to Yale. I absolutely hate sitting behind the glass at rinkside, I don't mind in the corners or at the ends. I asked about the ticket status of the QU game this weekend and there is now standing room only left.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Quinnipiac has been strong lately and it should be a close game.

The break wasn't kind to us as we saw against UNO last weekend. Hopefully they'll find a way to get their game face on before the puck drops at Ingalls tomorrow night.

Since focus seems to be back and their talent is better than either QU or PU I am predicting sweep.

Obviously I don't agree with your assessment of Yale's talent being better than QU's. I would say we're more evenly matched than we have been in a couple of years. The key will lie in which Bobcat team comes out of the locker room. I'm cautiously optimistic about our chances against the Bulldogs.

 

[LTsatch]

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The key will lie in which Bobcat team comes out of the locker room.

The key will be which Yale team comes out of the locker room as well. Not much consistency across the board in the ECAC except for Cornell and RPI.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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The key will lie in which Bobcat team comes out of the locker room.

The key will be which Yale team comes out of the locker room as well.

I'm not sure either team was at their best tonight but we managed to be a little bit better when we needed to. To be honest, I thought Yale looked sloppy for large parts of the game. They had some great spurts but nothing really sustained. I thought there'd be more scoring on both sides but at the end of the night we had enough for the the W.

 

[TimV]

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Not much consistency across the board in the ECAC except for Cornell and RPI.

Actually, RPI played great tonight- played with the passion Appert asked for, and but for a bounce here and there almost beat Dartmouth. RPI will get well sooner or later and I hope it's not against my team.

 

[LTsatch]

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I'm not sure either team was at their best tonight but we managed to be a little bit better when we needed to. To be honest, I thought Yale looked sloppy for large parts of the game. They had some great spurts but nothing really sustained. I thought there'd be more scoring on both sides but at the end of the night we had enough for the the W.

I did not see the first period, but the second period was the worst period that Yale has played all season. They were lucky to be in the game at the end. Actually if not for the goalposts it would have been a higher scoring game. QU was bigger and just as fast as Yale, I don't know what Allain said to his team in the locker between the second and third, but it was like night and day for Yale, if not for Hartznell Yale comes out on top.

 

[klumpmypants]

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I did not see the first period, but the second period was the worst period that Yale has played all season. They were lucky to be in the game at the end. Actually if not for the goalposts it would have been a higher scoring game. QU was bigger and just as fast as Yale, I don't know what Allain said to his team in the locker between the second and third, but it was like night and day for Yale, if not for Hartznell Yale comes out on top.

Pretty sure at least one of those periods against SHU had to be worse than last night. Yale played better in the 2nd than the 1st. They were pretty good for first half of the 3rd, then became slop city again. Would definitely not call it night and day. Trying to characterize Hartzell as the difference in the game is not accurate. Malcolm made more top notch saves than Hartzell did, many in the 1st though.

Bottom line is that Yale really has no legit consistent threat outside O'Neill, Miller, and Agostino. If Allain is going to put all his eggs in one basket (which is to say all on 1st line), they are going to have to score way more than 1 goal a game and none at 5x5.

Neither team brought a lot to the table offensively, but QU was missing more with Bouharevich, Goodman, and Dunbar all gone compared to just Root for Yale. Defense and goaltending solid both ways.

Not a horribly officiated game as they let them play through a lot, but after QU got the first 3 PPs, it was so predictable that the refs were going to just even it up the rest of the way with 3 Yale PPs. That is absolutely why Pecknold called the timeout late in the 2nd, because he knew he needed to take 2-goal lead to the 3rd.

 

[LTsatch]

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Pretty sure at least one of those periods against SHU had to be worse than last night. Yale played better in the 2nd than the 1st. They were pretty good for first half of the 3rd, then became slop city again. Would definitely not call it night and day. Trying to characterize Hartzell as the difference in the game is not accurate. Malcolm made more top notch saves than Hartzell did, many in the 1st though.

Bottom line is that Yale really has no legit consistent threat outside O'Neill, Miller, and Agostino. If Allain is going to put all his eggs in one basket (which is to say all on 1st line), they are going to have to score way more than 1 goal a game and none at 5x5.

Neither team brought a lot to the table offensively, but QU was missing more with Bouharevich, Goodman, and Dunbar all gone compared to just Root for Yale. Defense and goaltending solid both ways.

Not a horribly officiated game as they let them play through a lot, but after QU got the first 3 PPs, it was so predictable that the refs were going to just even it up the rest of the way with 3 Yale PPs. That is absolutely why Pecknold called the timeout late in the 2nd, because he knew he needed to take 2-goal lead to the 3rd.

Miller looks lost out there, although he is a great passer his linemates are not returning the favor. Yale was also missing Otto on the forecheck. I think Langanierre has played well in spurts also. I agree on the defense QU blocked the lanes and shots exceptionally well.

 

[Yalewhaler]

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The team is just not consistent and it was evident last night. The first period was decent, the second was dreadful, and QU could not get the puck out of their end for the 3rd other than just throwing it off the glass. I thought the defense played much better than they have recently and 21, 2, and 5 were rocks last night. Some of the younger or smaller d-men were pushed around by Qpac at times. Hartzell played extremely well in the third (his glove hand is very good) but the Yale players missed the net WAY too much. I disagree with Klumpy as the whole third period Yale dominated. Qpacs only chances were shots from just inside the blue line off the rush. The last 5 minutes of the game Qpac was scrambling in their own zone to block shots (and they did a decent job of it).

I think this Yale team is close to being a very good squad (every loss other than cornell is a one goal loss or two goal due to empty netter). With that said, this team needs to figure it out soon because unless they virtually run the table, they will need to win the tournament in order to get to the NCAAs. No team will want to be matched up against Yale come late March though, that is for sure.

 

[Yalewhaler]

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Sorry for break up, but also I think Miller looks lost out there but for different reasons then LT mentions. He is passing up way too many shots for passes that are not there and is holding on to the puck way too long. Lags is a man amongst boys out there but needs to be more consistent in his efforts as last night he just was not making the plays as he has in previous games. His combination of size and skill should dominate this league.

 

[LTsatch]

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Yale actually played three very good periods in a row tonight, they beat Princeton to just about every puck , won the corner battles and just basically physically harrassed the Tigers. Miller played very well with two assists, and many great chances to score. The Princeton coach took one out the Allain playbook and pulled his goalie when they had a 5 on 4 with 15 minutes and down 4-1. The ploy worked with a PP goal as the result. Yale answered immediately. The whole team gave a consistent effort across the board and the 6-2 final was their reward.

 

[Yale84]

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So what was the deal with Allain pulling Malcolm for a man advantage in the 3d when we were already up 5-2? An opportunity to practice?

 

[LTsatch]

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So what was the deal with Allain pulling Malcolm for a man advantage in the 3d when we were already up 5-2? An opportunity to practice?

I did not see that, if you were reading my score thread, i was referring to Allain pulling the goalie for a 6 on 4 advantage 3 or 4 years ago against SLU when they were down 4-1 with 15 minutes left in the game I think, Yale eventually came back and won that game. Princeton'
s coach pulled the goalie for a six on four in basically the same situation last night, he actually did it wice, the first time they scored the second resulted in a Yale ENG.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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I disagree with Klumpy as the whole third period Yale dominated. Qpacs only chances were shots from just inside the blue line off the rush. The last 5 minutes of the game Qpac was scrambling in their own zone to block shots (and they did a decent job of it).

Of course they were low-quality shots from just inside the blue line. That's Rand Pecknold's patented protect-the-lead-in-the-3rd-period prevent defense. We didn't need to score, you did. And most of that scrambling you're talking about was in the last minute when Yale was finally able to get Malcolm to the bench for the extra attacker. Prior to that, our forecheck was brilliant and easily kept the Bulldogs pinned deep for an extra minute or so. It looked to me that Allain wanted to yank Malcolm just prior to the 2 minute mark but Yale couldn't gain and maintain possession. Spencer Heichmann almost single-handedly kept the puck pinned behind the goal line for what seemed like an eternity, keeping Malcolm on the ice much longer than anyone wanted.

I stand by my earlier statement that Yale was as sloppy as I've ever seen them, especially over the last 2 seasons. I'd like to think that Q's game plan kept them at bay but since it was not our best effort by a big margin I have to think Yale's lack of execution cost them that game at least as much as any other factor.