Re: Yale Hockey 2010-2011 thread
Another good game by Little tonight, he seems to be rerieving his scoring touch at just the right time. Yale only really broke down for a few minutes in the second period, Rondeau played well and the second goal was very fluky on a fluttering deflection, the forechecking was the game changer tonight, Yales tenacity obviously frustrated slu which led to a bunch of stupid penalties by the saints. VERY chippy game with a lot of head shots by slu, that said two slu players were injurted and had to leave the game due to hard hits. Should be a rough one on Synday.
For the last two years I have sung the praises of the Ylae hockey team....raved about their skill, passing, offense and although an SLU fan I have cheered for them when not playing us and in particular cheered for them when they have played out of conference and in the NCAA Tournament. I will not cheer for them again.
I have played nice on this thread and I do not care what you say, how you respond, what name calling you resort to, or what arguments you might pose......but by your above post you have proven you know little to nothing about the sport of hockey. You have perhaps one fact correct in that Yale's forecheck and tenacity made a difference. The rest of your post is poppycock and totally inaccurate.
Ylae's tenacity did not frustrate the Saints. What frustrated the Saints was one of the worst officiating jobs I have seen. Whittemore and Ritchey let the game get totally out of control. Whittemore in particular is incompetent and shouldn't be allowed to referee a Squirts game let alone an ECAC Playoff game.
He let call after call slide........he missed a call on us when we hit a Ylae player on an icing who was no where near the puck. The first "Interference" call he makes on us Child has his back to a Ylae player who runs up his back and Child gets called for Interference. With the score 2-1....a Ylae player pitchforked our D-Man in the corner who had the puck, he calls nothing and on the same play Ylae scores to go up 3-1 when instead they should have been down a man.
The most egregious non call was the hit on Justin Baker. Baker should have had his head up but he was engaged/tangled with a Ylae player and in comes in another Ylae player (might have been Ziegler) with a vicsious knee on knee hit sent Baker to the hospital with what is likely a broken fibula. What should have been a major penalty of 5 minutes and nothing is called. (Hard hit my as_, try dirty hit)
As to the game, Ylae buried their chances tonight and when they had the opportunities they capitalized. On the other hand unlike last night (although the scoreboard didn't reflect it) I felt the play was much more even.
As to what
REALLY happened at the game. SLU knows that Ylae is more talented and although we can skate with them, in order for us to have a chance we have to take Ylae off their game, play physical, check like crazy and hope for a few breaks. What happened is that Ylae does not like to be hit and they (like any team should or would) responded in kind and Whittemore did nothing to control the play.
What I did not care for was the constant "yapping" and complaining by Ylae's players......the worst of which were Little, Martin and Allain. Kearney was diving so much Whittemore should be equipped with cards to rate them..........say 9.5!!!! I have never seen such poor sportsmanship and such whining and complaining as shown by Ylae tonight. Tonight I lost all respect for the Ylae team.
We all see what we want to see and we all are partisan.....me for SLU and you for Ylae......but your post bears no resemblance to the veracity of what transpired tonight. Was SLU guiltless?? Of course not but just because SLU played physical does not mean they played dirty.
And lastly I am rapidly losing respect for Allain. Besides his screaming at the officials and his coaches yapping all night long, now after both games..........our coach who is literally hobbling around in pain walked out on the ice towards the Ylae bench to shake hands.......for two nights in a row.....Allain acknowledges with a nod or a wave and leaves the bench to the locker room. It is no wonder Allain is quickly approaching Pecknold status in his likeability factor and sportsmanship.
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