What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

dpm105 said:
Thanks for all of the recommendations. Sounds like I will need to take it easy on Thanksgiving Dinner. :D

On a different note, I'm looking forward to being in the building to see Wayne Wilson coach against his son Stu. That's a winning family for sure, both having won a national title as players (in addition to a D3 + D1 Coach of the Year award for Wayne).
Click to expand...

As I mentioned on another thread, regardless of the outcome, it would be nice to see Yale start Stu to open the game. The pregame ceremonies and starting line announcements would be memorable for the Wilson family. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Downstate_RIT_Fan said:
As I mentioned on another thread, regardless of the outcome, it would be nice to see Yale start Stu to open the game. The pregame ceremonies and starting line announcements would be memorable for the Wilson family. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Click to expand...

Freshman Hitchcock has been centering the first line and beginning most games, it would be cool if Allain put Stu out there.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Pretty good game by Yale last night, Stu really wanted to score one against his father. I thought Hayden had a real good game, very strong on the puck. Spano wasn't tested much but did the job. The RIT goalie was very good, robbed Orzetti with a great glove save. Yale was lucky the 2 change-ups got past him.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

I attended the game and although Yale was clearly the more talented team, they did not pass the puck well at all and were absolutely horrible on the power play. Spano was good the few times he was tested and the defense played well in front of him. Hayden , Hitchcock and Biacco all had good games. Repensky, although small for a DMan, reminds me of Fallen and looks to have a bomb from the point. Yale is still missing that scoring output needed to beat the better teams, they can't rely on the defense every game.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Yale pretty clearly outplayed RIT, but was only able to score on a couple of freak chances. Will have to be able to convert if they want to succeed in the ECAC.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Welcome aboard, Dec 24th is the cut date, if Hayden makes team, he could miss possibly three games for Yale. Congrats to John!
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

CA_Seal said:
Yale 2011 grad here - long-time lurker, first-time poster. Following the Bulldogs from the Bay Area.

John Hayden named to the 30-man USA World Juniors selection camp roster: http://www.nhl.com/ice/blogpost.htm?id=34386
Click to expand...

Welcome to the board. I'm much more active in RPI threads, but I opine in here every once in a while when I have something worthwhile to say.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

A1RdRunner said:
Spano is on the US National JR team...so he'll be away until after Jan 1.
.
Click to expand...

Not even close. Hayden has an outside shot to make the final cut. I expect a couple of close hard hitting games this weekend, Yale needs another 4 point weekend to keep pace in the league and elsewhere.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

On the hardwood tonight, Yale beat the defending basketball National Champs - can they do the double tomorrow night on the ice?
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Left without a choice, watched last night's game on Ivy Digital. I watch a lot of broadcast hockey. Hundreds of games a year. The play-by-play and color analysis of Yale Hockey could be the worst I have ever heard at any level. It makes it hard to watch. This is the best the 2013 Nat'l Champs can do? Video is solid. Replays good. Audio ... brutal.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

The decision to have students do the audio on the Yale broadcasts is, indeed, somewhat idiosyncratic. But that's what they've done. At that point, criticism of nonprofessionals is a little uncharitable, it seems to me. I'm not saying your criticism is unfair, nopuckluck, so long as it is directed at the University, not at the announcers. (By the way, those of us watching the game over the Internet last night were a little distressed at the inability to keep the score properly updated on-screen, which I assume is a different nonprofessional issue.)
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

If you were watching on ILDN, why did you not just switch to the WRPI audio? Although the fans on the RPI score thread were also complaining about problems with that RPI student run audio feed. The boys on that thread actually thought one of our announcers was the highlight of the game, and the only reason to watch RPI.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Enough about student broadcasters and back to hockey. Yale played a decent game against a clearly shorthanded RPI squad. They allowed RPI to stay in the game by standing around while RPI cycled the corners. Union will not let them get away with this tonight. Lyon saved the teams bacon on numerous grade A RPI chances, with one open net save that I am still not sure how he managed to get a piece of. Yale continues to score by committee, nice to see Fallen get his first of the season. Yale email yesterday afternoon stated there were only SRO tickets left for this evening, not sure if that is still the case. Should be cool to see the last two NCAA champs head to head.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

nopuckluck said:
Left without a choice, watched last night's game on Ivy Digital. I watch a lot of broadcast hockey. Hundreds of games a year. The play-by-play and color analysis of Yale Hockey could be the worst I have ever heard at any level. It makes it hard to watch. This is the best the 2013 Nat'l Champs can do? Video is solid. Replays good. Audio ... brutal.
Click to expand...

Some replays for you ;) http://www.ecachockey.com/men/index
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

LT, I think Fallon also scored against Dartmouth.
Nice to see Izmirlian back. Almost getting healthy. Would be nice to get Day back in there. Not sure Weberg even has a spot when he gets healthy.
Not sure I like the 3 D on the first power play unit.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Boola said:
LT, I think Fallon also scored against Dartmouth.
Nice to see Izmirlian back. Almost getting healthy. Would be nice to get Day back in there. Not sure Weberg even has a spot when he gets healthy.
Not sure I like the 3 D on the first power play unit.
Click to expand...

Yeah I forgot about Fallens other goal. The power play has been a problem all season. They really do not get comfortable and set up a passing scheme during the PP. Tough to watch sometimes. I actually wondered if Weberg was a healthy scratch myself last night. Biaicco and Hitchcock are looking good. Freshman Repensky tried to take on a 6" 3" RPI guy last night after the guy flattened him on a rush, i admire his pluck, but the guy would have squashed him like a bug if he kept provoking him.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Yale got outworked and tired in the second, couple of stupid giveaways, end of story.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Have to disagree a little bit LT. Yes those 2 goals at the end of period 2 were the result of giveaways, but Union was far more effective offensively than Yale and the giveaways seemed inevitable given the amount of pressure that Union was applying with their forecheck. One the other end of the ice, Yale continues to struggle in putting several clean passes together to move the puck up ice and their power play is just dreadful. I think Yale's defense is solid but their lack of an effective forecheck is putting too much pressure on the back end. The offensive effort is there but the skill is lacking, particularly in comparison to the recent teams of the past.
 
Re: Yale Hockey 2014-2015. 138 miles to the ultimate goal.

Time for an extended holiday break and for some players to get healthy. Hopefully Santa will leave some scoring touch under Yale's tree. Likely to lose our leading scorer for the next 3 games as Haydon departs for World Junior tournament.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top