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Re: CWHL News
BU played a depleted Blades team on Saturday at 3 at Walter Brown. The Blades roster has been posted, but the Blades who showed up to play were a different group of people: quite apart from Stack, Buesser and Schaus who weren't even on the roster, this weekend we were also missing Potter, Lamoreaux, Decker, Marvin and Bolden. The Blades were faster and stronger than BU, but BU were much better coordinated. The Blades defense in particular was ragged and showed signs of not having played together much before hand; there was virtually no visible coordination between defensemen and at times they seemed to be playing the unorthodox 3-1-1 formation. Meanwhile, the Poulin-Lefort-Sutherland line in particular was very effective at getting to the net, with BU outshooting the Blades 35-24, including 18-5 in the middle period. What pulled it out for the Blades was (a) a line switchup going into the third period, putting Dempsey on the wing on Knight's line rather than centering a line of her own, which quickly led to a go-ahead goal at 4:33 of the third; and (b) some poor choices from Erin O'Neil as goalie in the second half of the game, including being much too far out on Llanes's GWG.
Bach for BU looked very good, and it was nice to see Megan Myers, formerly of D3 Utica, get significant ice time and score a goal for the Blades.
This version of the Blades will have a hard time competing against a Toronto with Bozek and Terry. Hopefully some of the MIA crew will come back for the regular season.
BU played a depleted Blades team on Saturday at 3 at Walter Brown. The Blades roster has been posted, but the Blades who showed up to play were a different group of people: quite apart from Stack, Buesser and Schaus who weren't even on the roster, this weekend we were also missing Potter, Lamoreaux, Decker, Marvin and Bolden. The Blades were faster and stronger than BU, but BU were much better coordinated. The Blades defense in particular was ragged and showed signs of not having played together much before hand; there was virtually no visible coordination between defensemen and at times they seemed to be playing the unorthodox 3-1-1 formation. Meanwhile, the Poulin-Lefort-Sutherland line in particular was very effective at getting to the net, with BU outshooting the Blades 35-24, including 18-5 in the middle period. What pulled it out for the Blades was (a) a line switchup going into the third period, putting Dempsey on the wing on Knight's line rather than centering a line of her own, which quickly led to a go-ahead goal at 4:33 of the third; and (b) some poor choices from Erin O'Neil as goalie in the second half of the game, including being much too far out on Llanes's GWG.
Bach for BU looked very good, and it was nice to see Megan Myers, formerly of D3 Utica, get significant ice time and score a goal for the Blades.
This version of the Blades will have a hard time competing against a Toronto with Bozek and Terry. Hopefully some of the MIA crew will come back for the regular season.
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