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  • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

    Suck it up tater, you have your own trolls to worry about

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    • Originally posted by BU Fan 84 View Post
      Yes. He can recruit and he can develop individual players but for anyone who has watched this team on a regular basis over the past couple years, it has become abundantly clear that he can't coach a team. Why should we be stuck with a guy who can't coach a team. Just because he recruits good players? The worst part about it is his quotes and post-game comments show how totally and completely clueless the guy is. He's literally a moron when it comes to being a head coach. He would be a great assistant coach. Hopefully he will settle for a demotion.
      He can recruit because he promises ice time with zero accountability...and the NHL teams know their boys are going to play regardless of whether they produce or not..the inmates run the asylum on this team...how you just roll McAvoy out again after that gong show penalty that cost you a goal says it all

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      • Originally posted by J.D. View Post
        Suck it up tater, you have your own trolls to worry about
        Nice win in the Beanpot Consolation.... oh wait.

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        • Originally posted by Tater
          Ignore JD the troll. His team is even worse than BU. That being said, BU'd season is over IMO.
          Oh there is more to the season?..thought it was over when BUSA won the little boys world championship

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          • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

            uh oh.

            boys fell to 5th in pwr now. #1 seed bye bye.
            a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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            • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

              Poor tater, the refs screwed BU

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              • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                uh oh.

                boys fell to 5th in pwr now. #1 seed bye bye.
                Bye bye Hockey East regular season title...Bye bye bean pot...Bye bye #1 seed....but nothing to worry about we beat BC
                We are just young and Harvard is so old...it's not fair

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                • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

                  Mookie what happens when you don't win the pot?

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                  • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

                    Originally posted by BUtogether View Post
                    Bye bye Hockey East regular season title...Bye bye bean pot...Bye bye #1 seed....but nothing to worry about we beat BC
                    only thing better is #3 seed igles beat #2 seed terriors icing on the cake
                    a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                    • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

                      Originally posted by J.D. View Post
                      Mookie what happens when you don't win the pot?
                      you don't win a NC
                      a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                      • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                        only thing better is #3 seed igles beat #2 seed terriors icing on the cake
                        And #1 seed skating Jasmine's win again? Hooray!!!
                        BS UMass Lowell 2015
                        PhD Georgia Institute of Technology 2020

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                        • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

                          The power play is horrible and yet he says it has nothing to do with hockey, it's all in their minds. We don't have to change a single thing on the ice. Umm ... ok, is he even watching the games he's supposedly coaching?

                          His entire offensive scheme is a joke. He preaches dump and suck and cycle the puck behind the net. We end up with three forwards standing around behind the goal line. Because that's where the goals are scored. When we pop the puck up front, no one is there. Our entire offense is cycle behind the net, then make a slow pass along the boards to the points for harmless slap shots from the d-men. Grade A scoring chances right there! There is no attempt to get the goalie and the defense moving north-south. We never have guys on the opposite door step waiting for tap-ins or rebounds. We never pass the puck from faceoff dot to faceoff dot to get wristers past a goalie trying to get back to the other post.

                          Even if we did those things, the forward lines have developed no chemistry over the course of the season because he is constantly changing the lines. Like almost every game, every line is different. I think he's finally settled on a Greenway-Keller-Carpenter line over the past ten games or so. Other than that, it is a total crapshoot every single night. In 14-15, he said the best thing he did was not coach the top line. This season, he has completely over-coached with this almost obsessive compulsion to switch line combos or use different players in different roles. It's really ruined any chance for them to have success.

                          We know the talent is there. The coaching staff has really let them down and it's a shame. The coaches are the ones who are supposed to be professional and I think they've been a complete and utter joke this season. Even going back to last year, the inconsistency is maddening.

                          You can go a little deeper too and look at individual decisions. He decides after the first Merrimack game that some changes need to be made. I think he unfairly picks MacLeod to sit the second game. Ok, he took some bad penalties, but so did several other players. McAvoy took the stupid major but nope, can't send him a message. Let's pick MacLeod, presumably because the PKers on the ice happened to let in goals on his rather than anyone else's. So MacLeod sits. Do you play the Dman with six assists in six games against Merrimack? No, of course not; that is literally a lay-up coaching decision and he can't do that right. The second Merrimack game, many players play the laziest, most disinterested games of their lives. McAvoy is the worst of the worst. Does he sit? Nope. What the hell was with his Patrick Curry obsession? He's not a first-line players; everyone knew that but it didn't stop Quinn from rolling him out there for a month anyway. Bellows showed he can in fact play hockey at a high level. But he can't seem to do it at BU. Whose fault is that? Special teams are a complete disaster at this point. The power play has been ****ing awful all season long and he has never managed to do anything with it, at all. That is the number one aspect of the game where coaching can play the biggest role. And it's the worst aspect of this team. How can you have four and a half months of coaching and still be running this power play out there? And for the love of god, please put the ****ing D-men at the points! How many times do our players miss the net by ten feet and have the puck roll along the boards and right out of the zone because we have one player on the blue line (in the center)??

                          What's the one aspect of the team that David Quinn has no influence over? Goaltending. And is it just a coincidence that the only place we are getting results is in net?

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                          • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                            you don't win a NC
                            NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP????? To quote Jim Mora..."Playoffs???"

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                            • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

                              I just think back to the 08-09 team. Our skating and passing abilities, combined with D-men swooping in from the points to the faceoff circles, really had opposing teams and goalies scrambling. It led to so many tic-tac-toe passing (as Bernie calls it) and easy shots, rebounds, or tap-ins. There's none of that happening under Quinn's possession first scheme. I think this style encourages harmless cycling and over-controlled puck management. Sometimes you gotta let things fly out there to get the D moving around to open things up. Now all an opponent has to do is have one guy behind the net and pack four guys in the grade A area and there's no hope of us scoring. Do grade A scoring chances get tracked anywhere? I'd like to see the kinds of numbers we are putting up in that category under this offense compared to Parker's offense. I know his offense wasn't great when we didn't have good offensive players, but it certainly worked well when we did have high caliber players.

                              My biggest concerns are first, whether Quinn is capable of recognizing the issues, and second, is he capable of making effective changes? It is too late for this season, but he is going to have to overhaul the system for next year, if not completely scrap it and come up with something new. Unfortunately we have no evidence that he is willing to change anything. If he isn't going to resign out of embarrassment, then is there anyone to tell him he has to change? Will the AD tell him to bring in an offensive-minded assistant coach? Someone to coach the PP?

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                              • Re: BU 2017 Season Thread II: Terriers rising

                                Originally posted by BU Fan 84 View Post
                                Will the AD tell him to bring in an offensive-minded assistant coach? Someone to coach the PP?
                                GQ hired the AD.... what are you smoking?
                                a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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