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Re: UNH Wildcats 2017-2018 Season - The Quest Continues
Hey Chuck, this is what you wrote following the BC game a couple of months back:
"Just to elaborate a little further on last night's game (caught it on ESPN3 on my way back from vacation) ... it seemed UNH's offense was choppy and at times accidental. That can sometimes be classified as opportunistic, or arise from some tough checking that forces giveaways in key areas of the ice. Their two goals were very nice, but once you got past that ... really, not too much in the way of quality chances. Even the BvR breakaway (second period IIRC?) never looked like he had a chance. And of course the Woll save in the 3rd was a fluky break on a weird bounce coming out of the corner. Nazarian should have buried it, but it looked like he was almost too careful just to get it on net, and didn't think Woll would have a chance to get back in position. Oh well ... easy come, easy go, I suppose.
I guess for me, it always just felt like BC had more attacking flow more consistently. It's not like they were utterly dominant, but I think if you put both teams out there without their school colors, any neutral observer would say that the team that scored three goals had better chances all night long, were more organized in their 5-on-5 play, and won most of the puck battles too. I disagree with the poster who said that if the Nazarian shot went in, the game would have been a deserved tie. I absolutely positively think that even if UNH does score that goal, BC would have turned it up another notch, and I think they'd have won later in regulation or in OT. The way they killed off most of the last 2 minutes, once UNH came back to full strength, was textbook situational possession hockey."
Seems you could pretty much say the exact same things about last night's game with the other Comm Ave team. Don't want to minimize the UNH goals as "lucky" but lets face it. Oettinger is supposed to cover the short side on the MacAdams goal, and the BU d-man is not supposed to allow the pass on the Salvaggio goal. Jason ROBARDS could have scored that goal it was such a gimme.
Like HR, I was glad for Clark, although I must admit that initially I was p-oed, as I felt like the coach was putting him in a tough situation. (I mean Clark couldn't get a chance against one of those bottom dwellers they just played? Instead he gets to face an extremely talented, albeit underachieving team.) But he handled the first period adversity well and I think he has earned another chance somewhere along the line.
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"Just to elaborate a little further on last night's game (caught it on ESPN3 on my way back from vacation) ... it seemed UNH's offense was choppy and at times accidental. That can sometimes be classified as opportunistic, or arise from some tough checking that forces giveaways in key areas of the ice. Their two goals were very nice, but once you got past that ... really, not too much in the way of quality chances. Even the BvR breakaway (second period IIRC?) never looked like he had a chance. And of course the Woll save in the 3rd was a fluky break on a weird bounce coming out of the corner. Nazarian should have buried it, but it looked like he was almost too careful just to get it on net, and didn't think Woll would have a chance to get back in position. Oh well ... easy come, easy go, I suppose.
I guess for me, it always just felt like BC had more attacking flow more consistently. It's not like they were utterly dominant, but I think if you put both teams out there without their school colors, any neutral observer would say that the team that scored three goals had better chances all night long, were more organized in their 5-on-5 play, and won most of the puck battles too. I disagree with the poster who said that if the Nazarian shot went in, the game would have been a deserved tie. I absolutely positively think that even if UNH does score that goal, BC would have turned it up another notch, and I think they'd have won later in regulation or in OT. The way they killed off most of the last 2 minutes, once UNH came back to full strength, was textbook situational possession hockey."
Seems you could pretty much say the exact same things about last night's game with the other Comm Ave team. Don't want to minimize the UNH goals as "lucky" but lets face it. Oettinger is supposed to cover the short side on the MacAdams goal, and the BU d-man is not supposed to allow the pass on the Salvaggio goal. Jason ROBARDS could have scored that goal it was such a gimme.
Like HR, I was glad for Clark, although I must admit that initially I was p-oed, as I felt like the coach was putting him in a tough situation. (I mean Clark couldn't get a chance against one of those bottom dwellers they just played? Instead he gets to face an extremely talented, albeit underachieving team.) But he handled the first period adversity well and I think he has earned another chance somewhere along the line.
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