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Re: SLU 2010-2011 - Until Moko Comes Along This Will Have To Do
I have been so busy at work and traveling that I haven't had a spare moment to weigh in on the discourse. I really wanted to say more about my feelings on the Ylae thread but didn't out of respect for everyone trying to be civil. But as this is an SLU thread I feel entitled to be a little more open and direct about what I saw and heard.
First with regard to not seeing Ylae come close to slugging it out with another team. I think there is one thing you (and all of us) are not considering and it's this......how many times this year did you see Yale (or we see SLU) play the SAME TEAM three nights in a row?????
In the NHL I have heard the expression about teams playing a 7 game series in that they play enough games to "get the hate on". I think some of what we saw is perhaps related to that theory. Playing the same team three nights in a row can breed something beyond the normal passion or rivalry a couple of weekend games against different teams each night might bring.
I had the opportunity to talk to a couple of players and they echoed a little bit of what Got6 mentions. As the series went from game one to game two (and the posturing, diving, chirping and some taunting increased) several SLU players commented that they "lost a lot of respect" for the Ylae players. One player in particular who could probably be described as a "the pacifist of hockey players" on our team commented that by the third period of game two he was so furious from the nonsense, he wanted to punch a Ylae player. So if that was how our most laid back player felt, I can only imagine how the guys who have the shorter fuses must have felt. Certainly we saw how they reacted and how things escalated.
Anyhow.......for what it's worth with SLU winning game one which I am sure shocked and perhaps even embarrassed Yale (losing for the first time on home ice)....by the time game two rolled around Allain probably had his boys pretty amped up and when things started to get rough and the officials lost control things went down hill from there.
The playoffs are a different animal from the regular season and I will chalk a lot up to that fact. A lot was made of the fact that we (SLU) had to play physical to "take Yale off their game". In the end maybe what happened was really the other way around!!!! Maybe all the chirping, complaining, diving, etc. actually got SLU out of a disciplined checking game and into a more undisciplined march to the penalty box which got us off our game??? Hmmmmmm......just some food for thought!!
Originally posted by LTsatch
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First with regard to not seeing Ylae come close to slugging it out with another team. I think there is one thing you (and all of us) are not considering and it's this......how many times this year did you see Yale (or we see SLU) play the SAME TEAM three nights in a row?????
In the NHL I have heard the expression about teams playing a 7 game series in that they play enough games to "get the hate on". I think some of what we saw is perhaps related to that theory. Playing the same team three nights in a row can breed something beyond the normal passion or rivalry a couple of weekend games against different teams each night might bring.
I had the opportunity to talk to a couple of players and they echoed a little bit of what Got6 mentions. As the series went from game one to game two (and the posturing, diving, chirping and some taunting increased) several SLU players commented that they "lost a lot of respect" for the Ylae players. One player in particular who could probably be described as a "the pacifist of hockey players" on our team commented that by the third period of game two he was so furious from the nonsense, he wanted to punch a Ylae player. So if that was how our most laid back player felt, I can only imagine how the guys who have the shorter fuses must have felt. Certainly we saw how they reacted and how things escalated.
Anyhow.......for what it's worth with SLU winning game one which I am sure shocked and perhaps even embarrassed Yale (losing for the first time on home ice)....by the time game two rolled around Allain probably had his boys pretty amped up and when things started to get rough and the officials lost control things went down hill from there.
The playoffs are a different animal from the regular season and I will chalk a lot up to that fact. A lot was made of the fact that we (SLU) had to play physical to "take Yale off their game". In the end maybe what happened was really the other way around!!!! Maybe all the chirping, complaining, diving, etc. actually got SLU out of a disciplined checking game and into a more undisciplined march to the penalty box which got us off our game??? Hmmmmmm......just some food for thought!!
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