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I don't know, I guess I didn't mind the passes I saw. A lot creativity than past seasons, and a lot of nice, short passes in the neutral zone to keep players moving with speed. BU did a nice job on the forecheck, but the majority of breakouts were pretty clean because of the short passing. I noticed a lot less in the way of haphazard firing of the puck into the neutral zone or into marked skaters' feet.

As for the rebounds, some credit might have to go to BU for tying up loose (not lose) sticks in front of the net.

I just saw a lot of quality chances and quality movement from the team. I'm more encouraged than not coming out of that game.

It is unfortunate, but I heard the whistle in the arena as well. It was pretty clear from the reactions of all on the ice that nobody had any clue where the puck was, and it was as the players began to let up that the ref came out blowing the whistle and pointing up, assuming the puck must have ended up in the net. You could also see the surprise as the puck then ended up in the net, which prompted the review. My first thought was that they were checking to see if it hit the netting, and once the replay flashed on the MSG monitor I realized it was more likely going to come down to when the play was dead. Again unfortunate, but correct call by the books.

More importantly for me, it was my first chance to see the team live a couple years. This version can certainly skate, and at worst appeared even with BU. BU blocked a ton of shots, some were due to a slow release, but many others were excellent defensive plays. It was nice to see the creativity on the rush (not just by forwards either, Ryan had a great rush down the left side of the BU zone at one point). Ferlin, for a big kid, can really handle the puck, and his curl and drag on the 1 on 1 early in the game was a good example. This team left me feeling that they can make something out of nothing, and don't have to rely on odd man rushes, PPGs and wearing teams down to capitalize late in games.

Probably fitting the game went to OT. BU first goal was a blocked shot on a 5 on 3 that caromed right to a wide open wing and Cornell's goal was another favorable bounce.

Not many highlights are going to come from this game, Scrivens pulled with the Bruins up 5-0 in the 2nd.

Quote from: RitaNiagara 3 @ Quinnipiac 3. FINAL.

If my math is right, that makes QU 1-9-2 since the beginning of December. ::yark::

Quote from: Jim HylaNo it was not a clean pick. Terrible no call. The whole rink, Cornell bench and coaches were in uproar over it. I'm going to look at the Redcast, but a terrible way to end a good game. Yes, again they outplayed us, they have better players than we do; but to take the wind out of our sails that way was terrible.

I have not taken a look at a replay yet, but at first blush it appeared to be a lot of stick work to me too. But again, Cornell got outworked, especially between the blue lines. UND had awesome puck pressure all weekend long.

Edit: I'll say outworked except in their own end. Cornell played fantastic defense all weekend too.

Quote from: sah67Byron Bitz is a scratch for the first time in a while tonight.  Probably had to do with the insertion of new acquisition Miroslav Satan into the lineup and the return of Milan Lucic.

The Globe beat writer is saying it's because of a back injury, and he likely won't play Saturday despite Savard being out now too. Though Sobotka certainly has been playing well enough of late to at least question if Bitz would be in the line up when they are at full strength.

Quote from: ftyuvWhat the heck is there to not stand about Thomas? The guy's awesome.

As a Bruins fan I love the guy, but I can definitely understand how easy it would be to root against him if he played for the other team. He's gotten better, but the punk in him comes out every once and a while ;-) (see Winter Classic).

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Quote from: ftyuvWhat the heck is there to not stand about Thomas? The guy's awesome.

I agree.  The guy gutted it out in the minors for years.  NHL allegiances aside, it's hard to understand why anyone would despise guys like Parise, Langenbrunner and Komisarek. Parise in particular plays every shift with lot of intensity, his willpower is off the charts in my book. Let's go USA!

The best way I can explain it is that he is the Nickerson that actually made the NHL. Always there for the stick work and after the whistle extracurriculars, but never there to answer the bell when someone wants to go. ::wank::

Good forecheck by Bitz leads to a Hunwick shot from the point that Bitz tips in as he headed back to the front of the net. Not a bad way to end the month (and year).

It sure looked like a holiday hangover.

They really didn't skate with CC at all, and as a result took so awful penalties. Lots of "reaching" for checks from a trailing position. A couple of the trips looked like a case of tangled feet rather than stick-to-skate, but they originated from being out of position in the first place. The wosrt one I can think of was D'Agostino hooking the CC player down on a delayed call rather than allow him to take control of the puck to start the Cornell power play. Just no need for that. They finally found their legs in the 3rd, but another CC blocked shot led to a tough bounce by the Cornell D and the effective GWG.

Definitely one of the more undisciplined Cornell games I've seen in a while, one in which they really didn't offer Scrivens too much help. There weren't a ton of odd man rushes, but there were clear advantages for CC forwards that Scrivens bailed out the Cornell D on. And then there were all the power plays he had to contend with.

"If this is the best team in the east, I hope Colorado College gets sent out east." Nice editorial from the play by play guy for CC. ::wank::

Though Cornell isn't doing much to make a case otherwise. :-/

Quote from: Jim HylaDryden - undefeated season, ugh.

That was my reaction exactly. ::bang::

Not good news for Bitzy.

Quote from: Bruins BlogLooks like the Byron Bitz experiment might be over. Bitz couldn't bury a fabulous scoring chance in the first, and didn't have much offensive presence otherwise. Tough to criticize a grinder for not scoring, but as noted before, Bitz doesn't have the finish to have playing time alongside Marc Savard. "We're going to have to do something," Savard said. "Savvy is a guy that should lead our team in points. Somehow you have to get him guys that can put the puck in the net. We have a lot of guys who are not consistent in that area."

I'm almost positive they accidently attributed the quote to Savard when it should be Julien though.

Quote from: RitaMatt picked up his 15th goal of the season towards the end of the 2nd period. Game tied at 2-2, 3rd period underway.

Moulson has killed the Bruins this year. I believe that was his 3rd goal in 3 games.

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Quote from: Al DeFlorioThree last night.  Why not just one in Wisconsin?:`-(

IIRC, he did come close by ringing one off the crossbar.

I thought it was Jon Gleed who rang it off the crossbar.

I was Glover. :-/