Saturday BU updates

[Jordan 04]

[q]Before we go and get too cockey here, let's remember that we beat BU's freshman second string goalie (who's never even made a HEA start).[/q]

Which begs the question....why the heck was he in there?

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]Which begs the question....why the heck was he in there?[/Q]
Ya just beat me to it... did they really not think enough of the ECAC to put in their #1 goalie against #7 in the nation?

[Al DeFlorio]

DeltaOne81 '03 wrote:  

... did they really not think enough of the ECAC to put in their #1 goalie against #7 in the nation?

Last year at BU we saw their #2, Tapp, in the first game (a loss), and then beat #1 Fields in the second.  I'm guessing Parker wanted to get Siewic (sp?) into one of the games with Cornell because they're non-conference.  If they'd lost the first one with Fields, Parker would've found it difficult to play his #2 guy in the second game because he'd have wanted to avoid a sweep.

In any case, what Parker did this year is consistent with his pattern of last year.  Let's hope we're consistent with last year and beat Fields in game 2.B-]

[Al DeFlorio]

See:
  http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/335/sports/Cornell_turns_back_BU_in_showdown+.shtml

Doesn't say much.

[Al DeFlorio]

See:

http://www.bu.edu/athletics/icehockey/2002-03/News/11-30-02-cornell-1.html

Quotes Parker as pleased with Siwiec's play.

[tml5]

The kick was definitely a Cornell player.  It was definitely off of a skate.  There was definitely a movement of the leg towards the goal.  The Cornell player was turing around and in doing so swept his leg towards the goal mouth.  The puck happened to be under his skate, and went from trickling wide of the net to accelerating into the goal.  It was probably unintentional, but when you're on ice level and watching the puck (which is the ref's job in that situation) there's no way you can guess at a player's intent by watching his eyes and still do your job.  The call was the only one Hansen could have made, and I doubt any official would have let that goal stand unless s/he was out of position and didn't see the kick at all.  Unlucky for Cornell, sure, but NOT a bad call.

[Adam \'01]

Fields has been taking approx 75% of the game load for BU this season, so it would be consistant with the pattern to see him today.

Parker probably just wanted to get the frosh netminder some experience yesterday in front of a hostile road crowd against a good team.  While it seems to be early in the season, BU's non-conference schedule really thins from here on out (a holiday tourney and one road game against lowly Rensselaer, whom they've already played and beaten this season).  So looking at this from the 30,000 foot angle, this was Parker's last real chance to apply a non-conference test to the freshman.

[Greg Berge]

In the pregame, it was pretty evident that Parker was taking the game seriously, so I was a little surprised they started the freshman.  Think of it from our side: you know we will see Marr and/or Chabot eventually, but good lord NOT against BU.  (I wonder if we will see either against Western Michigan, considering that we will have to see someone other than Lenny against Maine.  My guess is that someone would have seen game action at UVM in the third if it had been 8-1 rather than 8-0).

[bigred apple]

If Schafer wants to rest Lenny before the Maine game, I'll understand - but I don't see any reason that we need to give anyone any ice time before the Maine game.  The Estero tournament is nice, but it is also a good opportunity to give one of the backups some ice time in case Lenny can't play an ECAC game (heaven forbid).  We certainly don't need to field anything but our best team at any time until we have to.

[RedAR]

Gotta disagree with you here.  I think we should try to be as prepared as possible for Maine because Maine will probably be the toughest opponent we face during the regular season.

So, if we know that Leneveu won't be playing during the tournament, then I would prefer to get either Chabot or Marr some game time before we face Maine.

Of course, I've never coached hockey before, and sometimes make a pathetic attempt at playing the game, but...
I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night...

[Will]

I've heard for months now that Marr is pretty good, so now I want to "see" (in a manner of speaking) him prove it on the ice.  This seems like the perfect opportunity, starting him against WMU in preparation for possibly starting him against Maine.  (Nothing against Chabot, of course, but I've heard more about Marr.)

[nshapiro]

BRA,

If you want to get a feel for how important the out of conference games that Cornell plays are, you should go to http://spiritone.com/~kepler/tbrw.html and play with the "You Are The Committee" resource.  If we reverse the results of last year's Estero (Changing the losses to wins, not changing the opponents), then we jump from 7th in Pairwise to 1st.  

I think that an ECAC team can make a pretty good argument that out of conference games are MORE important than league games, especially against quality competition.

[ugarte]

Bah, humbug!  Only if the NCAA rankings are all that matter.   I think that the wins over BU and OSU, if we win the ECAC, are enough to keep us from being  a CC-rule casualty.  (Knock on wood.  I am not trying to jinx the trip to WMU, much less Estero.)  I would rather dominate the ECAC with Lenny between the pipes because I care about dominating the ECAC.

That said, . . . point taken.

[asshole 04]

I apologize in advance for being a tool and apparently out of the loop, but why is it that Lenny won't be playing these games???

-Matt

[Melissa\'01]

Lenny will hopefully be playing for Team Canada at the World Junior Championships in Nova Scotia, Canada.