Opponents and Others, 2021-22

[nshapiro]

Allain accumulated about 14 percent of those penalty minutes during the first period of Yale's game at Lynah Rink.

The ECAC isn't the same since Zachary Emelifeonwu graduated from Union College.

As far as I'm concerned, the ECAC hasn't been the same since Matt Cooney and Steve Wilson graduated. We used to take a lot of penalties.

"This seat reserved for Dan Dufresne."

He didn't commit THAT many penalties in total, but about once a game, Ryan O'Byrne would lose his stick, pin a guy to the boards, and punch him in the kidneys til he got a penalty.

I remember O'Byrne doing that, and he often did it right, which is why he didn't take so many penalties.

The gradual "crackdown" on pinning people to the boards with one's lower body absolutely changed the game, and I think it remains a legitimate skill and is penalized improperly. As far as I'm concerned, it's not holding until you wrap arms around someone. Basically, the current way of calling it legitimizes a refusal on the part of the offensive player to move his feet, i.e., play strong with the lower body. Also, it's difficult to pin someone to the boards with your lower body if you go in high or with your stick. We should also be encouraging players to initiate checks, without tripping or kneeing of course, with their lower bodies or at least in a neutral stance, since contact that initiates with the upper body close to the boards—which goes largely uncalled, especially with regard to cross-checking—is super dangerous.

But kidney punching? Yeah, you've gotta call that.

Unless you did it like John Parry. when an attacking opponent would try to get by him with the puck entering the zone, he would just lower his shoulder into the attacker's chest, and slowly coast him to the boards, pinning him there.

[Scersk '97]

Unless you did it like John Parry. when an attacking opponent would try to get by him with the puck entering the zone, he would just lower his shoulder into the attacker's chest, and slowly coast him to the boards, pinning him there.

Sounds legal to me! Of course, also seems like the check was initiated far from the boards and Parry didn't "explode through" the check or any nonsense like that.

I miss great hip checks. Jamie Papp used to dish them out. You'd get called for it these days, because they look cataclysmic. Really more like squishing someone into the boards than driving them into them.

[billhoward]

But kidney punching? Yeah, you've gotta call that.

Somebody's going to say: Why you were born with two.

[Trotsky]

He didn't commit THAT many penalties in total, but about once a game, Ryan O'Byrne would lose his stick, pin a guy to the boards, and punch him in the kidneys til he got a penalty.

It was a cry for help.

[Trotsky]

The gradual "crackdown" on pinning people to the boards with one's lower body absolutely changed the game, and I think it remains a legitimate skill and is penalized improperly.

It should be "2 minutes for boring as fuck."

I am so glad that is called now.  There were times when guys could burn 50 seconds off a penalty pinning a puck carrier like that.  It was like watching the snow fall outside the rink.

[Scersk '97]

The gradual "crackdown" on pinning people to the boards with one's lower body absolutely changed the game, and I think it remains a legitimate skill and is penalized improperly.

It should be "2 minutes for boring as fuck."

I am so glad that is called now.  There were times when guys could burn 50 seconds off a penalty pinning a puck carrier like that.  It was like watching the snow fall outside the rink.

You're clearly just not a fan of old-time hockey.  ::burnout::

[billhoward]

He didn't commit THAT many penalties in total, but about once a game, Ryan O'Byrne would lose his stick, pin a guy to the boards, and punch him in the kidneys til he got a penalty.

It was a cry for help.

+1

[Scersk '97]

So now OSU will get an unplanned two-week rest while other teams compete for league honors. This "feature" of the system sucks, every year. If you can't make it through a best 2-of-3 quarterfinal, you shouldn't be in the national tournament. I don't care who it is: it sucks.

[upprdeck]

especially as they are really just a a bubble team anyway.

[Dafatone]

So now OSU will get an unplanned two-week rest while other teams compete for league honors. This "feature" of the system sucks, every year. If you can't make it through a best 2-of-3 quarterfinal, you shouldn't be in the national tournament. I don't care who it is: it sucks.

At 15th, there's a fairly good chance they don't make it, isn't there?

[Scersk '97]

especially as they are really just a a bubble team anyway.

Yeah, I just noticed that I was reading their KRACH standing instead of PWR. My bad. A couple of championship AQs will knock them out, so they're pretty unlikely to make it.

Yet, they shouldn't still be under consideration.

[upprdeck]

there is little you can do to knock them down much with the games this weekend.. So only a surprise will knock them out now.  Same for cornell.. They can win but if they dont nothing else seems to really get the much above about 20 at this point.. they had chances against avg teams and didnt get it done.

[marty]

there is little you can do to knock them down much with the games this weekend.. So only a surprise will knock them out now.  Same for cornell.. They can win but if they dont nothing else seems to really get the much above about 20 at this point.. they had chances against avg teams and didnt get it done.

Anti-woof of the year.

[Trotsky]

Not great, WMU.

[Trotsky]

Per USCHO, Lindenwood to DI for 22-23 after a wild palace intrigue that included the AD either quitting or getting fired.

Lindenwood is IINM the first D1 hockey program in Missouri since the famed St. Louis Billikens dropped from the CCHA in 1979.