Arizona State game thread

[Trotsky]

That try by Locke was amazing.

[Trotsky]

Hilarious that the PBP guy talked about ASU maybe being able to "impress the committee"for an NCAA bid.

That was pretty funny, yes.

[Dafatone]

Why would we call a timeout after an icing, announcers?

[Trotsky]

Yes!!!

OK, boys.

[scoop85]

We hardly ever win the review.

[scoop85]

The joy was shortlived. ASU did what we couldn't in Potsdam.

[BearLover]

Not too often you see a goalie give up three soft goals and zero good goals. The feed sucked so it was hard to tell for certain, but those goals looked ugly.

[Dafatone]

Highlight of the game was the refs actually being quick on the reviews.

[scoop85]

Not too often you see a goalie give up three soft goals and zero good goals. The feed sucked so it was hard to tell for certain, but those goals looked ugly.

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I'm not as down about Howe's performance as you evidently are. There were other aspects of our game that concerned me more.

[upprdeck]

tough to lose giving up 5 goals on combined zone time of maybe 6 secs..

[Dafatone]

Not too often you see a goalie give up three soft goals and zero good goals. The feed sucked so it was hard to tell for certain, but those goals looked ugly.

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I'm not as down about Howe's performance as you evidently are. There were other aspects of our game that concerned me more.

I thought we played alright, all things considered. We looked like the better team two out of three periods. There were certainly sloppy stretches and mistakes, but road game across the country after not playing for a month is tough.

ASU isn't bad. They had a .500 record against a very tough schedule entering tonight.

Add in that their goalie outplayed our goalie, and you've got an ASU win.

[Trotsky]

Two posts didn't help either.

[BearLover]

Not too often you see a goalie give up three soft goals and zero good goals. The feed sucked so it was hard to tell for certain, but those goals looked ugly.

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I'm not as down about Howe's performance as you evidently are. There were other aspects of our game that concerned me more.

I don't think Cornell even played particularly badly other than the goaltending. Possession was approximately even, on the road, first game back from break. Cornell whiffed on or hit posts on several grade-A chances. Three soft goals were the difference.

[marty]

Not too often you see a goalie give up three soft goals and zero good goals. The feed sucked so it was hard to tell for certain, but those goals looked ugly.

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I'm not as down about Howe's performance as you evidently are. There were other aspects of our game that concerned me more.

I don't think Cornell even played particularly badly other than the goaltending. Possession was approximately even, on the road, first game back from break. Cornell whiffed on or hit posts on several grade-A chances. Three soft goals were the difference.

I'd say most of the people on this forum can tend goal better than Howe or When or Whoever was in goal last night.

I only had three pints of one of those 9% IPA's and I knew I could have done one of those butterfly moves with my eyes closed.

Who won the match? As I said my eyes seemed to be closed by the end.

See you all at 5.

[Trotsky]

We played atypically poorly in transition.  Both while attacking and back checking we didn't have any of the distinctive Cornell shape that Mike preaches, and we didn't get results because of it.  We got unlucky on the pipes, but ASU also had several wide open chances where something weird happened to deny the shot -- bad hops, deflections off their own players, guys flat out falling down on what seemed like wet ice.

Howe wasn't great, but other than Mister Toad's Wild Ride he wasn't awful.  ASU made adjustments after the first period and we were unable to play our game, while they have a couple very high skilled guys who made heroic efforts and converted our mistakes.

It sucks, but I'm not sticking my head in the oven unless we go 0-4 on our Far West roadie.

At least now people will calm down about PWR.  This season is about trying to get to and win in Placid, full stop.