I’ll start by saying it was great to have hockey back. And now that the sting of the OT loss has worn off on the way home, it was great to get a point out of tonights game.
Yeah we gave up a breakaway goal 8 seconds into OT after we immediately fumbled the puck away but that is in part due to this clown show that is 3 on 3 hockey. For the life of me I’ll never see the positives in it. You want to open up the ice a little bit in OT to try to get a resolution? Just go 4 on 4. But 3 on 3 is NOT hockey at all.
Let’s be honest, BU deserved this game. We got lucky. They hit the post FOUR times. And Hanson had to stop another breakaway. Think about that, it easily could have been a 6-1 loss.
Our offense was rather nondescript. A lot of shots from deep with very few point blank chances that I can recall. Their skaters made more saves and blocked more shots than their goalie did.
The irony is that our best chance was in the first minute or two when one of our players missed a puck at the far side of the net that would have been an easy goal if he connected. Might have been that freshman center #24. Can’t recall the name but he made some poor decisions tonight with the puck.
Now on to Johnny Evans. Can someone explain to me what is going on? He’s now a center? Did I miss something? This guy was supposed to be one of the top snipers in the hockey east this year….and yet I don’t even know who he is anymore.
He’s barely scoring more than I am and I’m sitting in the stands. Shouldn’t we put him back with Kondalik with whom he had a huge year last year?
Last year: 15 goals, 14 assists, plus 8
This year: 2 goals, 5 assists, minus 8
The fact that we are only one point out of fourth without getting ANYTHING out of the man who was to supposed to be out top scorer is absolutely stunning to me. Tonight he had two of our three penalties. He did well in face offs though, I’ll give him that.
As for Nick Capone I’m afraid he’s 30 years too late. He’s a heavy hitter but always gets caught in those in between plays where boarding is always called. 30 years ago when hits along the boards we’re mostly allowed outside of the blatant board, he would been a treat for the fans with everyone going nuts every time he took the ice. Now you’re just waiting for the arm to go up every time he connects. But he still has a couple years left to improve we’ll see.
Refs were ok, stayed out of the way for most of the game, although everyone around us was stunned late in the game when evans was called for a penalty after we tied it (I didn’t see it). Then after we killed the PP, we had a player tripped on a potential breakout but no call. 99%of the time hockey refs will always call a penalty to make things fair in that instance- especially at the home arena.
At any rate if we can take care of business with the UNHs and Merrimack over the next few weeks going into a tough February schedule, we should be in good shape for the stretch run.