UConn Hockey Opening Weekend v. #7 UMass (Friday 11/20 @ UMass @ 6p on NESN+ / Saturday 11/21 @ Freitas @ 4p on 97.9 ESPN) | Page 4 | The Boneyard

UConn Hockey Opening Weekend v. #7 UMass (Friday 11/20 @ UMass @ 6p on NESN+ / Saturday 11/21 @ Freitas @ 4p on 97.9 ESPN)

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UConn hits the post on the 5 on 3, and the PP is over. Vomacka stopping a breakaway soon after.
 
and in typical hockey fashion the referees are going to look to call a penalty on the team that just had a 5 on 3. And UConn is shorthand with 3 minutes and change.
 
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Going to Overtime- hell of an effort regardless of what happens by UConn to bounce back
 
And I think the game is over? Footage has been mostly off since the waved off goal.
 
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I have to say I'm not a huge fan of 3-on-3 OT. Just doesn't seem like real hockey to me (nor does the shootout which is next).
However if we win the shootout I will love it
 
So if this counts - or when they do eventually count as conference games - does the team that loses the shootout still get a point?
 
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The Viking said:
So if this counts - or when they do eventually count as conference games - does the team that loses the shootout still get a point?
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According to Bob Joyce on the radio feed, the losing team in overtime still gets a point.
 
Didn't know about these new OT rules. Gotta prepare some kids for the NHL, I suppose.
 


>>Up next -> Assuming all goes according to plan (a big assumption in these times), UConn will host the Maine Black Bears for two games at Freitas Ice Forum next weekend. Maine did not play this weekend due to school COVID protocols, which is what allowed the Huskies to face UMass.<<
 
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Butch said:
Didn't know about these new OT rules. Gotta prepare some kids for the NHL, I suppose.
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In general I don't like OT rules that change the way the game is played in regulation. To me it is a mockery of the game. That would certainly include 3 on 3 hockey. This season Major League Baseball partly in response to the pandemic made their own change when a game goes into extra innings by placing a runner at 2B at the beginning of each half inning. However, this rule has been in effect in the New York Penn League for a couple of seasons before the pandemic, and my wife and I (we have had season tickets to the team in Norwich) despised this alteration to the game. My wife would send out angry tweets about it any time a game she was attending ended up going to extra innings.
 
Agreed. If they want to open the ice a bit more in OT to avoid ties, go 4 on 4. It's a lot more like real hockey than 3 on 3 is.
I don't mean to keep harping on Ishkakov being gone but he would have been a monster with these 3 on 3 rules. Damn covid.
 
They went 3 on 3...hung on and won a game in a shootout. To me that’s way better than a tie, regardless of the rules. It was exciting.
 
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