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I know hockey can be a crap shoot but the whole beat BC, tie BU, lose to Sacred Heart is gonna get old fast. Did the same thing last year, beat Providence than lost to an Atlantic Hockey team the next game.
I know hockey can be a crap shoot but the whole beat BC, tie BU, lose to Sacred Heart is gonna get old fast. Did the same thing last year, beat Providence than lost to an Atlantic Hockey team the next game.
We have a ton of young players and depend on our goaltending and defense to win close games. Offense is streaky and our time of posession tends to be in the red. If you saw the SHU game last year they've got some dangerous players and have probably had this game in the back of their minds since the close loss. I'm sure the coaches expectations are for more consistency but we may not get there for awhile. This year I'll take the good with the bad.
NHL and Olympic rink dimensions are the same length-wise (200 ft), but Olympic rinks are wider (about 100 ft) versus NHL rinks (about 85 ft), have more room behind the nets, and the blue lines are closer to the goal (about 57 ft) than in NHL rinks (about 64 ft). So, wider space in international rink sizes yet less space out to the blue lines. Neither Sacred Heart nor UCONN would have much advantage, because neither team typically plays on Olympic-sized rinks. I don't buy the opinion your friend shared. UCONN just didn't score as many goals. End of game.From what I've been told, and I know nothing about hockey beyond Slapshot, the rink they played on was similar in size to an Olympic hockey rink, rather than the NHL style rink, and that made it easy for Sacred Heart to clog up the offensive zone and prevent scoring chances we'd usually get on a smaller rink, and they got lucky on their goals. Not my analysis, j just what I was told by trusted source.
NHL and Olympic rink dimensions are the same length-wise (200 ft), but Olympic rinks are wider (about 100 ft) versus NHL rinks (about 85 ft), have more room behind the nets, and the blue lines are closer to the goal (about 57 ft) than in NHL rinks (about 64 ft). So, wider space in international rink sizes yet less space out to the blue lines. Neither Sacred Heart nor UCONN would have much advantage, because neither team typically plays on Olympic-sized rinks. I don't buy the opinion your friend shared. UCONN just didn't score as many goals. End of game.
I can never figure out what's legal and what's not, when it comes to checking, but the sounds of the boards crashing on checks - well that appeals to me.
I'll go with his analysis on why Sacred Heart was able to beat UCONN on a larger than normal rink.