Tulane beating Temple badly at Temple destroys us with any credibility. We should have won there by 10-15 easily.
Games of Interest (1.30.21 - 2.1.21) East Carolina Game Day and Post Game Day
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With them taking point differential away and going mostly by efficiency it has changed a lot of the rankings. A lot of people don’t like it across college basketball
The Tulane win at Temple tells me that TU had our famous "bad" game. I'm happy for SMU to come in here Wednesday having failed to score 50 points in Houston. TU moves past SMU in the standings 6-4 to 5-4. With only 3 road games left, TU has a chance to finish 2. Only in a pandemic does a team get saddled with 3 home, 7 road games in the first 10.
It has to start with SMU. Too bad I can't be there to boo Chagois in his last appearance in Tulsa.
It has to start with SMU. Too bad I can't be there to boo Chagois in his last appearance in Tulsa.
I really hope we beat SMU but they will be tough. Temple was a really bad game for us, as we showed in the second half we should have beat them easily but the turnovers and poor shooting in the first half put us in too deep of a hole to climb out of.
Must be efficiency ... we win ugly and that does not translate to Net
We can talk hockey. There are only 2 teams the Bruins don't match up well against, one is the Caps and the other is the Lightning. They seemed to do better against the Caps the other night and some of that may have been the improved defensive speed of the Bruins. Despite Chara's long term greatness, he's now 42 or something like that. He was never a burner to begin with but he had slowed significantly the last 3-4 seasons and guys like Ovechkin, Stamkos, etc. just created fits.
Good news for the Bruins is that Rask seems to be playing at or near his Vezina winning season of 2014 and now that Pastrnak is back, the top line looks to retake it's place as the best line in hockey. No one wants to see that line get going except for Bruins fans
The capitals are starting to become better then what they were after their Stanley Cup Run. With injuries and losing players to other contracts we went down hill fast. We are starting a resurgence though. I do not know how much longer Ovechkin will be playing. That guy is OLD!!! lol The penguins seem to be our biggest thorn. We generally cant get past them in the playoffs except the year we won the Stanley Cup. Since I moved out here 5 years ago I have started getting into Hockey but in no way am I an expert.
We were not supposed to have any games today. We have one make up game.
Todays Game
UCF 99 at Memphis 66 7:00 p.m. ESPN+
NET Rankings Through January 31
Houston 4 No Change
SMU 61 Down 9
Memphis 66 Up 1
Wichita St. 70 No Change
Tulsa 88 Down 3
UCF 99 Down 4
South Fla. 125 Down 1
Cincinnati 126 Down 3
Temple 136 Down 31
East Carolina 169 Up 3
Tulane 172 Up 24
Quadrant Tracker
Q1
Win
Houston H W 4
Memphis A W 66
Loss
Houston A L 4
Wichita St. A L 70
Q2
Win
Cincinnati A W 126
Memphis H W 66
South Fla. A W 125
Loss
Wichita St. H L 70
Q3
Win
East Carolina A W 169
Loss
South Carolina N L 106
TCU N L 101
Temple A L 136
Q4
Wins
Northwestern St. H W 317
UT Arlington H W 231
Loss
Todays Game
UCF 99 at Memphis 66 7:00 p.m. ESPN+
NET Rankings Through January 31
Houston 4 No Change
SMU 61 Down 9
Memphis 66 Up 1
Wichita St. 70 No Change
Tulsa 88 Down 3
UCF 99 Down 4
South Fla. 125 Down 1
Cincinnati 126 Down 3
Temple 136 Down 31
East Carolina 169 Up 3
Tulane 172 Up 24
Quadrant Tracker
Q1
Win
Houston H W 4
Memphis A W 66
Loss
Houston A L 4
Wichita St. A L 70
Q2
Win
Cincinnati A W 126
Memphis H W 66
South Fla. A W 125
Loss
Wichita St. H L 70
Q3
Win
East Carolina A W 169
Loss
South Carolina N L 106
TCU N L 101
Temple A L 136
Q4
Wins
Northwestern St. H W 317
UT Arlington H W 231
Loss
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Chara may have slowed down but his slapshot certainly doesnt seem to have. Still shoots it harder then most. I certainly wouldn't get in front of that. I'm an Avs fan myself but always respected Charas ability
I'm old enough to actually have seen the Bruins play in the old Boston Garden and lucky enough to sat in one of the famous obstructed view seats in the old Garden. You could basically see from the blue line in. Fun times. Got to see Bourque and Neely in their prime.
Well, this is where having a basic understanding of simple machines and physics explains Chara's ability to break a goalie's mask with his slap shot. At 7' tall on skates and the longest known stick in NHL history that fell within the rules, you've created one hell of a lever and MOI. My problem with Chara, and mostly last season, was his inability to get to the corner and stop a team from cycling and still get back and protect the front of the net. In situations where teams had extended attacking zone time, usually Chara was parked in front of the goal while letting the other players chase and check. It really created bad situations. You could tell a goal was coming in some of those instances. I almost always preferred McAvoy and Grezclyk on the ice late in games b/c of their skating ability. A lot of Boston fans were upset they let him go, but at his cap number it didn't make sense to bring him back in with some of the defensemen they had coming up.
Chara scored a goal against the Bruins tonight. Absolute laser just inside the post and just over the pad of Halak. 1st goal vs the Bruins since 2006 (and first game against the Bruins in the same span).
Bruins go down 3-0. Come back and win 5-3. Pastrnak with 2 goals. 1st loss in regulation for Caps. That division is loaded but the Bruins and Caps seem to be the teams to beat in that division (barring injuries). PHI is good but they give up too many cheap goals to really be a long term threat in the playoffs IMO. Bruins currently allowing the fewest goals/game in the NHL. Good sign especially now that Pastrnak is back and their offense is generating goals.
I have a TU hockey jersey circa 2004. OU plays club hockey. I know they've been looking at moving to D1. Men's hockey at the collegiate level has exploded over the last 10 years. Arizona State has a D1 team as does Alabama Hunstville. Where it used to be limited to the northeast and upper midwest, it has now spread a good deal. Teams like Minnesota, North Dakota, and Boston University, who were the blue bloods of college hockey are now fighting to just be relevant in their own conferences. Minnesota used to be part of the WCHA with North Dakota and one of the best rivalries in all of college sports, is now part of the B1G hockey conference as Penn State and Ohio State have joined the fray along with Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State. I think Notre Dame may also compete in the B1G in hockey as well. When I was at BU, the Beanpot was the best city wide tournament of any kind in the US. It'd be like the All College with OU, OSU, TU, and ORU (or sub WSU and Arkansas occasionally for ORU). BU has been pretty irrelevant as more HS kids opt for the $ directly to the NHL vs playing 3 yrs in college. They used to have a pipeline to the swanky private Catholic schools around Boston, namely Catholic Memorial. TU could do hockey at the club level but it's extremely expensive to do that...mostly funded by the players. Ice time and insurance are major cost factors. BUT TU's strong ties to St. Louis could possibly seed something like that. StL has a strong HS hockey presence.
Same. As someone who has been to 2 Beanpots, 2 regionals, and 2 Frozen Fours (one of which me and 3 friends drove 24 hours to get to St. Paul (of the infamous see through glass boards) to see a semifinal win vs Clarkson and a triple OT loss to Northern Michigan, there's nothing quite like the atmosphere of a college hockey game. And the heckling is on another level.
When you get indoctrinated watching a starting lineup featuring 5 soon to be Olympians and NHLers, you get into really fast. It'd be like introducing a kid to college basketball by bringing them to all the games of the 1999-2000 TU team.
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