Paul,
 
As for your comments on the Lowell game, I wasnt able to see it but I can
tell you this:
 -  Ive seen almost all the BU home games, and as Ive said before, Ive yet to
see anyone effectively shut Drury down (Ill talk about this weekend later).
 As for any given player shadowing Drury (like Ive seen to Kariya or St.
Louis) I havent noticed anything like that this season.  It may be a case of
too much offensive fire-power to worry about one particular player (although
this year, that wouldnt seem to be the case as much as previous years!) or
just that whatever defensive tactics were used were so ineffective, they were
not noticed.
 
-  As for the face-off allignment in the 'offensive side' of the neutral
zone, BU has been lining up the board side winger in the defensive position,
and the defensemen in the wingers position.  I suspect what Parker is
attempting to do is put the puck immediately in the corner, and allow the
winger to get some time and space to get speed into the offensive zone for a
more effective forecheck.  This is the only thing I can think of because for
the most part (Poti especially) the defensemen handle the puck as good as
anyone on the team.
 
As for the Maine game:
 
- All that can be said is that Maine played a stifiling, effective defensive
game against all the BU forwards.  Although they allowed more than there
average shots against (29 vs. avg. of ~20 I think) it was still well below
what BU is capable of and what BU needs to do to get the 4-5 goals a game
they need to win.  Maine played well, thats all I can manage to say out of
this BU fan.
 
- However, as for Walsh, I will say what a CLASSLESS individual he is.  His
team played an excellent, clean game in beating BU and Walsh doesn't have the
guts to shake hands with Parker after the game.  And make no mistake this
'Heisman' was all Walsh's doing as he immediately struted for the corner.  I
wont say anymore because it will just be ugly.
 
Lance
BU '94
Union '92
 
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