BU 9, at Providence 2
at Mass Lowell 11, Yale 3 (NC)
 
Both games were on tv here, on WABU and on WNDS, and the only real
competition was to see which of the winners would score more goals.
BU led 5-0 after one, Lowell led 4-1 after one.
 
I was kind of disappointed with what I heard from the WABU announcers,
Dale Arnold and Mike Eruzione.  They seem to have grown less and less
objective as the season has gone on.
 
With BU up 3-0 in the first, I believe, a penalty was whistled on PC
for hooking (Scott Balboni?) on what was clearly a dive by the BU
player, yet no mention was made of this.  Instead it was called "a
good penalty", while Balboni went off shaking his head at what was
certainly a questionable call.  BU would score on the man advantage.
 
Later, on a cross ice pass in front of the BU net, PC's Brady Kramer
redirected the puck right into Herlofsky before the goalie even had a
chance to move, yet Dale called it Herlofsky's best save of the night.
Only after a few replays did Eruzione mention that Kramer was too
quick to pull the trigger and would have been better off taking
advantage of the time he'd had and shooting the puck in the direction
from which Herlofsky had come.
 
And with the game a laugher in the third at 8 or 9-1, Matt Wright
redirected a puck into the net with his glove - waved off, yet
Eruzione was quite vociferous in wondering why the goal was
disallowed.  First, come on Mike, the game was a blowout.  Second, his
argument about why the goal should have counted seemed to show a lack
of knowledge of the rules.  The pass came from behind the net and
while the puck was in the air, Wright deflected it with his glove and
it went off the goaltender and in.  Rule 6-15-c-8 says a goal shall
not be allowed "if an attacking player intentionally propels or
deflects the puck other than with the stick, or illegally with the
stick, and it bounds or deflects off the person or equipment of any
defensive player into the net."
 
At any rate, it was another dominating performance by BU, unbeaten in
its last 7 (6-0-1).  BU has outscored the opponents 49-16 during those
7 games.  After a 5-5 tie with Maine to open the streak, BU has gone
6-0-0 with a GF-GA of 44-11.  This season in 19 games, BU is averaging
6.00 goals/game and allowing 3.05.  8 players scored goals tonight for
the Terriers.
 
BU has also now scored 6 or more goals 9 times, 5 or more 15 times.
Ouch.  The win enables BU to move into sole possession of second place
in HE, 8 points behind Maine with one game in hand heading into
Maine's game with BC Wed night.
 
I did not see much of the Yale-UML game, but it sounded as if Bullock
had rolled up 1-4--5 through two periods to give him 41 pts overall at
that point.  I don't know what he did in the third.
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Mike Machnik                                            [log in to unmask]
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