#8 UConn v. #12 Merrimack (Tuesday 11/29/22 @7p @Lawler Rink & Friday 12/2/22 @7p @XL Center) Games on ESPN+

[scotty0330]

Great win! Especially after the Cornell debacle.

Absolutely in years past one shaky game seemed to bleed into others and we had a losing streak before long. All road wins are good ones - especially hockey east…

 

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[Bomber36]

Huh…is there a reason for the superfluous stat of “Faceoff Lost” ? ‍ Maybe there’s something I don’t know here…

Well, there is the old saying ”A face off lost, is a faceoff not won.”

 

[huskymedic]

 

[powerplay]

Terrible call…should have been matching minors at the very least.

That's what I was thinking. I understand that the retaliation almost always gets called, but on Amonte's penalty, obvious retaliation but the Merrimack player got a few shots in before the retaliation, why wasn't he penalized?

 

[dvegas]

The save the Merrimack goalie made on Tverberg is an ESPN Top10 play today, good thing it didn't matter in the end

That came on the heels of a Rage Thompson goal being a Top 10'er yesterday.

 

[UC15]

That's what I was thinking. I understand that the retaliation almost always gets called, but on Amonte's penalty, obvious retaliation but the Merrimack player got a few shots in before the retaliation, why wasn't he penalized?

Amonte should have been called for boarding on the two hits he had previous to the roughing penalty. That is why I think he received the roughing call. Honestly, you could have called embellishment on the Merrimack player, he looked like a FIFA soccer player going down but I think the ref knew that the sequence of plays involving Amonte needed to result in a penalty while maybe independently that weren't all individual penalties. That's not how the rulebook says penalties should be called, I understand why he called it and it certainly helped that the Merrimack player fell to the ice. UConn can not put themselves into situations where post-whistle scrums give the refs the opportunity to make calls against them. It might not have been a great call but if you don't put yourself in that situation they can't call anything and you probably get away with a boarding call. At that point in the game you're up a goal late in the third you can't put yourself in that position to let the refs call something. UConn needs to be smarter at this. Regardless that's a massive win for them.

 

[Sea Goat]

Not the Mona Lisa, but a win is a win is a win!

Very important to come back from the meltdown at the Garden with a solid third period and a 3 point regulation win over a talented HE team. Let's be able to say "ditto" on Friday!

 

[huskymedic]

The Daily Campus has been providing decent coverage this year:

 

[huskymedic]

Men's Hockey Tripped Up by Connecticut - Merrimack College Athletics

North Andover, Mass.

merrimackathletics.com

Sold out capacity: 2,857

 

[DblCrossbar]

Men's Hockey Tripped Up by Connecticut - Merrimack College Athletics

North Andover, Mass.

merrimackathletics.com

Sold out capacity: 2,857

Not too different from what Toscano will be.

Kudos to the Warrior faithful (and Huskies fans who made the trip) supporting their team in a crucial HE battle on a Tuesday eve,

 

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[huskymedic]

-> One of the defensive pairings for UConn is senior Jake Flynn from Bridgewater with freshman Tom Messineo, a native of Westwood who played at St. Sebastian’s.

“The synergy that they have together, because they’re both excellent skaters and they defend really well, we kind of found it organically,” said coach Mike Cavanaugh. “It wasn’t something that we thought in the beginning of the year, ‘Let’s pair these two together. I think they’ll be a great pair.’

“It just kind of happened. We were moving people around in the preseason and the two of them seemed to play pretty well off each other.”. <-

 

[CTBballfan243]

Any link available for tonight’s game?

 

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[jho]

Why does UConn rarely post their Line Charts and Game Notes? We usually have to rely on Husky Medic to forward Line Charts from Daniel Connolly or elsewhere. Most other Hockey East schools routinely make this info available.

 

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[Big L]

Hopefully no goal allowed in the first few minutes tonight

 

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[mac2351]

Prior to the goal two uncalled boarding penalties, one that should have been a 5 minute major, within the span of literally two seconds. How was not one of those called? How?

 

[huskymedic]

No penalty called on Merrimack putting Kinal
face first into glass and then…




… gotta hope it fires a few Huskies up.