In reply to: Uh, there was alot more to my post than the subject line ... posted by MinnesotaFats
I didn't provide any context to that. I wasn't referring to the line changes during clock stoppage time. Those seemed to me to be fine, as Jackson had the last line change (if I recall correctly, because we were the higher seed) and appeared to be putting what he thought to be the right combo of players in response to who UMD put out there. What I thought was head scratching was the line changes on the fly. I was at the game, sitting very high up, so I could see all of that. Way too often (in my opinion) we would carry the puck into the neutral zone and 3 players would immediately head to the bench while the puck carrier dumped the puck in. That was probably the product of shortening the shifts, but it decreased the number of forechecking opportunities, and opportunities to make plays in UMD's zone because their simply weren't players to chase the puck. The very few number of shots we had in the game, and particularly in the 3rd period (only 5 in the 3rd period) I think was a product of this.