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Additional Ice Chips on last nights game by NH74Domer

- we came out pretty strong in the first few minutes of the game that generated a number of good scoring chances that wound up creating a PP chance for ND. We gave it back almost immediately with an unnecessary penalty of ours which killed any momentum we had
- the first two periods for us were god-awful; the second period in particular. Our PP was a special type of pathetic - we didn't come close to generating a shot on the first one (I don't think we controlled the puck long enough on any shift to do so) and might have generated just one shot on the second one. I think we had just four SOGs for the period overall and were getting killed on faceoffs, particularly in the d-zone, which gave BC numerous good scoring chances. Not sure how we were able to survive with a lead no less (other than it was BC)
- not sure what changed out of the second intermission, but our game tightened up substantially - our forechecking kept BC bottled up, forcing a number of turnovers and for whatever reason we decided that we were going to challenge BC in the neutral zone, instead of letting them build up a full head of steam and carry the puck into the offensive zone, something they were doing easily in the first two periods. This limited their O-zone time as a result (why this took us two periods to figure out, I will never know). We also started to win more faceoffs, but pretty much got killed overall in this area.
- while our team speed seems to be ok, it doesn't come close to what we've had in the past. We showed good speed beating BC to pucks in period 3, but didn't generate any odd man rushes during the game.
- Right now, this is a box-of-chocolates team (game-to-game, period-to-period)
- loved the opportunity of seeing these guys play in person, something that I haven't been able to enjoy since they last played in the Manchester Regional
- best part of the game: (in addition to the final score) - the handshake line. Cam Burke was the last player for BC. He got a ton of hugs from his former teammates including the coaches. It was really a special moment that happened in a largely empty arena.