Sunday, March 3, 2019

Defkit's Terrier Takeaway (3/2 vs. Merrimack)


- Overall a very entertaining game. Nice to see some offensive production for the first time in a while. Even though BU was outshot, they looked like the better team for most of the game, certainly for the last two periods. They got a little luck on the Fabbro goal (deflected) and the second Krys goal (just a poor save attempt, Pantano was pulled right after it), but the other three goals were things of beauty.

- Is Prawdzik definitely leaving, even though he has another year of eligibility? Maybe doing the graduate transfer thing? Nice to see Albie put him in there for the last half of the third period.

- Nice to see Fabbro rack up some points. With Makar and Davies in the conference, it could be tough to crack 1st team HE, but he would be a slam dunk for it in most other years.

- Thought Willman had a great game - good speed and puck pursuit.

- Of course, Farabee put the exclamation point on it with that beautiful individual effort, which I presume everyone has seen by now. What I liked most was that it came right after another failed attempt on the PP to do the drop pass in the neutral zone (seems to fail 70% of the time). When Farabee circled up the ice, he faked one of those drop passes, and then just decided to take it all the way.

- Oettinger had another great night. He is clearly in a zone - hopefully he can carry us on his back for a little while longer.

- Switzer had a tough (likely) last game. Was beat for a breakaway and took a couple penalties when the game was still close. Also partially whiffed on a one-timer.

- Lots of penalties. Even my wife knew we were in for a lot of special teams play when she saw Gravellese out there skating warmups.

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