Barracuda News & Discussion VII

[Star Platinum]

Tell me what it's like to watch a team that can score goals

 

[Hobocop]

Bakersfield with a LONG stretch of possession in our zone and then out of nowhere a stretch pass from Furlong hits Houle for a breakaway and goal.

We are all over these guys. Shots are 29-12 with five minutes left in the second.

 

[Hobocop]

Bakersfield do get one late on a 4 on 4. Refs seem content to just call coincidentals for any post whistle stuff instead of doing any actual officiating. 4-2 is your score after two.

 

[LadyStanley]

Warmups aren’t far off and Justin Bailey is on the bench in street clothes taping his stick. Guess he might be scratched?

Nah. Some guys just want to experience the space before warmups. Guys can dress quickly, if they want to.

 

[Hobocop]

Perreault spears Vincent, five and a game with about five minutes left. Still 4-2.

 

[Hobocop]

Houle comes out of the box and picks up an empty netter. 5-2.

 

[Hobocop]

Man, that felt good. Where was this when we played them previously?

Two goals each for Houle and Poturalski (Poturalski also had an assist), two assists for Bordeleau and Bailey, one goal and one assist for Robins. Tristen Robins is really coming alive in the second half of the season. Donavan Houle is continuing to impress. He's been my surprise forward of the year.

That first shift was a disaster and after that we were just too much for them. First period we were dominant. Third period they gave us a couple scares, but never felt like we were in that much danger of losing.

Bystedt took a misconduct (a coincidental misconduct, of course) in the third for what seemed like minor roughhousing. That'll get him some extra PIMs.

I'm going to harp on the refereeing again because it was genuinely pretty bad. Not even talking about bias. Already mentioned their love of coincidentals. The spearing call was legit, right off the faceoff Perreault blatantly speared Vincent. During that five minute penalty the referee blew the whistle and was going to call Bakersfield for too many men until the linesman pointed out that they'd pulled their goalie. It was that kind of night.

Anthony Vincent is almost too good of a pest. Every team we play seems to want to hurt him. He's fine after getting speared, but you almost watch him during every shift to see if someone's going to attempt a cheapshot on him.

It's funny you can even see it from Bakersfield's own highlight package: They're just genuinely not a very likeable team.

 

[Original22]

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Anthony Vincent is almost too good of a pest. Every team we play seems to want to hurt him. He's fine after getting speared, but you almost watch him during every shift to see if someone's going to attempt a cheapshot on him.

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I took a buddy to his first game and while pointing out the players to watch during warmups, I told him to watch Vincent because at some point in the game someone on the Condors is going to try to kill him

 

[Original22]

Still trying to figure out what the Bakersfield coach was thinking pulling Delia right before our Houle's penalty expired with about five minutes left in the game and we were about to start our extended powerplay. Just poor coaching there.

 

[Hobocop]

Still trying to figure out what the Bakersfield coach was thinking pulling Delia right before our Houle's penalty expired with about five minutes left in the game and we were about to start our extended powerplay. Just poor coaching there.

The only thing I could think was that their coach figured it was still 4 on 4 for a minute and this would be their last opportunity to have a man advantage via pulling the goalie, because that five minute major was then going to leave them shorthanded for almost the remainder of regulation.

Not sure I would've done it, but I don't think there's a good strategy for that situation.