Comments on The Blog That Yost Built: FYS 3, Michigan 2

When a team is struggling to produce offensively, ...

2009-11-14T11:18:18.387-06:00

When a team is struggling to produce offensively, and the goalie is giving up soft goals, shouldn'tit be important for the defense to actually focus on defensive play since you can't lose if the other team doesn't score? The forwards should start producing but how bout we get some defensive play from the defense?

Tim, you haven't seen anything different from ...

2009-11-14T10:08:05.919-06:00

Tim, you haven't seen anything different from what the rest of us have, even with your limited viewing time. The roughly 10 minutes of solid team effort against Niagara was the start of this slide.

While there's plenty of issues to work on, I think the intangibles are the biggest problem. They're much more difficult to correct, if you even can. Cohesiveness, effort, and leadership are the biggest issues in my eyes. If they can pull together as a team, get back to doing the small things right at game speed, and start having fun, they'll turn this around. If not, it's going to be a long season.

Not so fun fact: '89-'90 was the last time Michigan dropped five games in a row. While I certainly think this team is looking like those of the late 80's right now, lets not prove it tonight, okay?

Tim: Your commentary summed it all up. Even Red h...

2009-11-14T09:43:43.833-06:00

Tim:

Your commentary summed it all up. Even Red has raised the white flag, calling them "spoiled brats" last week and now "fragile" after last night. He has a bunch of kids that have skill, but no finishers and not a ton of grit. The epitome of the evening for me was watching Llewellyn jawing at Hogan after their gaffe, because that pretty well gave FYS all the momentum they needed. This team has no chemistry and is dissolving fast. No discipline, no offensive creativity, continuous turnovers and mistakes, poor goaltending. Hagelin is the only bright spot. As far as the officiating, I noticed the lack of big name crews, also. Makes me wonder... but they did a fair job last night. Thought Brown was a little ticky tack, and was in the players faces too much. Anastos and his organization are a joke, IMO anyway.

Would anyone have guessed that out of the three major men's programs, that basketball would be the one that emerges as the most consistent? UGH.

Even though I'm a State hockey fan, I read/che...

2009-11-14T09:43:21.203-06:00

Even though I'm a State hockey fan, I read/check your blog every day and I just wanted to say this was a very well written post. Michigan is playing exactly like Red said last week, like a bunch of individuals/spoiled brats. That is unlike any Michigan team I ever remember (I went to school at Michigan). I appreciate you not complaining about the amount of calls going against Michigan, I thought most of the penalties were deserved and the game last night was very well officiated. I sat behind the net that the 3rd Spartan goal was scored in, and everyone in section 9 knew that it was a goal right away. Hopefully tonight is another competitive game, and thank you for all the work you put into this blog.

Why in god's name is Tristin playing first lin...

2009-11-14T08:51:56.972-06:00

Why in god's name is Tristin playing first line D with Summers? He's a total liability.

Also, maybe we've been watching different games, but Rust has been nearly as invisible as Caporusso. Or if not invisible, as ineffective. He honestly looks like he's lost a step. He hasn't yet been able get by guys on the boards or beat them one-on-one to the net in the same way I'm used to seeing.

Incidentally, I'm a big AJ Treais fan. A real hockey player that kid is. Sometimes he fucks around with the puck a bit too much, but he'll learn. For a kid that's tiny he's even going into the corners and battling for the puck. Chris Brown has also been intermittently impressive (before last night when he looked lethargic).

And totally agree that nobody seems able to one-time the puck. As a result nobody's even shooting. Moffie has a great, low outside wrister that hopefully will start to find the net if we can get people in front of it.

Sparks was pretty out of it. I made a comment to m...

2009-11-14T08:32:53.866-06:00

Sparks was pretty out of it. I made a comment to my buddy that if you filmed my rec league games, I'd probably look a lot like Sparks did last night. He blindly passed to no one (or a FYS player) about 7 times.

I was really surprised that Vaughan wasn't in. I was impressed with him at forward in the limited amount that I've seen.

Summers is an "it".....niether forward o...

2009-11-14T07:28:01.639-06:00

Summers is an "it".....niether forward or "d'. And Tristy is a D-III guy at best. Palmisano has always been a top goalie since a kid, not like Hogan, who was an average high school goaler.M is not real good right now, no leadership, and small weak forwards. so sorry!

Two of the hit penalties were absolute crap, and I...

2009-11-14T03:15:26.719-06:00

Two of the hit penalties were absolute crap, and I was definitely a little taken aback by one of the other penalties being anything but bogus. The officiating in the CCHA has been as bad as the Big Ten and SEC this year. I think coaches need to start speaking out more openly about the reffing. Instead of slapping on fines and telling people to shut up and respect their authoritah, conferences might actually listen if enough coaches complain. They can't Urban Meyer everyone. Hopefully the SEC takes the 30k they fined him for and pays for more training for their refs.

The one thing I don't get is why doesn't Yost have two net cameras - and why does bad shit goal-review-wise only happen to us when it concerns the net without a camera?

Sparks looked kind of lost all night. I was surprised to see him out there, did Scooter get +game'd Saturday and I didn't see it?

We're playing with no heart. Michigan played maybe 20 minutes of inspired hockey out of 3 periods. The first half of the 3rd period was pretty inspired, and so was the first 5-10 mins of the first period. Besides that it was ridiculously boring hockey...

We're not executing for shit. People are dumping pucks to nobody more often than they are to somebody. Everyone's missing half their passes at least. More often than not, we wind up chasing pucks down because we can't keep them in the zone at all. It's bad... real bad.

Hagelin is stepping up as quite the team leader, but I don't hear any vocal team leaders down there.

Also, side note. Summers played forward for about 30 seconds. He was pretty sweet for those 30 seconds. He was originally a forward if I remember right... wonder what he'd be like if he still was?