~Loyola University Greyhounds 2024~

[Laxfan01]

Was able to cool off after Colgate and was able to watch Saturday live. The hounds looked very outmatched in terms of size/speed/athleticism but that was to be expected. I thought they did a nice job at keeping things close in the 1st half: Duke seemed very slow to slide to our midfield and Hueston made them pay. Poitras and Lindsay had a nice little connection going through the half as well. Unfortunately, after the half, when Duke decided enough was enough these areas of success disappeared for the most part. And that's been the problem all season; no depth of scoring whatsoever. It has been thoroughly discussed on this board recently so don't want to beat a dead horse with this one. Man up is another headache--0/3 by my count and at least 2 of them were locked in if I remember correctly. There is no movement whatsoever, and it seems reliant on homerun skip passes or outside shots by offensive personnel that can't shoot the ball from outside 10-12 for the most part. And I could be wrong here, but one of our 4 players on offense (Lindsey) isn't even on it? Someone make these couple areas make sense and I will shut up about it: until then it's inexcusable.

On the other end it's simply not good enough. Not too many pro's... but I thought the play from Sally and McGuilicuddy was improved. 17 gregory struggled early then settled in. Staudt had some outstanding saves and played well but sub 50% again at the end of the day. I mean how many of the goals scored by Duke were inside 6-8 yards? Not even just at that distance, but inside of it. I would wager at least 8-10 of them were this past weekend, similar could be said against Colgate. It has to change--tough thing is that it is not on any particular player...they just need to be better as a unit. Reynolds held zawada to 0 goals (he did have 6 assists). But that's not a knock on reynolds, thought he played him well along with some help from Staudt. But moreso, a testament to just terrible off-ball defense. One of these years we are going to wish we had a goalie where we could just limit teams to mostly shots from 12 and out and hold teams to less then 8-10 playing that way (last year comes to mind).

Long story short we are not playing to our team's strength on either end of the field. On offense we have small quick guys that have slick sticks: yet we go out and put one guy on the crease with perimeter players standing out in the parking lot on man up. Defensively we have a top goalie in the country and a rope unit that can push transition: yet we chase players around and well over 50% of the goals we give up are inside of 8 yards. I've been out of the game for a little while now and maybe this is just too simplistic of a view but it makes no sense.

[Laxdad2021]

Just looked at stats for last three losses:
Duke: 18 turnovers 15 offense/3 Defense
Colgate: 11 turnovers 7/offense 4 Defense
Rutgers: 11 Turnovers 9 offense 2 defense

Season totals on offense:
Poitras 6 TO/20 points
James 7/19
Lindsey 14/15
Minicus 11/13
Heuston 5/7
Higgins 6/6
Kamish 4/5
Binney 5/4
Haberman 4/3
McCullouch 2/2
Murphy 0/1

The vast majority of these turnovers have been the result of forcing a ball inside to a cutter. Very few times they’ve turned the ball over on dodges. Just look at Lindsey. We move him back to attack and he scores 4 goals his first game, all on dodges from X. He shot the ball 8 times against Towson and four times v Colgate and had 5 goals and 5 assists. Very good numbers but he had 11 TO in those three games. James had a terrible game v Duke but that’s excusable as he’s played well overall. Surprised to see how the points to turnover ratio is so bad on offense when you exclude Poitras and James from the equation. Almost a turnover for every point.
Need to have the mids generate more of the offense from up top (as well as James and Poitras from the wings). Less trying to hit cutters from X as that’s not working. Let’s see if they make any changes on the man up as it’s been putrid this year. Would love to see them set Kamish for a step down shot. If he can generate from up top it should open up the inside game a ton.

You’ve got way too much down time on your hands bud. Boys are trying their best. Give them a break for heck sake.

[Formerhound]

Just looked at stats for last three losses:
Duke: 18 turnovers 15 offense/3 Defense
Colgate: 11 turnovers 7/offense 4 Defense
Rutgers: 11 Turnovers 9 offense 2 defense

Season totals on offense:
Poitras 6 TO/20 points
James 7/19
Lindsey 14/15
Minicus 11/13
Heuston 5/7
Higgins 6/6
Kamish 4/5
Binney 5/4
Haberman 4/3
McCullouch 2/2
Murphy 0/1

The vast majority of these turnovers have been the result of forcing a ball inside to a cutter. Very few times they’ve turned the ball over on dodges. Just look at Lindsey. We move him back to attack and he scores 4 goals his first game, all on dodges from X. He shot the ball 8 times against Towson and four times v Colgate and had 5 goals and 5 assists. Very good numbers but he had 11 TO in those three games. James had a terrible game v Duke but that’s excusable as he’s played well overall. Surprised to see how the points to turnover ratio is so bad on offense when you exclude Poitras and James from the equation. Almost a turnover for every point.
Need to have the mids generate more of the offense from up top (as well as James and Poitras from the wings). Less trying to hit cutters from X as that’s not working. Let’s see if they make any changes on the man up as it’s been putrid this year. Would love to see them set Kamish for a step down shot. If he can generate from up top it should open up the inside game a ton.

You’ve got way too much down time on your hands bud. Boys are trying their best. Give them a break for heck sake.

Not blaming the boys here. Just feel like the talents there but the offense isn’t working. More of a blame on the OC than the boys.

[laxbro11]

Just looked at stats for last three losses:
Duke: 18 turnovers 15 offense/3 Defense
Colgate: 11 turnovers 7/offense 4 Defense
Rutgers: 11 Turnovers 9 offense 2 defense

Season totals on offense:
Poitras 6 TO/20 points
James 7/19
Lindsey 14/15
Minicus 11/13
Heuston 5/7
Higgins 6/6
Kamish 4/5
Binney 5/4
Haberman 4/3
McCullouch 2/2
Murphy 0/1

The vast majority of these turnovers have been the result of forcing a ball inside to a cutter. Very few times they’ve turned the ball over on dodges. Just look at Lindsey. We move him back to attack and he scores 4 goals his first game, all on dodges from X. He shot the ball 8 times against Towson and four times v Colgate and had 5 goals and 5 assists. Very good numbers but he had 11 TO in those three games. James had a terrible game v Duke but that’s excusable as he’s played well overall. Surprised to see how the points to turnover ratio is so bad on offense when you exclude Poitras and James from the equation. Almost a turnover for every point.
Need to have the mids generate more of the offense from up top (as well as James and Poitras from the wings). Less trying to hit cutters from X as that’s not working. Let’s see if they make any changes on the man up as it’s been putrid this year. Would love to see them set Kamish for a step down shot. If he can generate from up top it should open up the inside game a ton.

You’ve got way too much down time on your hands bud. Boys are trying their best. Give them a break for heck sake.

Just trying to understand why a team with talent underperforms and looking at where they can succeed. We are the arm chair quarterbacks bantering back and forth on the lack of success of this team. And if this is the best they can do, maybe they are at the wrong level

[laxbro11]

My takeaways:
Clear was much better this week. That is how we need to clear every time out. That needs to continue for the Hounds to have success.

2nd Q turnovers seemed excessive. But I think that might have been the weather. They cleaned that up the second half, which was a good sign. That was a brutal weather game, and really was surprised there weren't more.

Hounds were getting out GB'd in every Q. But a major part of that is faceoffs. You're always gonna have a GB deficit if you're going 20-10 at the X. If we can get to 50% faceoffs it will help us tremendously, because I feel like our shooting was much improved.

We need to be at least 33% shooting, and were probably there against Duke, which kept it tight.

I personally like the 1-4-1 we were running on offense. We don't have lots of guys who will win their matchup consistently so we need to be very active off ball to have success. When we do, we look darn good. Gotta have assisted goals.

Agree that EMO needs to capitalize.

I agree with what you say. At what point do you transition to the Freshman fogo Hall and move on from Pacheco

[kramerica.inc]

Faceoffs is one position where its easy to argue the value of a player.

It looks like they went to the freshman heavy for Towson and Colgate, but went back to Pacheco against Duke.

That might be matchup driven. But statistically, there has been big difference in the end result. Both at at 38-40%

At this point, stats the same, give the freshman reps to see what he needs to work on to improve for next year.

[Formerhound]

Faceoffs is one position where its easy to argue the value of a player.

It looks like they went to the freshman heavy for Towson and Colgate, but went back to Pacheco against Duke.

That might be matchup driven. But statistically, there has been big difference in the end result. Both at at 38-40%

At this point, stats the same, give the freshman reps to see what he needs to work on to improve for next year.

Exactly. When you don’t win faceoffs it makes each possession that you have that much more important. The ratio of turnovers to points for this offense reeks. In addition, when you get a man up situation you need to better than 16%. Just look at the stats for this year:
Loyola ranks 68/72 in man advantage, 58/72 in clears, 67/72 in Face offs, 60/72 in scoring and 11/72 in most turnovers per game. These stats are a bit skewed due to schedule the’ve played but still these numbers are terrible.
Why then hasn’t the man up group been modified? Why is it that we don’t clear well and why do 4 of our top 6 offensive players have almost the same number of points as turnovers? Why aren’t changes being made? Why aren’t players developing? You can criticize the recruiting status (4 star) by saying that the rankings are all BS. That may be but then why aren’t we either recruiting better or coaching better. It’s one or the other. This team’s performance so far this year is the worst performance I’ve ever seen at Loyola and it’s with an entire offense, FOGO, goalie and both SSDM and two defenseman who started last year?

[kramerica.inc]

Vaikness has a reputation for teaching great fogos. We've been waiting with this group. Haven't had a great one since the rules changed a couple years ago.

Clears have a tendency to stink at the start of the year for most teams. Its a hard thing to practice with game intensity. I don't care who is coaching. They did much better against Duke in lousy conditions, a scenario that could have gone south. They need to keep that up. Good to see.

EMO just needs to be better.

I liked what the team did shooting-wise this week. They were improved and more efficient. Not perfect, but certainly better.

[Formerhound]

Keys to tomorrow’s game:
1. Faceoff: BU’s two FOGOs (Fritz 59% and Cardamone 37%) have been very inconsistent this year. Fritz has been above 75% in two of his last four games but under 30% in the other two. Calderon hasn’t been above 40% all year.
2. Clears: 10 man ride gave us fits earlier this year as well as last year in both games v BU. Need Sally and McGillicudy to take charge and break through some short sticks to clear the ball. Too many times we’ve tried to have a long stick try and pass the ball over the midline and have it turn into a turnover.
3. Turnovers on offense. Especially if we aren’t winning the FO battle. Can’t have 10 turnovers on offense like we had last week. Not worried about Evan James. He had a bad game. Am worried a bit about Davis Lindsey as he’s been a turnover machine the past few games (like last year).
4. Midfielders have to generate some offense. Heuston was a beast in week 1 and last week. Was invisible in between (injured?). Kamish, Binney (except for one game), Murphy and Higgins (may be injured- got hurt last week and have not heard whether he’s playing) have been no-shows all season.
5. Close D can’t get stuck watching the ball. BU has a couple attack that can really score. Perfecto and D’Alto have combined for 39 goals and Kelley has another 13. Can’t have the free 6-8 yard shots like the past few weeks. Staudt is good but nobody stops 50% of those.

Prediction: Hounds 10-8.

[Hound93]

Seems like they just need to go 50/50 at faceoffs in every quarter and especially the 2nd half & 4th quarter. As challenging as the season has been thus far, this team is in the game when they split faceoffs.

I agree with your prediction. Holding BU to 8 would be an achievement by the defense however. The strength of schedule was built to win these types of games. Still believing.

Go Hounds!!!

[Houndfan73]

Keys to tomorrow’s game:
1. Faceoff: BU’s two FOGOs (Fritz 59% and Cardamone 37%) have been very inconsistent this year. Fritz has been above 75% in two of his last four games but under 30% in the other two. Calderon hasn’t been above 40% all year.
2. Clears: 10 man ride gave us fits earlier this year as well as last year in both games v BU. Need Sally and McGillicudy to take charge and break through some short sticks to clear the ball. Too many times we’ve tried to have a long stick try and pass the ball over the midline and have it turn into a turnover.
3. Turnovers on offense. Especially if we aren’t winning the FO battle. Can’t have 10 turnovers on offense like we had last week. Not worried about Evan James. He had a bad game. Am worried a bit about Davis Lindsey as he’s been a turnover machine the past few games (like last year).
4. Midfielders have to generate some offense. Heuston was a beast in week 1 and last week. Was invisible in between (injured?). Kamish, Binney (except for one game), Murphy and Higgins (may be injured- got hurt last week and have not heard whether he’s playing) have been no-shows all season.
5. Close D can’t get stuck watching the ball. BU has a couple attack that can really score. Perfecto and D’Alto have combined for 39 goals and Kelley has another 13. Can’t have the free 6-8 yard shots like the past few weeks. Staudt is good but nobody stops 50% of those.

Prediction: Hounds 10-8.

Of course no bullet point on the attack. Certainly teams don’t rely on the attack to score the majority of the offensive points. You’re an idiot.

[laxbro11]

Keys to tomorrow’s game:
1. Faceoff: BU’s two FOGOs (Fritz 59% and Cardamone 37%) have been very inconsistent this year. Fritz has been above 75% in two of his last four games but under 30% in the other two. Calderon hasn’t been above 40% all year.
2. Clears: 10 man ride gave us fits earlier this year as well as last year in both games v BU. Need Sally and McGillicudy to take charge and break through some short sticks to clear the ball. Too many times we’ve tried to have a long stick try and pass the ball over the midline and have it turn into a turnover.
3. Turnovers on offense. Especially if we aren’t winning the FO battle. Can’t have 10 turnovers on offense like we had last week. Not worried about Evan James. He had a bad game. Am worried a bit about Davis Lindsey as he’s been a turnover machine the past few games (like last year).
4. Midfielders have to generate some offense. Heuston was a beast in week 1 and last week. Was invisible in between (injured?). Kamish, Binney (except for one game), Murphy and Higgins (may be injured- got hurt last week and have not heard whether he’s playing) have been no-shows all season.
5. Close D can’t get stuck watching the ball. BU has a couple attack that can really score. Perfecto and D’Alto have combined for 39 goals and Kelley has another 13. Can’t have the free 6-8 yard shots like the past few weeks. Staudt is good but nobody stops 50% of those.

Prediction: Hounds 10-8.

Of course no bullet point on the attack. Certainly teams don’t rely on the attack to score the majority of the offensive points. You’re an idiot.

The attack is not getting any help from the midfield That is former hounds point They are not generating slides because they are not a threat it has been a while since a Loyola middie could beat his man or take a 15-20 step down

Played better against BU But we are sharing the basement with Holy Cross

Lafayette and Lehigh will be competitive games need to win at least one of those Army and navy will be tough

[Formerhound]

Keys to tomorrow’s game:
1. Faceoff: BU’s two FOGOs (Fritz 59% and Cardamone 37%) have been very inconsistent this year. Fritz has been above 75% in two of his last four games but under 30% in the other two. Calderon hasn’t been above 40% all year.
2. Clears: 10 man ride gave us fits earlier this year as well as last year in both games v BU. Need Sally and McGillicudy to take charge and break through some short sticks to clear the ball. Too many times we’ve tried to have a long stick try and pass the ball over the midline and have it turn into a turnover.
3. Turnovers on offense. Especially if we aren’t winning the FO battle. Can’t have 10 turnovers on offense like we had last week. Not worried about Evan James. He had a bad game. Am worried a bit about Davis Lindsey as he’s been a turnover machine the past few games (like last year).
4. Midfielders have to generate some offense. Heuston was a beast in week 1 and last week. Was invisible in between (injured?). Kamish, Binney (except for one game), Murphy and Higgins (may be injured- got hurt last week and have not heard whether he’s playing) have been no-shows all season.
5. Close D can’t get stuck watching the ball. BU has a couple attack that can really score. Perfecto and D’Alto have combined for 39 goals and Kelley has another 13. Can’t have the free 6-8 yard shots like the past few weeks. Staudt is good but nobody stops 50% of those.

Prediction: Hounds 10-8.

Of course no bullet point on the attack. Certainly teams don’t rely on the attack to score the majority of the offensive points. You’re an idiot.

When there’s no bullet point it’s because it’s a given. Attack has scored this year. They haven’t been a problem. Again, they scored a ton today. In addition a couple of mids got some time and West and Murphy both scored.

[Hound93]

Seems like they just need to go 50/50 at faceoffs in every quarter and especially the 2nd half & 4th quarter. As challenging as the season has been thus far, this team is in the game when they split faceoffs.

I agree with your prediction. Holding BU to 8 would be an achievement by the defense however. The strength of schedule was built to win these types of games. Still believing.

Go Hounds!!!

I was wrong, Hounds had a faceoff advantage, the goalie played great and still a loss. This one was tough to watch and I think the play of the entire team in the 1st quarter/ 1st half really made this an unbearable loss. Ridley was an advantage, not anymore. This team plays soft and to let a BU team come into your stadium and run over you should be infuriating. Take the coaches out of this conversation entirely. The players make the plays and need to be better.

[Formerhound]

Seems like they just need to go 50/50 at faceoffs in every quarter and especially the 2nd half & 4th quarter. As challenging as the season has been thus far, this team is in the game when they split faceoffs.

I agree with your prediction. Holding BU to 8 would be an achievement by the defense however. The strength of schedule was built to win these types of games. Still believing.

Go Hounds!!!

I was wrong, Hounds had a faceoff advantage, the goalie played great and still a loss. This one was tough to watch and I think the play of the entire team in the 1st quarter/ 1st half really made this an unbearable loss. Ridley was an advantage, not anymore. This team plays soft and to let a BU team come into your stadium and run over you should be infuriating. Take the coaches out of this conversation entirely. The players make the plays and need to be better.

I’m at a loss. We win face off battle, get goals from three middies, limited the turnover ratio from the attack, Staudt plays great and we still lose. Inconsistent play week to week. Heuston goes from 3G game v Duke to one shot v BU. Binney 0-4 shooting and all hit goalie. Defense turned ball over this week. Middies need to clear the ball. Too many times they refused to just run through a guy or two a clear the ball. There is something wrong with this team. Is it leadership? Coaching? Talent? Something needs to be done quickly or this season is done

[Houndfan73]

Keys to tomorrow’s game:
1. Faceoff: BU’s two FOGOs (Fritz 59% and Cardamone 37%) have been very inconsistent this year. Fritz has been above 75% in two of his last four games but under 30% in the other two. Calderon hasn’t been above 40% all year.
2. Clears: 10 man ride gave us fits earlier this year as well as last year in both games v BU. Need Sally and McGillicudy to take charge and break through some short sticks to clear the ball. Too many times we’ve tried to have a long stick try and pass the ball over the midline and have it turn into a turnover.
3. Turnovers on offense. Especially if we aren’t winning the FO battle. Can’t have 10 turnovers on offense like we had last week. Not worried about Evan James. He had a bad game. Am worried a bit about Davis Lindsey as he’s been a turnover machine the past few games (like last year).
4. Midfielders have to generate some offense. Heuston was a beast in week 1 and last week. Was invisible in between (injured?). Kamish, Binney (except for one game), Murphy and Higgins (may be injured- got hurt last week and have not heard whether he’s playing) have been no-shows all season.
5. Close D can’t get stuck watching the ball. BU has a couple attack that can really score. Perfecto and D’Alto have combined for 39 goals and Kelley has another 13. Can’t have the free 6-8 yard shots like the past few weeks. Staudt is good but nobody stops 50% of those.

Prediction: Hounds 10-8.

Of course no bullet point on the attack. Certainly teams don’t rely on the attack to score the majority of the offensive points. You’re an idiot.

The attack is not getting any help from the midfield That is former hounds point They are not generating slides because they are not a threat it has been a while since a Loyola middie could beat his man or take a 15-20 step down

Played better against BU But we are sharing the basement with Holy Cross

Lafayette and Lehigh will be competitive games need to win at least one of those Army and navy will be tough

And vice versa. I watch other teams…lots of other games….the attack is dangerous, beats their close defenders, draws slides and generate step down looks for middies. Hardly ever happens with this team. Do you think teams are worried about this attack? Maybe Minicus last year possibly. Did Duke beat us because their middies were so damn great?? Ha. No. Zawada had 6 assists and O’Neil and Williams were fantastic. Obviously there’s blame to go around on this team but I just don’t understand these posts blaming half the offense and not the other half. Clearly an ulterior motive here. Saying “the attack has scored” is just plain stupid Of course it’s scored some….it’s the f$&king attack!!! It better score…but it ain’t scoring enough

[laxbro11]

Keys to tomorrow’s game:
1. Faceoff: BU’s two FOGOs (Fritz 59% and Cardamone 37%) have been very inconsistent this year. Fritz has been above 75% in two of his last four games but under 30% in the other two. Calderon hasn’t been above 40% all year.
2. Clears: 10 man ride gave us fits earlier this year as well as last year in both games v BU. Need Sally and McGillicudy to take charge and break through some short sticks to clear the ball. Too many times we’ve tried to have a long stick try and pass the ball over the midline and have it turn into a turnover.
3. Turnovers on offense. Especially if we aren’t winning the FO battle. Can’t have 10 turnovers on offense like we had last week. Not worried about Evan James. He had a bad game. Am worried a bit about Davis Lindsey as he’s been a turnover machine the past few games (like last year).
4. Midfielders have to generate some offense. Heuston was a beast in week 1 and last week. Was invisible in between (injured?). Kamish, Binney (except for one game), Murphy and Higgins (may be injured- got hurt last week and have not heard whether he’s playing) have been no-shows all season.
5. Close D can’t get stuck watching the ball. BU has a couple attack that can really score. Perfecto and D’Alto have combined for 39 goals and Kelley has another 13. Can’t have the free 6-8 yard shots like the past few weeks. Staudt is good but nobody stops 50% of those.

Prediction: Hounds 10-8.

Of course no bullet point on the attack. Certainly teams don’t rely on the attack to score the majority of the offensive points. You’re an idiot.

The attack is not getting any help from the midfield That is former hounds point They are not generating slides because they are not a threat it has been a while since a Loyola middie could beat his man or take a 15-20 step down

Played better against BU But we are sharing the basement with Holy Cross

Lafayette and Lehigh will be competitive games need to win at least one of those Army and navy will be tough

And vice versa. I watch other teams…lots of other games….the attack is dangerous, beats their close defenders, draws slides and generate step down looks for middies. Hardly ever happens with this team. Do you think teams are worried about this attack? Maybe Minicus last year possibly. Did Duke beat us because their middies were so damn great?? Ha. No. Zawada had 6 assists and O’Neil and Williams were fantastic. Obviously there’s blame to go around on this team but I just don’t understand these posts blaming half the offense and not the other half. Clearly an ulterior motive here. Saying “the attack has scored” is just plain stupid Of course it’s scored some….it’s the f$&king attack!!! It better score…but it ain’t scoring enough

It is a systemic failure of the program. Poor recruiting/poor player development. Lack of accountability for poor play. Lack of game planning. I have been saying this for years and have been chastised for my comments. Players and coaches need some introspection to right the ship

Lafayette - Toss up, I believe 5th year dominated team, FOGO and Goalie play goes to Lafayette, it will be close
Lehigh - Toss up, should win, Lehigh has beat Navy, FOGO and Goalie play is even
Bucknell - win
Holy Cross - win
Navy - Loss
Army - loss

Bucknell and the Holy Cross smell chum in the water, they see opportunities

[Farfromgeneva]

Seems like far from Geneva struggles with quantifiable facts As former hound says the eye test gives you all the information you need

There is a problem with the Loyola offense I would say formerhound and myself are more vertical or even lateral in his thinking

Far from Geneva needs to take the blinders off and see that Mva is part of the problem re watching Colgate tells you a lot about the development or the lack there of of the players There is no accountability for poor performances as laxfamforlife has said

Looks like a wet one today Maybe give the hounds a chance

Quantifiable facts and eye test in the same sentence. This is the delusion you guys have fallen into now. Good luck. Looks like you’re gonna eat your own this season and it’s will be ugly. Your problem not mine or the guys you are cooling in about.

[Farfromgeneva]

Some positives:
1. Matt Heuston. Four dodges and three goals
2. Joe Kamish: finally dodged and scored.
3. Matt Poitras: 3 Goals
4. Stayed with a very good team for most of the game. Real positives can come from this.

Some negatives:
1. Man up is putrid. 3/18 this year? Most man up opportunities don’t even generate a shot.
2. Evan James with probably his worst game ever. 5 turnovers and multiple poor shots which resulted in easy saves or no backups.
3. Way too many turnovers. Kamish and Lindsey with 3 each, Minicus with two.
4. Defense was bad in second half. That said, Duke’s offense is good. Two many guys got beaten one v one.

Big game next week. Will they change things up?

Matt Poitras? Weren’t you insisting you had the eye test on lock? I’m sure it was a mistake but when you’re telling others they don’t understand and you’ve observed it so closely one might expect a little more rigor in names. Not that the fist names need be added above anyway.

[Formerhound]

Matt Poitras is Adam’s younger brother who plays professional hockey for the Boston Bruins. Sorry about the slip.