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Michigan Hockey Game #31: Ohio State 4, Michigan 3 (OT) Comment Count

David February 16th, 2023 at 10:27 PM

CLICK HERE for Game Recap from Kristy McNeil and other pertinent information and HERE for current Pairwise Rankings.

 

What just happened (TL;DR): Michigan was outplayed and outshot for the entire game, but they somehow managed a 3-1 lead in the second period. OSU was able to get a couple of goals to tie it, sending the game to overtime and eventually a shootout. Jake Wise got the only goal in the shootout to give Ohio State two points to Michigan’s one. Unfortunately, the camera was shot from space, so most specifics will not be had, tonight.

FINAL CORSI NUMBERS (www.collegehockeynews.com)

 

Total Attempts

Even Strength

Power Play

Close (within 1)

Even Strength %

Ohio State

LOL

Numbers

13

Not

Posted

Michigan

LOL

Numbers

14

Not

Posted

Forward Notes.

-Michigan actually got a number of decent scoring chances. And they scored on some of them. They just did not get the volume that we’ve become accustomed to seeing this season. Ohio State’s forecheck was once again a major problem for Michigan. The Wolverines struggled to get out of their end and connect very much at all in the offensive end. Be that as it may, they did finish looks that did get on net. Adam and Luca Fantilli each had savable shots get through Jakob Dobes for Michigan’s first two goals.

-Jackson Hallum popped off the screen with his speed down the right wing. After he cleared the defenseman, he cut through the crease, waited until Dobes was down and out, and lifted the puck up and over him into the yawning cage. We’ve seen his speed all year, but that kind of stickhandling, patience, and shot lift are all a bit inconsistent. As he grows and solidifies those areas of his game…look out.

Defense Notes.

-This isn’t just about the defensemen (although it does include them). Michigan was just bad in their own zone. Ohio State took it to them a pinned them back all night. There were way too many Forever Shifts for the Buckeyes as Michigan was just chasing and hoping to just get a stick on a puck. When they would, too many times, they could not clear…let alone get the puck deep into the OSU end. Maybe the ice was bad? It probably was, late. But Michigan struggled like this at Yost against OSU in the Friday game. This is a matchup problem for Michigan. They fixed it a little on the second night a month ago. They’ll need to do that again before Saturday.

-Seamus Casey returned to the lineup on Thursday night. However, it looked like Luke Hughes went to the locker room and missed killing off the major in the first period. He also appeared to miss the third and overtime. There is no update as of this writing. Hopefully, he will be available for Saturday. If not…BAD. Michigan just cannot dodge the injury bug.

 

 

This was one of the better looks on either team’s power play (Bill Rapai)

 

SPECIAL TEAMS CHART

 

PP Opportunities

PP Corsi For

PP Shots/Minute

Ohio State

0/5

13

.73 (8/11)

Michigan

0/4

14

.86 (6/7)

Power Play. Oof. Michigan did get a few power plays on Thursday evening. They did very little on any of them…until Rutger McGroarty hit the iron in overtime. Michigan has struggled against OSU’s vaunted penalty kill all season. Thursday was no different. They will have to figure something out before Saturday.

Penalty Kill. Michigan was once again called for a major. Facemasking on Seamus Casey. They killed it with ease. They also killed off a few more penalties. The problem is that they just seem to keep taking too many penalties. Maybe the major was legit. Maybe the rest of them were. It was honestly really hard to tell from that view and without many replays.

 

 

Erik Portillo gave Michigan a chance on Thursday night (Bill Rapai)

GOALTENDING CHART

 

Michigan Shots Faced (House)

Ohio State Shots Faced (House)

First Period

10

3

Second Period

15

5

Third Period

13

7

Overtime

2

2

TOTAL

40

17

Notes. Erik Portillo had a pretty solid night in net…from what I could tell. He made quite a few saves, especially when Michigan was failing to get out of their zone, repeatedly. While he did drop his stick a few more times, he did seem to track the puck a lot better, not dropping many (if any?) shots out of his glove, as he has done too much this year. It’s tough to put any of the goals on him, either, as two of them were absolute rockets. He did have a look a couple of them, but they just seemed like really great shots…one of them a one-timed blast. The tying goal was an unreal backhand pass from Mason Lohrei to Tate Singleton, who snapped a one-timer from the other side of the ice. In all, Erik Portillo definitely kept Michigan in the game and gave them them a chance to win, multiples times on Thursday night. Alas.

 

ODD MAN RUSH CHART

Defense

Rushes

Advs

Escape%

Offense

Rushes

Advs

Scoring%

1st Period

n/a

n/a

n/a

 

n/a

n/a

n/a

2nd Period

n/a

n/a

n/a

 

1

3v2

0%

3rd Period

n/a

n/a

n/a

 

n/a

n/a

n/a

OT

n/a

n/a

n/a

 

n/a

n/a

n/a

Total

n/a

n/a

n/a

 

1

3v2

0%

Notes. By my count, there was one OMR in the entire game and it was a 3v2 for Michigan. They actually got a good chance in the slot, but Dobes made the save.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Michigan played like poo. They were being outshot 25-8 after two periods, but were still winning. They were also an iron from winning in OT. Honestly, getting anything out of this game, looking back, is a positive. This game is a tie in PWR, so whatever. In the standings, though, they did cut down their magic number to finishing ahead of Ohio State (their biggest threat to second place) to 7. They’ll need a result in Cleveland on Saturday to control their own destiny next weekend. Game 2 is Saturday outdoors in Cleveland at 4pm on BTN.

Comments

mgeoffriau

February 17th, 2023 at 12:11 AM ^

When the booth referred to a very clear offsides as an icing right out of the gate, I knew it would be a good one. Keaton "Peterson" was another gem. The pronunciation of Keranen and Samoskevich was just the cherry on top.

How is Big Ten Plus this bad? Why do I pay for it?

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kyle.aaronson

February 17th, 2023 at 12:53 PM ^

We also had: mispronunciations of "Hallum"; the play-by-play guy calling TJ and Luke brothers (see: Hughes); them neglecting to update us on Luke Hughes' status for the duration of the game, and citing his OT winner against MSU but not mentioning he wasn't playing in OT against the Buckeyes; a stopped-puck segment about Brandon Naurato that had Bill Muckalt centered in the frame; the review on the third period goal during which the booth spent three minutes debating if this was for offsides or goalie interference when it was clearly neither; camera work that was not only far away, but often was still unable to keep up with puck movement.

I understand that they're doing this on the cheap, and that announcing isn't the easiest thing in the world, but my word, some of these mistakes are just bonkers.

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Team 101

February 17th, 2023 at 8:16 AM ^

I was at the game last night and the one thing I noticed was that we were repeatedly losing the chase to open pucks.  It seemed that we had the edge and then the Buckeye would get there first.  Either the Buckeye players are very fast skaters (which they looked like) or we were being outhustled (which we may have been).  Portillo made some amazing saves and we were lucky that there were a few that just missed.

There was a good crowd for the Schot but definitely not the same energy or intensity as Yost.

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kyle.aaronson

February 17th, 2023 at 1:18 PM ^

While he did drop his stick a few more times, he did seem to track the puck a lot better, not dropping many (if any?) shots out of his glove, as he has done too much this year.

IIRC, Portillo dropped one shot out of his glove.

The goals he let in:

  • THE FIRST GOAL: OSU enters the zone on the left wing. It's a two-on-three. Neither Dylan Duke (I think?) or Luke Hughes picks up Singleton, who sets himself up perfectly for a one-timer and just rips a rocket over Portillo's shoulder. I have noticed this year that Portillo is struggling to move from his right to his left, so maybe there's something to work on here. Still, a very good shot, and some pretty lackadaisical defense. (No replay, so it's hard to tell exactly how accurate the shot was, too.)
  • THE SECOND GOAL: Steve Holtz pinches, but can't hold the puck in. It goes all the way down to UM's blue line where OSU's Cassidy picks it up and goes one-on-one with Luca Fantilli. Cassidy pulls it back, changing the angle a bit, and––from near the face off dot to Portillo's right––puts it over Portillo's left pad. I've heard goalies talk about this being a tough spot to cover, cause when you go down in the butterfly you're kind of vacating a spot that was previous covered, but still, it probably should've been saved. I thought Fantilli's defense was pretty good here, too––he even puts Cassidy on his rear during the shot. I'm positive Portillo wants this one back. (Again, no replay.)
  • THE THIRD GOAL: It's a three-on-three. Lohrei (an OSU defenseman) skates it right down the middle, into the zone, and ends up attracting all three defenders (Steve Holtz, Luca Fantilli, and Jackson Hallum). You can see Holtz trying to direct Hallum (who's just come off the bench) to pick up Lohrei, but Hallum takes a really bad angle and lets Lohrei skate right towards the net. Thus, Holtz has to get in his way and push him towards the boards. I'm not sure what Luca Fantilli is doing, as he's back-checking, but goes for the guy (Lohrei) who already has two Michigan defenders draped all over him. He really should be looking around for the next most dangerous guy (Singleton plays this so sneaky by hanging way back and on the boards, but Fantilli should be on the guy who's trailing right behind the play). Either way, it basically looks like they've bottled Lohrei up, but no one gets a good stick or body on him and he wiggles out of it, then makes a terrific, blind pass to Singleton on the back door for a wide open net. It's a terrific play, so it's hard to fault the defenders, but they lacked communication and Hallum is playing out of position, so he takes a bad angle. Literally nothing Portillo can do. (Plenty of replays for this one, due to the challenge.)

Portillo was utterly besieged all night and made some great saves.

A true shame, too, that two of OSU's goals came less than a minute after Michigan had scored (OSU's first and third goals).

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