UMass Lowell '12/'13 Season Thread II

[gochiefs]

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Video up on their website. Nice multi-views of BC goals and Lowell saves, final score shows up well though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpFOz...9zI5-E2nd89FrQ

[Go-UML]

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Video up on their website. Nice multi-views of BC goals and Lowell saves, final score shows up well though!

On their stream last night, they were so busy going through all their 'post-BC goal' crap that they missed the UML second goal live.

[leswp1]

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On their stream last night, they were so busy going through all their 'post-BC goal' crap that they missed the UML second goal live.

There is some joy in scoring so fast the other guys can't keep up

[fr0zn-4]

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Seriously, after scoring a goal, I thought Hulk Hogan was going to come out and wrestle. A little over the top if you ask me. I wonder if they do it when they are losing by a few goals late in a game?

[PaulG]

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Surprisingly, Lowell is close to taking the Pairwise with UNH. Our RPI is .5448 to their .5482. Given our much tougher schedule and their cakewalk ... it'll be easier for us to raise our RPI and catch them ... we already have a better TUC because the 3-0 H2H does NOT count in TUC for Pairwise between these two teams. For BC pairwise, we have to catch them in COP and maintain our current RPI lead. As for COP, I have no idea why their 13-7-2 is currently better than our 13-6-2.

So, although our 1-5 record against them kills us in HE tie-breakers, it doesn't hurt us that bad in Pairwise.

Many scenarios to play out, however ... still much too early to tell.

[UMLFan]

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Surprisingly, Lowell is close to taking the Pairwise with UNH. Our RPI is .5448 to their .5482. Given our much tougher schedule and their cakewalk ... it'll be easier for us to raise our RPI and catch them ... we already have a better TUC because the 3-0 H2H does NOT count in TUC for Pairwise between these two teams. For BC pairwise, we have to catch them in COP and maintain our current RPI lead. As for COP, I have no idea why their 13-7-2 is currently better than our 13-6-2.

So, although our 1-5 record against them kills us in HE tie-breakers, it doesn't hurt us that bad in Pairwise.

Many scenarios to play out, however ... still much too early to tell.

PWR is a different matter. We're basically (probably) competing with BC for an eastern spot. Obviously we could both get one, but with UNH "hosting" (and man do I hate that nonsense ... they're staying East no matter what.

FWIW, the newest bracketology blog has all four HE teams staying East.

This week’s brackets
Grand Rapids
14 Notre Dame vs. 2 Minnesota
10 Western Michigan vs. 5 North Dakota

Toledo
15 Yale vs. 3 Miami
11 St. Cloud State vs. 8 Niagara

Manchester
13 Dartmouth vs. 4 New Hampshire
12 Denver vs. 6 Boston College

Providence
16 Providence vs. 1 Quinnipiac
9 Massachusetts-Lowell vs. 7 Minnesota State

Do like this line from that blog ... because it's deserved finally... when talking about Lowell and BC:

Where to put them? Attendance won’t make much of a difference as you have good attendance from the other two teams in each regional. So I am going to say the committee goes with bracket integrity here.

[PaulG]

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FWIW, the newest bracketology blog has all four HE teams staying East.

Yep, I like Lowell in the 8,9 slots in PWR ... we get to go where Quinnipiac goes. So, moving up does increase the odds we go west.

Did you see how the Bracketology "adjustments" were all about getting a WCHA team in each regional?

[UMLFan]

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Yep, I like Lowell in the 8,9 slots in PWR ... we get to go where Quinnipiac goes. So, moving up does increase the odds we go west.

Did you see how the Bracketology "adjustments" were all about getting a WCHA team in each regional?

Yeah ... I know they play with it a bit, but it's still interesting.

[PaulG]

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Yeah ... I know they play with it a bit, but it's still interesting.

I think Minnesota would have the most to complain about and Miami's "bracket adjustment" would have to make them smile ... that along with the fact that Miami is not getting shipped east again to play a Hockey East team.

[PaulG]

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Do like this line from that blog ... because it's deserved finally... when talking about Lowell and BC:

Really liked that line as well!!! Bridgeport '02 opened some eyes as to how Lowell could draw. Oh, how I did ever hate seeing them go west in 94/96 - both times to play Michigan State on their home ice.

[boblav1]

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Bad news for BC. Kevin Hayes undergoes surgery and is out for the season. He suffered a quad injury last night.
http://themackreport.com/bcs-kevin-h...or-the-season/

[Go-UML]

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Did you see how the Bracketology "adjustments" were all about getting a WCHA team in each regional?

NCAA hates first round matchups from same conference, so that's legit.

Do like this line from that blog ... because it's deserved finally... when talking about Lowell and BC:

Yeah, that's awesome. I'm sure that the school's commitment to bringing a bus or two down didn't hurt. Marty rallying the troops from the top of a bar table was just a bonus.

[leswp1]

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Really liked that line as well!!! Bridgeport '02 opened some eyes as to how Lowell could draw. Oh, how I did ever hate seeing them go west in 94/96 - both times to play Michigan State on their home ice.

Not as much as me. I was pregnant and due to deliver in 96. When we found out when I was due he said- Oh, no problem, we will stink this yr. Farthest they ever went. His alpha pager wouldn't work where he was. Yikes. That was stress!!

[Pesky McGrath]

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Yeah, that's awesome. I'm sure that the school's commitment to bringing a bus or two down didn't hurt. Marty rallying the troops from the top of a bar table was just a bonus.

Never mind -- tried to attach the picture of Marty on the bar, but alas I cannot figure out how to do it !

[Patman]

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Never mind -- tried to attach the picture of Marty on the bar, but alas I cannot figure out how to do it !

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