UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

[chripy]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

Ben Bishop is now a member of the Ottawa Senators. One year deal. We'll have greater opportunity to see him play now. Good luck Bish, unless you're playing the B's.

[TylerDurden]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

That TUC cliff is absurd; there is no way in the world any team should drop 8 spots one night, then gain back 5 of them the next, all based on what two (currently) irrelevant sub-.500 teams do with each other... Especially not with the sample-size being as large as it is right now. TUC has always been a superfluous criterion, but now it's become a complete joke, IMO.

(Comments from PWR experts might be enlightening... Priceless?)

absurd or not, it is the system that is in place.
and YET AGAIN, Tim, in all his wisdom split with NU, like he did with UMass... keeping NU and UMass as TUCs
if they were not TUCs, Maine's record against TUCs would be 6-8, as it is, they are 10-10.
if PC makes it back into the ranks of the TUCs Maine's record will be 12-11... and, as I was saying when UMass dropped out and Maine sunk to 14th... that will flip a lot of comparisons.

so... lucky for Maine that beating UNH will not drop the Mildcats out, so Timmy is sure to win at home against them... heh heh heh

and asking some people for relevant comments is kinda like asking for a mountain to be moved because you prayed for it... it COULD happen, but I'm not holding my breath (or my wise cracks)

[TylerDurden]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

So that is the effort Maine needs from here on out, some real pretty goals tonight, Abbott's feed to Diamond for the PPG was a thing of beauty, guess blind squirrel fins a nut every once in awhile eh Tyler! !!

I agree and I commented on his 5 good passes.
he had 1 good one the night before and one really lucky one... that is not the number of good passes a hobey winner makes in a night.
he also had the puck knocked off his stick about 8 times on Friday night by big slow defensemen who were not fooled by the toe drag.
I hope he keeps it up.

wanna see a hobey pass?
watch the last goal of the DU UND game from last night.... THAT was a great pass

[rufus]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

How many other great passes did that guy make in the game?

[Pucknut]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

I agree and I commented on his 5 good passes.
he had 1 good one the night before and one really lucky one... that is not the number of good passes a hobey winner makes in a night.
he also had the puck knocked off his stick about 8 times on Friday night by big slow defensemen who were not fooled by the toe drag.
I hope he keeps it up.

wanna see a hobey pass?
watch the last goal of the DU UND game from last night.... THAT was a great pass

Yup, Kristo to Nelson, beautiful, sotta like Abbott to Diamond.

[walrus]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

Teddy Purcell had 3 assists today

[TylerDurden]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

Yup, Kristo to Nelson, beautiful, sotta like Abbott to Diamond.

yup kinda
but Kristo didn't put it behind the unaware defenseman, on the ice.. he saucered it over the stick of the dman who was "preventing"
the pass, and landed it on the ice JUST in time for Nelson to get off a one timer.... a little different

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

not enough to be a hobey finalist, but enough to be a great player in the AHL, or an ok one in the NHL.

Kristo will play in the NHL. He won't be a Parise or a Toews (or even a Stafford for that matter), but he'll play full seasons, and I would guess put up somewhere around 10-25-35 type numbers. Obviously, he may play a year or so in the AHL when he leaves college (most likely after this season), but the majority of his career will be played with the big boys.

[TylerDurden]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

Teddy Purcell had 3 assists today

purcell could pass

[FiveHole12]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

yeah, he had a pretty good coach in college... someone who thought it would be a good idea to have him skate his lane and pass from the strong side to the weak side... to get the goalie to move, at least a little.

purcell could pass

Using a know it all's logic, like Kristo, Purcell must've had a pretty good coach in college too.

[Sweeper]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

yup kinda
but Kristo didn't put it behind the unaware defenseman, on the ice.. he saucered it over the stick of the dman who was "preventing"
the pass, and landed it on the ice JUST in time for Nelson to get off a one timer.... a little different

Is this the new KIA account since he has been banned?? unaware d man?? go watch the vid the Dman is looking at him the whole time. 1 good pass, I don't know what games you watch.

Also glad to hear Purcell has a big game!!

I guess it is also safe to say that Abbott has won the HE scoring title, being up 11 points with 1 to go. The NCAA title is coming down to the wire.

[Sweeper]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

just seen these great videos posted on the Maine Video Channel, great job by whoever made them.....

Abbott For Hobey
http://vimeo.com/37263487
Flynn for Hobey
http://vimeo.com/37394599

[gscott13]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

don't know if this was mentioned earlier, but bishop was dealt to ottawa and as a part of the deal, he signed a one year extension...

[Fishman'81]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

I enjoy reading Sarah Smileys articles in the paper every Monday, her husband is deployed and she is having guests in every week to keep her kids distracted?? not sure if thats the right word. Last week it was a couple of players and Tim. Nice Showing by Kyle and Nick, something her kids will remember for along time

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/2...family-dinner/

That was nice link.

My own dad was an Air Force "Lifer" (31 years), and he was away about half the time I was growing up, including during two dangerous tours in Vietnam. We never knew from minute-to-minute if he still lived or not way back then when I was a little boy, and the body-counts were mounting daily on the TV news... That is some very unsettling s*!t to try to digest, when your father might be among the dead.

HUGE thumbs-up to Nick and Kyle for stepping in as big-brothers. Unless you've been in that situation as a kid, there is no way in the world you can realize how much that is appreciated. I still remember other Airmen who stepped-in and took me and brother to ball games, etc, talked-up my father's mission, and were generally in my corner if I needed anything. I won't forget their kindness until the day I die.

Hockey is not life... Life is life. Sometimes I forget that on this thread.

Thanks for the reminder, Wally.

[walrus]

Re: UMaine - 2011-2012 Season Thread (cont) - Beating Back the Internuts ?

Using a know it all's logic, like Kristo, Purcell must've had a pretty good coach in college too.

Seeing as he was only at Maine one year I guess he didn't think so