The Barr Has Been Raised at UMaine

[Fishman'81]

This entire weekend was completely irrelevant.

A split between the two nowhere programs was fitting.

Perhaps next season will be different; we'll see.

[Runsub5]

Unh is more talented than maine, your in a better position this year. Unh could do alot of good things maine normally cant do, like break the puck out, skate the puck into the offens zone, cycle it along the boards. All maine could do was dump it in and chase it back out. The d breakout was nothing but chipping it out to unh or try to force it up the boards, or just turn it over in the d zone. I cant wait, hope, until Barr gets this team to a point where they can break out from the d on the weak side and skate it into the offens zone without dumping all night long.
I Sound like a broken record.

Agree that UNH had more skilled players than Maine. Maine played a physical game and Ostman kept Maine in the game for awhile. Maine was gassed at the end with their aggressive puck chasing and UNH eventually wore them down. Penalties also killed them with UNH scoring 3 PP goals. The goal by Gagne was an absolute bullet. His first of the year.

[Drew S.]

I thought the weekend was very encouraging. It was nice to see a mostly full house, Maine score some goals, and I thought overall Maine played really hard. Completely agree with Runsub that they just ran out of gas in the third last night. To play as well as they did without Sirota is a major accomplishment as well.

To what Blackbears19 said yesterday I think Maine def has a shot at making the tourney in a couple years. There is so much parity though I could see Maine in the mix but not quite get there. There is a huge amount of luck involved.

I’m excited about Maine’s class coming in but realistic that there will probably be some disappointments in there. For me the biggest key is finding some guys who can put up 25 or 30 points in a year versus 10 or 15. There are a lot of guys who have the tools but the end product just isn’t there.

[Runsub5]

With Maine coming into the weekend being one of the fewest penalized teams in the country, it's obvious to me that Barr changed his game plan. He must have realized that playing a physical puck chasing game was a possible way to win against UNH. It worked in spades on Friday night! Very uncharacteristic for Maine to play that way under Barr this season. UNH was ready for it on Saturday and turned the table. I applaud Barr for making a change in his game plan. The problem was Maine couldn't control their physical play and it lead to too many penalties. I don't think Gendron ever changed his game plan against an opponent.

[Chuck Murray]

With Maine coming into the weekend being one of the fewest penalized teams in the country, it's obvious to me that Barr changed his game plan. He must have realized that playing a physical puck chasing game was a possible way to win against UNH. It worked in spades on Friday night! Very uncharacteristic for Maine to play that way under Barr this season. UNH was ready for it on Saturday and turned the table. I applaud Barr for making a change in his game plan. The problem was Maine couldn't control their physical play and it lead to too many penalties. I don't think Gendron ever changed his game plan against an opponent.

If ever an opponent program has historically been susceptible to physical play, it's UNH.

Barr outcoached/out-prepped MS7 in Friday's win, UNH was ready for it Saturday. You nailed it.

[Fishman'81]

If ever an opponent program has historically been susceptible to physical play, it's UNH.

Barr outcoached/out-prepped MS7 in Friday's win, UNH was ready for it Saturday. You nailed it.

OK.

This was a split among two crappy teams.

End of story.

[Runsub5]

When you look up "Contact to the Head" you see a picture of Dawe's hit in the corner. That was nasty.

Hockey East has given Adam Dawe a one game suspension. He will be out of the lineup for Friday's game against Providence.

[BlackBearFan19]

Hockey East has given Adam Dawe a one game suspension. He will be out of the lineup for Friday's game against Providence.

He’s lucky for it only to be 1 game, that was boneheaded play. For a guy that has the victim of so many cheap shots, he should know better.

[steven22]

Goons!

[rw1733]

Maine deserves to lose. Stupid penalties. How can they be one of the least penalized teams when they take so many dumb penalties? They always seem to have someone in the penalty box.

[rw1733]

And there you have it…goal for PC.

[Jackcurtis23]

Goons!

Foolish take.

[Runsub5]

And there you have it…goal for PC.

And another!

[amkirby10]

Wasn't watching, but saw in the boxscore both Houle and Hebert have 15 min in penalties? Did we somehow manage to take two majors in one period? What the heck happened to this tean?

[umhockey91]

Don't worry....almost none of them will be here next season.