Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

[mcfarljd]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Haha the one man band...he is classic. They are up to it again, don't look now but NMU is on fire. However we don't lose that series in the CCHA playoffs, I don't believe we make the run we did. It gave the boys two weeks to practice work things out and get ready for the tournament. Not too mention a few practices with a garbage can in the middle of the ice lol

Yeah just checked the standings. Looks like they could be the #4 teams. UNO has 2 on them but 2 games in hand also. It'll come down to the Michigan/NMU series this weekend to see who gets that last bye I think. So whoever winds up with that is who we could expect to see in the Semis at the Joe (as long as we make it back up there again, and if all top seeds advance).

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Agree on NMU. Especially after they kindly put us out in our own rink last March. They always seem to be playing their best at this time of the season down the stetch. They do have some pretty cool fans, especially Goofus.

Haha the one man band...he is classic. They are up to it again, don't look now but NMU is on fire. However we don't lose that series in the CCHA playoffs, I don't believe we make the run we did. It gave the boys two weeks to practice work things out and get ready for the tournament. Not too mention a few practices with a garbage can in the middle of the ice lol

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Recruiting Target Watch:
January '93 born, 6', 170 lb center Sean Kuraly of the Ohio AAA Jr Blue Jackets U18 squad is 7th in all of the MWEHL Tier 1 Midget Majors in points per game (19 G, 30 A in 37 games), and just got back from Europe after having being added to the US U-17 team to play in the Vlad Dzurilla tourney (along with Alex Gacek, who led the team in scoring there, Tyler Biggs, and Connor Murphy). He also began the year as a callup with the Indiana Ice, notching 3 points in 5 games after being snapped up by the Ice in last year's Futures Draft. It would follow that he would play next year with the Ice, after having led the Blue Jackets in scoring the last two years. Aside from all these program connections, (Connor Murphy was also a Jr. Blue Jacket) Kuraly's father is Miami's second all-time leading scorer, Rick Kuraly. I think it may be safe to say Miami might be on his radar, and he on theirs.

Ill add to it, the kid has an absolute snip for a shot. If you want to go deeper him and murphy were line mates on the CBJ U-16 team, safe to say they are familiar with each other. Would be a great get if he chosses that route, which I don't see any reason to not. He is an impact player, has good size, needs to put weight on, but just like biggs has a great shot. Needs to work on his skating ability but that will come for sure. That program in columbus is getting better and better, looks really bad on tOSU that these kids are flocking to oxford instead of columbus.

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Ha yea definitely sounds like that Kuraly kid is very familiar with our program I'm guessing.

RHM, whenever the Sioux are on I take the chance to watch them too. We pretty much had the same things to say, just a different way about it. No idea why this kid gets all offended over here, everything we said is pretty true. And I was just gettin on ya for pickin a split in the predictions this week.

Well hell jd- you got like an 18 pt lead on me I got to make bold moves to try and catch ya. That week I missed killed me in the standings.

[mcfarljd]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Thanks for the kind words! NMU is one team I don't want to see come to oxford for the playoffs, they are always tough and I really think this is our year to get the tourny title!

Agree on NMU. Especially after they kindly put us out in our own rink last March. They always seem to be playing their best at this time of the season down the stetch. They do have some pretty cool fans, especially Goofus.

[mcfarljd]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Ha yea definitely sounds like that Kuraly kid is very familiar with our program I'm guessing.

RHM, whenever the Sioux are on I take the chance to watch them too. We pretty much had the same things to say, just a different way about it. No idea why this kid gets all offended over here, everything we said is pretty true. And I was just gettin on ya for pickin a split in the predictions this week.

[wildcat4life]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Recruiting Target Watch:
January '93 born, 6', 170 lb center Sean Kuraly of the Ohio AAA Jr Blue Jackets U18 squad is 7th in all of the MWEHL Tier 1 Midget Majors in points per game (19 G, 30 A in 37 games), and just got back from Europe after having being added to the US U-17 team to play in the Vlad Dzurilla tourney (along with Alex Gacek, who led the team in scoring there, Tyler Biggs, and Connor Murphy). He also began the year as a callup with the Indiana Ice, notching 3 points in 5 games after being snapped up by the Ice in last year's Futures Draft. It would follow that he would play next year with the Ice, after having led the Blue Jackets in scoring the last two years. Aside from all these program connections, (Connor Murphy was also a Jr. Blue Jacket) Kuraly's father is Miami's second all-time leading scorer, Rick Kuraly. I think it may be safe to say Miami might be on his radar, and he on theirs.

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

As a NMU Wildcat fan, Go Redhawks this weekend. We would love to see you take out UNO.
I visited your rink last year during the CCHA playoffs, loved it, really nice.
Good luck the rest of the way this year.

Thanks for the kind words! NMU is one team I don't want to see come to oxford for the playoffs, they are always tough and I really think this is our year to get the tourny title!

[devildog]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

I know UNO is a good team and they are playing well, but so was Lake Superior when they came to town (they were 8-2-2 before our sweep). So was Ferris when we went there (they were 11-1-2 before our sweep). I'm not writing UNO off, they're decent, they will not finish in the top 4 though. They're only "quality" win this season is If we stay focused though, which we have done in the past month, then we shouldn't be expecting a split. UNO gives up a lot of goals, and we score a lot. We aren't facing a goalie that can steal a game like we have for most of the season (re: Nagle, Gill, Bakala, Palmisano, Nelson, Greenham).

As a NMU Wildcat fan, Go Redhawks this weekend. We would love to see you take out UNO.
I visited your rink last year during the CCHA playoffs, loved it, really nice.
Good luck the rest of the way this year.

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

I am really excited to see how he decides to try to match up against us.

I would be willing to bet the Ferris film has been played a lot in Omaha this week.

They do have some speed, I would look for them to try and put a lot of pressure on the puck and force turnovers. Miami has shown some capabilities of forcing passes and getting a little flustered with the puck when they are pressured. If UNO can take half of the ice away and put a lot of pressure on the puck carrier it would give them a good chance.

Now to counter that Miami will need to keep a saftey valve option available. You will need to make that initail pass from deep in your end to make UNO force their hand, use the saftey option defenseman to transition and you could be able to catch UNO out of position. Lots of game play going to happen, it will be a good test for Coach Blasi to adjust on the fly.

[redhawk95]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

I'll be emailing this to the NoDak boys.

NoDak's record is NOT because of Genoway being out. The record is due to playing really well and not getting the results. It happens. I'm not sure how a Miami fan would know much about the recent play of the NoDak team to draw certain conclusions as far as NCAA predictions.

Email away. There's nothing incendiary about that at all. Regardless, we've seen UND up close and personal. Not only that, but they're on TV quite often so even us slovenly, apparently uneducated, Miami fans have seen them play enough to make some message board banter.

[redhawk95]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Coach blais is a very good coach and it should be an interesting battle between the two coaches on which style they decide to play.

I am really excited to see how he decides to try to match up against us.

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

I know UNO is a good team and they are playing well, but so was Lake Superior when they came to town (they were 8-2-2 before our sweep). So was Ferris when we went there (they were 11-1-2 before our sweep). I'm not writing UNO off, they're decent, they will not finish in the top 4 though. They're only "quality" win this season is If we stay focused though, which we have done in the past month, then we shouldn't be expecting a split. UNO gives up a lot of goals, and we score a lot. We aren't facing a goalie that can steal a game like we have for most of the season (re: Nagle, Gill, Bakala, Palmisano, Nelson, Greenham).

I don't expect a split, I expect a sweep. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was a split. I believe it will probably be a split, doesn't mean I am not pulling for a sweep. I am trying to be realistic, from what you were saying it seemed there shouldn't be anyway Miami splits. All of your arguments are valid and may be the case but UNO is a pretty darn good club with a great coach and they will battle Miami. I think Miami is more talented and is playing just as well if not better than UNO at this point but UNO is plenty capable of getting atleast a game this weekend, just like any of those teams you mentioned were capable of doing it as well. Only difference is none of the before mentioned were able too, jury is still out on UNO. Case in point no one thought Miami would lose a game to Robert Morris let alone two. You just never know sometimes.

[mcfarljd]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Did not mean someone a part of the program. But yes the fans. Peruse any sioux thread and that's all you hear. Or read

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

I'll be emailing this to the NoDak boys.

NoDak's record is NOT because of Genoway being out. I highly doubt you talked to someone "affiliated" with the program. You probably talked to some whiney NoDak fans (they do exist lol). The record is due to playing really well and not getting the results. It happens. Maybe for you guys your place in the NCAA is all but set, but over in the WCHA, it's still a battle at the top and nothing will be set until after the Final Five. I'm not sure how a Miami fan would know much about the recent play of the NoDak team to draw certain conclusions as far as NCAA predictions. But you are entitled to your own opinion.

Peace out.

Well I don't know about jd but I do watch them whenever they are on TV so I have seen them a lot this year. For me personally after watching that thriller in grand forks in november I didn't see this coming from the sioux. Could it be possible that they have their halves reversed? Usually the Sioux start slow and finish extremely well, this year they seemed to start well out of the gate and have fluttered lately. I have seen them play great and win, play really really bad, and play great and lose. Eidsness has been a weakness this year and needs to be more consistant down the stretch. Genoway being out definantly hurts No Dak but it isn't the sole reason for their struggles, other guys haven't stepped up. Ultimately I would expect to see them in the tournament and think they will be atleast a 3 seed and a team you don't want to face in the tourny. But with their remaining schedule, if they don't figure it out they could be out. It isn't that far fetched which I never thought would be a possibility this year.