Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

[redhawk95]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

Not sure if you guys saw this yet, but Miami has been added to the field for the 2010 Florida College Hockey Classic, along with Cornell, St. Cloud, and Maine. Should be a good tourney.

Nice find. I heard something was afoot, but nice to see confirmed. I might have to find a way to attend this!

[redhawk95]

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Speaking of next years schedule, have to wonder how the 11 team CCHA conference schedule will work itself out. I really hope we take the opportunity to shorten the CCHA sched and increase non conference games than expand it to 30 games again, but there's really no other reasonable way for it to work out unless we go from 28 to 20 games. If that happens expect to see a lot of ECAC non conference games.

Or unbalanced schedules. Where rivalry partners pair off against two other rivalry partners and switch. For example - Miami/OSU v. Michigan/MSU on Friday or Saturday night and then perhaps a two game series home and away. Heck, might not play everyone in a season. Will be interesting.

[redhawk95]

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'95 I had a similar reaction when I saw Hartman in Indy, but I think it is because he is so big, he looks a little awkward when you first see him. I think the play you describe embodies what he is about. From what we see on the ice, and everything I hear about him off the ice, Miami is very lucky to have him.

Speaking of skating, Weber sure seems very smooth for a big man.

Weber is a great skater. He has an "NHL stride." Now, if he can continue to elevate his game, he's going to make the CBJ happy with their second round choice.

[RedhawkBandMan]

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Anyone see Kreider's goal? Fun to watch if you like one-on-one undressings. Kreider has some wheels.

Didn't have video, but heard all about it. Hopefully there will be some video clips turning up on YouTube or something.

[redhawkman10]

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Or unbalanced schedules. Where rivalry partners pair off against two other rivalry partners and switch. For example - Miami/OSU v. Michigan/MSU on Friday or Saturday night and then perhaps a two game series home and away. Heck, might not play everyone in a season. Will be interesting.

I think you will see everyone play everyone atleast twice. However I could see you have a rotation of 3 other teams you play 4 times a year. That would drop the conference game total only to 26 games. For instance play your "rival" 4 times and two other teams 4 a year but those two rotate similar to the cluster system you have now. However Ohio st. and Miami wouldn't necessarily play the same two teams twice. This all sounds good in my head, not sure if it is viable or not. Hope it atleast makes sense.

[mcfarljd]

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We wouldn't be able to do that same 4 games against 3 different teams schedule next season because someone is left out, hell, can't even do a travel partner or clustermate, whatever they want to call it.

Miami/OSU
Michigan/Michigan State
Notre Dame/Bowling Green
Northern Michigan/Lake State
Western Michigan/Ferris State
Alaska Fairbanks.....

If we try the similar schedule we have now we could wind up with...
Miami/OSU/Michigan/Michigan State
Notre Dame/Bowling Green/Northern Michigan/Lake State
Western Michigan/Ferris State/Alaska Fairbanks.....

I don't see any other way around it, we're either going back up to 30 games again, or 20. I honestly think we may see the latter with how the Big Ten teams want more action between themselves now.

[mcfarljd]

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And it looks like the boys beat out the storm and made the trip to Boston for today.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...-brendan-burke

A full 45 minutes before the mass began, the church’s more than 600 seats were already filled to capacity. Up front, the Maple Leafs players and club brass sat quietly. Across the aisle were members of the Miami RedHawks, wearing bright red team jerseys emblazoned with a shamrock and the letters BB.

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

We wouldn't be able to do that same 4 games against 3 different teams schedule next season because someone is left out, hell, can't even do a travel partner or clustermate, whatever they want to call it.

Miami/OSU
Michigan/Michigan State
Notre Dame/Bowling Green
Northern Michigan/Lake State
Western Michigan/Ferris State
Alaska Fairbanks.....

If we try the similar schedule we have now we could wind up with...
Miami/OSU/Michigan/Michigan State
Notre Dame/Bowling Green/Northern Michigan/Lake State
Western Michigan/Ferris State/Alaska Fairbanks.....

I don't see any other way around it, we're either going back up to 30 games again, or 20. I honestly think we may see the latter with how the Big Ten teams want more action between themselves now.

I guess what I am thinking is you play everyone twice and three teams 4 times. That would get you to 26 and you could still keep some of the rivalries like NMU-LSSU, Miami-OSU, MSU-UM and just pair them with 2 other teams a year on a rotating basis. I think that could work with some creativity, but will have to get rid of the cluster basis.

[redhawkman10]

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Nice find. I heard something was afoot, but nice to see confirmed. I might have to find a way to attend this!

Im sure you wouldn't have a hard time getting the wife to go along with a trip to floriday in january, lol .

[mcfarljd]

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I guess what I am thinking is you play everyone twice and three teams 4 times. That would get you to 26 and you could still keep some of the rivalries like NMU-LSSU, Miami-OSU, MSU-UM and just pair them with 2 other teams a year on a rotating basis. I think that could work with some creativity, but will have to get rid of the cluster basis.

That's the thing, that is the exact scenario that we play in now. Everyone twice, and 3 teams four times. But with 11 teams, and the protected rivalries you mentioned, someone is left out, and since UNO is leaving UAF is missing their partner. Either we wind up playing everyone 3 times, or everyone 2 times, but at 11 we can't find a way to get groups of teams together to do 4 games with certain teams.

[redhawkman10]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

That's the thing, that is the exact scenario that we play in now. Everyone twice, and 3 teams four times. But with 11 teams, and the protected rivalries you mentioned, someone is left out, and since UNO is leaving UAF is missing their partner. Either we wind up playing everyone 3 times, or everyone 2 times, but at 11 we can't find a way to get groups of teams together to do 4 games with certain teams.

What I am thinking is similar but not the same. You don't have set teams you play, OSU and Miami wouldn't play the same teams twice. The teams would rotate each year. For example Miami would play OSU twice and say Ferris and Western twice, while OSU would play Notre Dame and BG twice along with Miami. Kind of how football does it in the big ten where you play your rivals every year and rotate the other teams each year and you don't play two teams a year. I think it can work, you just don't have clusters just rotate 3 teams through each year.

[wildcat4life]

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If anyone missed it, here's a 4 part CCHA All-Access video FS Detroit shot of the team the weekend of the Western Michigan series. Pretty good inside look, lots of footage.

http://foxsportsdetroit.com/pages/vi...2cpv8R2cJSuoEv

[redhawk95]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

If anyone missed it, here's a 4 part CCHA All-Access video FS Detroit shot of the team the weekend of the Western Michigan series. Pretty good inside look, lots of footage.

http://foxsportsdetroit.com/pages/vi...2cpv8R2cJSuoEv

Saw that. Thanks for posting.

[Biddco]

Re: Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

If anyone missed it, here's a 4 part CCHA All-Access video FS Detroit shot of the team the weekend of the Western Michigan series. Pretty good inside look, lots of footage.

http://foxsportsdetroit.com/pages/vi...2cpv8R2cJSuoEv

Great stuff! Cool insight you may never see.

Whats with the Brotherhood stuff??

[MiamiRedhawks2008]

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Great stuff! Cool insight you may never see.

Whats with the Brotherhood stuff??

"The Brotherhood" is the Miami Hockey Credo, so to speak. It is the code by which the team works and lives - on the ice and off. It is a way for the men to have a tangible creed which helps them to have a common focus and know that each of them has an entire group of guys (including the staff) that is there for them for any reason. It also lets them know that they are being held to a higher standard than a typical college student - not by the school or law or rule, but by themselves and their brothers. Such a concept is not a new one by any means, but to have it formalized in such a manner must be quite a comfort knowing that you have some 35 men for support. To read the credo (its at the bottom):

http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayto...ram-78084.html

I hope it hasn't changed in the past couple of years, but when i was there, I can't think of a single time a hockey player was in trouble. and trust me, it would be huge news around campus if something happened (consider problems that we've heard about from MSU and UM). I give kudos to Coach Blasi and Co. for recruiting such great kids that will buy into this system.