UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

[sandiegoblkbr]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

New USCHO rankings. #13 UNH vs #16 ME

Hockey East is ranked #13 through #18

#13 UNH
#14 BC
#15 UMass
#16 Maine
#17 Vermont
#18 Lowell

I don't see more than 2 (maybe 3) teams from Hockey East making the NCAAs this season.

[Gusforhobey]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

Hockey East is ranked #13 through #18

#13 UNH
#14 BC
#15 UMass
#16 Maine
#17 Vermont
#18 Lowell

I don't see more than 2 (maybe 3) teams from Hockey East making the NCAAs this season.

UNH and BC will both make it. I think Maine or UMass will be the third team. Maine would have to make it to the title game to get in.

[Priceless]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

UNH and BC will both make it. I think Maine or UMass will be the third team. Maine would have to make it to the title game to get in.

Not really. If they draw Vermont in the first round, that could get them 2 more TUC wins. Their Friday opponent would likely be a TUC (UHN or BC probably). That would give them an extra 2-1 record against TUC, not to mention the RPI boost they would receive.

But the team still has a long ways to go, starting this weekend.

[Maineiak]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

Wow...midway down on page 2? What has this thread/flame war/rivalry come to???

[unhpuckfan2001]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

Wow...midway down on page 2? What has this thread/flame war/rivalry come to???

M-A-I-N-E maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaine sucks!!!!

[Maineiak]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

M-A-I-N-E maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaine sucks!!!!

Much more like it.

[sterlippo1]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

UNH and BC will both make it. I think Maine or UMass will be the third team. Maine would have to make it to the title game to get in.

never rule out the terriers

[unhpuckfan2001]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

Much more like it.

FWIW, it was very weird the past two years, saying that, while Maine actually DID suck. I hate 'em, but it's good to see them rebounding.

[Runsub5]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

Saturdays game might sell out, I'll bet Fridays doesn't

Saturday's game is on television (WABI), I doubt it sells out.

[Runsub5]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

never rule out the terriers

Exactly. The Terriers are coming on strong.

[thecomicbookguy]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

I don't have a good feeling about this coming weekend. Maine looked terrible back in November, but that was November (and I was comparing them to Miami, who looked *ing good). I would be ecstatic with a split. From Wally's description below, Maine sounds similar (at least on D) to Merrimack. UNH got to the net against MC, but had trouble beating Braithwaite. We could see similar offensive struggles this weekend.

UNH has owned Maine in recent years so their isn't much to flame about from a Mainers perspective. Hopefully Maine can get some points out of this. I've haven't seen UNH play but I suspect their offense is pretty good like it usually is. Maines D isn't that good but Darling has been great since November so we'll see.

Sandbagger!

Off topic a little bit here, but did any of you Mainuhs realize that Mark Nemec is in the mechancial engineering program? How he is able to balance that workload with hawkey is indeed impressive.

Wow. All jokes about Maine's academics notwithstanding, that is pretty impressive.

Wow...midway down on page 2? What has this thread/flame war/rivalry come to???

Maine fans sandbag, and UNH fans have been relatively quiet this year. Leads to a boring thread.

[walrus]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

Saturday's game is on television (WABI),.

That never mattered in the past, but you're probably right

[Gibber]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

I don't have a good feeling about this coming weekend. Maine looked terrible back in November, but that was November (and I was comparing them to Miami, who looked *ing good).

Not sure how much you can take from either team in the early season matchup, look how UNH faired (fared?) the previous and following two weeks. It wasn't until mid november that they started the roll that they're on. Both teams have improved 10-fold from that matchup over 3 months ago

The mistique of Alfond, I'm not sure its there anymore, and defintiely isn't in the heads of the players who have played there in recent years. Will that return? Both teams are relatively young, though UNH is being led by veterans up front. The only two times UNH has lost to the Black Bears in the last 10 or 11 games has been in Manchester, I believe, good to see them have some success at the 'Fond after many years without a win up there...

Will Friday's game be available online to watch?

[thecomicbookguy]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

Not sure how much you can take from either team in the early season matchup, look how UNH fared the previous and following two weeks. It wasn't until mid november that they started the roll that they're on. Both teams have improved 10-fold from that matchup over 3 months ago

I believe that was my point.

[unhpuckfan2001]

Re: UNH at Maine - Feb 5/6 (Flame on!!)

Both teams have improved 10-fold from that matchup over 3 months ago

As such, my final score prediction, using simple math, is:

UNH 50, Maine 20.

Or the other direction:

UNH .5, Maine .2

If you then assume that each team improved 10-fold on both offense and defense, my final final prediction is:

UNH 25, Maine 4.

Yeah, that works.