2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

[Howitz-ah]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

goaltending and defense were suspect at best.

How do others feel about the defensive performance. I keep hearing people say that the goalies were untested. How can the defense be suspect but the goalies be untested in the same game? They only gave up 16 shots. This club beat NU the night before, so it can't be a total lack of skill...the defense must have done something right?....

 

[Pucknut]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

While it wasn’t a very pretty game to watch, with the Axemen living up to their name, there were certainly some positives. The two Maine goalies Sirman and Sullivan didn’t have to face much rubber but looked fairly solid. Sirman had to make a couple of big stops after a defensive player coughed up the puck at his own blue line letting in a two on one. Newcomer Carlos Amestoy was very active in both ends but didn’t figure into any of the scoring. O’Connor was solid on defense making a huge hit at his own blue line and punished a couple other Acadians. Swavely had an assist and seems to be very feisty when pursuing the puck. Corkum’s goal, I have to agree with Wally, was a beauty into the top right corner but at other times he looked like the player who hadn’t played in a couple of years. Nyquist is just so outstanding, at one point racing the length of the ice to catch a player who had a jump on him on a breakaway and making a great defensive play, turning and getting back to his O-zone to make a great shot on net all about in a 15-second span.

 

[lkenney]

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So, of these players: Anthoine, Shemansky, Mangene, Amestoy, Corkum, Leidermark, Andersson, Beattie, Swavely, and maybe Pryor at forward... who wants to take a stab at the six that play against Lowell next weekend?

Personally, I assume Shemansky, Mangene, Anthoine, and Corkum, but after that it gets muddy. Maybe Leidermark-Andersson-Shemansky, and Corkum-Mangene-Anthoine?

 

[sandiegoblkbr]

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So, of these players: Anthoine, Shemansky, Mangene, Amestoy, Corkum, Leidermark, Andersson, Beattie, Swavely, and maybe Pryor at forward... who wants to take a stab at the six that play against Lowell next weekend?

Anthoine
Shemansky
Mangene
Amestoy
Corkum
Beattie

 

[KnowItAll]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

Like put Matt Duffy at forward, again??

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without looking it up, I have an idea that Matt, at Forward has as many or more hat tricks as anyone on the current maine roster... and I think it is more

 

[KnowItAll]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

For starters: liedermark and pryor are junk.

I still did not see Liedermark make any mistakes.
Abbott sure did, he got schooled and gave up the Acadia goal.
and I would not call Abbott junk.

as for my question over the summer about chemistry between Abbott and Dee. It was there tonight. There were 3 beautiful give and gos between them in the first period and besides Abbott occasionally fumbling the puck at the blue line on the PP, I thought those two worked together almost as well as any other pair I have seen in college hockey

as for goaltending, I do not see a question mark. I have NEVER seen a goalie so far out of position in Maine's net, for a first shot. (well that is for goalies who were not in the corner, passing the puck to Gerbe) Inexcusable goal, and Maine clearly needs a goalie coach.

 

[walrus]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

So, of these players: Anthoine, Shemansky, Mangene, Amestoy, Corkum, Leidermark, Andersson, Beattie, Swavely, and maybe Pryor at forward... who wants to take a stab at the six that play against Lowell next weekend?

Personally, I assume Shemansky, Mangene, Anthoine, and Corkum, but after that it gets muddy. Maybe Leidermark-Andersson-Shemansky, and Corkum-Mangene-Anthoine?

Anthoine, Shemansky, MAngene, Corkum, Andersson, Leidermark.

I really liked Amestoy, the kid can skate and throws his body around.
As far as the D goes, its pretty easy to play D when the Axeman have their sticks across their thighs trying to catch their breath after a few minutes of hockey. If you think Lowell will be like that, guess again. The goalies and the D were untested

 

[whatever]

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George Hale is so far past his time its unbelievable. The guy belongs in the 50s. He calls stuff that isn't there, he must not be able to use his booth tv moniter. They watch replays and still don't see whats going on.

The guy is still around? Egad

 

[fiqure8]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

Anthoine, Shemansky, MAngene, Corkum, Andersson, Leidermark.

I really liked Amestoy, the kid can skate and throws his body around.
As far as the D goes, its pretty easy to play D when the Axeman have their sticks across their thighs trying to catch their breath after a few minutes of hockey. If you think Lowell will be like that, guess again. The goalies and the D were untested

What's up with Haggerty? Was not in the line up. Injured?

 

[ck1969]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

From the sounds of how rough the game was I'm just glad there were no significant injuries.

 

[gscott13]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

What's up with Haggerty? Was not in the line up. Injured?

i think they said he has a sprained ankle and was questionable for the lowell/uconn weekend.

 

[Priceless]

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on another note, i don't think priceless is nostra, jeff. stylistically the posting isn't very similar. i'm interested as to how you made this connection

Because he is suffering from obsession and severe paranoia. I think he needs psychiatric help.

 

[Maineiak]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

From the sounds of how rough the game was I'm just glad there were no significant injuries.

From today's BDN article:

...UNB right wing Chris Bruton, who scored twice in a 3-2 win at Northeastern on Saturday night. “I don’t think we deserved that many penalties. We play a tougher brand of hockey. There’s a lot more hitting. Obviously, it’s not the same here.”

I don't think it was the hitting itself...it was the type of hitting, i.e. hits to the head, leading with elbows, after the whistle, etc, etc

I enjoyed the player who just wouldn't shut up on the bench yelling at the ref waiting for a faceoff. Finally, Federico yanked him off the bench and sent him for a 10 minute cooling off in the sin bin.

 

[sandiegoblkbr]

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Because he is suffering from obsession and severe paranoia. I think he needs psychiatric help.

That's not very nice.

 

[sandiegoblkbr]

Re: 2010 Maine offseason: a lazy summer on the Stillwater

From today's BDN article:

...UNB right wing Chris Bruton, who scored twice in a 3-2 win at Northeastern on Saturday night. “I don’t think we deserved that many penalties. We play a tougher brand of hockey. There’s a lot more hitting. Obviously, it’s not the same here.”

I don't think it was the hitting itself...it was the type of hitting, i.e. hits to the head, leading with elbows, after the whistle, etc, etc

I enjoyed the player who just wouldn't shut up on the bench yelling at the ref waiting for a faceoff. Finally, Federico yanked him off the bench and sent him for a 10 minute cooling off in the sin bin.

UNB???........I see that Mahoney is already hitting the bottle.

 

[Priceless]

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That's not very nice.

As opposed to accusing me of being a poster on a message board I'd never even heard of.

How's this for nice: I sincerely hope you get the help you need.

 

[Priceless]

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UNB???........I see that Mahoney is already hitting the bottle.

You're assuming he ever stopped.

 

[Howitz-ah]

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without looking it up, I have an idea that Matt, at Forward has as many or more hat tricks as anyone on the current maine roster... and I think it is more

I was there...

one of them was an empty-netter, and their opponent was Merrimack. What else did he do at forward that year? And it wasn't even about what he did offensively, it's the principle behind the timing of such of a move.

Short of Ramsey, our defense consisted of Simon and Bret who's worth was measured more on the opponent's blueline; Carrierre who was more of a liability defensively; and then a trio of freshmen.

When you're struggling in all three zones, and your depth at pure D is that slim, why in the world do you move your 2nd best defensive option. Did Duffy's value at forward really outweigh weakening our defense more than it already was?

It appears we won 1 game courtesy of Duff playing forward. In contrast, (empty net goals aside) there were 7 games that we either tied or lost by one with Duffy at forward. He had an 0-1-1 line in those 7 games.


I just think he could have served us better where he belonged!

 

[me9155w]

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Can someone please tell me what the point of playing some of these Canadian teams really is? All they want to do is fight. Where is the upside for Maine? We take too great a chance of an injury happening in one of these games.

The only plus that I can see is for the pockets of the university. The Alfond was probably 85% full last night which is at least 50% more than they would get for a Blue-White game.

The ref's lost control of the game last night and then started handing out game misconduct penalties for everything.

On the plus side, it's hockey season and I for one am very happy to see Maine on the ice again.

Go Blue!

 

[Priceless]

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Can someone please tell me what the point of playing some of these Canadian teams really is?

The only plus that I can see is for the pockets of the university.

You answered your own question.