Re: Boston University vs Maine HEA Semifinals
Man!
I haven't been on in a week or so...and I somehow mustered the patience to catch up on the bickering!
Personally, when I log onto USCHO, I like to talk about hockey! Not petty, quasi-regional differences, even though at the end of the day, we're pretty much all Red Sox loving, blue states with an affinity for seafood and Sam Adams....and if you go anywhere else in the country, we'll all get grouped together and fall victim to New England stereotypes....hell, if it weren't for evening out electoral representation during the Civil War...we might still be the SAME state

but anyway!
Onto the game.
It should be a good one. I do, honestly think we're looking at another BC/BU matchup at the end of the day. Don't get me wrong, Maine won't play poorly persay, and Wilson will have another respectable showing. I do think he lets in one early in the first, and they just have a hard time getting a handle on anything after. Dimmen probably won't play, and I think the team felt his absence, and the offensive spark he can provide.
BU is a team with players that know what important playoff games feel like at this level. Most of their players have played multiple games at the TD Garden before, and compared to a Maine team with no one significant on the roster having played in front of a crowd that large, or in that arena....I just think BU is apt to feel more cool and comfortable while Maine's young guns will be over anxious, and their offensive cold streak will continue.
Barring empty netters, I'll go 3-1 BU.