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Maine 2011 Offseason #2: Wondering If We'll Outdraw Women's Hoops This Year

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As of Tuesday has anyone received their Season Tickets.?
 
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chripy said:
My understanding of these renovations is that its all about the ice. Whitehead needed new ice to be competitive for top-end talent. The story went, Maine would havesome prized recruit come in. He'd skate the ice, say it sucked, and go else-where. So, has anyone here skated the new ice yet? Does anyone know what the players think of it? If the netting sucks and the bench seating is lame and all the other things people are saying is true, can the ice alone make up for it?
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Wasn't it HE who wanted the upgrades, the same reason Merrimack is doing them?
 
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TripleE said:
This is one of the funnier posts I've seen.

First off, I'm guessing the players could really give a **** about the netting or the concourse. And any player whose decision is at all effected by the bench seating can take a hike anyway....you know, once his nails are done drying.... :rolleyes:

But yes, yes - it's definitely the ice quality that has been preventing Tim from putting forward competitive teams, and bringing in more competitive rosters....In other news Duomolin and Billett committed elsewhere because they didn't think Maine's locker stalls provided sufficient elbow room....

So fill me in...did the ice quality start taking a sudden turn for the worse, oh say, 5 years ago? It must be, because that straw never broke Jimmy, Greg or Lev's back. And prior to Tim's tenure, no skilled player in their right mind came in to Orono, what with our sub-perfect ice conditions. So I won't even go there.

In the last half decade, it must be because we've only had talentless, uncoachable schmucks like Gus, House, O'Neill, Abbott and Flynn that we aren't gettin 'er dun. What kind of coach could mold a successful equation when they're forced to work with garbage like that? Fortunately, this ice is apt to start bringing the future Gretzkys and Lemieux's to Orono. It's going to make all the difference. Our program shall return to greatness yet. All hail the power of modern coolers.

Related: Teddy Purcell and Andrew Sweetland would have played 4 years if it weren't for that gosh darn ice....
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LOL........classic!

The excuses just don't end with TIMMAY!
 
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OK, OK. Guess I could have worded my post differently.
First, I am not a Timmay apologist. Check out the FB page. I'm there.
B: My comment about the ice was culled from a conversation said to have taken place between a 'friend' of mine and Whitehead. A rumor. 'Friend' says " Tim told
me that the ice has caused the turn-down in recruiting. In a few years, Maine will be back in the national picture." I know what that sounds like.
Last, I get nearly all of my info about the team from these threads. Been lurking for nearly 3 years and almost never feel that I have something new or better to add. I will not pretend to know anything more than the rest of ya because I don't. But I had not seen any mention of the ice so I thought, maybe there is something to it.
But really, has anyone here skated the ice?
 
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Better ice won't do anything to help with TIMMAY's "deer in the headlights" look behind the bench.

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walrus said:
Wasn't it HE who wanted the upgrades, the same reason Merrimack is doing them?
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This was my understanding as well. Thought it was slipped into a story about upgrades at Mack or Lowell that the league was requiring several schools to make several changes including maine.
 
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BoSox3066 said:
This was my understanding as well. Thought it was slipped into a story about upgrades at Mack or Lowell that the league was requiring several schools to make several changes including maine.
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I think dehumidification and AC was one of the things required by HE.


Got my Tickets also
 
Re: Maine 2011 Offseason #2: Wondering If We'll Outdraw Women's Hoops This Year

Well no tickets today,spoke to a friend just 6 miles from Alfond Arena and he called as he still didn't get his season tickets as of today...he was told they were mailed out last Friday. Go figure...??
 
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Nyquist playing tonight on Versus against Chicago. Decent first shift and got a UMaine mention, also schooled by Kane a bit on a rush. Playing on 3rd line and wearing #14. Rest of you are likely watching Sox wrap up playoff spot!
 
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chripy said:
OK, OK. Guess I could have worded my post differently.
First, I am not a Timmay apologist. Check out the FB page. I'm there.
B: My comment about the ice was culled from a conversation said to have taken place between a 'friend' of mine and Whitehead. A rumor. 'Friend' says " Tim told
me that the ice has caused the turn-down in recruiting. In a few years, Maine will be back in the national picture." I know what that sounds like.
Last, I get nearly all of my info about the team from these threads. Been lurking for nearly 3 years and almost never feel that I have something new or better to add. I will not pretend to know anything more than the rest of ya because I don't. But I had not seen any mention of the ice so I thought, maybe there is something to it.
But really, has anyone here skated the ice?
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Yes - many times.

Had I not been so compelled to write that little rant as a complete smart ***, I would have said that a new cooling system was certainly a need. But in terms of its effect on the recent success of the program? That's some truly and impressively DEEP DIGGING for excuses.

Does anyone actually believe there was one (let alone several) "blue chippah" that said...

"Maine is definitely #1 on my list in terms of atheltic development, player resources, potential for exposure and success, coaching, team atmosphere, community support, campus life and academics, tradition,....buuuut.....the ice can get a little soft on a warm day. That's it. I'm going to North Dakota..."

I'm venturing out on a limb to say that the decline in more than one of those other categories played a larger role in those decisions, and that new coolers are not the magic band-aid.

Not just that, but exactly what sort of player is walking out the door that we're gunning for? Are these player exponentially better than guys like Abbott and Flynn? For every player we supposedly lost due to ****ty ice (sorry, can't help but chuckle everytime I write this), we seemed to still get talented players like those guys, Joey, Will, Mike....how many college teams would love to have the speed and heart of guys like Matt Mangene to plug into their 3rd line, their PK unit, or any other situation?

Despite the ADVERSITY of recruiting with bad ice...Tim already HAS good players. In fact! He HAS a couple of pretty good goalies, too! :eek: You just wouldn't always recognize them as such...





If they wanted to spend 5 million bucks and have it assist in making the program more competitve, they should have put a 2nd sheet of ice down. It will be helpful when basketball is gone, but even still, that Alfond ice gets used more than a cheap hooker. It really limits both the men and women in terms of flexibility and independent ice work.
 
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BobF said:
Nyquist playing tonight on Versus against Chicago. Decent first shift and got a UMaine mention, also schooled by Kane a bit on a rush. Playing on 3rd line and wearing #14. Rest of you are likely watching Sox wrap up playoff spot!
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Tampa Bay's in,Birds from Baltimore ended the BoSox dream in the bottom of the 9th...
 
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Ma#1ne Hky said:
Tampa Bay's in,Birds from Baltimore ended the BoSox dream in the bottom of the 9th...
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Yes it would seem I put the whammy on Sox. They were leading and Rays were losing 7-0 when I turned off the lights. Guess the Sox and Yankees did the same! Well it's hockey season officially now in New England!
 
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I read the article in the BDN about the team building rafting trip. I noticed the following sentence, "When you saw the rapids, your adrenaline started going,” said junior defenseman Matt Mangene, who had gone rafting earlier in the summer. “It was great. We had Class V rapids.”

I thought the Mangene on D experiment ended last season? I hope this is just an error on the part of the writer. He is a good hockey player, but I think much better as a forward. Can anyone provide clarification? Thanks.
 
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Potato in NH said:
I read the article in the BDN about the team building rafting trip. I noticed the following sentence, "When you saw the rapids, your adrenaline started going,” said junior defenseman Matt Mangene, who had gone rafting earlier in the summer. “It was great. We had Class V rapids.”

I thought the Mangene on D experiment ended last season? I hope this is just an error on the part of the writer. He is a good hockey player, but I think much better as a forward. Can anyone provide clarification? Thanks.
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Your right,keep him at forward and not even think at putting him in a d-man pairing....
 
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