Maine 2012-13 Part 3D: Still digging

[Ma#1ne Hky]

Re: Maine 2012-13 Part 3D: Still digging

And isn't it ironic that Diamond has hurt the team all year........and then finally comes through just in time to save TIMMAY's neck..........yay!

I wouldn't lay too much blame on Diamond for this season...he's one of a few that comes to play each and every game...he's a heart & soul type and for sure he has done some dumb things on the ice,but I would rather have him on my team any day...he plays hard and if you watch him during the game...he's always there when someone is bumping the netminder or one of his linemates...he's a player with heart.

 

[all bear]

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I wouldn't lay too much blame on Diamond for this season...he's one of a few that comes to play each and every game...he's a heart & soul type and for sure he has done some dumb things on the ice,but I would rather have him on my team any day...he plays hard and if you watch him during the game...he's always there when someone is bumping the netminder or one of his linemates...he's a player with heart.

Not to mention his ice awareness which is outstanding. Hey, lets face it, he was put in a nearly impossible situation having to captain a team with little experience and no one to work with him on the ice initially. But it appears he may have figured out how to become effective out there amidst teammates that are finally coming around a bit. True, his fuse is short, be as long as he keeps his temper under control he can be a major factor out there and should be an all HE selection when its said and done. He has had some huge and clutch goals in his career....to go with his unclutch and ill timed penalties. He's a big stage type player, its too bad we couldnt have seen him play in a national championship game because I think it'd be a real treat.

 

[BoSox3066]

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Well if Marty keeps playing as well as he has, he'll match what Rawlings did tonight and Maine might get a few more points at home when BU shows up in 10 days or so. That weekend's not looking so bad now....

 

[AMC]

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With the exception of the season ending series @ UNH, pretty much every game from here out is winnable. If Maine goes roughly .500 from here to the end, and factoring in that Maine has been basically .500 since December 1, I think it's pretty much a lock Timmy stays on. Not saying he necessarily deserves it, but there are enough talking points between the turn around, the grades, etc. that it can be justified in the court of public opinion.

 

[Runsub5]

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Congratulations to Joey Diamond and Martin Ouellette for receiving player of the week and goalie of the month awards in Hockey East. At this point in the season the team appears to be developing and coming together at just the right time and is capable of finishing strong in the conference. What we all wanted to see (at least some of us).

 

[gscott13]

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happened to catch the tail end of the timmay show on the radio last night where they were talking about next year's schedule and it sounded like the following for next year (expected slate of 34 games):

Conference Games
Boston College x2
Boston University x2
Merrimack x2
Providence x2
Lowell x2
Northeastern x2
Notre Dame x2
UMass x2
Vermont x2
New Hampshire x2

Out of Conference Games
UMass x2
Vermont x2
New Hampshire x1 (still working on this one, but they are thinking it'll be a yearly thing perhaps alternating between Portland/Manchvegas)
Army x1 (though still trying to lock in a date, Portland)
Florida Tournament x2

not sure who else they may have already scheduled either through reciprocating agreements, etc, but that still leaves six open dates (possibly road OOC)
timmay stated that it was tough getting teams to come all the way out to orono...

 

[Priceless]

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Cosgrove gets 3 year extension

 

[KnowItAll]

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With the exception of the season ending series @ UNH, pretty much every game from here out is winnable. If Maine goes roughly .500 from here to the end, and factoring in that Maine has been basically .500 since December 1, I think it's pretty much a lock Timmy stays on. Not saying he necessarily deserves it, but there are enough talking points between the turn around, the grades, etc. that it can be justified in the court of public opinion.

right, and some of us were hoping that players in a Maine uniform would one day be able to compete for a national championship

and we are pretty sure that that will NEVER happen as long as Whitehead is there ensuring that Maine finishes around .500 at best, year after year... and that is .500 with wins against Army and Mercyhurst.

so it is not really "Anti-Maine" to hope for the team to perform so poorly that the AD MUST get rid of the problem... sooner rather than later.

that said, it was really nice to be there and see the boys receive a well-deserved standing ovation for a few minutes after Joey's OT goal.

 

[Priceless]

Re: Maine 2012-13 Part 3D: Still digging

happened to catch the tail end of the timmay show on the radio last night where they were talking about next year's schedule and it sounded like the following for next year (expected slate of 34 games):

Conference Games
Boston College x2
Boston University x2
Merrimack x2
Providence x2
Lowell x2
Northeastern x2
Notre Dame x2
UMass x2
Vermont x2
New Hampshire x2

Out of Conference Games
UMass x2
Vermont x2
New Hampshire x1 (still working on this one, but they are thinking it'll be a yearly thing perhaps alternating between Portland/Manchvegas)
Army x1 (though still trying to lock in a date, Portland)
Florida Tournament x2

not sure who else they may have already scheduled either through reciprocating agreements, etc, but that still leaves six open dates (possibly road OOC)
timmay stated that it was tough getting teams to come all the way out to orono...

With the move to the LTHC and BTHC it is going to be nigh impossible to get those teams to leave their own barns, except maybe to go to Notre Dame to appear on the NBCSN. I would be shocked if we ever see North Dakota, Michigan State or Denver again. Hockey East ought to enter a scheduling agreement with the new WCHA before the ECAC does or else we're going to end up seeing AHA teams for a while. It would also be good karma. It was the WCHA that helped Hockey East when we broke off from the ECAC so it would be nice of us to return the favor. Given a choice between Mercyhurst, Bentley and Robert Morris or Northern Michigan, Bemidji State and the Alaska schools, give me the latter every day of the week.

 

[gscott13]

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With the move to the LTHC and BTHC it is going to be nigh impossible to get those teams to leave their own barns, except maybe to go to Notre Dame to appear on the NBCSN. I would be shocked if we ever see North Dakota, Michigan State or Denver again. Hockey East ought to enter a scheduling agreement with the new WCHA before the ECAC does or else we're going to end up seeing AHA teams for a while. It would also be good karma. It was the WCHA that helped Hockey East when we broke off from the ECAC so it would be nice of us to return the favor. Given a choice between Mercyhurst, Bentley and Robert Morris or Northern Michigan, Bemidji State and the Alaska schools, give me the latter every day of the week.

agreed. loved the old interlock schedule b/c we got to see those teams regularly.

don't really like the prospect of potentially having to watch up to 7 games between maine and either umass/uvm if playoffs somehow broke that way

 

[AMC]

Re: Maine 2012-13 Part 3D: Still digging

happened to catch the tail end of the timmay show on the radio last night where they were talking about next year's schedule and it sounded like the following for next year (expected slate of 34 games):

Conference Games
Boston College x2
Boston University x2
Merrimack x2
Providence x2
Lowell x2
Northeastern x2
Notre Dame x2
UMass x2
Vermont x2
New Hampshire x2

Out of Conference Games
UMass x2
Vermont x2
New Hampshire x1 (still working on this one, but they are thinking it'll be a yearly thing perhaps alternating between Portland/Manchvegas)
Army x1 (though still trying to lock in a date, Portland)
Florida Tournament x2

not sure who else they may have already scheduled either through reciprocating agreements, etc, but that still leaves six open dates (possibly road OOC)
timmay stated that it was tough getting teams to come all the way out to orono...

UMass and Vermont in the nonconference? That's gross. There isn't significant history to need to play those teams at home every year. Are the conference games home/home or 2 game series rotating home/away by year? If home/home, that'd be a ton of Sunday games for Maine. Also terrible. I like the idea of an annual Portland/Manchvegas game for Maine/UNH.

 

[UncleRay]

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I would think the B1G schools would be looking for OOC possibilities. If they play home and away series with each other, that is still only 20 games. Can they really insist upon 10 or so more home games? I would think they would be looking for quality opponents to alternate series with yearly. Not that I'm a big fan of the NC$$ stepping in with more rules, but I would be in favor of them saying that no more than 55% of a team's games can be home games.

 

[ck1969]

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UMass and Vermont in the nonconference? That's gross. There isn't significant history to need to play those teams at home every year. Are the conference games home/home or 2 game series rotating home/away by year? If home/home, that'd be a ton of Sunday games for Maine. Also terrible. I like the idea of an annual Portland/Manchvegas game for Maine/UNH.

It is gross. Having 5 games against teams in your conference count as out of conference is dumb. The potential to play a team 7 times in a 34 game schedule is even dumber.

 

[Drew S.]

It is gross. Having 5 games against teams in your conference count as out of conference is dumb. The potential to play a team 7 times in a 34 game schedule is even dumber.

I would be okay with those games if they were against BU or BC but it seems a bit strange to schedule extra games agains UMA or UVM. As someone else said not a lot of history there. Hopefully in a few years things are back to normal and the schedule is more attractive. I am a fan of only playing each team twice instead of three times.

 

[Priceless]

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I would think the B1G schools would be looking for OOC possibilities. If they play home and away series with each other, that is still only 20 games. Can they really insist upon 10 or so more home games?

Yes, they can. And when you make the gate that some of these western teams make every weekend it's hard to turn them down. As far as the Pairwise is concerned, feasting on cupcakes at home is a lot safer than playing even a decent team on the road and risking a loss. This is going to be one of the unforeseen consequences of these new conferences: It'll open up the schedule so the LTHC and BTHC can start scheduling cream puffs like the SEC does in football.

 

[gscott13]

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It is gross. Having 5 games against teams in your conference count as out of conference is dumb. The potential to play a team 7 times in a 34 game schedule is even dumber.

it would be 4 in 34 with the possibility of 7 in 37 if they had a 3 game series in the playoffs.... doesn't make it any better, but for clarification purposes... that said, 23.5% of the schedule is against UMass and UVM at 4 games each (with the potential of 29.8% if it was compounded by a three game series against one in the playoffs)

 

[Priceless]

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I would be okay with those games if they were against BU or BC but it seems a bit strange to schedule extra games agains UMA or UVM. As someone else said not a lot of history there. Hopefully in a few years things are back to normal and the schedule is more attractive. I am a fan of only playing each team twice instead of three times.

Maine, UHN, UVM and UMass are the flagship public schools in each state. I wouldn't be surprised to see UConn added to the mix when they join Hockey East, although once they're in conference they'll probably only play each other once OOC. That'll give each team 8 OOC games each season. With the Florida tournament every year that would leave Maine with 6. If the conference as a whole won't enter an agreement (*cough* Notre Dame) then I'd love to see Maine and the other publics get together with the WCHA and agree to home and home series. It's been a long time since we've seen the Alaska teams, Tech or Northern in Alfond and we've never seen Mankato. LTHC fans will eventually get diabetes from watching their teams pig out on cupcakes, then crash out in the national tournament when they run into teams that have been playing decent competition all year.

 

[all bear]

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Only problem is, for us with Whitehead, there are not even cupcake teams left anymore.

 

[Ma#1ne Hky]

Re: Maine 2012-13 Part 3D: Still digging

happened to catch the tail end of the timmay show on the radio last night where they were talking about next year's schedule and it sounded like the following for next year (expected slate of 34 games):

Conference Games
Boston College x2
Boston University x2
Merrimack x2
Providence x2
Lowell x2
Northeastern x2
Notre Dame x2
UMass x2
Vermont x2
New Hampshire x2

Out of Conference Games
UMass x2
Vermont x2
New Hampshire x1 (still working on this one, but they are thinking it'll be a yearly thing perhaps alternating between Portland/Manchvegas)
Army x1 (though still trying to lock in a date, Portland)
Florida Tournament x2

not sure who else they may have already scheduled either through reciprocating agreements, etc, but that still leaves six open dates (possibly road OOC)
timmay stated that it was tough getting teams to come all the way out to orono...

Not positive on this but I heard a while back that UNH & North Dakota would be the teams in the next Florida Classic to go with Co-Host Maine & Cornell.

 

[Ma#1ne Hky]

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right, and some of us were hoping that players in a Maine uniform would one day be able to compete for a national championship

and we are pretty sure that that will NEVER happen as long as Whitehead is there ensuring that Maine finishes around .500 at best, year after year... and that is .500 with wins against Army and Mercyhurst.

so it is not really "Anti-Maine" to hope for the team to perform so poorly that the AD MUST get rid of the problem... sooner rather than later.

that said, it was really nice to be there and see the boys receive a well-deserved standing ovation for a few minutes after Joey's OT goal.

.500 Hockey should never be a thought for Maine Hockey...NEVER...play for Championships/pretty plain & simple goal. Might sound like a Pipe Dream to some,but it use to be the mind-set.