Maine 2012 - Take 2. If This Ain't the Bottom...

[Priceless]

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I don't think they sell beer for the UMaine games. I will say the U has done zero marketing for this game. In years past there was always a little bit of promotion leading up to the Portland game. I haven't even heard the local sports guys on TV or radio mention it. Too bad. I wouldn't expect a big crowd.

I don't think I've even gotten an email telling me that there even is a game. I got two in two days telling me about some basketball game in a month that's going to be on ESPN3 (I wonder if folks in Orono realize that's not a real channel, but the Internet) and features some sort of beach promotion for some reason (because nothing says "beach weather" like Orono, Maine in January).

As for tickets to this game, they're through Ticketmaster so a seating map like at UMaine is unavailable, but "Best Available" single ticket is center ice, 20th row. Two seats is front row down in the corner, four seats is 19th row in another corner. No idea how they calculate what is the "best available" but I can't understand why anyone would blindly buy tickets like this online. Go to the box office or to a local TM location and pick your seats. I'd be interested to find out if the Civic Center counts the tickets they gave away to local youth hockey leagues to sell as being sold by the Civic Center. That could inflate attendance quite a bit. I'm thinking the crowd will be about the size of a midweek Pirates game against someone other than Manchester or Providence.

 

[all bear]

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I will say the U has done zero marketing for this game. In years past there was always a little bit of promotion leading up to the Portland game. I haven't even heard the local sports guys on TV or radio mention it. Too bad. I wouldn't expect a big crowd.

Its absurd what a terrible job is being done to at least drum up some kind of support or enthusiasm. I realize its Mercyfirst but please. Welcome to the new Maine hockey.

 

[DoubleA]

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Last Maine Hockey game I went to at CCCC, I am pretty certain that you could buy beer but had to drink it out in the lobby area. Couldn't bring it into the arena. NCAA events generally don't sell alcohol at all. Case in point the NCAA hoops Sweet 16 in The Gahhden last March. No alcohol. None. We left early...

Now on a different note, at Agganis for the B.U. hockey games, there are six, count 'em six beer stands around the stadium. What a surprise!!! A determining fact I might add as to why I got season tix there this season rather than at B.C. or Northeastern. Agganis is a great take, even for a Black Bear.

I don't think they sell beer for the UMaine games. I will say the U has done zero marketing for this game. In years past there was always a little bit of promotion leading up to the Portland game. I haven't even heard the local sports guys on TV or radio mention it. Too bad. I wouldn't expect a big crowd.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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Last Maine Hockey game I went to at CCCC, I am pretty certain that you could buy beer but had to drink it out in the lobby area. Couldn't bring it into the arena. NCAA events generally don't sell alcohol at all. Case in point the NCAA hoops Sweet 16 in The Gahhden last March. No alcohol. None. We left early...

NCAA tournament events are strictly no alcohol unless you're in a luxury suite (they also cover up all advertising). Any non-NCAA tourney events can sell alcohol if the venue chooses to do so I believe.

 

[ck1969]

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NCAA tournament events are strictly no alcohol unless you're in a luxury suite (they also cover up all advertising). Any non-NCAA tourney events can sell alcohol if the venue chooses to do so I believe.

That is correct. I forgot you could get beer at CCCC at the last UMaine game and drink it in the lobby area. I didn't bother that's why I probably didn't remember. Like Priceless mentioned, don't get tix's thru Ticketripoff...I mean master. You'll be able to walk up to the box office and get a ticket. There will be plenty of good seats open even if you get one in the nose bleeds. Just wait until about half way thru the 1st and move. I've done that plenty of times for past UMaine games here and esp. at Pirates games. I wonder if Timmay is doing his usual pre-game meet n greet in the lounge area. I'm guessing not!

 

[Chairman of the Boards]

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Hope Whitehead doesn't upset the apple cart and leaves the line of Leen, Beattie, Shore intact. Let's find out if last games 7 point outing was chemistry or just a fluke?

 

[DoubleA]

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Hope Whitehead misses the bus and Corkum coaches.

Hope Whitehead doesn't upset the apple cart and leaves the line of Leen, Beattie, Shore intact. Let's find out if last games 7 point outing was chemistry or just a fluke?

 

[Agganis]

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Now on a different note, at Agganis for the B.U. hockey games, there are six, count 'em six beer stands around the stadium. What a surprise!!! A determining fact I might add as to why I got season tix there this season rather than at B.C. or Northeastern. Agganis is a great take, even for a Black Bear.

There are way more than 6

Also you can buy beer at Conte, just not in the normal concourse.

 

[KnowItAll]

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Thats probably as good an answer as any but Im interested in learning what the one that knows it all has to say.

why? so you can take that out of context too? or make inferences that are inappropriate?
I said that the penalties that Diamond takes are not as bad as what people think, when one looks at the whole picture. that he draws almost as many or just as many penalties as he takes.... nobody else does that. Diamond can tell an opponent something about his 2 mom's while standing in the crease and get that opponent to toss diamond right into the opponent's own goalie... thereby "running the goalie" AND drawing a penalty.

those are good things.

also, I never said that Diamond's play or Diamond himself were critical to winning. I said that Maine is better off if he is allowed to play his game, and if the team plays like he does.

 

[BoSox3066]

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Diamond can tell an opponent something about his 2 mom's while standing in the crease and get that opponent to toss diamond right into the opponent's own goalie... thereby "running the goalie" AND drawing a penalty.

Or wiping out the tying goal, as was the case that Friday against Vermont

 

[Ma#1ne Hky]

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Well, we did make a trip to the "Gahden"under Timmay once in a while (just to keep the seat warm for when we hire a capable coach), though not nearly as often as in the Walshy years.

Exactly...a long time ago during the real UMaine Hockey Teams. Also they should have played this Series/both games in Portland...if it worked with the AHL's Pirates.

 

[Priceless]

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I do find it humorous that many of you are hoping this athletics director fires/buys out Tim, but his department is comprised of extras from The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Are you sure you want to count on him to do anything?

 

[MainefaninMA]

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There are way more than 6

Also you can buy beer at Conte, just not in the normal concourse.

Where can you buy it at Conte? Can general public buy it or do you need to be in a Box? I believe some of the Boxes at the Alfond have beer too, but I've never been up there, just rumors.

 

[all bear]

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why? so you can take that out of context too? or make inferences that are inappropriate?
I said that the penalties that Diamond takes are not as bad as what people think, when one looks at the whole picture. that he draws almost as many or just as many penalties as he takes.... nobody else does that. Diamond can tell an opponent something about his 2 mom's while standing in the crease and get that opponent to toss diamond right into the opponent's own goalie... thereby "running the goalie" AND drawing a penalty.

those are good things.

also, I never said that Diamond's play or Diamond himself were critical to winning. I said that Maine is better off if he is allowed to play his game, and if the team plays like he does.

God man, calm down. No ones trying to hang you based on what you have said in the past. Im just curious how Maine can win 2 games and actually have 1 game where this anemic offense puts up a few goals against a historically defensive minded Cornell with Joey out of the lineup. You seemed to have claimed that physcial play was absouletly critical to scoring goals. Hey, if Ive misquoted you on this just let me know

 

[all bear]

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I do find it humorous that many of you are hoping this athletics director fires/buys out Tim, but his department is comprised of extras from The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Are you sure you want to count on him to do anything?

Who knows, maybe Abbotts a devoted UMaine hockey fan (doubtful), but the fact that he has recently taken in at least 2 games in person on the road and is supposedly a part time AD gives me hope that he is indeed making his own evaluation of what we have here in Timmay. Logically then he has a close eye on this situation and I believe he's a doer not a talker. Time will tell.

Personally if I were a new AD coming in after this season, I would rather have the previous AD deal with a caustic problem so I start with a clean slate. Sure it costs money, but that precedent has been set and I believe the hockey program is substantially more important to the school and people of the state of Maine than is the women's basketball program.

 

[CareCup]

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Just out of curiosity, is tonight's game vs Mercyhurst being televised anywhere? WABI/WPME?

 

[gscott13]

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Just out of curiosity, is tonight's game vs Mercyhurst being televised anywhere? WABI/WPME?

nope.

 

[gscott13]

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Where can you buy it at Conte? Can general public buy it or do you need to be in a Box? I believe some of the Boxes at the Alfond have beer too, but I've never been up there, just rumors.

there is a bar outside the boxes at the alfond that is only accessible to box ticketholders

 

[rufus]

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Great, Pryor's back tonight. Let the turnovers commence.

 

[BoSox3066]

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KIA....I did and he was, point is the refs don't cooperate with your example that he "can tell an opponent something about his 2 mom's while standing in the crease and get that opponent to toss diamond right into the opponent's own goalie... thereby "running the goalie" AND drawing a penalty."

I feel like Bellamy and others, the BU guys you referenced, were decent/good at getting the refs to cooperate on things like that. Joey isn't. Maybe that's a reflection of the fact that his teammates aren't as physical as he is or maybe its just poor choice on his part in terms of picking his spots, maybe he doesn't schmooze the refs between whistles enough, I don't know.....but they don't give anything resembling the benefit of the doubt and haven't for at least 2 years.