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Maine Black Bears 2020: The Hunt For Red October
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walrus
Wind up workin' in a gas station
Re: Maine Black Bears 2020: The Hunt For Red October
Potential doesn't win games. For Maine to make some noise they need some offense from other lines. I thought JSS was going to be that guy early in the year. Hopefully he gets going again. Dawe plays hard every night.
Potential doesn't win games. For Maine to make some noise they need some offense from other lines. I thought JSS was going to be that guy early in the year. Hopefully he gets going again. Dawe plays hard every night.
NorthMike
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I really like poisson's skill, he has alot of potential.
JSS has struggled this year.
NorthMike
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Have to give Red credit where deserved for helping get the stanbrook forever fund started and engaging the alum. Which has raised 1 mil to match the Savage challenge to get the 2 mil total endowment now in place. That's a great achievement for the program.
Ma#1ne Hky
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Re: Maine Black Bears 2020: The Hunt For Red October
All teams know the setup in place for JSS, worked at first but time to move him around and he needs to know when to shoot, he could setup others but does not...he keeps firing away into the d-mans shins....
Kind of a one trick pony.
What I'd like to see them try is have him park himself right in front of the net on the PP, he's a big body who would be an effective screen and could help find loose pucks after shots. Another thing they could try would be to make it look like they're setting up the usual play, but then have JSS do a one-time slap-pass to someone down low instead of shooting l.
NorthMike
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What do you mean ?
ticapnews
Never graduate.
Re: Maine Black Bears 2020: The Hunt For Red October
After playing around with the what-if calculator it appears Maine will need at least a split with Providence AND a sweep of a decent team in the Hockey East playoffs to get back in the national picture. Even then, a loss in the semis would risk knocking them back out.
A tie and a win vs the Friars would be huge. That would likely get the team back into the top 15 before the Hockey East tournament begins. Then a sweep gets them in. Two wins vs PC and a #3 seed is within grasp.
Anything worse than a split and it's autobid or nothing.
After playing around with the what-if calculator it appears Maine will need at least a split with Providence AND a sweep of a decent team in the Hockey East playoffs to get back in the national picture. Even then, a loss in the semis would risk knocking them back out.
A tie and a win vs the Friars would be huge. That would likely get the team back into the top 15 before the Hockey East tournament begins. Then a sweep gets them in. Two wins vs PC and a #3 seed is within grasp.
Anything worse than a split and it's autobid or nothing.
I think tie and win vs PC is very possible, but the history between the teams of course concerns me.
Re: Maine Black Bears 2020: The Hunt For Red October
I'll be pleasantly shocked if they can come up with something better than a split. I'm thinking home ice split here.
I'll be pleasantly shocked if they can come up with something better than a split. I'm thinking home ice split here.
UncleRay
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Re: Maine Black Bears 2020: The Hunt For Red October
That absence didn't affect you a bit, did it? Still razor shahp.
That absence didn't affect you a bit, did it? Still razor shahp.
NorthMike
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He is a good all around player has some size, quick. He reads the ice well knows where to make a play and has good hands.
He doesn't seem to fit in the line he is in and what red has him doing. Untapped potential I believe.
He played well early in the year in the line with fossier.
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Fishman'81
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Re: Maine Black Bears 2020: The Hunt For Red October
Me too.
I'm a KRACH guy, just on the basis of its predictive accuracy.
Maine is #24 KRACH, which is about where Maine belongs, IMO. (That meteoric rise over the BC weekend didn't make much sense, as far as the sniff-test went.)
Swayman might keep this team on his back, possibly even to the NCAA's, and on to the FF...
I have serious doubts about that, though. I'm certainly not ordering my Regional tickets in advance.
Me too.
I'm a KRACH guy, just on the basis of its predictive accuracy.
Maine is #24 KRACH, which is about where Maine belongs, IMO. (That meteoric rise over the BC weekend didn't make much sense, as far as the sniff-test went.)
Swayman might keep this team on his back, possibly even to the NCAA's, and on to the FF...
I have serious doubts about that, though. I'm certainly not ordering my Regional tickets in advance.
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Ma#1ne Hky
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Re: Maine Black Bears 2020: The Hunt For Red October
I think that Swayman can carry this team to a first round win in the Quarterfinals of Hockey East..but after that...they would have a chance but slim in winning a game in Boston...and without a Auto-Bid the season would and will end in Boston. ALOT better then many to all of us would have thought after the 7-0 drubbing by Providence to open the season. Now if they can only get Home ice for the 1st round.
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