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Maine Black Bears - Return to the Glory Years or On to Oblivion?

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NorthMike said:
For the sake of repeating one of my big concerns with this program, sorry, but I don't put it past this bunch in the athletic department to look to holding as many games as they can get away with in Portland as a short term fix to things.
Until they saturate that market.
Well those of you in the local area know what I mean, can't disregard the local support. Big mistake.
Not holding home games in orono means some local economic loss, game nights are good economy for the local restaurants etc. Pats pizza, you know how that goes.
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Moving one game is not a disaster. Portland is going to be desperate thanks to the Pirates leaving town. We used to play twice a season in Portland. My freshman year we played three: Kent State, Notre Dame and the US Olympic Team. We played Team Canada in Lewiston. Orono will be just fine economically.

If somehow the Fenway game is taken from Orono, that's on Joe Bertagna, not the people at UM.

I am trying to confirm that it's 12/31 and 1/7. Assuming it is, then the UM-UC and UNH-NU games will be on January 7 because the neutral site game in Manchester on 12/30 has been confirmed and we are now waiting to hear if the game in Portland is 12/29 or 12/31. That means BU-UMA and BC-PC will be 12/31.
 
ticapnews said:
Moving one game is not a disaster. Portland is going to be desperate thanks to the Pirates leaving town. We used to play twice a season in Portland. My freshman year we played three: Kent State, Notre Dame and the US Olympic Team. We played Team Canada in Lewiston. Orono will be just fine economically.

If somehow the Fenway game is taken from Orono, that's on Joe Bertagna, not the people at UM.

I am trying to confirm that it's 12/31 and 1/7. Assuming it is, then the UM-UC and UNH-NU games will be on January 7 because the neutral site game in Manchester on 12/30 has been confirmed and we are now waiting to hear if the game in Portland is 12/29 or 12/31. That means BU-UMA and BC-PC will be 12/31.
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Yeah, Orono is rolling in dough, I'm sure they love losing the revenue. Huh, I'll bet the Old Port loves losing the pirates also
 
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walrus said:
Yeah, Orono is rolling in dough, I'm sure they love losing the revenue. Huh, I'll bet the Old Port loves losing the pirates also
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Moving one game isn't going to make or break the economy.
 
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Copy/Paste from my post at MBR

OK, here is what I have learned.

Maine-UConn and UNH-NU will play on 14 January, The other Frozen Fenway games are 7 January. Times are still to be determined. Hockey East is trying to get other teams to move games so the FF games will be alone on the schedule. That might be possible on 1/7 but there is no way on 1/14. Notre Dame is at Merrimack and there is no way they are rescheduling. Providence is playing a series with Vermont that weekend and the BC-BU series is that weekend. The only common dates those teams have off are 12/16-17.

Further, Maine and New Hampshire are only playing one non-conference game this season - 12/30 in Manchester. This would explain why the Boston College game was moved to Portland. It also means there is an extra game on the schedule. However, if Hockey East prevents teams from playing 1/7 that leaves Maine with limited options.
Open weekends are: 10/14-15 (Homecoming), 11/25-26 (Thanksgiving) and 12/16-17. Maine has an open date 1/6.
Games left to schedule: 2 Quinnipiac, Brown, 2 NC games. The annual exhibition with UNB is also unscheduled. The Q series has to be either Homecoming or December. Brown can be 1/6.

I have an ice cream headache and I haven't had any ice cream....
 
ticapnews said:
Copy/Paste from my post at MBR

OK, here is what I have learned.

Maine-UConn and UNH-NU will play on 14 January, The other Frozen Fenway games are 7 January. Times are still to be determined. Hockey East is trying to get other teams to move games so the FF games will be alone on the schedule. That might be possible on 1/7 but there is no way on 1/14. Notre Dame is at Merrimack and there is no way they are rescheduling. Providence is playing a series with Vermont that weekend and the BC-BU series is that weekend. The only common dates those teams have off are 12/16-17.

Further, Maine and New Hampshire are only playing one non-conference game this season - 12/30 in Manchester. This would explain why the Boston College game was moved to Portland. It also means there is an extra game on the schedule. However, if Hockey East prevents teams from playing 1/7 that leaves Maine with limited options.
Open weekends are: 10/14-15 (Homecoming), 11/25-26 (Thanksgiving) and 12/16-17. Maine has an open date 1/6.
Games left to schedule: 2 Quinnipiac, Brown, 2 NC games. The annual exhibition with UNB is also unscheduled. The Q series has to be either Homecoming or December. Brown can be 1/6.

I have an ice cream headache and I haven't had any ice cream....
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I'm running into a similar issue projecting the NU schedule, with the added bonus that NU already has a game scheduled on that 12/16 weekend. I don't see any way to complete the schedule without playing games the first weekend of Frozen Fenway, unless they play a midweek game on 1/3 or 1/4 then one game on Friday 1/6.
 
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TheRevengeance said:
I'm running into a similar issue projecting the NU schedule, with the added bonus that NU already has a game scheduled on that 12/16 weekend. I don't see any way to complete the schedule without playing games the first weekend of Frozen Fenway, unless they play a midweek game on 1/3 or 1/4 then one game on Friday 1/6.
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I can tell you that you are playing on Thursday 12 January at New Hampshire.

Maine will likely play an ECAC team on the road 11/1 on the way back from Colgate. Quinnipiac will be either Homecoming or mid-December. The Brown game will almost certainly be a Tuesday night.
 
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Speaking of playing at Fenway again for a third game, did anyone see that Brian Flynn was pitching against the Red Sox this afternoon in Kansas City?! Looks like he's gotten a little taller too!
 
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nice article in the BDN on Ben Hutton's year with the Vancouver Canucks--and the Canadian National Team. Link
 
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Snively65 said:
Apparently Nyquist's season is over, as he has the flu and will miss Belmont.
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With no chance of the Triple Crown and the extraordinary Belmont distance, it is no wonder he has the "flu"
 
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ticapnews said:
I remember losing one game my sophomore season, and while it was in Orono to a team wearing red and white, it wasn't RPI.
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I think they were members of the canine family... (and I don't mean Northeastern) :D
 
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From the schedule thread.

dunbar said:
Maine is playing three games in Portland: 11/4 vs. Boston College, 11/26 vs. Brown, and 2/10 vs. Notre Dame. The Cross Arena posted the events on Ticketmaster. Still no word on what Maine's remaining two non-conference games are, or how Frozen Fenway affects things, but it seems like a maximum of 14 regular season games at the Alfond this season.
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walrus said:
14 games at alfond, I wonder if they force the Portland games on season ticket holders?
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Currently only 13 with two games left to schedule, so it could be 15 (but I doubt it). We still don't know the UConn situation. The Fenway game could be Maine's home game, which decreases the total...

As it stands now the only non-conference opponents to visit the Alfond are RPI and Quinnipiac.
 
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