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Maine - the Golfing Season

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Runsub5 said:
Drew S. said:
I posted this in the other thread, but I think Maine was pretty gassed. It looked like the five games in two weeks plus the two long trips really took a toll on them. UMD has only played three games over the last couple of weeks............./QUOTE]

In my opinion they were not gassed. The team has played an entire season of hockey and I think they were physically fit. In my opinion UMD was the better team. There are times when you give the other team credit because they played better. A good many Maine posters find that hard to do.
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and NOBODY is noticing the coaching and positioning and passing.
UMD knew how to pass the puck to the forehand so that the recipient could do something IMMEDIATELY when receiving the puck.
UMD had players all over the ice, playing their position, not playing like giant mites. When UMD missed a shot, there was someone on the weak side, closest t the errant puck. When they skated down ice, there was someone to pass to in order to get the goalie to move.

and if ANY of you saw the passing display that Danny Kristo put on yesterday...
go look,
take a minute and try and watch a game with out just watching the puck carrier (not saying everyone here does that, but enough do and enough do not watch the players who do not have the puck...)

it is almost always the players without the puck who make the goals possible... Maine is not going to have many scoring opportunities when the opponent just stops skating because the net is dislodged by 50 feet and the officials determine that a puck carrying black bear 200 feet away from a goal has "an offensive opportunity".
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acs64 said:
Maine's defense is ahhhhhhhhhh........pourous to say the least. No need to single out names, but poor decisions, poor management of the puck, slow and telegraphed passes, and a lack of physical and mental toughness. Not many good things I can say. They need a shutdown defenseman and a puck moving guy.
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I'll second the motion.
 
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acs64 said:
Maine's defense is ahhhhhhhhhh........pourous to say the least. No need to single out names, but poor decisions, poor management of the puck, slow and telegraphed passes, and a lack of physical and mental toughness. Not many good things I can say. They need a shutdown defenseman and a puck moving guy.
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I think they need a coach who can teach it, can anyone say Campbell Blair? How has the D looked since he departed?
 
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There are a lot of things to point to on D. Coaching, goaltending, goaltending coach, players.

I guess the bright side is there are a lot of ways to improve. One way to improve is to have more size. I'm not saying we should send Kerluke out on a pylon-shopping mission. But, to me, the problem starts with Maine's inability to clear the defensive zone -- sometimes even just to get a line change. Added strength on D can help there. And that'll improve the PK at the same time.

Haven't looked at the Heisenberg list in a while, so it's possible that I'm beating a dead horse. Whitehead & Co may have already taken steps to fix this.
 
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amherstblackbear said:
There are a lot of things to point to on D. Coaching, goaltending, goaltending coach, players.

I guess the bright side is there are a lot of ways to improve. One way to improve is to have more size. I'm not saying we should send Kerluke out on a pylon-shopping mission. But, to me, the problem starts with Maine's inability to clear the defensive zone -- sometimes even just to get a line change. Added strength on D can help there. And that'll improve the PK at the same time.

Haven't looked at the Heisenberg list in a while, so it's possible that I'm beating a dead horse. Whitehead & Co may have already taken steps to fix this.
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We lose two of our bigger d-men, but Rutt will be an everyday player next year and Ben Hutton is said to be 6'2 or 6'3 depending upon what site you go to. Connor Reilly is also listed at 6'1. Nice thing is as we look ahead our forwards are also getting bigger.
 
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walrus said:
I think they need a coach who can teach it, can anyone say Campbell Blair? How has the D looked since he departed?
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is this where we start reading that there was only one Campbell Blair and that there will never be another?
 
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Will O'Neill just signed with Winnipeg.
 
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Rutt will need to work on his skating, while Riley will be a work in progress and Hutton may well be a surprise some fans on just how good he is.
 
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I want one Brian White and one Keith Carney :D But I'll settle for two Prestin Ryans on meds. :)
 
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acs64 said:
I want one Brian White and one Keith Carney :D But I'll settle for two Prestin Ryans on meds. :)
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Pfft.

The way I see it, we need two solid pairings. I'll take a Weinrich, a Carney, an Imes, and a Metcalf. I'll accept a Prestin as substitute if one of them decommits. If Kerluke can't do that - then can him. :mad:



:p
 
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