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Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

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Finally after what has been one of the countries hardest first 16 game schedule, we can take it easy with, wait who do we play?.... Crap, Notre Dame. Another tough series at hand, hopefully they are on a skid after allowing BG to nearly two ties this weekend (ND won the first game as time expired in the OT).

9-2-5? Fantastic that we only have 2 losses, but that is a lot of overtimes and ties.
 
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mcfarljd said:
Finally after what has been one of the countries hardest first 16 game schedule, we can take it easy with, wait who do we play?.... Crap, Notre Dame. Another tough series at hand, hopefully they are on a skid after allowing BG to nearly two ties this weekend (ND won the first game as time expired in the OT).

9-2-5? Fantastic that we only have 2 losses, but that is a lot of overtimes and ties.
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Timely scoring is a good thing to have and that is what we have gotten in the first half so far. Camper is starting to warm up with 3 goals on the weekend and I believe Reily Smith had 4 points tonight against UND. Miele and Palmer are playing really well together. But the Defense let us down tonight, the PK especially. Knapp was hung out to dry on 4 of the 5 goals and I thought he played really well regardless.

9-2-5 isn't the record we thought we would have, but to be honest I thought we would have 5 or 6 losses by now so I will take it. This team showed a lot tonight, IMO, in one of the toughest buildings to play down 5-3 in the third they scored twice to tie it and force overtime. Great effort tonight by Miami but I would prefer to not see how many more times we can come back from down 2 goals and force overtime....:rolleyes:
 
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I listened to the Sioux radio team last night. Post game rap up, they were very impressed with the Red Hawks. Said that Miami was by far the best team they played this season.
 
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tic tac toe said:
I listened to the Sioux radio team last night. Post game rap up, they were very impressed with the Red Hawks. Said that Miami was by far the best team they played this season.
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Thank you, I was very interested to see how we would match up. Ive watched them, minny, and Denver play a lot of TV this year and they are smooth skaters. At times Miami looks lost, but I guess I am far more critical of my own team because they took it to them. I thought for majority of the game (mainly the first and third periods) Miami carried the play.

Glad to see we are getting more respect.

Nice showing by OSU too btw. Played UND tough, just seemed to run out of gas in the third. But Carlson looked extremely sharp friday night and to come back less than 24 hrs later and go toe to toe with a top 5 team and beat them is very impressive.

OSU needs other guys to step up, Dalpe looks sharp but doesnt seem to get consistant help. But saturday seemed to be the team we thought they would be at the start of the year. I still think they will be a tourny team before its all said and done.
 
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Haven't had much time to post after the Subway Classic, but while a loss and a tie are a little disappointing, this team has shown time and again that they can rally from a late deficit and I think they earned a lot of respect nationally by showing that both nights. Now, I'd like to avoid making this a common theme, but that's encouraging when the games really get tough during the second half. A little "slump" now should help us become more resilient later in the season.

A slump-busting CCHA weekend would do the trick, and I'd like to see 6 points vs. the Irish, but 3 are probably more realistic.

I will be in Oxford both nights this weekend. I've heard a fourth sweater could be unveiled with a bicentennial theme!?
 
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redhawk95 said:
Haven't had much time to post after the Subway Classic, but while a loss and a tie are a little disappointing, this team has shown time and again that they can rally from a late deficit and I think they earned a lot of respect nationally by showing that both nights. Now, I'd like to avoid making this a common theme, but that's encouraging when the games really get tough during the second half. A little "slump" now should help us become more resilient later in the season.

A slump-busting CCHA weekend would do the trick, and I'd like to see 6 points vs. the Irish, but 3 are probably more realistic.

I will be in Oxford both nights this weekend. I've heard a fourth sweater could be unveiled with a bicentennial theme!?
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Well the usual slump doesn't come until january but if this is it for this year i will take 1-1-4 for a slump rather than losing to clarkson and army and going 1-5. This team has tremendous character and heart, they never quit and are never out of a game. Something needs to be done with the special teams because they haven't been good at all. Defensemen also need to do a better job of giving their goaltender a lane at the puck. UND exploited that with a lot of traffic and got 3 goals out of it.
 
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I'm not sure if we'll see the January swoon this season, I think we just went through it. Then again last year nobody expected losses to Clarkson and Army, but I really can't see Robert Morris doing any damage. We're 16 games into our 36 games scheduled, and only two of those 9 teams we've played have a losing record, UNH (5-6-3) and WMU (5-7-2). Of the 9 teams we have in the 20 games remaining, only 4 of those teams have winning records, Ferris (9-3-2) Notre Dame (7-5-4) Alaska (8-3-3) UNO (7-4-3). I think its safe to say that the meat of our schedule is just about behind us after this weekend.
 
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mcfarljd said:
I'm not sure if we'll see the January swoon this season, I think we just went through it. Then again last year nobody expected losses to Clarkson and Army, but I really can't see Robert Morris doing any damage. We're 16 games into our 36 games scheduled, and only two of those 9 teams we've played have a losing record, UNH (5-6-3) and WMU (5-7-2). Of the 9 teams we have in the 20 games remaining, only 4 of those teams have winning records, Ferris (9-3-2) Notre Dame (7-5-4) Alaska (8-3-3) UNO (7-4-3). I think its safe to say that the meat of our schedule is just about behind us after this weekend.
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Yea we knew going in that the second half would be the easier part of the schedule But Ferris and OSU will challenge us.

This team and coaching staff will need to find other motivations, i.e conference championship and # 1 seed. But it will be tough to not have a let down because they will be the superior team and other teams will bring all they can at them.

Lets hope the focus continues now that we are hitting the grinding part of the season.
 
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mcfarljd said:
I'm not sure if we'll see the January swoon this season, I think we just went through it. Then again last year nobody expected losses to Clarkson and Army, but I really can't see Robert Morris doing any damage. We're 16 games into our 36 games scheduled, and only two of those 9 teams we've played have a losing record, UNH (5-6-3) and WMU (5-7-2). Of the 9 teams we have in the 20 games remaining, only 4 of those teams have winning records, Ferris (9-3-2) Notre Dame (7-5-4) Alaska (8-3-3) UNO (7-4-3). I think its safe to say that the meat of our schedule is just about behind us after this weekend.
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The only thing that worries me is that we start playing down to the competition. Really looking forward to this weekends bout with the Irish.
 
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Well again this weekend we have the top two goaltenders in GAA matching up this weekend in Cody Reichard and Mike Johnson. So another top notch goaltender comes to oxford....again:rolleyes:
 
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redhawkman10 said:
Well again this weekend we have the top two goaltenders in GAA matching up this weekend in Cody Reichard and Mike Johnson. So another top notch goaltender comes to oxford....again:rolleyes:
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After this weekend, not counting Reich, we'll have faced 7 of the top 9 goalies in the country :eek:

No wonder we have so many ties...
 
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Well the World Junior Invitees have been listed and neither Chris Wideman nor Connor Knapp got invited. Not surprised about Knapp, but thought Wideman would atleast make the top 28 especially with Leddy out due to injury.
 
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mcfarljd said:
After this weekend, not counting Reich, we'll have faced 7 of the top 9 goalies in the country :eek:

No wonder we have so many ties...
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Well that and the fact that when we have played a so called "weaker" opponent like western. Their goaltender stands on his head and makes 45 saves...:rolleyes:
 
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45 saves...bah! It was actually more like 55!
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Once you get past 40 its all the same lol, he stood on his head :D

I love how on the INCH podcast they talk about how Den and UND are better than Miami and their logic is because of all of Miami's ties. They said that if you want to be an elite team you need to beat the Ferris's and Western's no matter where you play them. Hmmm thats interesting, if that is your logic then shouldn't Den and UND beat the Alaska Anchorages and St. Cloud's of the world no matter what? huh thats right both lost to each and Miami didn't lose to either Ferris or Western.

lol wonderful logic there boys....:rolleyes:
 
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We beat Denver just a few months ago with virtually the same teams. Denver also lost to Ohio State (who beat Bemidji) and we didn't lose to North Dakota. I guess we get no credit for sweeping Michigan in their building. It's all a joke because, as you know, you can't evaluate it like that - because on the other hand DU swept UND and OSU got destroyed by Ferris.

We have two losses on the season. Hopefully people will continue to doubt. It doesn't make sense, but if the team can use it for motivation, that's fine with me.

Beat the Irish like Charlie Weis is behind the bench!
 
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redhawk95 said:
We beat Denver just a few months ago with virtually the same teams. Denver also lost to Ohio State (who beat Bemidji) and we didn't lose to North Dakota. I guess we get no credit for sweeping Michigan in their building. It's all a joke because, as you know, you can't evaluate it like that - because on the other hand DU swept UND and OSU got destroyed by Ferris.

We have two losses on the season. Hopefully people will continue to doubt. It doesn't make sense, but if the team can use it for motivation, that's fine with me.

Beat the Irish like Charlie Weis is behind the bench!
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Yea, it really doesn't matter what INCH's poll is. But the logic they used is what burned me...
 
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redhawk95 said:
We beat Denver just a few months ago with virtually the same teams.
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True, thats pretty ridiculous that hacks would think that then, we beat Denver pretty handily in WCHA country last year and both are pretty much the same teams.
 
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Recruiting update, from least to most impressive.

Murphy, Cody (F)Tri City Storm(USHL)
if he isn't a producer wishes he was more of an enforcer...

16 games played. 2 goals. 15 PIM. -4.

Wideman, Alex (F) - Indiana/USHL
18 games. 3-1--4. -8. 8 PIM. 1 PPG. 1 PPA.

Cook, Max (F) - Indianapolis Ice (USHL)
2nd highest +/- of the Ice forwards.

16 games played. 5-8--13. +8. 8 PIM. 1 PPA. 1 SHG.

Berschbach, Shane (F) -Indiana/USHL
3rd on the Ice in points, 2nd in Goals, 1st in points per game.

14 games played. 6-8--14. -1. 2 PIM. 2 PPG. 6 PPA. 1 GWG.
5-3--8 in 5 games at the World Junior A Challenge

Mullin, Jimmy (RW) -- Shattuck St.Mary's
they've only played 2 games since the last update, so not much new...

22 games played. 14-12--26. 12 PIM.

So either in that last post I switched his goals/assists, or their excel was backwards.

Gacek, Alex (F) Monarchs (EJHL)
no shocker, still leads his team in goals, assists, and obviously points.

21 games played. 21-21--42. 6 PIM. 8 PPG. 9 PPA. 1 SHG. 3 GWG.

That puts him second in the league in points, 1st in goals, 1st in points/game.
 
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Only one thing to say after that game.

We have to be thankful that Reich didn't get seriously injured, that goonery was ridiculous. Especially the late cheap shot from Kyle "USNDTP Reject" Palmieri
 
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