Re: Official 2010-2011 Miami season Thread: 3rd times a charm???
Should be a good series. They are very young, and we're a veteran team. They lost and tied at North Dakota this weekend while we were giving away league points to an inferior opponent. A sweep would be helpful, but have to get at least one. I really don't know how good Notre Dame is yet. It might be more telling to catch this young team near the end of the season when their legs are tired or they are learning how to win games that really matter.
Both teams are coming in posting similar records, Miami at 9-4-3, ND at 9-4-2.
Miami is averaging 3.75 goals/game while allowing 2.12/game. Both those numbers are top 10 in the nation in their respective categories. The Irish are scoring nearly the same at 3.60 goals/game, but giving up 2.73/game.
Each teams penalty kill are very similar, Notre Dame killing 89.0% of their man down situations, Miami killing 89.2%. The powerplays are significantly different though, with Miami cashing in at 22.1%, Notre Dame at 14.1%. At that though, the Irish also do lead the nation in shorthanded goals at 7, Miami scoring 3 so far.
Miami is still led by the CCHA's top 3 leading points scorers, Camper (12-20--32), Miele (8-19--27), and Smith (11-8--19). Since moving to the fourth line two weekends ago Smith has 2-3--5 in that time.
Coincidentally, Notre Dame has the 4th-6th spots locked down in the CCHA scoring race, with TJ Tynan (8-10--18), Ryan Guentzel (2-15--17), and Ben Ryan (2-14--16).
Looks like Mike Johnson is the man between the pipes for the most part this season for the Irish, and is coming in with a 2.56 GAA and .911 Sv%.
Knapp statistically leads the RedHawks with a 1.79 GAA and .915 Sv%, but a record of 3-2-3 due to lack of goal support. Reichard has a record of 6-2-0, 2.31 GAA and .901 Sv%.
To update the "goal support" debate for the two Miami goalies, Knapp has now allowed 14 goals this season, Reichard with 19. The team has seemed to score well in the past two weekends with Knapp in net, Reichard now with 36 goals scored for him, Knapp with 24.