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PC vs UNO; Why not a thread?

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5thYearFreshman said:
I really liked that Outside Providence movie.
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Alec Baldwin line from that movie:

"Making out is like Chinese dinner, it ain't over 'til you both get your cookies".

Not going to apply for this game, however. Only one cookie available.
 
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BU2K said:
Hire Pooley!
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I want to see McShane, Pooley and Army all end up on the same team. I really do.

walrus said:
10 years ago was dump and watch time and at the very least you could call them goons or thugs or something
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Somewhere in Durham, a man just stood up, gestured emphatically, and sat back down.

walrus said:
Looks like PC fans are just too polite,in jons case I understand. Some cow lover will steal his alternator while he is at the game on thursday. But really, where is the trash talk, at least let's have some sandbagging. I'll start, uno sucks and gillies is an underachieving maine boy
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I yield to Maine fans in terms of sandbagging, pessimism and alternator theft.

Red Cows said:
It pretty difficult to have much animus for a team that UNO has beaten every time we've played it.

All two times, the last time being nearly a decade ago.
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Fear the Omaha curse!!!!

I really hope the winner of this game wins on Saturday night too. Sorry, was that too polite?
 
Jon said:
I want to see McShane, Pooley and Army all end up on the same team. I really do.


Somewhere in Durham, a man just stood up, gestured emphatically, and sat back down.


I yield to Maine fans in terms of sandbagging, pessimism and alternator theft.



Fear the Omaha curse!!!!

I really hope the winner of this game wins on Saturday night too. Sorry, was that too polite?
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You win.
 
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Jon said:
I want to see McShane, Pooley and Army all end up on the same team. I really do.


Somewhere in Durham, a man just stood up, gestured emphatically, and sat back down.


I yield to Maine fans in terms of sandbagging, pessimism and alternator theft.



Fear the Omaha curse!!!!

I really hope the winner of this game wins on Saturday night too. Sorry, was that too polite?
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Don't we think we are being a little harsh on McShane? He had some very good teams in the early 90's? Four 20 win seasons including some disastrous early seasons
 
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The Zlax45 said:
Don't we think we are being a little harsh on McShane? He had some very good teams in the early 90's? Four 20 win seasons including some disastrous early seasons
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Says the man that continually rips a goalie with a 22-13-2 record, a 2.01 gga, a .929 save % and has led his team to the Frozen Four. :confused: :p
 
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Wow! So many people are saying that the "main event" and the Nat'l Championship game is Thursday night. And so many Omaha fans seem to be "looking past" Providence.

A perfect recipe for upsets.

I'm pulling for Omaha, but the lack of respect for Providence is scary. Jon Gillies can be a game changer. So can Massa. I think it's going to be a great game.

It's championship hockey, folks. You have to be good to be lucky (and lucky to be good). And nobody gets to the final 4 without a bit of both. There are NO easy games this time of year. Everybody needs to come prepared and ready to play. I've coached hockey for 20 years and can honestly say that I love being the underdog.

Can't wait for Thursday!
 
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Slamboni said:
Wow! So many people are saying that the "main event" and the Nat'l Championship game is Thursday night. And so many Omaha fans seem to be "looking past" Providence.

A perfect recipe for upsets.

I'm pulling for Omaha, but the lack of respect for Providence is scary. Jon Gillies can be a game changer. So can Massa. I think it's going to be a great game.

It's championship hockey, folks. You have to be good to be lucky (and lucky to be good). And nobody gets to the final 4 without a bit of both. There are NO easy games this time of year. Everybody needs to come prepared and ready to play. I've coached hockey for 20 years and can honestly say that I love being the underdog.

Can't wait for Thursday!
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Fans will do what fans do, but I guarantee you that Coach Blais and UNO are not overlooking Providence. Neither team was supposed to get this far in the tourney, so overlooking anyone would be a huge mistake. If Providence wins, it will not be because UNO overlooked them and vice versa
 
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FiveHole12 said:
Says the man that continually rips a goalie with a 22-13-2 record, a 2.01 gga, a .929 save % and has led his team to the Frozen Four. :confused: :p
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But has never won anything...Zero Hockey East titles and Zero National Championships. Hasn't even won a game in the Garden in his entire career.

As I said, PC's goaltender isn't the difference maker. It is the system that Leaman runs that lets him have such strong goaltending. Gillies didn't win either game over the weekend in the Regionals on his skill level. He made one good save vs Denver and I don't think a good save at all vs Miami. If next year, the goalie has similar numbers, you better come on here and call it a system.
 
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The Zlax45 said:
But has never won anything...Zero Hockey East titles and Zero National Championships. Hasn't even won a game in the Garden in his entire career.

As I said, PC's goaltender isn't the difference maker. It is the system that Leaman runs that lets him have such strong goaltending. Gillies didn't win either game over the weekend in the Regionals on his skill level. He made one good save vs Denver and I don't think a good save at all vs Miami. If next year, the goalie has similar numbers, you better come on here and call it a system.
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I think I know the Leaman system, I wonder if I ask nicely,if he would let me give it a try in net next Thursday at 5pm?
 
steven22 said:
I think I know the Leaman system, I wonder if I ask nicely,if he would let me give it a try in net next Thursday at 5pm?
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nope, I am in.....

screw Hockey East title. bigger fish to fry at the Garden

Gillies is a difference maker. Not a single coach in the country would agree with you.



Let BU have that honor.
 
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Hokydad said:
nope, I am in.....

screw Hockey East title. bigger fish to fry at the Garden

Gillies is a difference maker. Not a single coach in the country would agree with you.



Let BU have that honor.
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We will see what Hawkey and Ellis (whichever one plays) does next season and every time Leaman has coached a team, he has had an extremely good goaltender.
 
The Zlax45 said:
But has never won anything...Zero Hockey East titles and Zero National Championships. Hasn't even won a game in the Garden in his entire career.

As I said, PC's goaltender isn't the difference maker. It is the system that Leaman runs that lets him have such strong goaltending. Gillies didn't win either game over the weekend in the Regionals on his skill level. He made one good save vs Denver and I don't think a good save at all vs Miami. If next year, the goalie has similar numbers, you better come on here and call it a system.
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If this is indeed the case then why not rotate all 3 goalies? The system would be the same no matter who is in net. Right?
 
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The Zlax45 said:
But has never won anything...Zero Hockey East titles and Zero National Championships. Hasn't even won a game in the Garden in his entire career..
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So you're one of those when they lose it's "HE" lost and when they win it's the "TEAM" won...
 
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5thYearFreshman said:
Fans will do what fans do, but I guarantee you that Coach Blais and UNO are not overlooking Providence. Neither team was supposed to get this far in the tourney, so overlooking anyone would be a huge mistake. If Providence wins, it will not be because UNO overlooked them and vice versa
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Agreed. I don't get that sense around here at all. I certainly don't feel that way, either.

Everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that UNO goalie Ryan Massa easily has the lowest GAA and the highest save percentage (#1 in the nation on that count) of any of the goalies in this whole Frozen Four.

And, he did this playing in a conference that sent 6 teams to this tourney, one that makes up two of the 4 teams playing for the whole enchilada here.

If you are starting a conversation here in Omaha about UNO hockey that begins with this question: "What UNO hockey player's season was the greatest in the history of the program?", the conversation begins and ends with Ryan Massa's season this year. Nothing else even comes close and we have had 2 Hobey Baker finalists. Why Massa isn't one is totally beyond me.

Dan Ellis, who is considered by most to be the greatest goalie in UNO history (and is still playing in the NHL) and holds most of UNO's single season (and career) goalie records, saw them utterly destroyed by Massa this season. He didn't just break them, he ground them up and mashed them into paste.

The former UNO school record for saves percentage (held by Ellis) was .919. Massa's was .939 this season. The gap between Ellis and Massa on this list is bigger than the gap between Ellis and the next 9 guys below him on it.

It's just as impressive for GAA. The all time UNO school single season record is 2.31 (this one is not held by Ellis, who holds both the #2 & #3 spots). Massa's GAA this season is 1.92 per game. He bettered the school all time mark by .39 goals per game. That represents 15 goals over the 38 games that UNO has played so far this season. Give our opponents another 15 goals over the course those 38 games and UNO isn't even sniffing an NCAA berth.

Massa is a large, large part of why we are still playing hockey at this point of the season.
 
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but Massa has not scored a single goal all year. you can not win if you dont score
how is he in shootouts? has he scored there yet?
 
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