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The 2nd official 09-10 Maine season thread

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When I was looking at the final month or so of the season the two series I was most concerned about was the Boston University series and this series. I thought they were trap games.
 
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Listen, I'm a Merrimack grad but a HUGE Maine fan...have been since the year before PK showed up there in the early 90's...I can understand you guys being a little upset about last night but to say that MC was running the goalie? Yeah, they bumped him, but if you were at the game, you would have seen them driving the net and getting knocked down or into the goalie. When I look at the box score, I see a 9-2 advantage for Maine in the PP department. If you are going to get handed 9 PP (and handed being the correct word on a few of them that were just AWFUL calls), you can't complain too much of the ones you didn't get calls on. Maine has the top PP in the country and were given 9 opportunities...if you are going to blame anybody for the loss last night, I think your PP unit is where the fingers should be pointed.

GO MACK...GO MAINE...hope to see you both at the Garden!!!
 
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MCHOCKEY said:
Maine has the top PP in the country and were given 9 opportunities...if you are going to blame anybody for the loss last night, I think your PP unit is where the fingers should be pointed.

GO MACK...GO MAINE...hope to see you both at the Garden!!!
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They gave up SIX goals and you're saying the blame should go to the PP? The goaltending was terrible as was the D that was the game not the PP the PP was 2 for 9 that is 22% every team in the country except for 4 wish their PP ran at 22%.
 
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Gusforhobey said:
I would agree that there is something clearly wrong with Darling but the season is not over. We are capable of sweeping UNH who is currently in first. Were in third place now and control our destiny for home ice. So to say the season is over is absolutely ridiculous.
If we win tomorrow is the season still over?
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We are currently in third which is 4pts from ninth place.

What we are capable of and how we are playing are two seperate things. With only winning three games on the road, tonights game doesn't look good.

We will find out what their made of against UMass when everything is on the line.
 
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Drew S. said:
The second and third goals were fluky and the fourth and fifth goals were just very high quality. Darling got ran twice in the third and it definitely shook him up. It was pretty ridiculous the refs let Merrimack get away with it.
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If the refs won't call it the players need to take matters into their own hands. Do whatever it takes to get the message across.
 
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fiqure8 said:
We are afraid of taking penalties. No strong forecheck and no physical play as well. Let's all skate backwards and stick check. How about taking away time and space???
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They play how the coach wants them to. Maine is the softest team in Hockey East.
 
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MCHOCKEY said:
Listen, I'm a Merrimack grad but a HUGE Maine fan...have been since the year before PK showed up there in the early 90's...I can understand you guys being a little upset about last night but to say that MC was running the goalie? Yeah, they bumped him, but if you were at the game, you would have seen them driving the net and getting knocked down or into the goalie. When I look at the box score, I see a 9-2 advantage for Maine in the PP department. If you are going to get handed 9 PP (and handed being the correct word on a few of them that were just AWFUL calls), you can't complain too much of the ones you didn't get calls on. Maine has the top PP in the country and were given 9 opportunities...if you are going to blame anybody for the loss last night, I think your PP unit is where the fingers should be pointed.

GO MACK...GO MAINE...hope to see you both at the Garden!!!
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So if we had scored 6 times of the 9 PP chances we would have won the game? :rolleyes:
 
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MCHOCKEY said:
Listen, I'm a Merrimack grad but a HUGE Maine fan...have been since the year before PK showed up there in the early 90's...I can understand you guys being a little upset about last night but to say that MC was running the goalie? Yeah, they bumped him, but if you were at the game, you would have seen them driving the net and getting knocked down or into the goalie. When I look at the box score, I see a 9-2 advantage for Maine in the PP department. If you are going to get handed 9 PP (and handed being the correct word on a few of them that were just AWFUL calls), you can't complain too much of the ones you didn't get calls on. Maine has the top PP in the country and were given 9 opportunities...if you are going to blame anybody for the loss last night, I think your PP unit is where the fingers should be pointed.

GO MACK...GO MAINE...hope to see you both at the Garden!!!
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I was at the game and the incidents in the third were directly in front of me. There was little if any contact from the Maine players and the Merrimack guys just ran Darling over. I wasn't really complaining about Maine's lack of PP's but I will say a no call when abbott got hauled down led directly to Merrimack scoring their fourth goal.
 
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GoBlackBears said:
If Maine doesn't get home ice for the quarterfinals the season is over in 2 weeks.
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The season is over anyway. There is no way this team playing like it is with it's swiss D and seive goaltending is going anywhere. They have exceeded my expectations for the year but I thought a few weeks ago that this team may have something. I'm not sure what to pinpoint as the problem....besides the obvious. It's like they forgot what good TEAM defense is all about.

ACS... your 17-13 and fore prediction is going to be right on the money.
 
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MCHOCKEY said:
Listen, I'm a Merrimack grad but a HUGE Maine fan...have been since the year before PK showed up there in the early 90's...I can understand you guys being a little upset about last night but to say that MC was running the goalie? Yeah, they bumped him, but if you were at the game, you would have seen them driving the net and getting knocked down or into the goalie. When I look at the box score, I see a 9-2 advantage for Maine in the PP department. If you are going to get handed 9 PP (and handed being the correct word on a few of them that were just AWFUL calls), you can't complain too much of the ones you didn't get calls on. Maine has the top PP in the country and were given 9 opportunities...if you are going to blame anybody for the loss last night, I think your PP unit is where the fingers should be pointed.

GO MACK...GO MAINE...hope to see you both at the Garden!!!
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Merrimack defended Canatta, if players went near him, they got beaten up pretty bad. Diamond, in the first, was on his back, in the crease when a knee came down on his throat. (hitting after the whistle was called, but a minor is a little light for that sort of thing.

I am all for running the goalie to try and win. Maine not only does not run goalies under Tim, they also do not retaliate against opponents when Maine's goalies get run.

This often times means Maine loses. The players had been taught for 15 years or more to defend their goalies, make sure other teams know NOT to run the goalie because there will he a price to pay. Tim unteaches that.

Also, players are taught to stay on their wings. Last night the giant mites were out again, all swarming the puck where ever it was on the ice. I have NO idea how a coach can see the good results of players staying on their wings earlier in the season, and then revert back to last night's idiocy.

whatever, I just might miss my first Maine away game since the Alaska series, it is just no fun.

as for the power plays, Merrimack earned more penalties last night, plain and simple.
 
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GoBlackBears said:
That's because Maine doesn't do anything about it. They don't stick up for their goalie at all. Maine doesn't have an enforcer.
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even when Maine did, Tim did not allow enforcement.

I think I have typed on here recently, I saw something HUGE in Vermont when Jimmy was run big time. Then a few shifts later, Mushaluck had the opportunity to annihilate the guy who ran Jimmy. The guy had the puck near the boards behind Jimmy and Mush just kinda bumped him.... ON that ONE play, I saw all I had to see to know Tim teaches about not taking any penalties. If Tim did not allow retaliation for running his wet dream goalie, he sure is not going to allow retaliation for running any others.

I am not sure what he does not get about what happens when goalies are run.

but 10 years at $140,000 a year... he is laughing all the way to the bank.
 
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KnowItAll said:
even when Maine did, Tim did not allow enforcement.

I think I have typed on here recently, I saw something HUGE in Vermont when Jimmy was run big time. Then a few shifts later, Mushaluck had the opportunity to annihilate the guy who ran Jimmy. The guy had the puck near the boards behind Jimmy and Mush just kinda bumped him.... ON that ONE play, I saw all I had to see to know Tim teaches about not taking any penalties. If Tim did not allow retaliation for running his wet dream goalie, he sure is not going to allow retaliation for running any others.

I am not sure what he does not get about what happens when goalies are run.

but 10 years at $140,000 a year... he is laughing all the way to the bank.
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Prestin Ryan didn't take any crap. He's the only one who hasn't under TIMMAY! The players should stick up for themselves. Whitehead can go to hell. He's a piece of **** anyway.
 
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GoBlackBears said:
Prestin Ryan didn't take any crap. He's the only one who hasn't under TIMMAY! The players should stick up for themselves. Whitehead can go to hell. He's a piece of **** anyway.
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kinda demoralizing knowing that you cannot do the things you were taught were the right things to do, your whole life, huh?

The recruits will keep de-committing and the family advisors and junior coaches will keep telling their players not to go play for Tim, until the team is not even made up of junior monarchs, but St. Doms and Bangor high players. maybe THEN Blake will catch on.... of course I do not think that Blake will be around that long.
He could not even get hired by a Florida school with only a decent golf team.

How are next season's North Dakota games looking now?
 
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KnowItAll said:
kinda demoralizing knowing that you cannot do the things you were taught were the right things to do, your whole life, huh?

The recruits will keep de-committing and the family advisors and junior coaches will keep telling their players not to go play for Tim, until the team is not even made up of junior monarchs, but St. Doms and Bangor high players. maybe THEN Blake will catch on.... of course I do not think that Blake will be around that long.
He could not even get hired by a Florida school with only a decent golf team.

How are next season's North Dakota games looking now?
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I'd do it anyway. The team is better off tuning out TIMMAY. Don't pay any attention to what he tells them. North Dakota will get the sweep no problem. Nyquist won't return for next season. I wouldn't be shocked to see Flynn leave early as well.
 
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Geeezus ....you guyz are the biggest bunch of gd whiners I've ever seen. Why dontchya just go out and slit ur wrists or jump off a bridge or something.....spare us ur agony....man o man.
 
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ck1969 said:
They have exceeded my expectations for the year but I thought a few weeks ago that this team may have something.
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Maybe exceeded expectations in total wins.......but that's about it. They are back to playing TIMMAY hockey. :rolleyes:
 
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I agree with ck1969. This team is only going as far as goaltending takes them. This time of year you need your goalie to get hot and right now I would say ours is stone cold!:eek:
 
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I have also heard that Darling has had some off ice issues with the split-tails. Leave it to a woman to **** everything up!
 
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ck1969 said:
ACS... your 17-13 and fore prediction is going to be right on the money.
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If they dont get a tie and 2 wins the rest of the season Ima gonna be pizzed :)...I had forgotten we were looking at the overall record not the HE record....so I'm in much better shape. ;) Only problem would be if they win 2 and tie one (highly unlikely imo), I dont think anyone can overtake them to put them in fourth.
 
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