The 3rd official 09-10 Maine season thread: Bubble-icious

[walrus]

Re: The 3rd official 09-10 Maine season thread: Bubble-icious

. Finally there is reason to be optimistic and the program will be back to where it should be.

I think they will improve, if and only if Nyquist comes back and a goalie shows up for a full season. After watching Yale put a TD up on BC my confidence that this team is vastly improved has dwindled.

 

[ck1969]

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I think they will improve, if and only if Nyquist comes back and a goalie shows up for a full season. After watching Yale put a TD up on BC my confidence that this team is vastly improved has dwindled.

Muse is a sieve.

 

[fiqure8]

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I think they will improve, if and only if Nyquist comes back and a goalie shows up for a full season. After watching Yale put a TD up on BC my confidence that this team is vastly improved has dwindled.

Didn't Yale have the best offense in D1 this year? I thought things fell where they should have..........

 

[BoSox3066]

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I think they will improve, if and only if Nyquist comes back and a goalie shows up for a full season. After watching Yale put a TD up on BC my confidence that this team is vastly improved has dwindled.

Let your eyes tell you. The forwards are faster and better than they've been since 2007, especially with (presumably) all of them back.

The D....depends. They all have, except maybe Dimmen, a propensity to look soft and clueless at times, but they've also all shown the ability to have a physical edge. Hope it's youth that's led to the inconsistency, because if it is we're in business for next year.

We can find a guy at least as good as Muse. Heck Sirman can be as good as Muse has been lately.

 

[acs64]

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Seriously?

There are goals and then there are goals. Should Maine hockey try to win a national championship? Of course. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea also to have attainable goals.

I know, I know. There used to be no difference. At the beginning of the year (any year), the goal was to reach the FF and compete for a national title.

But to set that as the goal going into 2009-2010, after the Amtrak derailment that was the past 2 seasons, seems kind of asinine. If I read that article last October, I wouldn't have thought Corkum was lowering his sights. Frankly, last Fall I would have thought those goals were ambitious.

If I can exaggerate for effect (on teh internets? never!): which goal seems more appropriate for your kid to reach by his 6th birthday: running a 5-minute mile or learning to tie his shoes?

Right on ABB. As usual, you getit. For goals to be effective they have to be reasonably attainable, otherwise they're useless. Thats taught in goals 101.

 

[acs64]

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Muse is a sieve.

Meh, I wouldnt go quite that far. BC has shown that with 4 freshman defensemen their goalie is just as susceptible as any other goalie in D1. High powered offenses will expose the defense first then Muse. I think Yale had the second best power play and second best scoring average? They ended up putting up relatively the same amount on Muse as Maine did in the HE finals. Seemed about right to me. Fortuneately for BC, they're capable of putting up one or more than the opposition and win.

 

[BearPaw]

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"The numbers are what they are, but I'd like to see some sort of play-in format, which I think is the fairest way to do it."
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Every team has the opportunity to play-in. Maine loss in OT.

 

[Fishman'81]

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This is a better group of forwards from top-to-bottom than Maine had when they advanced through the Rochester regional in '07,IMO.

The guys up front are ready to win, but the D is lousy and the 'tending is a nightmare.Having a decent tandem in goal is crucial to Maine making any noise nationally next year.If they show up in camp sporting the status quo in these departments,Maine ain't going anywhere for a while.

 

[BassAle]

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I would not be surprised at all if next season is a disaster. Or we might get lucky. Who knows.

We might see the trademark "Timmay Time" mid-season slump where he spends what seems like a million games screwing with lines and losing, or a OK season followed by a lackluster one and done performance in the NCAAs, or the good old favorite: backing into the NCAAs but somehow getting the softest possible bracket, making the frozen four, and losing, and all the Timmay lovers rubbing it in how he turned the season around. See the 2006-2007 season: the team underachieved and played especially bad at the end of the regular season (losing 4 straight to UMass, going 1-7-1 vs BC, BU, UNH after starting the season with promising wins vs MN and UND), and then got the a bracket where the other teams were Clarkson, St Cloud State, and UMass. If Maine had ended up in a real bracket and gone one and done the season would have been another Timmay disaster, but instead people thought it was a great run.


Maine with Timmay = UNH with FAR less regular season success.

 

[Maineiak]

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I would not be surprised at all if next season is a disaster. Or we might get lucky. Who knows.

Well, which is it. It might rain tomorrow, but it might be sunny too.

We might see the trademark "Timmay Time" mid-season slump where he spends what seems like a million games screwing with lines and losing, or a OK season followed by a lackluster one and done performance in the NCAAs, or the good old favorite: backing into the NCAAs but somehow getting the softest possible bracket, making the frozen four, and losing, and all the Timmay lovers rubbing it in how he turned the season around. See the 2006-2007 season: the team underachieved and played especially bad at the end of the regular season (losing 4 straight to UMass, going 1-7-1 vs BC, BU, UNH after starting the season with promising wins vs MN and UND), and then got the a bracket where the other teams were Clarkson, St Cloud State, and UMass. If Maine had ended up in a real bracket and gone one and done the season would have been another Timmay disaster, but instead people thought it was a great run.

Perhaps TIMMAY and Whistlin' Dick are long lost relatives?

Maine with Timmay = UNH with FAR less regular season success.

I'll take Maine with far less regular season success and far more post season success than the other way around.

 

[BassAle]

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I'll take Maine with far less regular season success and far more post season success than the other way around.

both Maine and UNH lose in the NCAAs. woo hoo. Our post season success is now a thing of the past.

 

[Maineiak]

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both Maine and UNH lose in the NCAAs. woo hoo. Our post season success is now a thing of the past.

You're just bitter because you work in a closet. With 2 other people. This is your forum for venting apparently.

 

[BobF]

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I would not be surprised at all if next season is a disaster. Or we might get lucky. Who knows.

We might see the trademark "Timmay Time" mid-season slump where he spends what seems like a million games screwing with lines and losing, or a OK season followed by a lackluster one and done performance in the NCAAs, or the good old favorite: backing into the NCAAs but somehow getting the softest possible bracket, making the frozen four, and losing, and all the Timmay lovers rubbing it in how he turned the season around. See the 2006-2007 season: the team underachieved and played especially bad at the end of the regular season (losing 4 straight to UMass, going 1-7-1 vs BC, BU, UNH after starting the season with promising wins vs MN and UND), and then got the a bracket where the other teams were Clarkson, St Cloud State, and UMass. If Maine had ended up in a real bracket and gone one and done the season would have been another Timmay disaster, but instead people thought it was a great run.


Maine with Timmay = UNH with FAR less regular season success.

Here's my .02 cents on next year and you all can quote me! Given the talent we have coming back, regardless of the goaltending situation (that has to be addressed and can't be an excuse) this group should contend for first in Hockey East (along with BC) and be in the tournament!

Furthermore they should be a top 10 team most of the year! What struggles I foresee will come out of the gate when you start vs. Michigan State and N. Dakota and could be dealing with 'tending issues.

Based upon what I saw and what I have heard the team has to much character to do the mid-season swoon. That does not mean that we won't have a few setbacks or bad weekends. I just have a gut feeling that what they managed to do the last two weeks proved to each of them that they can be so much better this year with the nucleus of impact players returning.

Only time will tell!

 

[BassAle]

Re: The 3rd official 09-10 Maine season thread: Bubble-icious

Here's my .02 cents on next year and you all can quote me! Given the talent we have coming back, regardless of the goaltending situation (that has to be addressed and can't be an excuse) this group should contend for first in Hockey East (along with BC) and be in the tournament!

Furthermore they should be a top 10 team most of the year! What struggles I foresee will come out of the gate when you start vs. Michigan State and N. Dakota and could be dealing with 'tending issues.

Based upon what I saw and what I have heard the team has to much character to do the mid-season swoon. That does not mean that we won't have a few setbacks or bad weekends. I just have a gut feeling that what they managed to do the last two weeks proved to each of them that they can be so much better this year with the nucleus of impact players returning.

Only time will tell!

will you become a nutcase if the season is a disappointment?

 

[BassAle]

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You're just bitter because you work in a closet. With 2 other people. This is your forum for venting apparently.

we can't all have nice cushy offices like you. I'm making a sacrifice for the greater good of mankind!

 

[Priceless]

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You're just bitter because you work in a closet. With 2 other people. This is your forum for venting apparently.

He works in the compliance office for Maine?

 

[Maineiak]

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You're just bitter because you work in a closet. With 2 other people. This is your forum for venting apparently.

He works in the compliance office for Maine?

No, but he does literally work in a closet. It had been used for storage until they converted it to a 3 workstation office. Kinda funny...

BassAle, ironically enough, at least your "closet" has a window, unlike my "cushy" office!

 

[Slasher7]

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Meh, I wouldnt go quite that far. BC has shown that with 4 freshman defensemen their goalie is just as susceptible as any other goalie in D1. High powered offenses will expose the defense first then Muse. I think Yale had the second best power play and second best scoring average? They ended up putting up relatively the same amount on Muse as Maine did in the HE finals. Seemed about right to me. Fortuneately for BC, they're capable of putting up one or more than the opposition and win.

Maine was the top ranked PP in the nation and Yale was second, but tops overall in offense, right? I think the high octane offenses will expose the young D as you said. I dont think Miami or RIT/Wisconsin have such offenses so I dont expect similar results. Nor do I expect them to put up 7 or 9 goals respectively against those teams, either.

 

[BassAle]

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No, but he does literally work in a closet. It had been used for storage until they converted it to a 3 workstation office. Kinda funny...

BassAle, ironically enough, at least your "closet" has a window, unlike my "cushy" office!

we also insisted that they left the "storage" sign on the door

nicest storage closet I've ever seen

 

[Priceless]

Re: The 3rd official 09-10 Maine season thread: Bubble-icious

No, but he does literally work in a closet. It had been used for storage until they converted it to a 3 workstation office. Kinda funny...

That's a big upgrade from when I was there.