The Barr Has Been Raised at UMaine

[NorthMike]

Polls dont mean much. They dont help win games.
You play well and win the rest takes care of itself.
Having said that I do look at PWR only to gage who looks positioned to make the tourney.
At the end of the day after the regular season play if you dont keep going your home fishing or golfing. Doesn't matter where you finished in the polls.
Recruits factor in a whole bunch more other than just the team uscho poll #.

 

[Fishman'81]

Polls dont mean much. They dont help win games.
You play well and win the rest takes care of itself.
Having said that I do look at PWR only to gage who looks positioned to make the tourney.
At the end of the day after the regular season play if you dont keep going your home fishing or golfing. Doesn't matter where you finished in the polls.
Recruits factor in a whole bunch more other than just the team uscho pole #.

The coach's polls mean absolutely NOTHING of course, and that's been the case for years and years.

It astounds me that people still reference that silly BS.

It's been completely meaningless for a long, long time,

 

[acs64]

Enough about polls. They only matter at gentlemen's clubs, correct ? But I think they should in reality more or less reflect what the PWR is saying, and that is based on numbers not opinions, which are, as you know, like azzholes which everyone has. Howz that for a run on sentence, geezus.

Congrats to Breen for being named HE player of the month.

 

[tylerzx2002]

Recruits factor in a whole bunch more other than just the team uscho poll #.

I'm sure at a surface glance most recruits have so much going on that the majority probably aren't going in-depth to check out PWR, but they very well may see top 20 poll graphics on their social feeds so being in it is certainly better than not, if even just for the perception of being a relevant program.

At the end of the day a winning program with great facilities is what most are looking for. We're getting there but still have a ways to go. Hopefully Barr has sold the new AD on expediting the locker room upgrades and training facilities as those are the most glaring needs. Let's hope they save superficial upgrades like a new scoreboard or ribbon boards until the big needs are done.

 

[umhockey91]

I'm sure at a surface glance most recruits have so much going on that the majority probably aren't going in-depth to check out PWR, but they very well may see top 20 poll graphics on their social feeds so being in it is certainly better than not, if even just for the perception of being a relevant program.

At the end of the day a winning program with great facilities is what most are looking for. We're getting there but still have a ways to go. Hopefully Barr has sold the new AD on expediting the locker room upgrades and training facilities as those are the most glaring needs. Let's hope they save superficial upgrades like a new scoreboard or ribbon boards until the big needs are done.

The scoreboards have already been put out to bid and should be installed in the off-season.

I hope that the new AD lays out a clearer picture by the end of the school year to the general public about how the new facilities plan is progressing with timelines and the order in which things are being built. If they want a lot of smaller donations....they might want to communicate things more clearly in this regard.

 

[NorthMike]

The scoreboards have already been put out to bid and should be installed in the off-season.

I hope that the new AD lays out a clearer picture by the end of the school year to the general public about how the new facilities plan is progressing with timelines and the order in which things are being built. If they want a lot of smaller donations....they might want to communicate things more clearly in this regard.

I said this recently, but heard directly from a source very close to the renovation project that an announcement is imminent in the next few months about the alfond project and that it is very high in priority.
As it should be.
Hope the announcement is more than the scoreboard.

 

[Fishman'81]

I'm sure at a surface glance most recruits have so much going on that the majority probably aren't going in-depth to check out PWR, but they very well may see top 20 poll graphics on their social feeds so being in it is certainly better than not, if even just for the perception of being a relevant program.

I don't know a single D-1 player, but I've known quite a few D-3 players and players' parents, and the the PWR comes up in conversation every single weekend. The coach's poll is never mentioned, except in the local fish-wrapper and in the game programs.

The kids themselves grasp what's relevant. Betcha every Bear knows Maine's PWR as we speak.

 

[UncleRay]

Enough about polls. They only matter at gentlemen's clubs, correct ? But I think they should in reality more or less reflect what the PWR is saying, and that is based on numbers not opinions, which are, as you know, like azzholes which everyone has. Howz that for a run on sentence, geezus.

Congrats to Breen for being named HE player of the month.

Opinions are like bumbums - everybody's got one and most of them are cracked.

The USCHO poll and PWR typically come into pretty perfect alignment by the point in the season that PWR can be reasonably calculated. I haven't looked at the two of them side by each this week - someone who has can tell me if I'm way off base.

 

[walrus]

I said this recently, but heard directly from a source very close to the renovation project that an announcement is imminent in the next few months about the alfond project and that it is very high in priority.
As it should be.
Hope the announcement is more than the scoreboard.

I don't understand a new scoreboard at all. Are people only watching the video screen or something? I look to see time, PP or PK time remaining and thats about it. Do they sell time on it? Seems like other things in Alfond are more important.

 

[acs64]

Opinions are like bumbums - everybody's got one and most of them are cracked.

The USCHO poll and PWR typically come into pretty perfect alignment by the point in the season that PWR can be reasonably calculated. I haven't looked at the two of them side by each this week - someone who has can tell me if I'm way off base.

Probably the sensitive milllenials need to see their mug on the scoreboard to feel loved. Who tf knows

 

[acs64]

Opinions are like bumbums - everybody's got one and most of them are cracked.

The USCHO poll and PWR typically come into pretty perfect alignment by the point in the season that PWR can be reasonably calculated. I haven't looked at the two of them side by each this week - someone who has can tell me if I'm way off base.

You’re off base cuz I think u are . Nuf sed. ;-()

 

[UncleRay]

You’re off base cuz I think u are . Nuf sed. ;-()

I was like, "Wait. Who said tha..." Then saw the acs, rolled my eyes like a teenager, and laughed my (cracked) butt off!

 

[UncleRay]

Because that geezer acs goaded me, I looked up current USCHO poll and PWR side by each. Same top 20 teams. So I feel vindicated. Only two teams differ in the two lists by more than two places: ND is 13 in the PWR and 19 in the poll and Alaska is 12 in the PWR and 18 in the poll.

 

[NorthMike]

I don't understand a new scoreboard at all. Are people only watching the video screen or something? I look to see time, PP or PK time remaining and thats about it. Do they sell time on it? Seems like other things in Alfond are more important.

Couldnt agree more.
I dont know keeping up with the industry? Like loud piped in music, flashy things they can post on the scoreboard etc.
I guess Im just getting old I dont know. I go to watch hockey not the show around it. Dinosaur.

But you do see players and coaches looking at it for replays. Maybe it helps them.

 

[tylerzx2002]

Couldnt agree more.
I dont know keeping up with the industry? Like loud piped in music, flashy things they can post on the scoreboard etc.
I guess Im just getting old I dont know. I go to watch hockey not the show around it. Dinosaur.

But you do see players and coaches looking at it for replays. Maybe it helps them.

The music really doesn't do it for me. I'd request more of the band, but I can barely hear them from my seats now that they've relocated.

 

[Fishman'81]

I don't understand a new scoreboard at all. Are people only watching the video screen or something? I look to see time, PP or PK time remaining and thats about it. Do they sell time on it? Seems like other things in Alfond are more important.

Well, you know how hockey is... Half the time you can't see what happened during a goal, and a replay helps.

 

[walrus]

Well, you know how hockey is... Half the time you can't see what happened during a goal, and a replay helps.

I guess, if you are there and not on your phone you should have a pretty good idea how they scored the the goal. If you want perfect view instead of the excitement of being there get HULU and stay home : ) I still don't see it as the biggest need as there is already a video board.

 

[Wayuphere]

I’m not a fan of giant video screens that cause fans to act like they’ve never seen themselves on cam before or causes players (any sport) to look up to watch their personal highlight replay.
That said, ain’t it good to be discussing Alfond improvements and rising numbers in the Poll or PWR instead of how badly the team is playing and is last place within reach?

 

[Snively65]

I’m not a fan of giant video screens that cause fans to act like they’ve never seen themselves on cam before or causes players (any sport) to look up to watch their personal highlight replay.
That said, ain’t it good to be discussing Alfond improvements and rising numbers in the Poll or PWR instead of how badly the team is playing and is last place within reach?

As I have posted on UNH threads, I was for the Jumbotron at the Whitt before I was against it.

Yup, looks like our state school brethren to the West has the HEA cellar locked up for this season.

 

[Wayuphere]

I thought UHN was “somewhat” like a BC team, individually skilled but not gelling as a team. Screams coaching…