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UMaine '18-'19: Back to the Nationals!

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Fishman, the king of negativity. Never a nice thing to say about the team he professes to love. Seems like chub.
 
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Here's a bit of optimism. The season is still very young and it's possible Maine could develop later in the season and start putting together wins. Based on Gendron's previous 5 years at Maine it's not likely to happen, but it is possible. I don't think Maine has the talent or coach to do it, but who knows. If Maine were to finish 4 - 5 in Hockey East, I could see the AD extending him another one or two years. It will be interesting to see what the AD does if Maine finishes the season in 7 - 11?
 
Runsub5 said:
Here's a bit of optimism. The season is still very young and it's possible Maine could develop later in the season and start putting together wins. Based on Gendron's previous 5 years at Maine it's not likely to happen, but it is possible. I don't think Maine has the talent or coach to do it, but who knows. If Maine were to finish 4 - 5 in Hockey East, I could see the AD extending him another one or two years. It will be interesting to see what the AD does if Maine finishes the season in 7 - 11?
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Where do you see the wins coming from? Maine basically plays all the bad teams on the road and good teams at home, which I don’t think is a great combination.
 
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Drew S. said:
Where do you see the wins coming from? Maine basically plays all the bad teams on the road and good teams at home, which I don’t think is a great combination.
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I really can't predict where the wins will come from.
 
Runsub5 said:
Here's a bit of optimism. The season is still very young and it's possible Maine could develop later in the season and start putting together wins. Based on Gendron's previous 5 years at Maine it's not likely to happen, but it is possible. I don't think Maine has the talent or coach to do it, but who knows. If Maine were to finish 4 - 5 in Hockey East, I could see the AD extending him another one or two years. It will be interesting to see what the AD does if Maine finishes the season in 7 - 11?
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Really most likely nothing gets done after this year, Red has two more seasons after this one.
 
Drew S. said:
Where do you see the wins coming from? Maine basically plays all the bad teams on the road and good teams at home, which I don’t think is a great combination.
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I mean, I would think that's the best possible combination.
 
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Whitehead was a lame duck. And to Drew's point that lead to UMaine being in the worst shape it had ever been in to that point, then ultimately bottoming out a couple seasons ago. When you have 7 guys go to pro camps it is kind of hard to say there isn't any talent. The team can't hide that it is underachieving. I am curious what would happen if you let other hockey east coaches coach this team. My guess would be most would get significantly more wins.
 
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Coaches Show is intermittant. Each time it kicks out you have to wait through leerfield commercial. Good grief.
 
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BlackI said:
Whitehead was a lame duck. And to Drew's point that lead to UMaine being in the worst shape it had ever been in to that point, then ultimately bottoming out a couple seasons ago. When you have 7 guys go to pro camps it is kind of hard to say there isn't any talent. The team can't hide that it is underachieving. I am curious what would happen if you let other hockey east coaches coach this team. My guess would be most would get significantly more wins.
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Whitehead still had a year on his contract, they bought him out.
 
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Anyone have thoughts on how the new regime will impact the school/system? I don’t think it hurts, but there might be more fashionable causes at the minute and maybe doesn’t help as much as we would like.
 
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walrus said:
Whitehead still had a year on his contract, they bought him out.
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Oh I forgot/missed that, my bad. It seemed lame duck because Maine still lost a few recruits and a couple players that had already played. Maybe it seemed like lame duck because it seemed like he didn't bother to set up a schedule for the next season. He must have known for a while he was being let go. I remember being very disappointed in not giving Monty a realistic shot. I am not sure Monty would have had the same success so quickly as compared to his time in Denver, but I imagine the team would have been stronger the past 5 seasons and in the national playoff picture consistently.
 
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BlackI said:
Fishman is so smart. All hail king fishman.

Dumb.. very dumb
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I'm going to let that go since it was posted at 2:19 AM, which leads me to believe that you were either dead-drunk yet again, or maybe going fishing..?

Look, Blackie, I love my Bears, but I call it as I see it. I suffered through the late Semlar years, and even Shawn's first couple of seasons. Way worse then than even now, but I kept wearing my Maine sweater and subscribing to the BDN from New York way back before there even was an internet, just for Larry's write-ups a week or more after the fact, 5 papers at a time.

Having said that, I'm a realist, and maybe you're not. This Maine team isn't awful by any means, but it's not anywhere near the elite squad you seem to think it is. This team has enough talent to contend for the HE AQ (HEA is that bad this year) but they need to go balls-out every night to even get a sniff of it.

And, yes, if Red could even recruit the odd sniper, we all might be singing a different tune. I stand by that assessment. Even a Union lands a guy like that once in a while, while Red never has.
 
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BlackI said:
Oh I forgot/missed that, my bad. It seemed lame duck because Maine still lost a few recruits and a couple players that had already played. Maybe it seemed like lame duck because it seemed like he didn't bother to set up a schedule for the next season. He must have known for a while he was being let go. I remember being very disappointed in not giving Monty a realistic shot. I am not sure Monty would have had the same success so quickly as compared to his time in Denver, but I imagine the team would have been stronger the past 5 seasons and in the national playoff picture consistently.
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Yeah, Monty would have been a better pick but he wasn't picked, Red was. Its not not shocking Maine screwed it up. Rumors abound as to why Monty wasn't picked.

How many times has this article been written in last 5 years, Does Larry dust it off and change some of the names?
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/11/...-umaine-mens-hockey-struggles-with-penalties/
 
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