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UMaine 25-26: Marques My Word: Back to the Big Time

I'm going to say something controversial: I like Reddick as an official and think he's going places.
 
grooverider said:
Lindenwood beat Denver. Denver is not UNH. UNH swept us. UNH is not as good as Lindenwood imo. Welcome. To the twilight zone.
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I don’t think you are looking at the defense. For the most part UNH controlled the center of the ice in front of their goalie. I’d say they will finish the season with best defensive stats up there with BC and Providence. Maine didn’t get swept because UNH forwards lit Maine up. Boija had a bad night, and UNH defense was outstanding with great goaltending… that is how Maine got swept. This Lindenwood team is nowhere near as strong in front of their goalie, nor are they keeping pucks out of harms way and on the perimeter like UNH did. I don’t like saying good things about UNH, but they appear to have a quite strong defensive core. Carr, one of their rookies looks really strong to me or can be some day.

In a lot of ways their D core is light years ahead of Maine’s in terms of being simple and keeping the puck out of the zone, up high off the glass, sweep loose pucks outside, body your man going to the net, sweep stick but focus on impeding body, etc… Maine defense doesn’t like to do a lot of that but love to pass hap hazardly behind them blindly, won’t sweep pucks away from net, won’t use muscle to clear net front, won’t play body and get burnt playing puck and not the body. Maine needs a much better level of defense to do anything nationally.
 
Sparkee said:
I don’t think you are looking at the defense. For the most part UNH controlled the center of the ice in front of their goalie. I’d say they will finish the season with best defensive stats up there with BC and Providence. Maine didn’t get swept because UNH forwards lit Maine up. Boija had a bad night, and UNH defense was outstanding with great goaltending… that is how Maine got swept. This Lindenwood team is nowhere near as strong in front of their goalie, nor are they keeping pucks out of harms way and on the perimeter like UNH did. I don’t like saying good things about UNH, but they appear to have a quite strong defensive core. Carr, one of their rookies looks really strong to me or can be some day.

In a lot of ways their D core is light years ahead of Maine’s in terms of being simple and keeping the puck out of the zone, up high off the glass, sweep loose pucks outside, body your man going to the net, sweep stick but focus on impeding body, etc… Maine defense doesn’t like to do a lot of that but love to pass hap hazardly behind them blindly, won’t sweep pucks away from net, won’t use muscle to clear net front, won’t play body and get burnt playing puck and not the body. Maine needs a much better level of defense to do anything nationally.
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I completely agree with you but UNH will not get away with that shit if teams learn one thing : dump the puck and chase.
 
I don't know what Lindenwood was trying to do on that "breakout" but that was a pretty give and go between Poirier and Marques
 
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