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UMaine Hockey 23 - 24: The Barr Crawl to Glory!!!

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walrus said:
........Good to see the pit full,tough place to play for opposing team.
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Yes, definitely an advantage! Which is why I was stunned when Maine lost to Albany in the championship game there two years ago. Great ball pressure by Maine and Smith comes out shooting three's at the tip off. She never does that! Maine really wanted that game more!
 
walrus said:
I watched game, surprised at how bad Vermont shot the ball. They had one option, tall blonde over the top for a layup, worked every time. Vermonts point guard was good after that they were awful. Maine looked shaky in 2nd period for awhile then came out of it and blew Vermont out. Any team with with height will give Maine fits. Good to see the pit full,tough place to play for opposing team.
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The point guard of Vermont played hard and was good defensively. But Simon had a great day despite the tenacious defense from Vermont #23. Smith was great on the boards and had some key put backs. As did Talley. I was happy for Vachon too. She was a bit emotional after the game, sounded like her father is ill? Nice to see the fans having fun. I attended a lot of games back in the Blodgett days, but I think most games I watched weren’t at the pit then. I thought they had some games at Alfond then, but it is a blur now. Might have been at the old Bangor Auditorium. I can’t recall because of watching so much Highschool basketball in Bangor Auditorium.

It should be fun to see who Maine women’s hoops draws in the national tournament!
 
ticapnews said:
Colorado College came from 3-1 down to defeat Omaha in OT. That result drops Omaha to a 4 seed, sending BU to Sioux Falls. Maine-Michigan is still slated for Springfield with the other game being either No Dak vs AHA/CCHA or Denver vs Providence.

18 hours to go...
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I don't think it will affect much but if Lake State wins tonight they are in and Bemidji is out.
 
Chuck Murray said:
e.cat's bark is worse than his bite. As discussed recently on the UNH thread, we've had our moments at loggerheads in the past, but we've come out the other side, and all is good. Just two thick-skulled Irishmen who both think we know everything.

Ironically, one of the two of us actually comes from Maine. Not the Downeast, mind you, but Maine nevertheless.

The discussion today about where the Downeast starts and ends has been enlightening. Not too much unlike the discussion about what NH towns are considered Seacoast towns. For those from "away" I can assure you, it includes towns and cities lacking Atlantic Oceanfront property. I've spent more than my fair share of time working in and around Bangor over the last 30 or so years, and the idea that Bangor is NOT "Downeast" would surprise some of the locals who've told me otherwise. Whatever. Clearly, there is no shortage of know-it-alls on this thread too LOL. But all in all, I've always said, I have much love for the UMaine-iacs, groovy. Some folks have long memories of "Wild West USCHO", and took a lot of that stuff personally and/or literally. So be it. And I'm not saying I won't take future shots as appropriate; isn't that part of the fun to be had with the format??

BTW ... has anyone here got any updated pics of Barr's (formerly?) corpulent assistant? ;-) lol j/k etc. ad nauseum
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Not sure why I am bothering to give an opinion to you given how you’ve been carrying on this past week. But I grew up a little north of Bangor. Bangor is considered eastern Maine area. For example, they say it is Eastern Maine Medical Center. Highschool sports teams say it is the Eastern Maine championships.

That is not the same as down east. Down east to me is from Belfast to Eastport along the coast including the islands, inlets, and a few towns worth at least inland. That is how my family has always referred to it anyways. Since I’m a little north of Bangor we refer my area as the Penobscot valley. Which is the towns on each side of the Penobscot river, the largest river running through Maine that starts from Katahdin.

If you go north of Lincoln they start calling that area Katahdin. Which is like Millinocket and north until you get to “the county”. Which is Aroostock county, the potato farm lands. West of that is “the Allagash” which is a huge area actually with Allagash waterway in the middle of it. That’s where the black flies, moose flies, and mosquitos are on a different level altogether. But I’ve heard of west of Katahdin called “golden road” because that’s all there seems to be up there is logging woods and the golden road to take you to Quebec. But back on the east side if you get to Presque Isle and north that is Northern Maine. If you live even a little north of Bangor and tell someone from away your are from Northern Maine and someone living north of Presque Isle hears they will be offended and promptly correct you saying “that’s not Northern Maine”. Then basically from Lewiston and south is called Northern Massachuesetts. This is what I think anyways.
 
Sparkee said:
The point guard of Vermont played hard and was good defensively. But Simon had a great day despite the tenacious defense from Vermont #23. Smith was great on the boards and had some key put backs. As did Talley. I was happy for Vachon too. She was a bit emotional after the game, sounded like her father is ill? Nice to see the fans having fun. I attended a lot of games back in the Blodgett days, but I think most games I watched weren’t at the pit then. I thought they had some games at Alfond then, but it is a blur now. Might have been at the old Bangor Auditorium. I can’t recall because of watching so much Highschool basketball in Bangor Auditorium.

It should be fun to see who Maine women’s hoops draws in the national tournament!
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The basketball teams played at Alfond after the renovation was completed in 1992. The parquet was stored next to the locker room where the equipment room is now. They last played in Alfond in 2013.

Bracketology I have seen has Maine as the #15 seed playing at #2 Ohio State in Columbus. Would love to see them draw Stanford again (good memories for Coach!) or Iowa, but they're both #1 seeds and Maine is better than a #16.
 
ticapnews said:
The basketball teams played at Alfond after the renovation was completed in 1992. The parquet was stored next to the locker room where the equipment room is now. They last played in Alfond in 2013.

Bracketology I have seen has Maine as the #15 seed playing at #2 Ohio State in Columbus. Would love to see them draw Stanford again (good memories for Coach!) or Iowa, but they're both #1 seeds and Maine is better than a #16.
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Ok, good. I wasn’t imagining things. I remember when Blodgett was playing the women’s game far, far outdrew the men’s team. Blodgett was so much fun to watch.
 
You guys keep proving my point that Downeast is east of your individual point of reference. Belfast, MDI, Schoodic,...
 
walrus said:
I watched game, surprised at how bad Vermont shot the ball. They had one option, tall blonde over the top for a layup, worked every time. Vermonts point guard was good after that they were awful. Maine looked shaky in 2nd period for awhile then came out of it and blew Vermont out. Any team with with height will give Maine fits. Good to see the pit full,tough place to play for opposing team.
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One thing to know about yesterday's game...it was not just Simon & Smith...it was a total team effort in scoring and team defense...I too was surprised that the Vermont team did not play to expectations...if anything they really did not show up...alot of kudos to having home court advantage and a relentless fan interaction....Maine team was on a Mission.
 
Hockey will be UMaine's 3rd team to get an NCAA bid this school year.....it's been a while since that happened! 1999 was the best UMaine sports year.....NC for hockey, WBB beat Stanford....MBB went 19-9 with Andy Bedard & Co.
 
umhockey91 said:
Hockey will be UMaine's 3rd team to get an NCAA bid this school year.....it's been a while since that happened! 1999 was the best UMaine sports year.....NC for hockey, WBB beat Stanford....MBB went 19-9 with Andy Bedard & Co.
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Football was really good then as well.
 
grooverider said:
Fishy bud how do you feel about Boija in net tomorrow in his first big game? I want to give you credit for saying Ostman wasnt it earlier this year, I'm surprised how much he struggled
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Oh, I definitely would go with Boo. I don't think we'll see Victor again this season, barring an emergency.
 
For pregame festivities we have a nice match up, with ncaa playoffs seeding implications, between Providence and UMass. Seems like if UMass loses, they are knocked out of ncaa playoffs. Not sure if Providence loses they will drop enough to get knocked out?

Reminds me of that dark knight scene with the joker and the pool stick.

https://youtu.be/P10bC0Bxp20?si=Xk-PJacs7ZgoqWcY
 
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