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UML 2011/2012 Season Thread

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snipeshow10 said:
The Russian game will be good for some guys to get ice time, have Boulanger and Robbins get some game action. Pendanza, Wallin, Ruhwedel, Furlong and Kamrass are all dinged so I doubt they will play.

Agreed the UVM/Northeastern games are the big ones. They need to sweep the remaining UVM/UMA games. After that, every game between Providence, Northeastern (how are they not ranked???), Merrimack can change the playoff picture very rapidly. Lowell really controls its own fate so it should make for a very exciting 2nd half. Home ice would be an amazing jump from last season.
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I'm not sure what I would do with myself if Lowell managed to get home ice. Still have a bitter taste in my mouth over that UVM game in 2009-2010 (last game of the season) when Campbell got ejected for a borderline hit from behind in the 1st period. Game ends in a tie and Lowell headed to Orono. We all know what happened after that.
 
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I'm actually at the point where I'm feeling sorry for the Russian Red Star players now. Just found this blog by forward Nikita Feoktistov at the NY Times.
It’s been a rough trip. We drove 12 hours from Northern Michigan University to get here, and someone just told me it’s 15 hours by bus to UMass-Lowell for our final game in the States Thursday night. I thought Indiana was closer to Massachusetts.

We flew to Northern Michigan, but I couldn’t say it was glamorous. We woke up at 3 a.m. in New Haven, bussed down to LaGuardia, flew to Detroit, and then waited nine hours in the airport for our flight to Marquette. We figured out it was 19 hours between hotels.
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The Russian Red Stars team lost again last night 2-1 at Notre Dame. They're 1-4 on this trip so far against college teams.
 
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Thought of something as I was watching the Bruins game and saw a commercial for the Dartmouth/RPI game being on the new NBC Sports Network ...

As Bazin continues to build this program back up, and the students/fans continue to show up at the Tsongas, it's going to be tougher (I hope) for NESN or NBC to ignore showing games at Tsongas in the future. That will be nice to see again. Obviously a lot has to still happen prior to that, but the 12-5 start has yet another potential side benefit for the future (and recruiting).
 
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UMLFan said:
Thought of something as I was watching the Bruins game and saw a commercial for the Dartmouth/RPI game being on the new NBC Sports Network ...

As Bazin continues to build this program back up, and the students/fans continue to show up at the Tsongas, it's going to be tougher (I hope) for NESN or NBC to ignore showing games at Tsongas in the future. That will be nice to see again. Obviously a lot has to still happen prior to that, but the 12-5 start has yet another potential side benefit for the future (and recruiting).
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We'll always have an advantage in that our arena is a place they like to broadcast from... I think NESN has figured a way to do it everywhere... but I'm not sure NBC will have that kind of taste for it. If we're doing well enough in a year then they'll get us... Dartmouth and RPI both have national profiles to some extent... Dartmouth being and Ivy and RPI being a top east coast tech school. I think we'll get our shot though.
 
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UMLFan said:
Thought of something as I was watching the Bruins game and saw a commercial for the Dartmouth/RPI game being on the new NBC Sports Network ...

As Bazin continues to build this program back up, and the students/fans continue to show up at the Tsongas, it's going to be tougher (I hope) for NESN or NBC to ignore showing games at Tsongas in the future. That will be nice to see again. Obviously a lot has to still happen prior to that, but the 12-5 start has yet another potential side benefit for the future (and recruiting).
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When I saw that commercial I thought what were they thinking scheduling that game. After (painfully) watching two RPI games, if this game gets 1000 viewers worldwide, I'd be surprised.
 
Patman said:
We'll always have an advantage in that our arena is a place they like to broadcast from... I think NESN has figured a way to do it everywhere... but I'm not sure NBC will have that kind of taste for it. If we're doing well enough in a year then they'll get us... Dartmouth and RPI both have national profiles to some extent... Dartmouth being and Ivy and RPI being a top east coast tech school. I think we'll get our shot though.
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Except their both awful teams. If this was a debate, sure. It's hockey and they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
 
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Patronick said:
Except their both awful teams. If this was a debate, sure. It's hockey and they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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In the ECAC Pre-season polls, these teams were picked 4th and 5th. When the TV schedule was made, this looked like a matchup of teams that were expected to be 2 of the better ECAC teams,
 
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Patronick said:
Except their both awful teams. If this was a debate, sure. It's hockey and they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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Yes, and the debate was about eyes and stories... sorry, they're both national schools
 
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Yes, and the debate was about eyes and stories... sorry, they're both national schools
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Dartmouth, sure. A large amount of money says the VAST majority of Americans couldn't tell you what state RPI was in or what it stood for. Calling RPI a "national school" is just silly.
 
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Patronick said:
Dartmouth, sure. A large amount of money says the VAST majority of Americans couldn't tell you what state RPI was in or what it stood for. Calling RPI a "national school" is just silly.
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Most people couldn't tell you what state Dartmouth is in... besides... RPI gets the Tom Clancy audience
 
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