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University of Maine 2024–2025: Freel-ing good

Mac910 said:
Big agree on both - Allison was a horse in every sense of the word and Ouellette was very solid his last two years. Unfortunately, the teams in front of him were far from solid.

Out of curiosity, where do you have the career stats? I have a hard time finding much current with detail aside from the sparse wikipedia.
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You can always google their name and put “hockey” after it then click on the eliteprospects link.

For example, I type in “Blair Allison hockey” and this link comes up. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/64212/blair-allison

Scroll down to see record and some stats for when he played at Maine.

Hockeydb is decent too… https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=6938
 
Sparkee said:
You can always google their name and put “hockey” after it then click on the eliteprospects link.

For example, I type in “Blair Allison hockey” and this link comes up. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/64212/blair-allison

Scroll down to see record and some stats for when he played at Maine.

Hockeydb is decent too… https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=6938
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Thanks, I should have been clearer - was looking for a central location of program records rather than parsing through individual stats on DB or eliteprospects.
 
Mac910 said:
Really hoping whatever Chabrier has going on isn't serious. Clearly we've had to lean on Boija a lot more over the past few weeks and losing one of your top four is only going to exacerbate it. Glad to see Antonacci get on the scoresheet, but the combination of him, Nobes, Arnott, and Lesakowski as a 3rd pairing by committee has been one of the key weak points all season.

Separately, Boija has developed his legend in a very short time. I've been watching for twenty years now and he's inching closer to the best in my lifetime. Unlikely that we get four years out of him but if we did Snow's program victory record (60) and Howard's shutout record (16) will definitely be at risk. As far as my top four goes:
1. Swayman (I think the easiest sell on this is that he has 1000 more career saves as a Black Bear than any other goalie and did it in three years)
2. Howard
3. Michaud
4. Snow

The fifth slot becomes a little more challenging for me but off the top of my head Allison, Bishop, Doyle, and Dunham are probably on the shortlist. At this rate though, Boija is getting closer and closer to this list every weekend. Would love to hear some of the vets' thoughts on this.
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That's a tough one. So many great goalies have played at Maine.

Longevity is maybe a factor to me, but, based on actual games played, I wouldn't quibble with Boija being on the short list. (I guess I'd go with Jimmy right now, though.)

And let's not forget King, who, like Sway, had shitty teams on front of him, and still excelled.
 
Mac910 said:
Thinking it was Shawn Sirman... Foley was the third string in 06-07 but if memory serves he never got into a game. Sirman's most memorable moment was an awful goal that lost the game at the Whitt. That 10-11 team was arguably better than the 11-12 with Nyquist and House but they really fell apart in the second half. Goaltending was the weak point for those years
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Absolutely.

Maine had two sub-par goalies that year, but a pretty good set of forwards.
 
grooverider said:
And Minnesota loses. Such a shame..
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I am sure Michael Schutte is heartbroken over this development.

Maine is ahead by .0001 RPI so it could fluctuate this week based on other games, but should the Black Bears win the QF at home next Saturday night it's a done deal.

Now the only thing that can louse things up is if Western Michigan passes the Gophers and North Dakota makes the field as a 4-seed. Otherwise, Maine will be the top seed in Allentown.

I posit that even if UNH were to continue the March Magic and make the field, with seven teams from Hockey East in the field the committee would allow conference rivals to meet in the first round. Sucks for Boston College if that happens...
 
Fishman'81 said:
That's a tough one. So many great goalies have played at Maine.

Longevity is maybe a factor to me, but, based on actual games played, I wouldn't quibble with Boija being on the short list. (I guess I'd go with Jimmy right now, though.)

And let's not forget King, who, like Sway, had shitty teams on front of him, and still excelled.
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Good call on Scott King. We really have been lucky - it's hard to comb through year by year and come upon any that didn't play in the NHL at some point or were very good at the NCAA level.
 
Mac910 said:
Thanks, I should have been clearer - was looking for a central location of program records rather than parsing through individual stats on DB or eliteprospects.
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I've been slowly working on a complete goalie history over the last couple seasons in a spreadsheet.

Have a few players I'm missing data for, but for the most part it's pretty complete. Will be happy to share out once it's finalized.

If anyone has guides for 83/84, 84/85, 87/88, 88/89, 95/96 and 96/97 seasons and don't mind snapping some photos of the stats pages that'd be a big help.
 
Mac910 said:
Good call on Scott King. We really have been lucky - it's hard to comb through year by year and come upon any that didn't play in the NHL at some point or were very good at the NCAA level.
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As a side note, Swayman is two wins away from making Maine the only college program to have five goalies reach 100 NHL wins. Currently tied with Wisconsin with four.
 
tylerzx2002 said:
Blair Allison gets lost with all the great goalies that have come through Orono, but he has a few single season records that may never fall for Wins (32), Game Played (44), and Minutes Played (2572) in 94/95.

Another goalie that probably gets undervalued is Martin Ouellette who ranks in the top ten in every career metric aside from Wins.
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I dont know, Ouellette was tough to watch.
 
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