University of Maine 2024–2025: Freel-ing good

[umhockey91]

Every school besides Maine and Vermont plays each other at least once, home and away. Unless Maine and Vermont concede their travel to accommodate a more balanced league schedule, you'll get situations like this.

All the league needs to do is a Thur/Sat or Fri/Sun schedule for Maine and Vermont.

 

[McGoverners]

All the league needs to do is a Thur/Sat or Fri/Sun schedule for Maine and Vermont.

I don't even need that. We play 4 teams 3x a year. One of them should always be UNH. The league should play into rivalries.

 

[UncleRay]

I don't even need that. We play 4 teams 3x a year. One of them should always be UNH. The league should play into rivalries.

I could get behind a H&H, but am adamantly against your suggestion. With a little unbalance in the HE schedule leading to playing some teams twice and others thrice, it needs to rotate around which teams see the extra game. HE mucks up a certain amount of stuff, but they seem to have this correct.

 

[grooverider]

This likely means we will be at BC again for two.

Club level tickets went up 100 total on mine

Not many years ago we used to do a Friday / Saturday border battle with alternating sites then it went away with Covid

 

[amkirby10]

I always thought that the last weekend of the regular season should be designated as Rivarly Weekend and locked in on a yearly basis, with ME-NH alternating hosts and the rest doing the usual home-and-home. Something like UMO-UNH, BC-BU, UML-MC, UMASS-UCONN, PC-NU, with UVM idle (sorry Vermont fans). Maybe that last part, the odd number of teams, is the reason it wouldn't happen in the league as presently constructed. It also dosen't help that some of the list I did make aren't really a rivalry at all (looking at PC-NU in particular). Just an idea I had before I thought would be fun.

 

[Euarctos]

Congrats to Sean Michael Walsh on his new job as Assistant Coach at the University of Alaska.

 

[amkirby10]

Penn State OoC schedule has been released. Maine is not on it.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Him swinging at players, coaches and refs doesn't put him in a good light

And the ECAC crowned him Coach of the Year that season ! LOL He got run out of Union years later for supposedly roughing up a kid in practice (not for going Rick Flair on Appert).

It appears as though he initially went out to break up the players if you look closely in this one. Then you see Appert, the coach of RPI, out there tangling with him. I don’t think this was one sided.

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He is 58 now, so I doubt he has the same snarl in him today. Let’s see how he does at Maine.

If Barr hadn’t have come along and John Torterella did then we would all be in favor of that. So I don’t think it being hockey that a coach gets out on the ice to get his players away to break up a fight then mixes it up with other coach after that coach came out after him is a big deal.

Just a hockey deal.

Two game suspension for Bennett (he got off easy) - he clearly went after Appert and several RPI players. I have no axe to grind and wish the guy well in Orono - I am a huge Ben Barr fan. I just hate it when history is "sanitized".

https://www.sbncollegehockey.com/ec...nnett-suspended-two-games-for-post-game-fight

 

[umhockey91]

Penn State OoC schedule has been released. Maine is not on it.

Total bummer for Maine fans. Penn State should breeze through their OOC schedule with a 10-0 record.

Seems like it is down to:

Wisconsin
Dartmouth
Princeton
LIU
Alaska A & Alaska F

 

[Ineverquit]

Total bummer for Maine fans. Penn State should breeze through their OOC schedule with a 10-0 record.

Seems like it is down to:

Wisconsin
Dartmouth
Princeton
LIU
Alaska A & Alaska F

Could also be Bowling Green, Brown, Cornell, Lindenwood, Michigan State, Notre Dame or Stonehill right?

 

[Ineverquit]

If I were to assume that Maine Plays 6 games in October instead of the 4 currently known, than that means there is one more series in October. (Also assuming the 2 games are not 2 one off games against different opponents, as well as not conference games.) That would mean the series is either the weekend ending on October 4th or 25th. (Also assuming there is no mid week game.)

The possible opponents with one or both of those weekends available are: Alaska, Brown, Dartmouth, Lindenwood, Michigan State, Princeton, Stonehill, or Wisconsin.

Not that any of this guessing matters anyway, we can only speculate until the schedule is released.

 

[umhockey91]

Penn State definitely wanted to load up on home games and who can blame them with the players they have coming in this season? I have a feeling that Maine and Penn State were talking but once McKenna committed they just went with the extra 2 home games vs. LIU. Maybe we will see a H & H with start next season. I doubt that Wisconsin is traveling to Orono.....looking back a few years at their schedules......they have consistently scheduled 18 home games.

 

[McGoverners]

Interesting tidbit from the ESPN article on the SCORE act:

"It also includes a section that purports to protect Olympic programs that some see as threatened because of increased funding that will go to football and basketball. That part calls on schools with at least one coach who earns more than $250,000 to offer at least 16 sports programs. That language mirrors a rule already in effect for NCAA's top-tier FBS schools."

Maine currently offers 15 programs (7 mens + 8 womens). The bill has a long way to go before it is even voted on, but for sake of thought: what programs would you add?

I vote rowing. The Stillwater Icebreaker Regatta would be incredible.

 

[DLG]

If I were to assume that Maine Plays 6 games in October instead of the 4 currently known, than that means there is one more series in October. (Also assuming the 2 games are not 2 one off games against different opponents, as well as not conference games.) That would mean the series is either the weekend ending on October 4th or 25th. (Also assuming there is no mid week game.)

The possible opponents with one or both of those weekends available are: Alaska, Brown, Dartmouth, Lindenwood, Michigan State, Princeton, Stonehill, or Wisconsin.

Not that any of this guessing matters anyway, we can only speculate until the schedule is released.

Brown Dartmouth and Princeton do not play regular games in October

 

[Ineverquit]

Brown Dartmouth and Princeton do not play regular games in October

They usually don't play the 1st 3 weeks. Sometimes they play in the 4th or 5th week in October. Brown has started non exhibition play 3 of the last 5 years in October. Dartmouth 3 of 5 and Princeton 2 of 5.

 

[umhockey91]

Interesting tidbit from the ESPN article on the SCORE act:



Maine currently offers 15 programs (7 mens + 8 womens). The bill has a long way to go before it is even voted on, but for sake of thought: what programs would you add?

I vote rowing. The Stillwater Icebreaker Regatta would be incredible.

Men’s Soccer would be the obvious choice. New soccer complex…Vermont just won the NC out of America East….would bring back a program that many thought they should have never cut in the first place.

 

[McGoverners]

Men’s Soccer would be the obvious choice. New soccer complex…Vermont just won the NC out of America East….would bring back a program that many thought they should have never cut in the first place.

I agree that's the simplest but they can't add a men's sport without adding a women's sport due to Title IX. The football roster is so large, women's sports would not be considered to have the same opportunity. (Probably but I'm no expert on Title IX)

 

[umhockey91]

I agree that's the simplest but they can't add a men's sport without adding a women's sport due to Title IX. The football roster is so large, women's sports would not be considered to have the same opportunity. (Probably but I'm no expert on Title IX)

Is Title IX still a thing? At the federal level…all bets are off.

 

[AMC]

I agree that's the simplest but they can't add a men's sport without adding a women's sport due to Title IX. The football roster is so large, women's sports would not be considered to have the same opportunity. (Probably but I'm no expert on Title IX)

Could just increase scholarships in an existing women's sport. I doubt Maine is near capacity in W swim/dive or W track.

 

[grooverider]

If I were to assume that Maine Plays 6 games in October instead of the 4 currently known, than that means there is one more series in October. (Also assuming the 2 games are not 2 one off games against different opponents, as well as not conference games.) That would mean the series is either the weekend ending on October 4th or 25th. (Also assuming there is no mid week game.)

The possible opponents with one or both of those weekends available are: Alaska, Brown, Dartmouth, Lindenwood, Michigan State, Princeton, Stonehill, or Wisconsin.

Not that any of this guessing matters anyway, we can only speculate until the schedule is released.

Cross off Notre Dame, Princeton.

My gut is telling me Dartmouth or Stonehill.