These are all good ideas, but what is to say that they won't compromise
us too far to the negative on the other end of the ice?
The biggest problem with trying to play a shootout type of game is
making sure that your guys can score more goals. At this point I don't
see us being able to win that way any more consistently than the
defensive style we are currently playing.
I'd rather play tight defense and work harder on offense to fight
through checks and get to the front of the net and create the second
chance and garbage goals.
I think a good case can be made that a tough defensive team fares
better in the playoffs than a shootout team. How many Maine teams from
the late 80s and early 90s (pre 1993) won a ton of games 7-5 and how
many titles did they win? How many title games?
The 1993 team was special and won BOTH ways.
Now granted college hockey has changed some, but Maine teams in 1995,
1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004 that all achieved high levels of success were
not built with lots of blue chip (BC style) forwards, but were good
players/teams that worked hard and earned everything they got. That is
what Maine has become the last 10 years -- a team that beats you
because it works harder and has its legs at the end because they run
four lines at you all game.
-Deron
--- james acheson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> seems to me that in the Providence game, our boys would post someone
> at the far blue line or between the red line and far blue line.
> there were no 9 goals scored, but pretty close. that seemed to open
> up the offence jsut fine.
>
> Give Bellamy license to forecheck and stay up ice as much as he
> wants, Let Damon be much more iffensive minded, Kick Moore in the ass
> and get him going. Let Levielle be Levielle... and someone please
> tell Ryan that he is not a one man hockey team and that he really
> needs to think about passing once in a while (he hogs the puck to a
> fault just like Leveille passed to a fault last season).
>
> there are the horses... if Merrimack can put 6 pucks past the Harvard
> D (not Grommet-Morris) then our boys can put 9 past 'em.
>
>
> Deron Treadwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think it is a bit unrealistic to continue to talk about winning
> games
> 9-7 because this team does not have the horses to win a game in that
> fashion. You've got to play with the hand you are dealt.
>
> I know we'd all prefer the exciting offense and the great scorers,
> but
> this Maine team is not built that way. You have to play to your
> strengths and scoring goals is obviously not one of our strengths.
>
> To be successful this team must work hard, crash the net get garbage
> goals, but most importantly they must play tight, stingy defense and
> get good goaltending.
>
> Yeah, it isn't as exciting, but it is what it is.
>
> -Deron
> --- james acheson wrote:
>
> > I am not picking on you, I AM picking on what I see as the team's
> > objective... to limit the other team to 1 goal a game... I do not
> see
> > THAT as a way to win consistently.
> >
> > WHERE IS GREG MOORE?
> >
> > I was impressed with the things I heard ever the net yesterday
> > "another hit by Bellamy.... and Mushaluck satnds Abbott up at the
> > blue line" we two very nice things to hear.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jonathan Finch wrote:
> > You are making such a big deal about this... I was only talking
> > about the article, and trying to interpret what was said in it... I
> > never claimed to be so concerned about stats... and I have also
> > since than realized that the article in question was not the same
> one
> > I read...
> > I would gladly see a 9-7 win any day than a 1-0 win or a 0-0 ties,
> > because that would mean a) we are winning games, and b) we have
> found
> > our ability to score... having a good defense is one thing, but not
> > being able to score when you need it sucks...
> >
> > james acheson wrote:
> > oh shoot it is already Cornell 2, Maine 1 with 2 minutes left in
> the
> > first.
> >
> > I guess the gaa is not going to go down to 2.06 to put Jimmy into
> > 14th best in the country.... maybe or boys can win a wild one
> 9-7....
> >
> >
> >
> > james acheson wrote:
> > whooo hooo 4th on this and 6th on that and playing .500 hockey....
> > please santa, send me a team that wins every game 9-7 .... never
> > mind the friggin gaa.
> >
> >
> > Jonathan Finch wrote:
> > I recall reading that somewhere about being 5th, but I thought they
> > were refering to either team defense, or penalty killing, which
> means
> > they would have been accurate at the time... right now maine is 4th
> > on Penalty kills, and 6th on team defense
> >
> > "D. B. Doucette" wrote: I know we're trying to be
> > positive here this season, but whoever was the
> > author of the "official" release after yesterday's game saying
> Maine
> > is
> > FIFTH in the nation, when they barely made the 15th and last poll
> > ranking
> > (USCHO) last week, had to be wearing blinders big enough to fit a
> > Clydesdale. Fifth in the nation, at one time, perhaps...
> >
> > At least in the post-game they didn't trot out the "Jimmy still
> > recovering
> > from illness" excuse or devise "lost luggage" to mask another
> anemic
> > performance on offense. PP conversions slip even lower, this game
> > going 0-5.
> >
> > I respectfully disagree the problem is the Maine defense...
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 Deron Treadwell forwarded:
> >
> > >(Official Release)
> > >Maine Ties St. Cloud State 1-1
> > >Drop a 2-1 decision in a shoot-out to the Huskies
> > >
> > >Dec. 28, 2004
> > >
> > >
> > >ESTERO, Fla. - The Maine men's ice hockey team tied St. Cloud
> State
> > 1-1,
> > >but were defeated 2-1 in a shoot-out on Tuesday afternoon in the
> > first
> > >game of the Florida College Classic at Germain Arena. Both teams
> > scored in
> > >the second period, with Maine's goal from Billy Ryan. Maine,
> ranked
> > fifth
> > >in the nation, is now 10-7-3 (6-3-1 Hockey East) and St. Cloud
> State
> > is
> > >8-9-2 on the season (4-8-0 in WCHA).
> > >
> >
> >
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