Can anyone listening to the game give a quick
update. I know we are ahead 3-1, who scored and
etc? Our internet connection is down on both the
zone and school station. Thank you!!! Butch
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> Subject: Hockey East quarterfinals to heat up
> Alfond ice
> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:19:52 -0500
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> Hockey East quarterfinals to heat up Alfond ice
> By: Jeff Mannix
>
>
> 03/07/02
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>
> The University of Maine men's ice hockey team
> could not have asked for a tougher
> opponent in the Hockey East quarterfinals. The
> Black Bears will host the
> defending national champion Boston College
> Eagles in a best-of-three Hockey East
> quarterfinal series beginning tonight at Alfond
> Arena.
>
> UMaine interim head coach Tim Whitehead
> welcomes the challenge of playing BC in
> the first round of the playoffs.
>
> "At playoff time, every game is crucial,"
> Whitehead said. "That goes with the
> territory. We've prepared for this challenge
> all year. A winner-take-all series
> is nothing that we're going to shy away from.
>
> "I told the team that we were probably going to
> face [BC] at some point anyway,
> so why not face them on our own rink, where we
> play the best. All the opponents
> you see this time of year are challenging
> opponents and BC is no exception. But
> we're a challenging opponent for them."
>
> UMaine (20-9-7 overall, 14-5-5 in Hockey East)
> put together one of its best
> offensive series of the season at Boston
> University last weekend. The team
> earned a 9-6 win and a 4-4 tie. Niko Dimitrakos
> became the second consecutive
> UMaine player to be awarded Hockey East Player
> of the Week honors for his four
> goals and three assists at BU. Peter Metcalf
> was selected the week before.
>
> Whitehead said Tuesday that Tom Reimann will be
> back in the lineup for the Black
> Bears. He missed both games at BU, with what
> Whitehead called "a laundry list of
> injuries." But, other than that, Whitehead
> anticipates keeping most of the other
> line combinations together.
>
> Whitehead's biggest decision may be who to
> start in goal. Mike Morrison (17-3-4,
> 2.13 goals against average and .925 save
> percentage) has been the starter most
> of the season, but struggled Friday at BU. Matt
> Yeats, (3-6-3, 3.15, .882) who
> was the starter for the past two seasons, and
> has played in many crucial late season games,
> stepped up and played well Saturday night,
> challenging to take
> back the No. 1 role.
>
> Whitehead is pleased both goalies are playing
> well, and sees it as an advantage.
>
> "You want your goalies to challenge each other,
> and make each other better,"
> Whitehead said. "I think that both goalies will
> improve because they are
> challenging each other to elevate their games.
> Both goalies really want to play
> right now."
>
> Whitehead said Tuesday the decision would be
> made after Wednesday's practice.
>
> Boston College (18-16-2, 10-13-1) is not your
> typical sixth-seed coming into the
> tournament. BC is the defending national
> champion that hit a huge skid in
> January while playing without one of its stars.
>
> The Eagles lost six games in a row to close out
> the month while missing
> sophomore forward Ben Eaves to a broken rib.
> The Eagles went 3-7-0 in his
> absence. Eaves is a key member of the offense,
> scoring 12 goals and 24 assists
> for 36 points in only 21 games.
>
> His linemate, fellow sophomore Tony Voce, is
> the team's leading scorer. Voce is
> the third-highest overall scorer in Hockey East
> with 24 goals, 21 assists and 45
> points. He is one point ahead of Dimitrakos.
>
> Other key players up front are seniors Jeff
> Giuliano (11-24-35), freshman Dave
> Spina (13-13-26) and Ryan Shannon (8-16-24).
>
> BC will need to find a way to replace the play
> of their best defenseman,
> sophomore J.D. Forrest. Forrest had surgery
> yesterday to repair tendon and nerve
> damage sustained when a skate blade cutting his
> wrist in Sunday's regular season
> home loss to New Hampshire. Forrest was the
> fourth-leading scorer on the team
> (8-20-28).
>
> Whitehead doesn't anticipate his injury
> affecting BC much.
>
> "Certainly, they'd much rather be going into
> the playoffs with J.D. Forrest than
> without him," Whitehead said. "But they've had
> their share of injuries this
> year. They've got other guys who can step to
> the plate for them, and I'm sure
> they'll do that."
>
> Those other defensemen needing big weekends are
> junior Bill Cass (3-5-8),
> freshman Andrew Alberts (2-10-12) and sophomore
> Brett Peterson (2-5-7).
>
> Like Whitehead, BC Coach Jerry York has a tough
> decision in goal. BC freshman
> Matti Kaltiainen (8-9-0, 2.65, .902) has played
> well down the stretch. He played
> once against UMaine, a 5-2 loss Dec. 7 at
> Alfond.
>
> Junior Tim Kelleher (10-7-2, 2.78, .886),
> always has given the Black Bears fits.
> He was stellar against the Black Bears this
> season in a 3-3 tie Dec. 8 at Alfond
> and a 4-3 BC win at Conte Forum Feb. 8.
>
> Whitehead says both goalies are tough, so they
> aren't preparing for one in
> particular.
>
> "We're prepared for both," Whitehead said. "But
> we're not going to put too much
> weight on which one is in. They're both good
> goalies and both will be tough."
>
> Whitehead said his team will need to play its
> game to beat BC this weekend.
>
> "We need to focus on playing our game. We
> played our own game at BU and it was
> successful. We'll let the players know what to
> expect [from BC], but we want to
> focus on executing our own game."
>
>
>
>
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> Story Source: Maine Campus
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Take care, Butch
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