While I agree Minnie is beatable, home ice is home ice. The players get to
sleep in their own beds and stay on same routines they have followed all
season long. Seems like a advantage to me. I guess you could say they might
be too relaxed and Maine can get that us vs them mentality going??  Anyway
not much sense worrying about it, you still have to win to keep
going.  Hopefully Brent Shepheard will be ready to go, no matter what  I'd
like to see Zab back on D and not at forward.

  Jon

At 08:16 AM 3/20/2005, you wrote:
>I agree, I think Maine is heading to Minnesota to play the Gophers.
>While it is in their own barn, and they are a #1 seed, Minny has 14
>losses (I believe), so they are very beatable and haven't played well
>down the stretch.  It is not an insurmountable hill to climb.
>
>Look at the bright side, it can't be worse than 2002 National
>Championship game because Marucci Arena doesn't seat 20,000!!!!
>
>;-)
>
>-Deron
>
>
>--- Jon Eggert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Doesn't really seem like their is much doubt. Most of the speculation
> > I've
> > read takes Maine to Minnesota with minnie as a first round opponent.
> > Doesn't seem fair to play a team in its own barn. Sure would like to
> > play
> > them in Alfond instead :). But thats never going to happen so after
> > this
> > season we'll take what we can get and hopefully play well enough to
> > win.
> > Selection show is on at 11 am on ESPN 2.
> >
> >   Jon
> >