>Personally I'd like to see Maine have more of a killer instinct at
>the end of these games.  ...

It seems to me that we get a lead in the 1st period, and then work at
protecting it for the rest of the game ...  something that has
(amazingly to me) worked in almost every case this season.  I too prefer
a more offensive style, but maybe we don't have Dunham or Snow in net
to handle the increase in breakaways and two on ones?

>                    ...  Dartmouth had no business getting 2 shots on
>goal in last 10 seconds when the face-off was just inside the Maine
>blue line.  Have to find someone to win a bloody face off when we
>need it!  Win a face-off win the game.

I thought the face-off wasn't lost, but the puck was simply picked up by
a Dartmouth player that wasn't covered.  The Maine center didn't get
it drawn back, but definitely didn't lose the faceoff.  Leveille
has been quite good on faceoffs, but I don't recall who took this one.

As an aside, when did Maine last have a great set of faceoff centers?

   I could ask when was the last time a Maine player won a faceoff and
   be a wise guy to say 1995 at the National Championship semi-final in
   the gazillionth overtime ...  but I won't.  :-) The last beautiful
   faceoff win was Saturday night as the puck was drawn perfectly to
   freshman Mike Hamilton in the slot.  Mike snapped a one-time beauty
   past Dartmouth's entertaining goalie for his first college goal!

I thought the "bad" play (very good for Dartmouth) was the 100-foot
cross ice pass to a streaking Dartmouth player from well on the
Dartmouth side of center ice ...  maybe from the Dartmouth defensive
end.

cheers, wayne