I am in total agreement with Pat's position here!
I would much better end the season with a sweep, possible win, tie,
than risking a 4th place finish and match-up with Lowell. In all
likelihood we will be playing Lowell, but from a pairwise standpoint we
would secure an NCAA appearance with a sweep of BC. I can't see any
benefit to losing, winning breeds success, and for a team many of us
have been questioning the consistency of, why discuss the benefit of
losing. This team needs to build more confidence.
The good news is players like Shepheard, Leveille, Soares, Moore, and
Damon are playing with much more confidence! It will be an interesting
weekend at BC and I certainly am looking forward to seeing the effort
these guys put forth!
On Feb 28, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Pat Leathers wrote:
> I haven't thought this out terribly carefully - but aren't we losing
> sight
> of the fact that if we beat BC twice - we're beating the #3 team in the
> nation - instead of beating a team just that's fallen to 13 in the
> pairwise?
> It seems like that taking out BC twice before we get to the playoffs
> certainly will help us in the pairwise too - perhaps even more than it
> helped us to sweep Lowell.
>
> Is there a higher reward for beating a team under consideration during
> the
> playoffs than during the regular season?
>
>
>> From: Adam Parker <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: The Maine Hockey Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Hockey East standings
>> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:22:23 -0500
>>
>> Mosey brings up a great point, but it maakes me wonder: There appear
>> to be
>> 2 scenarios here.
>>
>> 1) We sweep BC, and possibly end up in 1st place in HE, which would
>> have
>> us
>> playing the 8th place team in the 1st round. Weaker team that UML,
>> obviously.
>>
>> 2) We stay in 4th and play (hopefully) UML in the 1st round, thus
>> increasing our chances for an at-large birth if we don't win the HE
>> tourney.
>>
>> Scenario 2 would require that we either tie or lose at least one game
>> to
>> BC.
>> Even though it would benefit us (by allowing us to play UML). So,
>> would
>> the
>> tradeoff help us in the long run? I would think a win over BC would
>> be
>> better than a Win (or possibly 2) over UML. I don't know enough
>> about the
>> rankings to know how this would play out.
>>
>> --Adam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The Maine Hockey Discussion List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On
>> Behalf Of D. B. Doucette
>> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:40 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Hockey East standings
>>
>> Anthony, you make a WHOLE lot of sense.
>>
>> Not exactly sure, but a first in the HE regular season could get us
>> another
>> 4 digits on a Regular Season Champions banner at Alfond, but not an
>> at-large
>> berth to the NC$$ Tournament. A third might deny us the digits, but
>> push
>> us
>> more toward a 14th or 13th place in PWR, and get Maine into the Round
>> of
>> 16.
>> I'll take the latter, and I would guess all in the Maine hockey
>> program
>> would take that also.
>>
>> I should know this, but do the PWR calculations continue extra weeks
>> to
>> count games played in the conference tournaments, also ?
>>
>> Kudos to the WZON radio Sunday announcer who (after they droned on
>> about HS
>> hoops in Maine) did note Maine's weekend sweep AND offered information
>> about
>> their place in PWR after the weekend (solid 15th). Shows he pays
>> attention,
>> especially noting that some auto-bids are lower ranked teams and that
>> 15th
>> effectively is a bubble spot.
>>
>> BTW, the foghorn work on Maine's Saturday night goals was very well
>> done.
>> The two that did it that night should get a return engagement next
>> season
>> for face value of tickets !!
>>
>>
>> Anthony DelMonaco wrote:
>>
>> >Not that I wouldn't mind seeing Maine in 1st place but I'd rather
>> have
>> >them
>> play out to a position that will hopefully help them lock up an at
>> large
>> bid. Any of this make sense? And also how about the bonus given?
>> >
>> >Mosey
>>
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