Not to beat a dead horse, but I'll show you what you did say in your
first post, that you claim not to have said now

> That kinda thing just never happened under Coach
> Walsh.  Not to cut into old wounds here, but it's
> true.  And if a Walsh team ever did seem to be getting
> that "L" word, you know he lit a fire under them come
> intermission, if not right then and there on the ice
> in the middle of the game.  He didn't just let it
> happen.

now you say

> And I never said Walsh's team never had let downs.  I
> saw a few of them personally.  But like a lot of folks
> have said, when he saw them coming he let the boys
> have it one way or another and the trend did not
> continue.

However the truth is whether Shawn lit into them right their on the
bench or not, they still had let downs and lost games.

You also are constantly harping on Colin's comments in the Portland
Press Herald on Saturday after the game, yet you have yet to refer to
comments made by Jon Jankus on Sunday after the win, which seem to
address the very concerns you have about Coach Whitehead.


  "We got a little talking to this morning by Coach (Tim Whitehead),"
said Maine forward Jon Jankus. "He stressed that we played absolutely
brutal (Friday) night. We wanted to be all over them from the start,
and we were."


Finally, not sure whether you were at the game on Friday night, but
Maine's letdown was confined for the most part (save :30 seconds after
they scored the tying goal) to the first period.  Maine played well in
both the second and third periods, but did not come up with the win.  I
imagine that Coach did a little talking after the first period as well!

Sorry, but we all have let downs at every level, and to not expect a
college hockey team to have a letdown is unrealistic.

Bob Fitta '83


  On Mar 1, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Doug Libbey wrote:

> I certainly call the loss to UML a let down.  And I
> will tell ya a couple reasons why.  This weekend,
> Maine held a lot of its own fate in their own hands.
> A weekend sweep of a team that they certainly should
> have swept this time of year, gave them a VERY legit
> shot at a Hockey East regular season title.  UNH is a
> very capable team of taking at least a point from BC,
> and they did just what Maine needed them to do.  Some
> fans might not want that title all that bad, but you
> know those players did, they just went about getting
> it all wrong.  Another reason this is a let down is
> this.  Look at the subject line of this thread.  Colin
> Shields himself told the Portland Press Herald that
> the team let their guard down.  To me that is not
> acceptable.  The players obviously felt the same way
> as they went out and gave Lowell "an old fashioned
> whoopin'" shutting out UML 4-0.
>
> And I never said Walsh's team never had let downs.  I
> saw a few of them personally.  But like a lot of folks
> have said, when he saw them coming he let the boys
> have it one way or another and the trend did not
> continue.  And as I said earlier, I kinda like how
> Whitehead (might have) handled it.  He seemed to have
> wanted to let his players see what happens when you do
> let your guard down.  Sometimes learning by experience
> is better than learning by having a coach get angry
> with you.  It looks to me that Timmy let the team
> suffer from their own mistake.  By that 4-0 win, his
> method seemed to work.
>
> It looks like Maine could be playing Lowell up at the
> Alfond in the opening round of the HE Tourney.  It
> will be a nice opportunity at getting a bit of
> revenge.  And to prove they can dominate a team two
> nights in a row like the (almost) did vs. UNH.
>
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