I'll reply to myself because an update is worth offering after the past
weekend...

After two games this weekend with an improved PP attack, Maine nearly
doubled its league game PP percentage to nearly 14 % efficiency (13.5%).
However, even after this weekend, in all games it still ranks very low at
7th of the 9 league teams, see chart below (I hope the formatting works out):

POWER-PLAY PCT
## Team                 GP PPG OPP SHGA  Pct.
---------------------------------------------
 1.UMass Lowell........  7  13  53    0  .245
 2.New Hampshire.......  8  14  60    2  .233
 3.Northeastern........  9  11  60    0  .183
 4.Merrimack........... 10  15  82    4  .183
 5.Boston College......  6   9  53    2  .170
 6.Providence..........  9  10  62    1  .161
 7.Maine............... 13  14  88    1  .159
 8.Boston University...  8  10  64    2  .156
 9.Massachusetts....... 11   8  62    0  .129

Despite the double 4's given up down in Massachusetts, Maine needs to look
beyond its still-solid defense and goaltending and consistently take better
advantage of PP opportunities offered.

And, by the way, the biggest "unknown" fact from my reading of stats this
week is that Tom Zabkowicz is currently the Maine's team leader in
plus/minus at + 5 !!  And Coach keeps this guy out about half the time ?
(Worth noting that Mushaluk is currently at -1 in +/-, in case you were
wondering, Jim A)

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 I wrote, in part:

>Among HE schools, Maine is ranked 6th in PP scoring percentage
>in all games (14.3%), 7th in league games (2-26 or 7.7%).  Four teams listed
>above Maine in HE are among the nation's top 20 in PP% (UML ranked 3rd, btw)