Hey James,

We are in agreement!  Merrimack played their system to perfection!   
Maine could not penetrate at all on the power play, and on a couple  
of occasions left one guy at the point without rotating someone  
back.  Maine had just started to control play territorially when MC  
got the shortie and it took us awhile to regroup.

However Maine was better team in second and in the 3rd until they  
gave up the tie-breaker with 12 minutes to go.  And then Maine  
started pressing, and running around in their own end.

As James said, first goal was a breakaway for MC,  the rest were all  
off rebounds, which means our D were not winning battles at the net  
front.  Meanwhile MC was giving rebounds off which we were unable to  
stuff.

Last loss to Merrimack was in February of 2002 by a score of 5-2, let  
us hope that we can recover and score more than 1 tonight!!!!!!

Bob Fitta '83
On Nov 17, 2007, at 1:56 AM, james acheson wrote:

> merrimack was clogging up the passing lanes, and
> frankly Merrimack looked a lot like Maine when Maine
> played NU and BC... the worked hard, and never
> stopped.  And NONE of merrimack's goals was pretty,
> all hard work.
>
> Ben needs to learn to stop a breakaway.  Robitaille
> scored on a short handed breakaway after Dimmen
> accidentially coughed up the puck and Brett was
> nowhere near in a defensive position.
>
> I have a question, is maine in the plus or minus when
> they have a powerplay this season?  I think Maine has
> 3 pp goals, and has given up 4 short handed goals...
> am I wrong?
>
> THe upsides... Billy is passing a lot more, I think it
> will take a little time for his linemates to get used
> to it and expect passes.  That will come.
> Van Dyk is special... another IMes with the puck.
> Sweetland is also special... he is strong and he
> reminds me of Penner when he was playing well at
> Maine.
> Maine played without Laise and Clarke, two great
> hustlers.... hard to have them out of the lineup.
>
> Bellamy is still working his butt off and doing some
> great back checking.
>
> Maine has more upside than down, but, this team is
> ONLY going to win by working hard... I thought they
> had learned that lesson at NU, but I guess they
> didn't.
> --- Anthony DelMonaco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> lets try this one again...anyone care to share their
>> take on this one? on a brighter note howie carr is
>> back and the celtics are undefeated....yeah...
>>
>> mosey
>>
>> If you don't have the best of everything, make the
>> best of everything you have
>> -Shawn Walsh
>>
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