This is a message from a pair of MAINE BLACK BEAR FANS stuck in
Wildcat-impregnated Southern York County!!

  I actually had a UNH fan come to me this morning and give THANKs to MAINE
for giving UNH Home ice.  Without MAINE getting the -4- points from
Providence, there is no way that the kitties from Durham would have been
able to pull it together and get Home Ice for their play-offs.

 I told this Unh'er that - in the long run - it wouldn't make any
difference - since Dick Umile can't deliver his Unh team anyways -

 Seriously - We in this part of the state severely lack any MAINE HOCKEY
radio coverage - and have to listen to the solopistic smuggness of unh
fans - (that's what they call themselves) on the local waves -

The Airing of the games (locally on channel -8-) is certianly not only
refreshing, but well deserved from a team that (I believe/we all thought )
was a .500 team before the puck dropped in October. We need to let them know
our appreciation at the next -4- games.

This morning I found an old piece that Larry Mahoney wrote on the '99 team -
how resilient they were - how they were a team that was void of
scholarships - a couple of walk-ons - and they finished in style.

What is most interesting - is the likeness of that team's stats -

and this one  at the same time in the season -

SCAREY -

Zerb -

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Doucette" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Maine/PC game Sat nite


> I have to agree we have all become somewhat spoilt regarding seeing
> score/time graphics on TV games.  Luckily, you ARE seeing more Maine games
> on the tube than ever before...
>
> Ch. 5 at least is not missing the start of play each period as they did
> their first broadcasts this year...
>
> I lost the Friday night game on the radio driving along I-95 in Bowdoinham
> just about when Maine scored their first goal to tie the game.
Fortunately
> a Portland radio station carried the game that night (not always a
> guarantee); it amazes me that no clearances have yet been established for
> coverage of ALL Maine games on radio in southern Maine.
>
> At least some station in the Sanford area (?) is no longer carrying Boston
> University games every night in southern Maine (anyone remember that ?)
>
> Bob Fitta can probably tell you the very thin shoestrings that Maine
> broadcast media outlets generally run on...I can regale people in Lowell
at
> the Brewery Exchange/Lowell Brewing Co. (Cabot Street) this Saturday night
> how some of us tended the station some nights at the offices of WBME-AM in
> Belfast during Red Sox broadcasts in the mid-1970's....
>
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:37:42 -0800, james acheson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >the game clock and score were on the screen at the beginning, but it was
> all scrambled....
> >
> >minor vent in return....
> >we finally get the game on TV and you complain about the score not being
on
> the screen...
> >
> >While I completely appreciate Channel 8 broadcasting
> >Sat's game for those of us in the southern half of the
> >state, was anyone else besides me annoyed by the lack
> >of a game clock and score on the screen during the
> >game? The only time the score came up was on
> >commercial break.
> >
> >ken
> >