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> NU beat Maine, 4-3. Maine is now 18-3, and I don't know what NU is now
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God, it's getting so's you can't even be the first one to report things
on weekends anymore.
 
A few interesting notes of my own...
 
The final shot tally was 39-28 in favor of Maine, but Reynolds was a
black hole.  It wasn't just that he stopped shots, it was that he was
refusing to give up rebounds.  The Downey-Montgomery-Roy line is
especially fond of having one of the shooters throw a nice hard shot
off a goalie for the sole purpose of the other picking up the rebound.
No dice tonight.
 
No sour grapes from this Maine fan.  I thought NU played much the way we
used to play back when Walsh first came to the program.  It was truly
fascinating to watch one team play 60 minutes of hockey against a team that
they didn't have a chance of beating...only they did.  Maine refused to
play with any discipline at all, and NU was stunningly successful against
the Maine power play.  The breaks seemed to fall NU's way; there was the
goal at 20:00 of the 2nd period, the Maine goal on the 5-on-3 that turned
out to be just as their man got out, thus killing the rest of the power play,
and a sickening number of posts and stops by defensemen.  The only bummer
was that the obviously intentional disloding of the goal by NU with 7
seconds to go and Maine in position was only given a minor.  This brings
me to a question; if the ref is admitting that it was an obvious goal
dislodge, shouldn't it have been a penalty shot rather than a minor???
Anyway...
 
It was interesting to note that toward the end, Walsh broke up the first
line, playing Ingraham with Montgomery and Downey and Roy with Robitaille.
Although it may not be as fun to watch for a Maine fan, it seems that
something like this has to be done in the long run.
 
The good new is that this should put Maine in a more "consistent"
position in the NC$$ poll on monday ;-)  Seriously, this is the kind of
thing that makes a season bearable for a team like NU.  They played with
heart, and got a well deserved win.
 
-dug
 
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