Just watched the tape delay of Maine's 6-3 win over BU.  After a 1-1 first,
Maine scored four times in the second to go up 5-1 after two and led 6-1 in
the third before two BU goals made it a 6-3 final.  Chris Ferraro had a hat
trick for Maine.  NESN will be showing the replay again Sunday afternoon
11/22 at 3 pm in case anyone sees this before then.
 
The game got very chippy on both sides in the third and a lot of penalties
were called.  Things came to a head with 1:41 left when there were several
on-ice battles resulting in three ejections: BU's Mike Pomichter and
Maine's Martin Mercier and Chris Ferraro were given game DQ's which will
cause them to miss a game.  BU's next game is at Princeton 11/28 and Maine
plays Yale in the Great Alaska Face Off 11/26, followed by Bowling Green
and UAF the next two nights.  I'm not sure if Ferraro and Mercier can
travel to Alaska and play in the BG & UAF games.  At any rate, it was too
bad that a game with such high national visibility degenerated into such
cheapness in the third, and on national tv.  I did not see what caused
Ferraro to get his DQ, but Pomichter and Mercier were ejected for fighting.
 
Maine looked good, took advantage of BU mistakes, and it appears that they
will only lose if they beat themselves.  A sweep of two games at BU is
impressive indeed.  With the Harvard-Yale tie, those two teams and Maine
are the remaining unbeaten teams in DivI.
 
Elsewhere in HE, UMass-Lowell beat PC 6-2, and UNH and BC were tied 5-5 in
ot last I heard.  Northeastern routed Merrimack, 9-2; the Warriors have
given up an average of 10.25 goals per game now in 4 HE games.  Ouch.
Writeup is in progress.
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Mike Machnik    [log in to unmask]   Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors
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