First, I can't believe I'm participating in this, but you just won't let go...
 
The Ambroses wrote in response to Treadwell post:
 
>Depth is more than scoring goals.  All season long UNH took down other
>teams because of the skating and checking abilities of their third and
>fourth lines.  They certainly did it in the two games at the Whit last
>month.  I see no reason why, if Noeth had allowed the teams to play, that
>UNH couldn't have done it again.
 
Please consider that the "skating and checking" against other teams has at
least something to do with the games played on the larger surface at
Snively II.  New Hampshire was 0-3 against Maine on the smaller surfaces in
1998-99, including the Anaheim game, 2-0 on 100 x 200. That adds up to an
overall losing record this season against Maine.
 
>>
>Again, UNH beat Maine twice by convincing scores just a month ago.  The two
>games that Maine beat UNH, both by one goal, where not indicative of the
>strength of the two teams.  In the first, at the Governors Cup back in
>November, ECAC official Doiron made a mockery of the game with his
>officiating (kind of like Noeth).  In the second, Maine won by one goal in
>front of probably the most raucous crowd ever assembled at Alfond.
>>
 
Ah, check the score of the Governor's Cup game. It was tied after two.  New
Hampshire certainly worked through that "mockery", just as in Anaheim,
albeit with the same result (a loss on neutral ice).
 
>Deron, Maine won the game and the championship because Michaud played out
>of his head in both games, pure and simple. You'll never convince me that
>Maine was a better team, 5-on-5 than UNH.
>
 
So, by that standard, will you agree that Maine's margin of victory at
Lowell would have been bigger if Alfie had started for Maine rather than
Morrison ?
 
And, in the most interesting omen for New Hampshire in that game, Maine's
winning goal in Lowell was scored by none other than...
 
           Marcus Gustaffson.  (not on Maine's first line then either).
 
It's not the same five-on-five for sixty minutes.  Maine's third line beat
New Hampshire twice this year.  Their third line (or whatever) couldn't
keep up with Maine or deny them scoring chances.
 
 
 
Dan Doucette
 
***  Isn't it fitting someone named Garth Snow is playing  ***
***            for a hockey team in Canada   ???           ***
 
Maine - National Champions 1993 and 1999 -
first in the new Millenium ?
 
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