I'll reply to myself because an update is worth offering after the past weekend... After two games this weekend with an improved PP attack, Maine nearly doubled its league game PP percentage to nearly 14 % efficiency (13.5%). However, even after this weekend, in all games it still ranks very low at 7th of the 9 league teams, see chart below (I hope the formatting works out): POWER-PLAY PCT ## Team GP PPG OPP SHGA Pct. --------------------------------------------- 1.UMass Lowell........ 7 13 53 0 .245 2.New Hampshire....... 8 14 60 2 .233 3.Northeastern........ 9 11 60 0 .183 4.Merrimack........... 10 15 82 4 .183 5.Boston College...... 6 9 53 2 .170 6.Providence.......... 9 10 62 1 .161 7.Maine............... 13 14 88 1 .159 8.Boston University... 8 10 64 2 .156 9.Massachusetts....... 11 8 62 0 .129 Despite the double 4's given up down in Massachusetts, Maine needs to look beyond its still-solid defense and goaltending and consistently take better advantage of PP opportunities offered. And, by the way, the biggest "unknown" fact from my reading of stats this week is that Tom Zabkowicz is currently the Maine's team leader in plus/minus at + 5 !! And Coach keeps this guy out about half the time ? (Worth noting that Mushaluk is currently at -1 in +/-, in case you were wondering, Jim A) On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 I wrote, in part: >Among HE schools, Maine is ranked 6th in PP scoring percentage >in all games (14.3%), 7th in league games (2-26 or 7.7%). Four teams listed >above Maine in HE are among the nation's top 20 in PP% (UML ranked 3rd, btw)