Interesting info here James. Thanks.
I guess it’s hard to re-vamp
something that hasn’t vamped yet. J
Maybe it took this much of the season to
figure out what sort of revamping was going to work. (?)
From: The Maine Hockey Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of james acheson
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005
1:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Reality Check
the thing that really stinks is that I have all the confidence in the
world NOW. (unlike at the beginning of the season...)
of course our boys have to sweep Prov and Lowell.. if they do that,
then I would say that they can play with almost anyone... (assuming there are
no 8-1 losses at BC).
after Timmy revamped the defense 10 games ago, Maine has only lost
ONCE once in 10 games... and once in 9 NCAA games.... these games were
over all as tough as any other 9 games all season with BU and UNH in the mix.
I kinda wish that the D had been revamped at the beginning of the
season.
You gave me an interesting thought..
How would you feel as a number 1 seed out west and your first round
draw is Maine
as a #4 seed. ;-)
-Deron
--- "D. B. Doucette" <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> All I can think of is that Tim knows the numbers used for the "bonus
> to a
> team's RPI for "good wins" must propel Maine past some others into
> 14th or
> better, assuming he feels they can get 75% of available points from
> this
> point forward.
>
> And Coach's comments were made BEFORE the surprising Beanpot results
> of last
> night, and its effect on PWR which is updated in today's USCHO (it
> helped
> Maine).
http://www.uscho.com/rankings/pwr.php
>
> Maybe Tim feels also someone is indeed beatable in Boston at the
> "This Space
> Available" Center (hop! ing it is not BU in the final) to give Maine
> the
> auto-bid. I do think unless a severe collapse happens that Maine has
> secured home ice to start the HE playoffs, FWIW.
>
> Wayne
analyzed Heal with the same results I see in PWR, so splits
> with
> Lowell and
BC will not help. Win and tie each series must be the
> results
> right through the BC series in Conte Forum. I hope BC loses tonight
> to
> Notre Dame in basketball, btw.
>
> Maine
will NOT get into the Round of 16 just on reputation or
> history, it is
> purely numbers driven with the Committee, unless an auto-bid.
>
> If Maine
plays like they did Friday night, and BC plays like they did
> last
> night, Maine
can get in the Round of 16 this year. If so, they
> almost
> certainly are a prime candidate to be sent West as a fourth or at
> best
> third-band seed.
>
> If getting in! , I am not necessarily saying Maine will sweep their way
> to
> Columbus, but they certainly could perform as they did when they lost
> to
> Michigan
at Yost. Maine's
plodding defensive style is not condusive
> to
> blowouts, but with a little puck luck a mistake could go Maine's way,
> and
> who knows....
>
>
>
> Deron Treadwell wrote:
>
> >In light of this discussion about Maine's NCAA Tournament at-large
> bid
> >chances, we have this quote from Tim Whitehead in today's Bangor
> Daily
> >News... "I feel better about our team and about our chances to
make
> the
> >NCAA Tournament."
> >---
> >
> >Comments?
>
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