Tom Rowe writes:
>What about those Redskins?  I'm really surprised they are doing so poorly.
>IMO Mazzoleni is a H*** of a good coach and based on how he was at Point I can
>imagine the players are getting an earfull.  The man does have a temper
>problem.  So what's going on?  Why are they struggling so?
 
Without having seen them, I would be inclined to think that the
difficulty of their schedule has played a part...only two teams in the
nation have an OppWin% that is higher, and neither are from the CCHA.
Look who they have played:
 
>Miami                  CCHA
> N 10/13/95  L    5  Maine                6  nc     Gr W Frz Out (Los Angeles)
> N 10/15/95 W     7  Boston College       1  nc     Gr W Frz Out Cns (Anaheim)
> H 10/20/95  L    3  Michigan State       6
> H 11/03/95  L    4  Vermont              7  nc
> H 11/04/95  L    3  Vermont              4  nc
> H 11/10/95  L    4  Michigan             5
> H 11/11/95  L    0  Michigan             8
>
>          GP  W  L  T   GF  GA
>OVERALL    7  1  6  0   26  37
>LEAGUE     3  0  3  0    7  19
 
Coming into this season, I thought Miami was probably a second tier
team, not as good as the best but capable of playing with them.  That
they have done, except for the whitewashing by Michigan.  Take away
that game, and their overall GF-GA is 26-29.  And almost all of their
games have been against first tier teams.  Not many other teams have
had a more difficult opening set of games.
 
Wait until they start to play the weaker teams.  They'll be all right.
 
BTW, the two teams whose OppWin% thus far is even higher than Miami's:
UNH and Wisconsin.  UNH is 3-2-2, Wisconsin 2-6-0.  Like Miami, I
don't think we have heard the last of the Badgers.
 
Speaking of teams we may not have heard the last from...
 
The RPI has Miami at number 23; the Redskins have the second worst
record of any team in the top 30.  The worst...#30 Merrimack (0-4-1).
Only Princeton (#35, 0-3-0, .000) has a worse record than Merrimack,
yet 14 teams rank below MC - one-third of Division I.
 
We're only headed into the first turn...the homestretch is miles away
at this point.
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