At 01:00 AM 12/4/95 EST, Frank Brickelmaier Jr. wrote: >While I have been pleased with the recent play of Maine, I find the it >disturbing that two players have decided that it is not worth playing for this >team. Wayne Conlan has never really received much ice time anyway. Why in >one's senior year would one decide to leave a team which has the potential to go >to the Phinal Phour ? Also, if Barry Clukey was so upset about being sctatched >from the championship game versus Boston University wouldn't it have made more >sense to leave earlier than four or five games into this year ? I hope my >concerns are unwarrented but I think this is a very negative scenario. RE: Conlan.. perhaps he felt that as a "senior" he deserved to have more ice time, and that Clukey's exit made it easier for him to leave the team because Clukey had already broken those "unwritten" rules. I too was surprised Conlan left. RE: Clukey.. not only was he stratched versus BU, but also versus Michigan. Before quitting the team Clukey talked about his feelings, and he hadn't forgot about it, but he had tried to work hard in the off-season and the preseason to improve his playing. He did do that, Barry was definately improved this season, but Maine has so many forwards, they needed to try out different combinations. He missed a game or two because of that, then in his next game, Walsh changed up the lines in the middle, and Clukey was put on the fourth line and by that time he pretty much had it Walsh. As far as it being negative or positive.. I think in a weird way it's positive. This team feels very comfortable with the guys on the ice right now, and everything I've heard tells me that the "spirit" of the team is as good as it has been all year. I think it's good for the team to get rid of those players who perhaps not as committed to the team, but negative in the sense that it does create a distraction. We'll see, since Clukey left Maine is 7-1-1, and since Conlan left Maine is 2-0 with convincing wins. > >Frank >University of Maine >Class of '92 > >HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to >[log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List. > --- Deron [log in to unmask] --> University of Maine Hockey (12-3-2) --> http://maine.maine.edu/~dtread41/mehockey.html --> Owner/GM: Maine Mariners (EHH Fantasy League) HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.