It was nice to win an exhibition game against a quality team,but I'm with Wally;Sirman should have gotten the start.He needs game-reps,and the team needs to get comfortable in front of him.(I realize that Willie has played some great home games,but why not save it for when it counts?)
I'm just happy that the next game is an exhibition too. Any word if Darling will be back for VT?
That would depend on whether or not you could get some quotes from the decommits or whether you think it speaks to the health of the program. To me having a 15 yr old change is mind is hardly the end of the world but....
I remember when the Boston papers would write columns on Maine recruits, haven't seen that for awhile
I swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell.
I'm just happy that the next game is an exhibition too. Any word if Darling will be back for VT?
Darling was interviewed in between periods last night and said he was hoping to be on the ice and playing for the Vermont series....hopefully...but at the same time lets hope they don't hurry the process...he sounded upbeat. He has a full week plus,lets hope he gains each day.
Here's the blurb on Shawn, link above in the quote
College hockey has lost many coaching legends in the past 10 years, including Murray Murdoch (Yale), Ned Harkness (RPI/Cornell) and, recently, Amo Bessone (Michigan State). But there was no more shocking and horrible loss than active Maine coach Shawn Walsh. The at-times controversial figurehead at Maine, winner of two national championships, was cut down in his prime (just 46 years old) in the summer of 2001 by a horrific cancer that he fought to the very end.
His loss continues to reverberate, with Tim Whitehead -- who originally came on board to be an assistant, and then interim head coach, as Walsh was undergoing chemotherapy treatments, and then just stayed on the job -- doing great work amid Walsh's ever-present memory around Alford Arena.
Walsh was known as a renegade, rubbed many the wrong way, got himself and the program into some trouble -- but no one ever questioned his coaching skill, and those around him have remained his staunchest defenders as a person, too.
"In time, the other part of Shawn's persona has softened a bit," Bertagna said. "The accomplishments remain (two national championships, a near-perfect season in 1993, building the Maine program from scratch). Even in his day, when some people felt he was more rogue, he was still respected by his peers as evidenced by naming him Coach of the Year. People are able to compartmentalize things. They have a lot of respect for how good he was in every phase -- recruiting, getting better as the season went on, bench management, stealing games he shouldn't have won."
I swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell.
No One Does....what it comes down to is there are some for Whitehead and some that miss the Old Time Maine Hockey way of playing...grit,speed,goaltending,etc. and that goes to say NOT CHEATING but Maine Hockey...plain and simple.
No One Does....what it comes down to is there are some for Whitehead and some that miss the Old Time Maine Hockey way of playing...grit,speed,goaltending,etc. and that goes to say NOT CHEATING but Maine Hockey...plain and simple.
and NONE of that was on display last Friday night, when the results really meant something, whilst their opponent displayed those qualities.
Maine coach Red Gendron said:
“We’re not satisfied unless we win, that’s the bottom line. There are no moral victories. If we were to play a season for just moral victories, why even bother playing?”
Quite a few New Brunswick fans at the game last night. There wasn't anywhere near 3600 which is what the box score said. Maybe 2500 showed up if that. Where was everyone last night? Afraid of a little snow or what?
When you say Tim Whitehead, You haven't said much!!!
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