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Video highlights from Vermont (02/13/10) including the two goals in :19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz0oP6pHwUA

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Great win tonight. Great weekend. Period. Please take the negativity elsewhere.

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Those 3 pts against a team that is also fighting to get into the playoffs, and then to do it in their house is a GREAT win. Absolutely need to get some pts agains Maine at home(very doable) and to to take 3 or 4 pts against Providence at end of season is a must. things looking up to get into playoffs, but need 24 or 25 pts to do so.

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Great win tonight by the Warriors. 3/4 points from the weekend is huge, and that makes 5 out of a possible 8 in the past two weekends.

Tie and a win on the road gets the monkey off their backs, too, although it is disconcerting a bit that so much of the success in the league comes against one team-- the Warriors went 2-0-1 against UVM this year.

Merrimack needs to make the best of their chances now to pass or tie UVM in the standings in order to get the last playoff spot-- they'll win any tiebreakers against them. The 4-point swing last weekend against NU looms large, though, as NU also had a good weekend and is pulling away.

I figured Lowell was uncatchable and that NU would finish out of the playoffs. Now MC's best chance to get into the playoffs puts UVM out of the hunt, and Lowell is only three points ahead and the Warriors have a game in hand.

UMA looks vulnerable: next weekend's home and home will be a big pair of games again. From here on out, they're all big games.

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Well this weekend in Vermont is the turning point for this Warrior team's season. This is only my opinion of course but I believe that in the end, the Warriors and the Catamounts will be fighting each other for that last playoff spot. One win this weekend will break the tie-breaker, but two wins gains another 4 point swing which I think will be the difference. Hopefully the coaches and the players are all on the same page and the Warriors can begin their playoff march tonight.

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Dmjossel said:
Anyway, it's gotten more discussion than it needs and the original poster hasn't even replied, so there's no point

Being the original poster that started this long discussion, all I really wanted to do is to present my feelings and let the discussion go on from there. Following all the comments by recent posters, I have to say that David has done a great job of presenting the minority opinion(or that is what it seems to be). He has had some great anawers to those that say that MC is the best team in the country and will win it all. Wish they could and would, but a reality check says they won't. They have given it a good try. We can all hope they take two against UVM, and then continue to win 70 % of their remaining games, especially against those teams that we would like to end up in 9th and 10th place. THIS IS A MUST.

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Well this weekend in Vermont is the turning point for this Warrior team's season. This is only my opinion of course but I believe that in the end, the Warriors and the Catamounts will be fighting each other for that last playoff spot. One win this weekend will break the tie-breaker, but two wins gains another 4 point swing which I think will be the difference. Hopefully the coaches and the players are all on the same page and the Warriors can begin their playoff march tonight.

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David, your right this team can not be compared to the 1988 team. I am not even sure it is the best team of the HE era. Ronnie's team his last year had a tremendous amount of skill, but way under achieved until the BU playoff series. That series showed the real team but only a glimpse.
Should I tell everyone about you wanting to practice with the yeam your Freshman year.

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Sure! Although as far as I remember, captain's practices were pretty much open to anybody, not just me. Pretty sure that Glen Wesley and Tom Fitzgerald weren't on the team that year, but they were at stick practice

Anyway, the story about me attending Anderson's hockey camp as a defenseman and backing into my own goaltender is probably funnier.

As for that last team of Ron's... I always wondered if that BU series went the way it did because the team stopped listening to him. He always struck me as ultimately a very practical and pragmatic guy who always assumed his players were self-motivating. I think it was true for the '88 team but not so true of most of his HE era teams.

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... have you seen my stapler?

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Yeeeeeeaaaaaaah, Were going to need you to gather your things and move down to the basement.

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At least your name isn't Michael Bolton.

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At least your name isn't Michael Bolton.

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David, your right this team can not be compared to the 1988 team. I am not even sure it is the best team of the HE era. Ronnie's team his last year had a tremendous amount of skill, but way under achieved until the BU playoff series. That series showed the real team but only a glimpse.
Should I tell everyone about you wanting to practice with the yeam your Freshman year.

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You can't make any of these comparison's yet because this team's season is still in progress. This would be a good topic for the summer. Anyone feel like putting together a KRACH table for the 1988 season? It would have to include all of college hockey not just D1 teams.

Another good topic may be to debate who was the best coach of all time Thom Lawler or Ron Anderson. Lots of good arguments could be made on both sides of that one.

In any event the topic of this thread is predicting the outcome of this season and not.......

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David, your right this team can not be compared to the 1988 team. I am not even sure it is the best team of the HE era. Ronnie's team his last year had a tremendous amount of skill, but way under achieved until the BU playoff series. That series showed the real team but only a glimpse.
Should I tell everyone about you wanting to practice with the yeam your Freshman year.

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DMJossell. Why do we have to rehash all this yet again? You can not simply look at the W-L record without discussing the lack of institutional support over the years and the reasons behind that lack of support. We have discussed these issues adnauseum on this board for years. Now we have the institutional support and the best team we have had possibly ever and you want to go down this road again?

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DMJossell. Why do we have to rehash all this yet again? You can not simply look at the W-L record without discussing the lack of institutional support over the years and the reasons behind that lack of support. We have discussed these issues adnauseum on this board for years. Now we have the institutional support and the best team we have had possibly ever and you want to go down this road again?

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