Maine faces No. 14 Boston College on Saturday and Sunday in Chestnut Hill, Mass. - consider that since Dec. 5, Maine and BC are a combined 4-10-4, with Maine going 3-5-2 in the past six weeks.
The woes continued over the weekend for the Eagles, who lost 4-3 to UMass-Lowell on Friday in overtime, then lost 5-2 on Saturday to Boston University.
"We're in a funk, there's no question these last three or four weeks," BC Coach Jerry York told the Boston Globe after the loss to BU. "We're just a step behind the play. We have to play at a higher tempo. We're not quick and that's our trademark, quick and fast. BU was just better tonight."
In case you didn't know this, Notre Dame has a famous name in its lineup - Christian Hanson. He is the son of the inspiration for the Hanson brothers in the movie "Slap Shot."
Maine received 13 votes in the USCHO.com poll.
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Nineteen players in Hockey East have been nominated for online fan voting for the Hobey Baker Award, given annually to the nation's top Division I college hockey player. Go to the official Hobey Baker Web site (www.hobeybaker.com to cast your vote. The first phase of fan balloting runs through March 8, and fan voting from the list of the top 10 finalists begins March 20.
Rachel is in her fifth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press
Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A former college soccer and softball player,
she covered sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before
joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.
Rachel takes over coverage of the University of Maine hockey team and was
introduced to Maine hockey as a seventh-grader in Annapolis, Maryland, after
reading a 1988 Sports Illustrated story about Shawn Walsh's impact on the
program. Nearly 20 years later, she still has the four-page article in her
possession.
She and her husband, Tommy (who also works for MaineToday Media, Inc.)
are avid sports fans who root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh
Penguins and Kansas Jayhawks. After a year of marriage, their next step in
life is to find a bigger house!
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