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March 08, 2008
It's all over for Maine hockey

Maine beat UMass-Lowell with a dramatic 2-1 overtime win Saturday, completing a fifth win in six games.

It was, however, the last game of the 2007-08 season for Maine.

UMass beat Merrimack 4-2 for the final Hockey East playoff spot, mathematically eliminating Maine on the final night of the regular season.

Maine got a power play goal by Billy Ryan late in the first period and the winner 2:20 into OT by captain Travis Ramsey.

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Ramsey

Maine finishes the season 13-18-3 overall, 9-15-3 in Hockey East.

It is the first time in program history that Maine has not qualified for the playoffs.

Maine was banned from competing in the playoffs in the 1996-97 season for NCAA violations.

Posted by Jenn Menendez at 11:43 PM

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See, this is exactly why Whitehead should stay. Did you see how that team played the last two weekends of the season?!? If the season was just 2 months longer (ok, maybe three), I firmly believe we would have made the Hockey East playoffs.

Can't wait for next year! What new lows can we hit?

Posted by KeepWhitehead
March 9, 2008 08:53 AM

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Jenn covers the University of Maine for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.

A former Portland Pirates beat writer who has covered two winter Olympics for the paper, she will tackle the Maine beat for a fourth year this season.

She has the empty coffee cups, and turnpike mileage receipts littering her
excellent-gas-mileage
Honda Civic to prove it.


Though she is a graduate of rival New Hampshire, she almost never thinks of that 1999 hockey game anymore.



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