Maybe its the weather

As noted in my blog on March 13th, "State of Maine", the University of Maine is facing an uphill battle next year. Owners of the 3rd best postseason winning percentage in the past ten years, they may be a while before they see the postseason again. Yesterday, their best freshman Andrew Sweetland left school for the NHL. Including Ben Bishop and 7 graduating seniors, Maine is down nine players from this season's less than stellar squad. I still think Denis-Pepin will leave school as well. He has nothing to prove and this is clearly not going to be a championship team next year. Their best returning forward is a junior who had 11 pts (5 goals) and he only played 11 games his sophomore year. It could mean they will be good in two years when these two large classes but if they can't keep the prize of the class (Teddy Purcell & Sweetland come to mind) it makes building back that much more difficult.