{"id":101191,"date":"2019-11-21T05:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=101191"},"modified":"2020-08-24T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T16:16:47","slug":"after-slow-start-miami-staying-positive-just-wants-to-control-getting-better-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2019\/11\/21\/after-slow-start-miami-staying-positive-just-wants-to-control-getting-better-today\/","title":{"rendered":"After slow start, Miami staying positive, just wants to &#8216;control getting better today&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"ps_captionIns\" aria-describedby=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/img-show\/I0000XQNBuBpp948\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo By: Rachel Lewis\/\u00a9Rachel Lewis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20171104-Miami-ColoradoCollege-0002.jpg\" alt=\"NOV 4, 2017: Ryan Larkin (MIA - 31). The Miami RedHawks lose to the Colorado College Tigers 2-1 Satuday, November 4, 2017 at Steve Cady Arena in Oxford, OH. (Rachel Lewis\/\u00a9Rachel Lewis)\" width=\"700\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Larkin has gone 3-6-0 this season with a 3.91 GAA and a .886 save percentage for Miami (photo: Rachel Lewis).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First-year Miami coach Chris Bergeron\u2019s initial season behind the bench at his alma mater didn\u2019t start as he would\u2019ve wanted, but things seem to be turning around in Oxford, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Miami conceded 13 goals in its first two games, including a 7-4 season-opening loss Oct. 6 against Bowling Green, a school three hours up the road that Bergeron called home for the last nine years. And yes, the RedHawks began this season 2-5-2, and they dropped their first two conference games two weeks ago at North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Miami bounced back at home last weekend, though, upsetting No. 6 Minnesota Duluth 3-1 on Friday and coming up short in a 3-2 defeat Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Three different Miami players scored in Friday\u2019s win, but Derek Daschke and Monte Graham scored the go-ahead and insurance goals, respectively, 3:29 apart late in the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Senior MU goaltender Ryan Larkin played a big role, too, making 35 saves in a game where the RedHawks were outshot 36-17. He played well again Saturday with 32 saves, but Miami fell in a game where both teams scored two power-play goals.<\/p>\n<p>Bergeron was asked Monday during his weekly press conference what his message to his team was ahead of a trip this week to Omaha. The 18th-ranked Mavericks are looking up, too, having won last time out to secure a split at Western Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to control getting better today,\u201d Bergeron said. \u201cThe weekend\u2019s over with. I look at it from 30,000 feet and I think it was a good weekend, and by no means was it bad and it wasn\u2019t great.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Minnesota Duluth is a really good team. They look the way we want to look. They\u2019re big, they skate, they defend, they fight you for every inch of the ice and I thought, over six periods, our guys hung in there. I stick by what I said on Saturday: there were too many passengers on Saturday. There wasn\u2019t enough guys involved and we need to have everybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goaltending was good and Ryan was as good as he\u2019s been on back-to-back nights all year long, which was great and gave us a chance,\u201d Bergeron continued. \u201cThe special teams, we won the special teams (battle) on Saturday for sure and lost the game, that doesn\u2019t happen very often, so there\u2019s lots of positives to come from the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miami was buoyed in part last weekend by the return of junior defenseman Alec Mahalak. He played in all 38 of Miami\u2019s games last season and was the RedHawks\u2019 third-leading defensemen in terms of points with 12 assists, but he missed MU\u2019s first nine games this time around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what it was when he got hurt, but it was training camp and it was all happening really fast for me, just in terms of evaluating and so far, but he brings a presence back there in terms of calming,\u201d Bergeron said of Mahalak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not the biggest guy (at 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds), so it\u2019s not necessarily a physical presence, but he\u2019s really calm with the puck and I think he does the right thing most of the time, and I thought he fit right in for someone who\u2019s been out as long as he has.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy conversation with him was, \u2018How did you feel?\u2019 and I think the quad started to burn a little bit late in the shift and as the weekend went on, but all in all I think it was a positive step forward for Alec, and now with nine guys back there, and we\u2019re looking to dress seven, it\u2019s going to have to bring out the best in people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coming into this season, outside expectations were low for a Miami that finished each of the last four seasons under .500. It\u2019s also worth noting that one strong weekend doesn\u2019t make a season. Bergeron is feeling positive right now, though, and he should be ahead of a long trip to face a 6-3-1 Omaha team that has started better than many thought the Mavericks would.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re coming off a really big win,\u201d Bergeron said. \u201cAny time you go into Lawson and win, it\u2019s a big win and they did that Saturday night in Kalamazoo, and I think they\u2019ll be confident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis early in the week, we don\u2019t know a whole lot about them just yet, and the coaching staff is going to know is what we\u2019re going to see on tape. We\u2019ll study, and we know that this is a confident bunch, and (there is) the travel, so we\u2019ve got to get there, get ourselves right and get ready to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>UND\u2019s Scheel earns NCAA honor<\/h4>\n<p>North Dakota sophomore goaltender Adam Scheel played a key role in the Fighting Hawks\u2019 success last weekend at second-ranked Denver, and he earned national honors because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Scheel allowed just two goals all weekend as UND grabbed a win and a tie to take the Hawks\u2019 first series win at Denver since 2003. Scheel made a season-high 30 saves Friday in a 1-1 tie, and he stopped 27 shots Saturday in UND\u2019s 4-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring two goals on the weekend added up to Denver\u2019s lowest figures for a home series since 2012.<\/p>\n<h4>Speaking of goalies\u2026<\/h4>\n<p>Colorado College freshman goaltender Matt Vernon helped the Tigers to a weekend sweep over St. Cloud State, CC\u2019s first against the Huskies since Dec. 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon, son of former NHL goalie Mike Vernon, made 20 saves in Friday\u2019s 4-2 win. On Saturday, he made 27 saves \u2014 including 10 while CC was short-handed \u2014 as the Tigers won 5-2.<\/p>\n<p>Having started five games so far in his collegiate career, Vernon now has a .904 save percentage on the season and saw his GAA drop to 3.04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-year Miami coach Chris Bergeron\u2019s initial season behind the bench at his alma mater didn\u2019t start as he would\u2019ve wanted, but things seem to be turning around in Oxford, Ohio (photo: Rachel Lewis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":108447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[812],"coauthors":[810],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>After slow start, Miami staying positive, just wants to &#039;control getting better today&#039; - 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