{"id":143891,"date":"2023-12-07T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=143891"},"modified":"2023-12-06T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T05:32:35","slug":"this-week-in-nchc-hockey-inconsistent-miami-squad-maintaining-positive-mindset-as-redhawks-have-to-do-better-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2023\/12\/07\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-inconsistent-miami-squad-maintaining-positive-mindset-as-redhawks-have-to-do-better-rest-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Inconsistent Miami squad maintaining positive mindset as RedHawks &#8216;have to do better&#8217; rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_143892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143892\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-143892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu-696x419.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu-1068x643.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu-698x420.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/barbolini_mu.jpg 1358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Barbolini has been a bright spot offensively this season for Miami (photo: Miami University Communications &amp; Marketing).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The NCHC\u2019s collective nonconference record so far this season has been nothing to sneeze at, winning at a .681 rate, second only to the Big Ten but having also played 15 more of those games.<\/p>\n<p>Miami has held up its end of the bargain in that regard, sitting at 5-2-1 in those games ahead of the RedHawks\u2019 last two this season, later this month at Niagara. Against NCHC opposition, though, Miami hasn\u2019t been nearly as fortunate. An 0-6 mark in those games was reflected in a recent seven-game losing streak before the RedHawks won Saturday at Mercyhurst.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate student Logan Neaton\u2019s 20 saves in the Winnipeg Jets draft pick\u2019s first collegiate shutout stopped the rot for Miami. That\u2019s what results suggest, anyway, and RedHawks coach Chris Bergeron readily conceded that despite thinking his team had deserved better before then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at the analytics and the numbers that way, it says we played better hockey, but I look at the scoreboard at the end of each game, and I think our players do, as well, and that says negative results for seven games in a row,\u201d Bergeron said.<\/p>\n<p>The last of those defeats came Friday, a 4-3 overtime loss at home to Atlantic Hockey\u2019s Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way we responded to get on the bus that Saturday and go to Erie and play what I think is a really good Mercyhurst team and play well, it\u2019s a good thing, for sure,&#8221; said Bergeron. &#8220;I\u2019m not downplaying that at all, and it was good for us to get that result. Would I like to have seen us score more 5-on-5? Yes, and 5-on-4. We had six power-play opportunities that I would\u2019ve liked to see us score on, and we didn\u2019t do that, but I think winning that game was something our guys deserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want us to wait seven more games to get that type of result, but we talk around here about the process, and part of that is playing well. I thought we played better over the course of the last eight games, and to only get one result out of it is disappointing, but that\u2019s something we take ownership of, and we have to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Waldron and Matthew Barbolini both scored Saturday on a combined 11 shots. Last season\u2019s top scorer for Miami, Barbolini leads the RedHawks again now with 18 points and is well on pace to surpass the 25 he had as a junior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s doing lots right,\u201d Bergeron said of Barbolini. \u201cHe had a great summer physically and mentally, and he came into training camp ready to play like a senior, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s done. He\u2019s been very consistent, and not just in games but also in practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis aggressiveness with his play has led to points 5-on-5, and he\u2019s been very consistent on the power play. Our power play has been inconsistent (15.1 percent, 47th-best in the country), but Matthew\u2019s play has been consistent, and I don\u2019t see that changing. His approach is a daily one, and I don\u2019t see him not getting rewarded for that approach over the course of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Bergeron hopes his team takes that same approach the rest of the season, starting with a home set this weekend against Minnesota Duluth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way I want our guys to approach it is a daily approach, a small-picture approach, and we need to improve on a daily basis,\u201d Bergeron said. \u201cThat\u2019s not coach-speak; it\u2019s something we need to do, and hopefully our boys are buying into that, and they\u2019ll gain confidence and belief through that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes the results say there\u2019s no confidence and it\u2019s hard to believe when results are the way they are, but we need to find a way to be confident and believe, and I think the way to do that is just play well every day and make sure you\u2019re focused, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to continue to do. I think we\u2019ve played some good hockey, but we need to be more consistent with that and play more good hockey more of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCHC\u2019s collective nonconference record so far this season has been nothing to sneeze at, winning at a .681 rate, second only to the Big Ten but having also played 15 more of those games. 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