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Miami battled to a split last weekend with Lindenwood (photo: Lexie Cunningham).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the face of it, considering Miami hasn\u2019t finished a season with a winning record since 2015, it would\u2019ve been understandable for Anthony Noreen to want to make a big rebrand out of the RedHawks.<\/p>\n

New coach, new team, new us.<\/p>\n

But it quickly struck him, after being announced on April 1 as the program\u2019s seventh head coach, that the bones of Miami\u2019s structure were right for the job at hand.<\/p>\n

Noreen, who was hired one day before the NCAA\u2019s transfer portal opened, did bring in four college veteran players whom he had either previously coached with or against in his last job, behind the bench for the USHL\u2019s Tri-City Storm. But as for Miami\u2019s 17 returners from last year\u2019s team that went 7-26-3, everyone was not only on board, but also highly determined.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first got here, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to do staff-wise and you don\u2019t know who you\u2019re going to keep player-wise,\u201d Noreen said. \u201cYou look at the record from a distance and you start drawing conclusions, but I knew to some degree the previous staff, and that they were good hockey guys and good men and coaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the most impressive things, and this speaks volumes about the university, (is that) every single player that was here who had eligibility to come back met with me. I set up shop at a local coffee shop and just said, \u2018Hey, if you want to meet with me, this is where I\u2019ll be and you\u2019re welcome to come sit down with me,\u2019 and every single guy, to a man, came and met with me and said, \u2018Coach, if you\u2019ll have me, I want to be back. Here\u2019s what I think I can do, and here\u2019s where I think I can be better.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThey believe in this place, they love this place, and they want to be a part of it,\u201d Noreen continued. \u201cThere\u2019s something special here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miami is off to a 3-3-2 start through the season\u2019s opening month. The RedHawks were unbeaten (2-0-2) in their first four games, then lost three straight before earning a gutsy 4-1 win Saturday at home to Lindenwood. A Raimonds Vitolins shorthanded goal 11:31 into the third period and an empty-netter from Christophe Fillion \u2014 one of Noreen\u2019s transfers, from Quinnipiac \u2014 made the final score not especially indicative of how the game went.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost a hard-fought game on Friday night (4-2 to Lindenwood), and on Saturday, we had to kill nine minutes of penalties in the third period when we were up a goal,\u201d Noreen said. \u201cWe blocked a ton of shots, scored a shorthanded goal and we were up 4-1 with less than 20 seconds left in the third period, and we had guys diving head-first to block shots. That\u2019s what we want to be, and that was a really positive step, but we got right back to work this Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been some good and some bad, and there have been nights where we felt we should’ve been better, and some nights we got what we deserved. In the early going, you evaluate every game and what really good players do is that they evaluate themselves. They identify what they like about their game, what we like about our game, where we can grow, where we can be better and how we can apply it. We\u2019re making sure we live by a standard, and we have a standard of how we play and what we want to play to, and we don\u2019t bend in that for anything or anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miami is already coming up on the end of its nonconference slate, finishing it this weekend with a home series against Rensselaer. Then comes the meat grinder of an NCHC schedule, but Noreen isn\u2019t looking past the Engineers. Next Friday\u2019s road game against St. Cloud State is a while away still for a team in a situation like Miami\u2019s this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a ton of respect for our conference, and we know how difficult and challenging all those games are,\u201d Noreen said, \u201cbut with a new staff, a new structure and all the things we have to worry about internally, we haven\u2019t really talked past the next day\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cRPI has been really good so far this year, and we\u2019ve pre-scouted them and stuff like that, but with our team, we have to focus on ourselves. We have to get our house in order, make sure we\u2019re playing within our structure and the right way. That\u2019s what we have to be focused on, while also telling the guys, \u2018Hey, these are the major tendencies you\u2019ll need to be aware of going into this series,\u2019 but let\u2019s get our internal stuff right.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you\u2019ve got to narrow the focus, especially with a totally new staff, new lines, new teammates and sometimes when you focus on too many things, it muddies the water a little bit,\u201d Noreen continued. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to be the master of none. You want to make sure that the things that are really important to us and the things that matter the most, let\u2019s get those in place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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