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Mark Morris is in his third season behind St. Lawrence’s bench leading the Saints (photo: Tara Freeman\/St. Lawrence University).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If St. Lawrence wants a blueprint for the team\u2019s rebuild under Mark Morris, the Saints got a good look this past weekend when they faced Maine.<\/p>\n

Black Bears coach Red Gendron, who\u2019s in his sixth season guiding Maine\u2019s flagship program, appears to have team heading in the right direction after a good first season.<\/p>\n

Then with players leaving for a multitude of reasons, Gendron had to quickly fill holes on his roster.<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Morris, in his third year with the Saints, had a good season in his first year behind St. Lawrence\u2019s bench, finishing fourth in the ECAC. The team then had a roster turnover before and during the season and finished last in the conference.<\/p>\n

The Black Bears didn\u2019t quite hit rock bottom in Gendron\u2019s second season, going from sixth in Hockey East in 2013-14 to ninth in 2014-15. Their third season, they finished 11th out of 12 teams. After another 11th-place finish in 2016-17, Maine climbed to sixth in Hockey East last season.<\/p>\n

The coaches and media picked Maine to finish fifth this season.<\/p>\n

Does Morris see Maine as a program providing a blueprint for his team\u2019s rebuild? In a roundabout way, yes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited, [and] we have some good commits coming down the pipe,\u201d Morris said after Saturday\u2019s game. \u201cBut the fact of the matter is we have to make the players we have now better. That\u2019s our job as a coaching staff. We will continue to chip away at it. It\u2019s no fun being in this situation, but there\u2019s been a transition that\u2019s happened. There\u2019s a big hole and it\u2019s starting to surface now because we have (two) senior forwards and a senior goalie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carson Gicewicz is looked at as a major part of the St. Lawrence offense this season (photo: Tara Freeman\/St. Lawrence University).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shrewd recruiting moves will be the key to the Saints rebuild. It\u2019s what Gendron and his staff have done during their tenure by finding diamonds in the rough recruiting from leagues and regions that are maybe under-recruited by Division I programs.<\/p>\n

Morris pointed out that while it\u2019s good to be excited by the freshmen or future incoming players like a Martin Posp\u00ed\u0161il, who was drafted by Calgary in the fourth round of the NHL Draft this past summer and has two goals and six assists in four games with the USHL\u2019s Sioux City Musketeers, they are still young.<\/p>\n

The results of this past weekend\u2019s series were what you would expect from a team that\u2019s on the rise versus a team full of underclassmen. The Black Bears won Friday night 3-1 while skating to a 4-1 win on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Gendron didn\u2019t want to speak for Morris on whether he saw similarities between St. Lawrence and some of his previous teams at Maine. What he did say was Morris knows what he\u2019s doing as a coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to put myself in his shoes,\u201d Gendron said after Saturday\u2019s win. \u201cWhat I do know is the coach on the other side has won over 300 games in both professional and college hockey. OK? He knows what he\u2019s doing. I think as you guys also saw, they played their tail off both nights. As they continue to recruit players they want to have in the program, I am sure they will have more success. I can also tell you that program had a lot of freshmen and sophomores in the lineup this weekend and I can tell you I\u2019ve been in that place (also).\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Saints didn\u2019t pick up a victory up in Orono, Morris did see personal growth with some of his players over the weekend. With a lineup littered with freshmen and sophomores this season, developing as college hockey players will be one of the keys to this season.<\/p>\n

At the same time as the underclassmen are learning on the job, the veterans need to play just like veterans.<\/p>\n

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Alex Gilmour tallied 10 goals as a sophomore last season with St. Lawrence (photo: Tara Freeman\/St. Lawrence University).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t the most talented group, so we got to make sure we are in good position,\u201d Morris said. \u201cWe got continue to work on that to build this team. With this much youth, there\u2019s really no shortage of things to work on, so we will continue to chip away, but we need to get our upperclassmen to play like upperclassmen. I thought Arthur Brey did a good job in net, but we didn\u2019t have everybody going. I thought our kids grew tonight. Michael Schumacher played his first game tonight. He played really well for us. We learned something about his game on the back end.\u201d<\/p>\n

What it boils down to is two programs with rich histories trying to get back into the national landscape to when they appeared in eight NCAA tournaments together. One is on its way, the other is laying the foundation, but it shouldn\u2019t be long before both teams are partying like it is 2007 – the last year both teams made the NCAA tournament in the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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