Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

[bomberhockey]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

I was wondering the same thing as it would be somewhat surprising for such an elite player to commit to UNH on the spot, while on a recruiting trip to look at several schools, including BC and BU, (which quite frankly, with no disrespect to UNH, are a bit more prestigious/successful than UNH when it comes to hockey and the school in general) without even making those visits. Again, maybe it is the way it went down, but just seems a bit odd to me, especially when you hear him saying that playing for BC is a dream come true for him.

They had another stud do that last summer, Eiserman.

[C-H-C]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

I wonder if huddleston or scarrano where ever brought in on this, if so then more serious problems exist...As far as my spelling forgive me am typing from a phone.

Scarano yes, huddleston no.

It makes sense that Coach Umile would first need to approach his boss, Athletic Director Scarano, to inform him of the difficulty John Gaudreau was having with the Admissions Office and to seek his advice and support. I assume it would then be up to Mr. Scarano to contact the Director of Admissions to try to work out a resolution.

Coach Umile is not the only Hockey East coach who is not in a position to directly influence the Admissions Office on behalf of a recruit. Remember that in December 2010,, Coach Jerry York wanted to give a BC scholarship to Vinny Saponari but the BC Admissions Committee would not accept Saponari's transfer application.

[C-H-C]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Congratulations to Stevie Moses for signing with the Connecticut Whale of the AHL - an affiliate of the New York Rangers.

[Dan]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Congratulations to Stevie Moses for signing with the Connecticut Whale of the AHL - an affiliate of the New York Rangers.

He finally gets to play with Ryan Bourque!!

[Felger]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

. My understanding is that John wanted to commit to UNH that day but the UNH Admissions Office would not even look at an application from him. To date, I have not heard an explanation for why the Admissions people would not review an application from Gaudreau.

Do you have a source that makes you believe this is so?

[smitre]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

One period done in Denver's first round NCAA game. Laleggia's skating and hands are everything we were led to believe the past few years. It is still early to tell but it seems to me he still has a ways to go in terms of strong defense in his own end, not that it should be surprising with his age and size.

[zoofer]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Not usually one to worry about being taken seriously but at least a year ago, if not two, I had written that UNH was in trouble because of it's Admissions shmuck....while I've talked with some at UNH about this, it will only take a couple of seasons like this past one for Marty or Huddleston to take some action, since hockey is the only revenue bearing sport at UNH, they cannot afford to have ticket sales and sponsorship fall much more....without UNH hockey having good seasons to keep the money flowing, with the State House being of no help, why even have a State University? Ask for a budget of 81 million and get 49....please! I know, let's raise tuition!

[sonar]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Only 7% of the UNH budget is now funded by the State of NH ....

[snively]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Yikes -- no Poll points at all. So 30th at best. Ouch.

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
March 19, 2012

1 Boston College
2 Michigan
3 Union
4 North Dakota
5 Minnesota-Duluth
6 Minnesota
7 Miami
8 Boston University
9 Ferris State
10 Denver
11 Maine
12 Western Michigan
13 Massachusetts-Lowell
14 Cornell
15 Michigan State
16 Air Force
17 Merrimack
18 Harvard
19 Notre Dame
20 Northern Michigan

Others receiving votes: Colgate 35, St. Cloud State 16, Colorado College 10, Michigan Tech 10, Quinnipiac 9, Ohio State 7, Bowling Green 4, Niagara 3, Lake Superior 1



Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-me...#ixzz1pzZ5zVLu

[Greg Ambrose]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Do you have a source that makes you believe this is so?

I do, by someone who was told directly by Lassonde what happened. It's no coincidence that two weeks later he was on his way to Denver

[C-H-C]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Do you have a source that makes you believe this is so?

Yes.

[C-H-C]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Congratulations to Damon Kipp for signing with the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL:
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2...fenseman-kipp/

[bomberhockey]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

I do, by someone who was told directly by Lassonde what happened. It's no coincidence that two weeks later he was on his way to Denver

It was more of a coincidence, than not. It was all but a done deal to go to Denver quite awhile before that.

[Greg Ambrose]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

It was more of a coincidence, than not. It was all but a done deal to go to Denver quite awhile before that.

We can agree that it was the final straw

[sonar]

Re: Official UNH Wildcats Offseason Thread 2012

Help: Am I hallucinating ... or was it on a different thread .... but didn't NCAA Watcher have a rather detailed post yesterday on the situation at UNH. Where did it go?