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Originally posted by scoreboard View PostAny word if UNH has selected a pre-game "headquarters" (bar) for Friday?
The closure of the New England Center was just a few years ago, maybe 2010? The bar was a great place to catch a drink and a bite to eat pre-game."...On To Victory, Forever Blue & White..."
Men's Hockey
ECAC Regular Season: 1 • ECAC Tournament: 1 • Hockey East Regular Season: 8 • Hockey East Tournament: 2
NCAA Appearances: 22 • Frozen Fours: 7 • 1999 & 2003 NCAA Runner Up
Women's Hockey
EAIAW Champions: 4 • ECAC Regular Season: 3 • ECAC Tournament: 5 • Hockey East Regular Season: 6 • Hockey East Tournament: 4
AWCHA Final Fours: 2 • NCAA Appearances: 5 • Frozen Fours: 2 • 1999 Runner Up
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Originally posted by chickod View PostBy the way...here's a totally off the wall question. When we were (much) younger, my uncle (who graduated from UNH) use to take us to this restaurant on the UNH campus called the "New England Center." We would go once a year, sometime around Thanksgiving. I heard that it is not there anymore. I'm just wondering if anyone knew what happened to it?We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
---Blaise Pascal
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Originally posted by goblue View PostAnd the name of the restaurant was 'Acorns', as I recall. My wife completed the WSBE Executive MBA program in the mid '90's (as the Whitt was being built) and the NEC was their home away from home every other weekend.
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Originally posted by goblue View PostAnd the name of the restaurant was 'Acorns', as I recall. My wife completed the WSBE Executive MBA program in the mid '90's (as the Whitt was being built) and the NEC was their home away from home every other weekend.
The university spends $2 million annually to subsidize the operation of the New England Center, which has had a 50 percent drop in revenue over the last two years. At least $17 million in new capital investment would be needed to bring the hotel and conference center up to industry standards, university officials said.
This one may be of interest to chickod:
There were other entertainers who stayed at the 115-room hotel (54 in the Adams Tower and 61 in the Kellogg Tower): The Kinks, Chicago, Alanis Morissette and Billy Idol—“He played his guitar in our bar,” Gombar says.
There were politicians: Ted Kennedy, Mike Dukakis, John Kerry, Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader. Journalists: Peter Jennings, Charlie Gibson and Ted Koppel. And celebrities like Mister Rogers (“he had on a very nice sweater”), Shari Lewis and Lambchop, Robert Parish, writers John Irving and Hunter S. Thompson, and Mike Farrell from “M*A*S*H.”
http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2010/Jun/09nec.cfmLast edited by ClOuD 9; 03-25-2013, 07:50 PM."...On To Victory, Forever Blue & White..."
Men's Hockey
ECAC Regular Season: 1 • ECAC Tournament: 1 • Hockey East Regular Season: 8 • Hockey East Tournament: 2
NCAA Appearances: 22 • Frozen Fours: 7 • 1999 & 2003 NCAA Runner Up
Women's Hockey
EAIAW Champions: 4 • ECAC Regular Season: 3 • ECAC Tournament: 5 • Hockey East Regular Season: 6 • Hockey East Tournament: 4
AWCHA Final Fours: 2 • NCAA Appearances: 5 • Frozen Fours: 2 • 1999 Runner Up
◄ 1998 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS ►
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It made both my wife and I very sad to see the NE Center and Acorns Restaurant close down. So many memories! I went to several of the Monday night hockey Coach's Corner dinners there during the early 2000's.UNH
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I worked at the New England center while I was in school at UNH. Fond memories of that place. Great prime rib carved at your table. Sunday brunch was awesome. The renowned architect I M Pei designed the place. It was designed to blend in with the natural surroundings.
Originally posted by chickod View PostBy the way...here's a totally off the wall question. When we were (much) younger, my uncle (who graduated from UNH) use to take us to this restaurant on the UNH campus called "New England Center." We would go once a year, sometime around Thanksgiving. I heard that it is not there anymore. I'm just wondering if anyone knew what happened to it?Last edited by e.cat; 03-25-2013, 10:11 PM.UNH Hockey: You can check out any time you like but you can never leave!
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Originally posted by e.cat View PostI worked at the New England center while I was in school at UNH. Fond memories of that place. Great prime rib carved at your table. Sunday brunch was awesome. The renowned architect AM Pei designed the place. It was designed to blend in with the natural surroundings.UNH
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Originally posted by zoofer View PostJust caught up on the last 2 pages and feel great! That's the fan base that we should be...love the name drops Snively, just saw Paul Powers, Peter Noonan with Bertagna in nets last week! I agree this team has no "superstar" and like Snively65 said, a strong defensive game along the lines of Lowell's game Saturday will win these games...but that means DeSmith has to emulate UML's goalie (name?)
We can beat these teams we all know that...hopefully the Wildcats believe in themselves as well!
Joe B was Assistant Athletic Director then, and coaching the women's the college's women's hockey team (still an intercollegiate club sport). Even got dragooned into being a goal judge for his home games, which tells you how small time it still was.
One funny thing I remember him saying was how different he'd discovered coaching women rather than men. When a guy makes a stupid play, he gets gets screamed at by the coach when he returns to the bench. The first time he tried that with one of his own players, he said her teammates got in his face and screamed at him.
Talk about having your back
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Bertagna also had a great story about playing in Snively. Remember the chain linking fencing behind the opposing goal for the 1st and 3rd periods, and the standing area against it that was packed with standing students?
While playing the puck behind his net, he said he saw a really pretty fan within a few inches of him and gave her a huge smile. She then screamed at him to do something anatomically impossible to himself.
My kind of Wildcat Hockey fan.
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Originally posted by snively View PostBertagna also had a great story about playing in Snively. Remember the chain linking fencing behind the opposing goal for the 1st and 3rd periods, and the standing area against it that was packed with standing students?
While playing the puck behind his net, he said he saw a really pretty fan within a few inches of him and gave her a huge smile. She then screamed at him to do something anatomically impossible to himself.
My kind of Wildcat Hockey fan.Go Cats!
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Originally posted by snively View PostWhat fun zoofer! How is Paul Powers doing? I can't think of a better defensman his size in that team's era. new his brother Scotty a bit while doing grad work at Harvard and living in Kirkland House w/him.
Joe B was Assistant Athletic Director then, and coaching the women's the college's women's hockey team (still an intercollegiate club sport). Even got dragooned into being a goal judge for his home games, which tells you how small time it still was.
One funny thing I remember him saying was how different he'd discovered coaching women rather than men. When a guy makes a stupid play, he gets gets screamed at by the coach when he returns to the bench. The first time he tried that with one of his own players, he said her teammates got in his face and screamed at him.
Talk about having your backGo Cats!
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