UNH Wildcats 2012-2013 Postseason Thread

[UNHhockey29]

By 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?

It is now unh housing. Currently Adams tower north and south. Pretty sweet "dorm" if you ask me.

[chickod]

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It is now unh housing. Currently Adams tower north and south. Pretty sweet "dorm" if you ask me.

Oh, well. Time marches on...I always had good memories of that place...

[ClOuD 9]

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Any word if UNH has selected a pre-game "headquarters" (bar) for Friday?

Officially Margarita's, Gnarlz and the Pep Band will be there at 6:00.

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.

[goblue]

By 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?

And 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.

[chickod]

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And 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.

Thanks everyone...it was just something that I had never been able to get an answer for.

[ClOuD 9]

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And 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.

You are correct! Toward it's closure, I found this:

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.

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll...=2009707229914


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.”

Saying Good-Bye to the New England Center
http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2010/Jun/09nec.cfm

[Scott]

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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.

[e.cat]

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.

By 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?

[UNHhockey29]

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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 AM Pei designed the place. It was designed to blend in with the natural surroundings.

Their Thanksgiving buffet was pretty delicious too!

[chickod]

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Their Thanksgiving buffet was pretty delicious too!

Yep...that's what I remember as well! Thank you again, everyone. It was great to get all that info and bring some "closure" to my curiosity!

[snively]

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Just 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!

What 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 back

[snively]

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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.

[e.cat]

Their Thanksgiving buffet was pretty delicious too!

[SteveS.]

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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.

Ahhh yes those were the days, my favorite spot to watch a game. Opposing goalies would expectorate in our general direction often.

[SteveS.]

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What 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 back

Richard, Paul Powers and Tim Burke would help out at Oyster River Middle School and would occasionally play street hockey with us, those were fun days.