UNH Wildcats 2014/2015 - Wait 'Til Next Year!!!

[Chuck Murray]

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Somewhere I still have my unused ticket from the first UNH-Dartmouth game in Manchester, bought it off ComicbookGuy. Still a bit disappointed that I wasn't able to make that one.

Boxscore: http://collegehockeystats.net/0708/boxes/mdarunh1.j19

More support for the "SOG's are meaningless" crowd.

So ... does anyone want to predict the outcome of this weekend's opener @ Union?

Union 3 UNH 1

[New Hampshire 'Cats Fan]

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Has anyone heard if the WBIN/Fox College Sports (FCS) TV coverage is happening again this year? Some UNH home games have been listed to air on WBIN through other websites, but this hasn't been listed yet on UNH's website.

[Aerman]

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More support for the "SOG's are meaningless" crowd.

So ... does anyone want to predict the outcome of this weekend's opener @ Union?

Union 3 UNH 1

I was thinking 4-1. The good news is I'm not very good at this prediction stuff.

[Snively65]

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Dunno the score, but maybe Willows flattens Agosta?

[Aerman]

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Dunno the score, but maybe Willows flattens Agosta?

Wait. We're playing Quinnipiac?

[e.cat]

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More support for the "SOG's are meaningless" crowd.

So ... does anyone want to predict the outcome of this weekend's opener @ Union?

Union 3 UNH 1

UNH will win the "SOG" battle! Anything after that is a bonus😕😃

[Snively65]

Wait. We're playing Quinnipiac?

Oops, I meant Veccione; getting my teams mixed up.

[Aerman]

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Soooooooo. Does the location of this thread on page two hint at our expectations for the opener?

[wildcatdc]

Soooooooo. Does the location of this thread on page two hint at our expectations for the opener?

This is the "Year of No Expectations". I think that's why the silence is deafening. No idea what to expect.

I, for one, am pretty fired up to see how the youth develops this year

[Chuck Murray]

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Soooooooo. Does the location of this thread on page two hint at our expectations for the opener?

I think the location of the thread says everything you need to know about how overall fan interest in UNH Hockey has fallen off a very steep cliff from where it was a decade ago. Not all at once, but like the tide gradually going out over several hours at Hampton Beach.

I keep waiting for it to be low tide, and for things to slowly come back to where it was - and hopefully the trip to the Garden and HE Finals last March was an important first step - but I suspect low tide will actually be tolled on or about New Year's Day 2015.

[NCAA watcher]

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The trend has been reversed. This year's class is very diverse, and they have done pretty well for the next couple of seasons. My concern was about getting scorers, and they just got the BCHL's top scorer. For the future, they made a smaller move to Stewart, and as we approach the 20th anniversary of UNH's first BCHL recruit (Derek Bekar, Nov. 1994), UNH seems to have remembered that creative hockey can be recruited, rather than taking a bunch of ordinary hockey players and sending them to the USHL to become responsible robots. The fudgeups of the last 6 years, including losing their best players due to a lack of attention, and then replacing them with "Umile type" players (talentless pluggers) are being fixed with time. They will be a decent team by year's end, and by the time Umile retires in 2016/2017 he will leave a very solid base for a young enterprising coach who, like David Quinn, will invigorate the program.

[Verkligen]

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Dear Union Online Stream Cameraman,

You s&$k.

*rolls eyes*

[Chuck Murray]

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The trend has been reversed. This year's class is very diverse, and they have done pretty well for the next couple of seasons. My concern was about getting scorers, and they just got the BCHL's top scorer. For the future, they made a smaller move to Stewart, and as we approach the 20th anniversary of UNH's first BCHL recruit (Derek Bekar, Nov. 1994), UNH seems to have remembered that creative hockey can be recruited, rather than taking a bunch of ordinary hockey players and sending them to the USHL to become responsible robots. The fudgeups of the last 6 years, including losing their best players due to a lack of attention, and then replacing them with "Umile type" players (talentless pluggers) are being fixed with time. They will be a decent team by year's end, and by the time Umile retires in 2016/2017 he will leave a very solid base for a young enterprising coach who, like David Quinn, will invigorate the program.

Did I miss something? Does "Watcher have a tidy little scoop in there, or was that wishful thinking??

FWIW I'm puzzled why some are crediting Coach Quinn for a turnaround at BU that hasn't quite happened yet ... it's not just you 'Watcher, it seems to be widespread, and it's premature, no?

[Verkligen]

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OMG... Neighbor just knocked on the door to make sure everything was okay. *grin* In a season of take big moments when you get 'em... We got one!

[NCAA watcher]

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Did I miss something? Does "Watcher have a tidy little scoop in there, or was that wishful thinking??

Wishful guessing

FWIW I'm puzzled why some are crediting Coach Quinn for a turnaround at BU that hasn't quite happened yet ... it's not just you 'Watcher, it seems to be widespread, and it's premature, no?

When you are 5 for 5 outrecruiting BC for 2016 and beyond I'll put my money on them. Look up Shawn Walsh's records his first two years while he got his recruits in a row.