UNH Hockey 2023 Off Season Thread Turn and Face the Strange

[Chuck Murray]

Agree 100% Chuck on this post. I see Souzas going hard on recruits one from the mighty NCDC league..ff's. I was on these boards years ago do the BC pinheads still post? Back then no moderators and it was interesting.

I think some of them are still around. I ended up meeting most of them in person back in the day, and we would laugh and drink beers and root for our teams, and then go back on the boards and do battle the next day. And no one died or got hurt. It was the best of times, until BC figured it out and UNH didn't. Then it was no longer relevant.

I'm still here, and just hoping UNH gets to play relevant games again before I croak, so we can re-engage with whomever the "enemy" might be by then, and enjoy some honest-to-goodness banter with bite. :-)

We had the same thing with UMaine, as you'll recall, and I'm frankly jealous to see them returning to an era where they are again relevant. If our new AD dosn't understand that, then we got the wrong new AD ...

[HockeyRef]

Let's Go Butch Cassidy!!! Watching in a Nashville bar love it!

[Snively65]

Let's Go Butch Cassidy!!! Watching in a Nashville bar love it!

Why cannot the Bruins get coaches like Butch Cassidy? Oh ……. wait……..

[Robert Balin]

I think some of them are still around. I ended up meeting most of them in person back in the day, and we would laugh and drink beers and root for our teams, and then go back on the boards and do battle the next day. And no one died or got hurt. It was the best of times, until BC figured it out and UNH didn't. Then it was no longer relevant.

I'm still here, and just hoping UNH gets to play relevant games again before I croak, so we can re-engage with whomever the "enemy" might be by then, and enjoy some honest-to-goodness banter with bite. :-)

We had the same thing with UMaine, as you'll recall, and I'm frankly jealous to see them returning to an era where they are again relevant. If our new AD dosn't understand that, then we got the wrong new AD ...

I met Mav,Darin and Stevie f a few times actually nice guys. Lets hope were all wrong about the team this year..but i wouldn't bet on it.

[Chuck Murray]

I met Mav,Darin and Stevie f a few times actually nice guys. Lets hope were all wrong about the team this year..but i wouldn't bet on it.

Yeah, I met Mav and e.e. darin, and even CHRIS!!! from P&WRR, among others. All good folks, just seeing life through a different college hockey lens. I don't think I met steve f and I think I would've remembered that.

The only light I see at the end of our tunnel is the Nor'easter coming northbound from Boston on the right track ...

[Snively65]

I am shocked, in fact completely shocked, that the national champions are coming to the Whitt for two on October 21-22, at least according to the UNH home schedule posted on the Schedules thread. If that UNH schedule is for real, our OOC schedule also now includes Dartmouth at the Whitt on October 28, along with the previously noted Princeton for two at the Whitt on January 5-6 and away games at RIT (two on November 24-25) and Sacred Wallet on December 30. That leaves two more OOC away games to be identified.

Edit: I just reread that the UNH home schedule is “tentative,” like so many of our recruits, maybe.

[Liveatjrl]

I am shocked, in fact completely shocked, that the national champions are coming to the Whitt for two on October 21-22, at least according to the UNH home schedule posted on the Schedules thread. If that UNH schedule is for real, our OOC schedule also now includes Dartmouth at the Whitt on October 28, along with the previously noted Princeton for two at the Whitt on January 5-6 and away games at RIT (two on November 24-25) and Sacred Wallet on December 30. That leaves two more OOC away games to be identified.

Edit: I just reread that the UNH home schedule is “tentative,” like so many of our recruits, maybe.

Hey Snives! The one thing that didn't quite add up to me was UNH hosting Northeastern for (3) games. Could they be playing a game as an OOC or maybe NU can't host a game around that time so all (3) conf games are at UNH?

Everything else looked good!

[Snively65]

Hey Snives! The one thing that didn't quite add up to me was UNH hosting Northeastern for (3) games. Could they be playing a game as an OOC or maybe NU can't host a game around that time so all (3) conf games are at UNH?

Everything else looked good!

Not so sure if everything else looks good, because RPI now coming to the Whitt on December 9th would give UNH 19 home games, still one too many even if one of the three NU home games is retracted.

[Liveatjrl]

Not so sure if everything else looks good, because RPI now coming to the Whitt on December 9th would give UNH 19 home games, still one too many even if one of the three NU home games is retracted.

Yea the rpi game wasn't on calendar - very interesting ... we'll find out soon enough what ends up being true or not.

[Snively65]

Yea the rpi game wasn't on calendar - very interesting ... we'll find out soon enough what ends up being true or not.

Yup, we will know more soon enough. I am surprised that no one has yet chimed in on Quinnipiac’s visit, especially given our lengthy discussion in our recent in-season thread in which it was noted that Pecknold has family in southeastern Cow Hampsha and was interested in the HC position when Umile retired but was supposedly told that the position had already been filled.

[Chuck Murray]

Yup, we will know more soon enough. I am surprised that no one has yet chimed in on Quinnipiac’s visit, especially given our lengthy discussion in our recent in-season thread in which it was noted that Pecknold has family in southeastern Cow Hampsha and was interested in the HC position when Umile retired but was supposedly told that the position had already been filled.

Whatever happened with the event recently (last week or two?) where Umile was an invited guest speaker who was going to take some questions from the floor? Or is the event date on that get-together still approaching?

If it happened, does anyone have any insight on how the questioning went? Did Coach get the "flamethrowers" some were discussing on here last month - especially regarding his role in the so-called "succession plan"? How did Coach handle it (video link or transcript available)? Or was it the usual deferential, slow-pitch softball batting practice fodder ("Coach, what was the high point of your great career?") variety of questioning?

Inquiring minds need to know ... Happy Friday, friends!! :-)

[After the Whistle]

Chuck I am afraid I can’t help specifically on your question on the DU appearance. I had asked about that following week but got no response. Upon further exploration, looked to
youTube it found nothing at that time. On the UNH website I found that this 1 hour show was just part of an alumni weekend resentaion. Presumably just the ADsconteibution to a morning of classes and info session. So no answers, but can also note they had a photo with a spare audience.

[Chuck Murray]

Chuck I am afraid I can’t help specifically on your question on the DU appearance. I had asked about that following week but got no response. Upon further exploration, looked to
youTube it found nothing at that time. On the UNH website I found that this 1 hour show was just part of an alumni weekend resentaion. Presumably just the ADsconteibution to a morning of classes and info session. So no answers, but can also note they had a photo with a spare audience.

Thanks ATW. Assuming you meant "sparse", which is sad and fitting in its own right after all that's gone down.

[Snively65]

Ok, if Quinnipiac is really coming to the Whitt for two on 21-22 October, those should be sell outs, I would think. Like the Gophs or the Sioux or the Wolverines coming to the Whitt back in the day. So, Rand will be extending MS7’s stay at UNH several more years?

[Chuck Murray]

Ok, if Quinnipiac is really coming to the Whitt for two on 21-22 October, those should be sell outs, I would think. Like the Gophs or the Sioux or the Wolverines coming to the Whitt back in the day. So, Rand will be extending MS7's stay at UNH several more years?

Maybe our intrepid AD (who presumably will be back from vacation, and on the job by then) can arrange a private sit-down with Joe Dumais for brunch of the morning in between games, and sound him out for filling the HC vacancy that will have opened up in six months' time? Unless of course his boss would rather take the opportunity to try on something new, instead of the Bentley South house of bricks that is Quinnipiac??

It's funny ... if UNH was going to do something bold this offseason, I was 99% sure I was gonna jump back in with season tix for the first time since Snively closed. As they say in Durham though ... "Wait 'til next year!!" (rolleyes emoji)