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UNH- How Far West Do We Go?

e.cat said:
Have they started a fire Barr thread yet?
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All embedded in their season thread, which or course is ridiculous, as Barr always has been a good recruiter and coach. After watching the Friday game on NESN and seeing the dejection by the players on the Maine bench, I only can imagine what their bench looked like after our depth players scored twice early in the third period on Saturday night.

We may have succeeded in reducing the prospects of any HEA teams other than NU and maybe one of BC, PC, or Yukon reaching the NCAA tournament this post-season. What a turn-around from last season!
 
Chuck Murray said:
Thankfully! Happy to be wrong when it goes like this. Congrats to MS7 on career win #100!!

This could turn out to be a landmark weekend for the program ... OR just another mirage. On to undefeated Dartmouth!!! (y)
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Potluck said:
Meanwhile Buford, Elwood and Meathead think it’s time to fire Souza.

On behalf of the knowledgeable, loyal fans of UNH, kudos to the coaches and players for an excellent weekend. Lots of good things ahead if they continue to improve. If UNH plays team defense all year like they did against Maine, we have lots to look forward too.
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You are such an absolute a$$clown, potty. Folks can read, y'know. For someone who tries to convince everyone they're the adult in the room, you are such a child ...
 
Snively65 said:
All embedded in their season thread, which or course is ridiculous, as Barr always has been a good recruiter and coach. After watching the Friday game on NESN and seeing the dejection by the players on the Maine bench, I only can imagine what their bench looked like after our depth players scored twice early in the third period on Saturday night.

We may have succeeded in reducing the prospects of any HEA teams other than NU and maybe one of BC, PC, or Yukon reaching the NCAA tournament this post-season. What a turn-around from last season!
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This would be a UNH thing to do. Spoil chances of other teams in a hockey east down year by winning early, then granting Souza a lengthy contract as reward for his sweep at Alfond, then falter down the stretch to miss hosting hockey east quarterfinal, miss trip to TD Garden, and miss trip to NCAA. I’m not sure why because this all seems preposterous except that at the same time it seems like the most UNH thing ever.

It is clear to us that Maine is in a rebuilding year. In some way that exhibition game foretold that.

But it isn’t doing Maine any favors in our rivalry if you guys keep shitting the bed down the stretch. So in that regard I wish you more success than I otherwise would given it appears Maine doesn’t have competitive spirit this year.

Go kick the shit out of the rest of hockey east now, you have my blessing. But only for right now. So you better take advantage of this while it lasts. Likely next season I will go back to shitting on you guys as much as I can.
 
Darius said:
As expected. You are a Maine fan. Until then, look at the scoreboard.
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Ok, Darius… I will.

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Sparkee said:
This would be a UNH thing to do. Spoil chances of other teams in a hockey east down year by winning early, then granting Souza a lengthy contract as reward for his sweep at Alfond, then falter down the stretch to miss hosting hockey east quarterfinal, miss trip to TD Garden, and miss trip to NCAA. I’m not sure why because this all seems preposterous except that at the same time it seems like the most UNH thing ever.

It is clear to us that Maine is in a rebuilding year. In some way that exhibition game foretold that.

But it isn’t doing Maine any favors in our rivalry if you guys keep shitting the bed down the stretch. So in that regard I wish you more success than I otherwise would given it appears Maine doesn’t have competitive spirit this year.

Go kick the shit out of the rest of hockey east now, you have my blessing. But only for right now. So you better take advantage of this while it lasts. Likely next season I will go back to shitting on you guys as much as I can.
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Well how big of you to give us your blessing! We will see who fares better down the line...in the meantime we will do wjat we can messing up other teams chances...its what we do...🤣
 
Sparkee said:
This would be a UNH thing to do. Spoil chances of other teams in a hockey east down year by winning early, then granting Souza a lengthy contract as reward for his sweep at Alfond, then falter down the stretch to miss hosting hockey east quarterfinal, miss trip to TD Garden, and miss trip to NCAA. I’m not sure why because this all seems preposterous except that at the same time it seems like the most UNH thing ever.

It is clear to us that Maine is in a rebuilding year. In some way that exhibition game foretold that.

But it isn’t doing Maine any favors in our rivalry if you guys keep shitting the bed down the stretch. So in that regard I wish you more success than I otherwise would given it appears Maine doesn’t have competitive spirit this year.

Go kick the shit out of the rest of hockey east now, you have my blessing. But only for right now. So you better take advantage of this while it lasts. Likely next season I will go back to shitting on you guys as much as I can.
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Creative, open-minded and magnanimous, all at once. 9.5 on a scale of 10.0, only drawback is groovy beat you to the "Souza extension" dig by a few hours.

You've gotten better at this since you distanced yourself from our neighborhood Karen ... kudos, keep up the good work. (y)
 
Chuck Murray said:
Creative, open-minded and magnanimous, all at once. 9.5 on a scale of 10.0, only drawback is groovy beat you to the "Souza extension" dig by a few hours.

You've gotten better at this since you distanced yourself from our neighborhood Karen ... kudos, keep up the good work. (y)
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I was never in close proximity to Potty. Now, that’s no offense intended to Potty. My own Blackbears brethren would likely say that they’ve been snarled at for getting too close.

Face it, the annual trip to TD Garden when at least 3 of 4 of BU, BC, UNH, and UMaine was the best years of the HE finals. We even got treated to a year(maybe more) when all 4 made it together at the same time. I think that was in 2000.

For superstition’s sake you could dust off and don the Expos hat that you wore to the Garden that year. 😄
 
Chuck Murray said:
You are such an absolute a$$clown, potty. Folks can read, y'know. For someone who tries to convince everyone they're the adult in the room, you are such a child ...
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Oh, Buford, do I need to post the dozens of posts from you claiming that UNH needs a new coach? Souza wins a few and now you are congratulating him on 100 victories. I think a little Yiddish is in order. You are a putz. UNH hockey would be better off if you spent your winters ice fishing instead of posting here.
 
Potluck said:
Meanwhile Buford, Elwood and Meathead think it’s time to fire Souza.

On behalf of the knowledgeable, loyal fans of UNH, kudos to the coaches and players for an excellent weekend. Lots of good things ahead if they continue to improve. If UNH plays team defense all year like they did against Maine, we have lots to look forward too.
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As for Souza and a contract extension, if it was up to me, definitely still need to show me more. Two wins at Maine doesn't change a 100-122-27 (.456% - ugh) record. Look Souza has never had more than 8 wins before Christmas, I don't think he has had the team above .500 at Christmas. Can we hang him the Potluck 2025 1st half banner? - you might not be 1st half Champs but Mike Souza you still deserve a trophy (err banner).

As to knowledgeable - meh could be debated. As to loyal I am a season ticket holder and have been going to games for more than 45 years, I am certainly loyal (may need my head examined) and want UNH to win. Hell I was one of the few that saw the UNH-Wisco and UNH-BU games in Albany live in 1998. That epic collapse down the stretch made the bandwagon super roomy.

As for the team this weekend, you can probably count the number of UNH sweeps at Maine (since Walsh) on 1 hand, this is a GIANT accomplishment. I am hopeful as always that UNH has figured it out, there are positive signs on the defensive end that the group is starting to gel. They need to play better defense still, there were some significant lapses and Maine didn't make them pay (see below). Yes, Lavins is back and was all over the ice which helped, only thing missing in his game is his shooting. That UNH was missing Felix (the Cat) Gagnon, #2 in goals and #3 in points and others stepped up is also a fantastic sign.

The cold water is game 1 period 1 there were some crazy saves and some missed opportunities by Maine, same with Game 2 period 3. I am not sure this is a winning strategy by the coaching staff. I just don't see the plan being let see if the other team can miss fire AND our goalie can stand on his head at the same time for most of a period as a good thing. Flip side that the team didn't panic in either game is big bonus to the culture that might be forming. (Or Sparkee might be right, Maine might be in a Barr off year they have been a bit erratic since Halloween - still for UNH a sweep at Maine in any year is a significant thing)

Interesting aside: UNH has some of the best road wins in the country as the NCAA counts them @MSU, @UConn, @Maine, @Maine. More good signs there have been plenty of years when UNH had a rough go away from home.

More on Souza - congrats on win 100... it only took 249 games and 7+ years. For reference Umile playing in Snively and one year in Concord got to win 100 in less than 186 games (60+ games faster) and less than 5 years (I am not figuring out when in 94-95 Umile crossed the 100 win mark). At the end of year 5 Umile was 109-63-14 (.623%).

As for what is next... Dartmouth. I just looked Dartmouth has played 1 team with a record over .500 at the time they played this year (Cornell was 2-1 when the puck dropped). USCHO happily publishes the record of both teams for the conclusion of the game. That means UNH will be Dartmouth's second opponent with a winning record at game time. Dartmouth is doing a great job feasting on cupcakes, scoring like crazy, seriously good for them. UNH vs Dartmouth games have be wild games in the past, could be an interesting Sunday afternoon. (It would be very UNH for Dartmouth to stumble over Army and then blow UNH's doors off)
 
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JB said:
As for Souza and a contract extension, if it was up to me, definitely still need to show me more. Two wins at Maine doesn't change a 100-122-27 (.456% - ugh) record. Look Souza has never had more than 8 wins before Christmas, I don't think he has had the team above .500 at Christmas. Can we hang him the Potluck 2025 1st half banner? - you might not be 1st half Champs but Mike Souza you still deserve a trophy (err banner).

As to knowledgeable - meh could be debated. As to loyal I am a season ticket holder and have been going to games for more than 45 years, I am certainly loyal (may need my head examined) and want UNH to win. Hell I was one of the few that saw the UNH-Wisco and UNH-BU games in Albany live in 1998. That epic collapse down the stretch made the bandwagon super roomy.

As for the team this weekend, you can probably count the number of UNH sweeps at Maine (since Walsh) on 1 hand, this is a GIANT accomplishment. I am hopeful as always that UNH has figured it out, there are positive signs on the defensive end that the group is starting to gel. They need to play better defense still, there were some significant lapses and Maine didn't make them pay (see below). Yes, Lavins is back and was all over the ice which helped, only thing missing in his game is his shooting. That UNH was missing Felix (the Cat) Gagnon, #2 in goals and #3 in points and others stepped up is also a fantastic sign.

The cold water is game 1 period 1 there were some crazy saves and some missed opportunities by Maine, same with Game 2 period 3. I am not sure this is a winning strategy by the coaching staff. I just don't see the plan being let see if the other team can miss fire AND our goalie can stand on his head at the same time for most of a period as a good thing. Flip side that the team didn't panic in either game is big bonus to the culture that might be forming. (Or Sparkee might be right, Maine might be in a Barr off year they have been a bit erratic since Halloween - still for UNH a sweep at Maine in any year is a significant thing)

Interesting aside: UNH has some of the best road wins in the country as the NCAA counts them @MSU, @UConn, @Maine, @Maine. More good signs there have been plenty of years when UNH had a rough go away from home.

More on Souza - congrats on win 100... it only took 249 games and 7+ years. For reference Umile playing in Snively and one year in Concord got to win 100 in less than 186 games (60+ games faster) and less than 5 years (I am not figuring out when in 94-95 Umile crossed the 100 win mark). At the end of year 5 Umile was 109-63-14 (.623%).

As for what is next... Dartmouth. I just looked Dartmouth has played 1 team with a record over .500 at the time they played this year (Cornell was 2-1 when the puck dropped). USCHO happily publishes the record of both teams for the conclusion of the game. That means UNH will be Dartmouth's second opponent with a winning record at game time. Dartmouth is doing a great job feasting on cupcakes, scoring like crazy, seriously good for them. UNH vs Dartmouth games have be wild games in the past, could be an interesting Sunday afternoon. (It would be very UNH for Dartmouth to stumble over Army and then blow UNH's doors off)
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I too was at the UNH-Wisco game in Albany. Great win for UNH after having many losses to them over the years. Watched the UNH-BU game on tv the next day and another big win for UNH. HAPPY DAYS! Agree it's taken MS longer than DU to find his footing but I remember some big losses under DU especially in the NCAA's. Denver, what was 9-1 or some such debacle. Michigan 4-0 in Boston and of course Maine 7-2 in Minny not to mention Maine in Anaheim.
 
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