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UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

Whalers said:
I heard Graham Cracker's tattoo was supposed to be a TotemPOLE, to support Native Americans, NOT a Totenkopf.
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The REAL Nazi, DJT, forced his DOJ to threaten the tattoo artist 20 years ago to use the wrong design. What else would a Putin stooge do, you know, to steal Democracy.

Oh, and Susan Collins doesnt have a clue which one is the salad fork, so you have to vote for the every day man Graham Cracker, once again, TO SAVE DEMOCRACY! He did go to the Crotchkiss school, a no cost "charter" school for future, single customer oyster farmers whose parents pay cash to buy their homes.
 
umhockey91 said:
This thread is like a trip to MAGAville. 😂😂😂

If you snowflakes are afraid of Burlington.....I can't imagine how you function in a real city. 😂🤣😂
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Honestly ... you are from Maine, right? What would you know about life in a "real city" anyway?? Answers on a postcard j/k 😂😂

Turning off the sarcasm button that Whalers so capably utilized earlier ... it's honestly disappointing to hear this about Burlington VT in general, and Church St. specifically. The city used to be part of my work "beat" for decades, and I loved the place, but haven't been in the city for close to 15 years now. Coldest night of my life - work or otherwise - was doing an all-day mediation in an old granite building down at the base of the big hill (Route 2 IIRC?) right on Lake Champlain, in early January, and it ran into the late evening hours. Funniest part is that the mediator - someone I worked with many times before and since, and only recently retired - had left the premises an hour earlier without us knowing, heading south for his working farm home base close to Bennington. The defense team was "scalded" by brisk winds off the lake after leaving, and temps were already close to 0F without wind chill. But we made our way up to Church St. and a watering hole whose kitchen was still open, so we got some quality grub and a few pops, and three hours later I rolled back into the WIS Estate with a ton of great stories, and lifelong warm memories of the Church St. vibes, despite the ridiculously Arctic conditions. Reading reports of the area's demise makes me very, very sad.

How much have things changed in the area since? Well, a couple of years after the all-day mediation, we took a HS age soccer travel team up to the Tree Farm fields complex, which IIRC was in Essex Junction, for one of the annual June Spring tourneys they regularly hosted (at least back then). The traveling adults did two treks into town and did a pair of Church St. venues, one upon arrival in the evening, and the second on a Sunday afternoon when a microburst blew out the final group stage game, and the divisional title game that we'd already qualified for with 2 W's and a draw. This was not too long after the Great Recession and it was pretty clear things were not as they were before. And maybe five years later, my last professional trek to Northern VT, was held in Middlebury near the college with another mediator, and was memorable for a very granola-crunchy opening meeting that just barely stopped short of choruses of Kumbaya, where the key defense witness was (unbeknownst to me until the hearing) a real life "Lola" (channeling the Kinks memorable classic here). Our star witness had previously been interviewed, and I'd seen the tape ... but afterwards, he'd been deposed by the opposition, and watching the video being run by counsel for the opposition, I could hear the same gravelly New York accent ... however, much to my surprise, the witness' "presentation" was far different that day. I apparently was the only person in the room who hadn't been let in on the "change of status", something I did bring up later with my substitute counsel lol.

That session turned out fine for everyone, so no long late-night frostbitten treks through the Green Mountains on that occasion ... but the postscript of that encounter was that our "star witness" apparently ran for VT Governor a year or two later as a Democrat and narrowly lost in the statewide election.

I guess VT used to be a bright Red state after WW2, but the old-school Vermonters will tell you that migration of NY and MA folks over the last 50 years has steadily turned the ship of state into a deep Blue only matched by the color of the waters on magnificent Lake Champlain. And not for the better, see Church St. sadly. Favorite trip was Fall 1997 to see my last ELP gig with the full band intact, a night after they'd played at Club Casino in Hampton Beach. So long ago now ... :(
 
In other news, UNH released their schedule today! Nice to have it released earlier this year!

Hopefully this link works - copied from FB
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Men’s Hockey Unveils 2026-27 Schedule - University of New Hampshire Athletics

DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire men's hockey program has announced its schedule for the 2026-27 season which features 19 games at the Whittemo...
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From a quick glance:
1.) 7 of their first 9 games are on the road. That’s a tough start! Gotta get the road warriors mentality started early…

2.) OOC this year in Quinnipiac (1, away) Colgate (2, both away), Michigan state (2, both home), RPI/Union weekend (home), Dartmouth (away), Brown (1, home), and RIT (1, home). QU and MSU will be tough, the rest should be winnable games.

3.) In Hockey east, they play UConn, Providence, Merrimack, and UMA all 3 times. Tough draw for the extra HEA games with these teams…

4.) the soft underbelly of the schedule is from late October through the end of November, where they travel to UVM, then UML home/home, RPI/Union home weekend, then home/home with UConn and finish November home vs. Brown. I’d think they’d have to go at least 6-3 or 7-2 in this stretch to stay afloat later in the year. Perhaps it will set them up for a nice “Champions of December” trophy, and provide some momentum for the early December border battle with Maine.

5.) once the calendar moves to 2027 it looks like a gauntlet. NU to BC to MU/UMA to BU to UMA to Providence and finish with UConn. Gotta earn all those wins!

Souza has his work cut out for him this year. Looking forward to the games starting in the fall, and I’ll remain cautiously optimistic with the portal/incoming talent that we may surprise some people this year.

Curious to see what others think!
 
Colgate season ticket-holder here. I am already looking forward to New Hampshire coming to our Class of 1965 Arena in Hamilton, N.Y., in mid-October to complete the reciprocal agreement. Remind me… do UNH fans ‘travel well?’
 
Because I hate to leave folks hanging when there is a very entertaining cliffhanger, let's start here for brevity's sake lol ...

Chuck Murray said:
And maybe five years later, my last professional trek to Northern VT, was held in Middlebury near the college with another mediator, and was memorable for a very granola-crunchy opening meeting that just barely stopped short of choruses of Kumbaya, where the key defense witness was (unbeknownst to me until the hearing) a real life "Lola" (channeling the Kinks memorable classic here). Our star witness had previously been interviewed, and I'd seen the tape ... but afterwards, he'd been deposed by the opposition, and watching the video being run by counsel for the opposition, I could hear the same gravelly New York accent ... however, much to my surprise, the witness' "presentation" was far different that day. I apparently was the only person in the room who hadn't been let in on the "change of status", something I did bring up later with my substitute counsel lol.

That session turned out fine for everyone, so no long late-night frostbitten treks through the Green Mountains on that occasion ... but the postscript of that encounter was that our "star witness" apparently ran for VT Governor a year or two later as a Democrat and narrowly lost in the statewide election.
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... so as nuts as this may sound to probably 80% of the folks on here, this all actually happened. Took me awhile to reconnect to the story and its protagonist, but with a little help from handy-dandy AI, I bring you the star witness for the defense, and a seat-squirming documentary directed by our protagonist's son that may have unintentionally provided the best up-close-and-personal evidence of some of the super weirdness that's taken root in the People's Republic of Vermont. As a side note, while putting this together, I discovered one of our protagonist's Dem primary election opponents was a 14-year-old boy. Vermont being Vermont.

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Christine Hallquist - Wikipedia

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https://www.denialdocumentary.com/

The link to the documentary has a two-minute trailer that puts its finger on the pulse of VT life less than ten years ago. The underlying focus subject narrative of climate change comes across as a little dated, especially in light of the IPCC's "retirement" of their top two "doomsday" scenarios in recent times, since it's become patently obvious that the Al Gore sh!t just isn't happening any century/millennium soon. Anyway ... it's the offseason, so enjoy!! (y)
 
iowabasedtraveler said:
Colgate season ticket-holder here. I am already looking forward to New Hampshire coming to our Class of 1965 Arena in Hamilton, N.Y., in mid-October to complete the reciprocal agreement. Remind me… do UNH fans ‘travel well?’
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Used to travel VERY well ... nowadays, not so much, although some of the diehard UNH road warriors do frequent our thread here.
 
umhockey91 said:
Platner wasn’t in the Epstein Files but I know who was.

GFY.
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Where were you when President Magoo's DOJ needed you a few years ago, when they were trying to throw everything else at the wall, hoping something stuck?

SPOILER ALERT: Nothing stuck, and the Democrats got crushed in the 2024 elections as payback for wasting everyone's time with various fake DJT "Orange Man Bad" narratives. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
 
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