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Recent content by Chuck Murray

  1. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Construction Work In Progress? Actually, no idea Felgie, I dragged that guess deep out of my long-ago Bentley days ...
  2. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday weekend. Encountered this interesting but extended read on the 1981 effort by the B's to move to Salem NH ... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2025.2486663#abstract Remember a lot of this stuff as if it were yesterday. All this was...
  3. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    I see Watcher's signature block has added another line ... the latest in a long line of frustrating sub-par seasons for the program we all love. Always great to see you on here, Watcher. Hopefully with a looming "changing of the guard", we'll see you (and others) way more often! :)
  4. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    What a great gig for kids like KC who weren't drafted, have realistic post-grad expectations, and don't want to deal with the slog and uncertainty of playing in the Coast league. The new EBUG rules seem tailored for a guy like him, as it offers him a non-union employee position which covers his...
  5. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    WIS has now dubbed our latest draftee "PvR" to carry on the fabled vR lineage/legacy at UNH. I believe the Penguins traded up with the B's to pick him today. 4th round picks are usually flawed "hope and hit" picks at best. For a sloppy frame of reference, I believe Conmy was a 5th round pick...
  6. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Could not agree with you more, Felgie. It will be interesting to see what role (if any) his brother plays in the pivotal next 12+ months at UNH ...
  7. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Second round underway now, the rest of the draft thru Round 7 will wrap up later today.
  8. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Agreed, very interesting but hardly surprising (more on that later). FWIW I think MS7 is professionally "dead man walking" at UNH, barring a sensational turnaround - i.e. way better than his sole winning season - so I'm not sure if any 20-year-old freshman has the ability to turn this barge...
  9. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Came across this the other day .... not exactly new "news", but seemingly good news for potential lithium mining in parts of NH and Western Maine: https://read.nhbr.com/nh-business-review/2026/06/19/#?article=4402589 Seems like the scale of current estimates would be prodigious, covering lots...
  10. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Overall, that's a pretty fair take, but I would have to point out that UNH has already done a large reboot of the overall campus over the last generation, with some notable remaining exceptions (i.e. the infamous butt-ugly Stoke Hall is still standing), and already has a well-developed second...
  11. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    University (Flagship University's in Northern NE)Campus LocationAcceptance Rate UMass AmherstAmherst, MA~58% to 60% UVM (University of Vermont)Burlington, VT~57.6% to 60% UNH (University of New Hampshire)Durham, NH~87% to 88% UMaine (University of Maine)Orono, ME~96% to 97% Not...
  12. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Billing out of state students more than in state students isn't unique to UVM, UNH OR UMaine. Hardly. In fact, UMass does the very same thing, and the ratio between in state rates and out of state rates between UNH and UMass (45%-ish) are nearly identical. The delta for UMaine is slightly...
  13. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Thanks for sharing, sincerely. Could have done without the editorial "sounds a lot like UNH" snark, but so be it. In addition to Burlington having been a very popular draw among out of state students from NY and MA, there was also a fair share of NH kids seeing UVM as a viable...
  14. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    It's hockey related, but not college hockey ... the Brady Tkachuk trade this past weekend to Florida continued the recent trends of (1) migration of players from the haves to the have-nots, and (2) most of that migration emanating from Canada and the northern tier US cities to the teams in the...
  15. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    First, kudos to wading in on an off-topic issue you are usually hesitant to engage in. Fair take BTW. Personally, I'm not seeing any race to the middle (yet) but I do hope you and wally are proven right in the long run. More balance is long overdue. That Fox has thrived in recent years says...
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