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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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.
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Why, Snives ... why (see you in September?)??
  14. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Yes, good point Larry ... we can only aspire to achieve the high level of discourse on the UMaine thread, where endless speculation as to the final few open schedule slots for the '26/'27 season is only matched by the yearning for re-litigation of the NCAA transgressions of the past emanating...
  15. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Spent the better part of my first 20 years in a community close to Boston ... next 15-ish years in school or working along Rte. 128 ... first home in NH at age 26 just north of Titletown, 9 years later we built our own place on two wooded acres in Effingwoods ... worked along Rte. 495 for...
  16. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Let's put it this way ... for you to pretend you've experienced more Boston than myself, would be like me claiming to have experienced more DC than you. We can drill (much) deeper on those issues if you'd like, but I get the sense from past inquires that you don't want to reveal that kind of...
  17. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Glad that Tortorella lost. Not a big fan of his act to begin with, and even less so after the 2023/2024 NHL regular season finale.
  18. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    UNH's Kyle Chauvette will be attending the B's upcoming developmental camp, per today's UL. Also, I did not realize Cup winning Carolina G Brandon Bussi was an undrafted former B's farmhand down in Providence as recently as a year ago. Moral of the story? Sometimes it's all about being in the...
  19. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Don't worry, the hockey will be coming back soon enough. Not much to discuss on topic now, is there? You are free and encouraged to bring the discussion back to college hockey, or hockey in general. We have some folks who do that. Flag and Snives to name two, but they're also entitled to...
  20. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    That may have been the case a generation ago, but that is no longer the case. And if your scenario was hanging on by a thread already by 2019, it's changed completely since then. There are not only a growing number of "reverse commuters" who like doing their commutes with relatively clear...
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