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  1. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    We will have to change that, and I will cover the first two rounds (at least) to reward you for your past WIS contest successes, kind sir!! :) 🍻🍻
  2. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Me too, Felgie. And it's a shame, it didn't always used to be this way ... for me, maybe it's due in small part to being present at the original Jackson's Landing rink skating with our then 6 year old daughter the night before its roof collapsed ('96), which was when we were living in Dover...
  3. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Location and visibility, norbie. Think of it this way, and I'll let Snives speak to the core mapping project and its logistics ... if we've seen past trends over the last two plus generations, it's been the withering of downtown businesses in the face of more available alternatives on the...
  4. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Donato was/is legit, and you didn't even mention how he was the MVP of the 1989 Frozen Four when he scored two goals in the Finals in Harvard's D-1 title run. Had a decent dozen or so years with the B's, which is a very good outcome for a 5th round pick. His son Ryan (2nd round) is on his way...
  5. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Latest developments on an important project taking shape on the western edge of the UNH Titletown campus ... https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-05-07/unh-noaa-project-research-hotel-the-edge-durham
  6. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    You know what they say about how having too much of a good thing, isn't always a good thing ... 😂
  7. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    I don't care if it's AD Rich or Blue Skies, or whomever comes in next, Ref ... it's an easy fix, and there can be no good reason for it not to be released as soon as Hockey East sorts out the league schedule. Easy peasey. It's not like anyone is asking the AD to actually, y'know, coach the...
  8. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Easy fix for the new AD, one would think. Not unlike the Ivy mentality (Rich) to make a schedule release a low priority item. Contemptuous of their own fans.
  9. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Nice piece on Dr. Thomas Fortney on Page B1 (Health) of today's Union Leader, with lots of wistful recollections of his four years in Durham. Prominent mention of Ty Conklin, who is a manufacturer's rep for the company that developed the robotic shoulder device that Dr. Fortney has put into his...
  10. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    I'm all for the Vaughn Williams/Andy Jones duo making the trek to Titletown in the very near future. I also must say, Williams' very distant second cousin (Vaughan Williams) was a terrific English composer earlier last century ...
  11. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Thanks for putting some more meat on the bones, JB.. Seems UNH Athletics (and Hockey by extension) is not quite as removed from the D-1 mainstream as some might believe ... and it's clearly one less excuse to offer on MS7's behalf for the chronic underperformance of his piece of the program...
  12. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Can you put a little more meat on those bones, JB? Is Wallace available to all UNH teams, and assuming yes, are all coaches making use of this "asset"?? Assuming the first answer is indeed "yes" ... MS7 would seem to have at least one (and possibly two) less excuse(s) for his teams' poor...
  13. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Fair point. Arguably MS7 has had one or two seasons where he scratched at midtable. So mediocre at best, but on the whole, pretty abysmal.
  14. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    I can't let that go ... not "our" Red Sox lol, I'm a former Expos fan. And for what it's worth, considering that (different) ownership issues were the primary reason they left Montreal, it's interesting to note that a fair few successful GM's (including Dave Dombrowski and Dan Duquette) managed...
  15. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    As I said earlier ... it's the faintest of faint praise, and I agree 100% it's the baseline for a D-1 head coach. The "good citizenship" standard is more applicable to HS level coaches, who get the athletes in more of their formative years, and who get paid stipends that are usually in the...
  16. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    You're making my point, JB ... kudos to Souza for running a clean program with good kids, yes, but more is expected. Both of us could run a "clean program with good kids" too, but we'd probably both be even worse at coaching/driving performance in Men's Ice Hockey than he is. D-1 HC's salaries...
  17. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    It's not an either/or proposition though, is it? Coach Umile consistently recruited good people AND managed to win a lot of games too. Look at the awards that get given out, locally and nationally. There are some good citizenship awards, sure, but most apply to on-ice performance. We all...
  18. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    "Fourth in the portal nationally" is right up there with "Champions of November" when it comes to utterly meaningless "achievements".
  19. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Best news of the offseason, including the portal pluses. Now hopefully the "search committee" won't mess this hire up like they messed up the last one ...
  20. Chuck Murray

    UNH Hockey Off Season Thread 2026

    Assuming that such a meeting/discussion has even happened ... it's hard to envision the (apparently) outgoing lame duck AD would be throwing down forceful positions like that, when she likely hasn't done so before during her relatively brief and uneventful tenure, and she has little if any stake...
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