UNH Hockey: Treading Water or Trending Upward

[Darius]

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Last week we saw how a top 20 team responds to losing on their ice in the first half of a home and home. This week we will see what we learned.

Go 'cats!

[d.gerry]

Re: UNH Hockey: Treading Water or Trending Upward

Last week we saw how a top 20 team responds to losing on their ice in the first half of a home and home. This week we will see what we learned.

Go 'cats!

If they did learn someone from last weekend, and can execute this weekend, they may be a top 20 team next weekend.

[Chuck Murray]

Re: UNH Hockey: Treading Water or Trending Upward

Last week we saw how a top 20 team responds to losing on their ice in the first half of a home and home. This week we will see what we learned.

Go 'cats!

Terrific observation. Tonight will be fascinating, on that issue alone.

Of course, they'll then have to figure out the "letdown" issue next weekend when UConn arrives.

In its simplest form, in the big picture … last season was an improvement over the prior season.

So far, this season has been a solid, steady improvement over last season.

That's the way you turn your program around. Keep the momentum going forwards.

I'll predict a 3-3 tie tonight at The Whitt. Which would show UNH is continuing to learn.

[Dan]

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Mike Robinson is 2-0-0 (with wins over a pair of top-10 teams), sporting a 2.00 GAA and a .935 SPCT, since Taylor was given three straight games from Yale to Northeastern. This is where rotations (or at least mixing in opportunities for both goaltenders) can make a huge difference. Complacency is bad for college athletes, challenges are good for them...

I'd stick with Robinson tonight, but I'd also continue to pick spots for Taylor because its better for both goaltenders and certainly better for the team to have them competing to be their best and win minutes...

[Greg Ambrose]

Only thing really gnawing at me tonight was our inability to finish. for us to whiff on an open net was abominable. Then we had somebody walk into the slot, alone, nobody within 5 feet, and not get a good shot off. Multiple other great looks but ineffective shots. Maybe it was Murray playing the angles well. I just think back to Haydar or Collins, and you just KNEW they would bury it.

Guys like that are not walking through that door, at least not right now. I’d like to think that, if they can remain competitive against the top teams, skilled players would be more inclined to consider UNH. Am I dreaming?

[NCAA watcher]

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Sorry, did someone mention my name in this thread?
https://bchl.ca/stats/player/5588/40/john-evans

The Langley native recently committed to the University of New Hampshire for 2021-2022. Ardanaz is also thrilled to be playing next to his close friend and former Delta teammate John Evans who is also a recent commit of the Warriors for 2019-2020. “John and I have played with each other for as long as I remember”, stated Ardanaz. “It will be great to play out our first years of junior together on the same team. John’s a great player and a better teammate.”

Evans, 17, spent the past four seasons with Delta Academy of the Canadian Sport School Hockey League(CSSHL). The South Surrey native was able to rack up 20 goals and 52 assists in only 35 games played in his 16 year old season with the Delta Academy Prep squad. “We are thrilled to have John and his family join ours here in West Kelowna.” Warriors Head Coach and General Manager Brandon West. “John is coming off another terrific season with the Delta Hockey Academy who have developed him on and off the ice. John is going to have a bright future here with us and we expect him to be a leader in the offence in due time. We feel that he is an elite 2002 who can make things happen on the ice and Warrior fans will be excited to watch him develop over the coming years.”

24 points in last 19 games as a 17 year old

LAN @ WK	2019-10-08	0	1	1
WK @ WEN	2019-10-11	0	0	0
WK @ WEN	2019-10-12	1	1	2
SA @ WK	2019-10-18	0	1	1	2
MER @ WK	2019-10-19	0	1	1
WK @ WEN	2019-10-23	0	0	0
TRA @ WK	2019-10-25	0	1	1
WK @ TRA	2019-10-26	0	0	0
WK @ COQ	2019-11-01	0	0
WK @ PR	2019-11-08	0	0	0
WK @ CV	2019-11-10	0	0	0
WK @ PG	2019-11-16	0	1	1
WK @ SUR	2019-11-20	0	1	1
WEN @ WK	2019-11-22	0	0	0
SA @ WK	2019-11-23	2	1	3
PR @ WK	2019-11-29	0	0	0
NAN @ WK	2019-11-30	1	1	2
WK @ PEN	2019-12-06	0	0	0
PEN @ WK	2019-12-07	1	1	2
WK @ TRA	2019-12-13	2	0	2
WEN @ WK	2019-12-14	1	0	1
CHW @ WK	2019-12-17	0	1	1
MER @ WK	2019-12-20	0	1	1
WK @ MER	2019-12-21	0	1	1
COQ @ WK	2020-01-03	0	1	1
WK @ CHW	2020-01-04	0	0	0
WK @ MER	2020-01-10	1	1	2
MER @ WK	2020-01-11	1	1	2
AV @ WK	2020-01-12	0	0	
SUR @ WK	2020-01-17	0	2	2
CV @ WK	2020-01-18	1	0	1
PEN @ WK	2020-01-21	2	0	2
VER @ WK	2020-01-24	0	1	1

[HockeyRef]

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Guys like that are not walking through that door, at least not right now. I’d like to think that, if they can remain competitive against the top teams, skilled players would be more inclined to consider UNH. Am I dreaming?

i'd like to think that too Greg; players will/can see that UNH is making real, tangible strides...they can be part of that....bringing back the glory days etc etc. Go 'Cats!!

[wildcatdc]

Guys like that are not walking through that door, at least not right now. I’d like to think that, if they can remain competitive against the top teams, skilled players would be more inclined to consider UNH. Am I dreaming?

I think that’s exactly what we are all hoping for.

[Chuck Murray]

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Guys like that are not walking through that door, at least not right now. I’d like to think that, if they can remain competitive against the top teams, skilled players would be more inclined to consider UNH. Am I dreaming?

That's gotta be the mid-range and long-term plan, Greg.

Success breeds success, failure breeds failure. So far, MS7 has it going in the right direction.

As you're well aware, MS7 lived a good chunk of the UNH glory days as a player. If anyone can sell what it means to be part of a successful UNH program, competing at a national level, he would be the guy. He can point to the pictures up on the arena walls, and weave a first-person "I was there" narrative for his recruits, telling him he wants these kids to be the ones who - with him at the helm - finally gets UNH to the top of the D-1 pyramid. Something that (barely) eluded him as a player in 1999.

Done correctly (sincerely), it can be a very attractive sales pitch. I guess I always figured it was going to be Pat Foley who would be the guy to be selling it. Events have unfolded that have given that opportunity instead to MS7. I think we're all rooting for him to pull it off. Whether it's the Rangers in 1994, the Red Wings in 1999, or (*gulp*) BC in 2001 … it's always special when a team or a program that's been close, but experienced a long drought, finally breaks through to win it all. I hope we all live long enough to see it, it would have to be the greatest single sporting event in the history of New Hampshire if/when it finally does happen.

No pressure, guys.

[HockeyRef]

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MacAdams down 4:03 in the first

[wildcatdc]

macadams down 4:03 in the first

ck!!!

[wildcatdc]

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Looking a bit like last night, minus the penalties

[Drew S.]

That's gotta be the mid-range and long-term plan, Greg.

Success breeds success, failure breeds failure. So far, MS7 has it going in the right direction.

As you're well aware, MS7 lived a good chunk of the UNH glory days as a player. If anyone can sell what it means to be part of a successful UNH program, competing at a national level, he would be the guy. He can point to the pictures up on the arena walls, and weave a first-person "I was there" narrative for his recruits, telling him he wants these kids to be the ones who - with him at the helm - finally gets UNH to the top of the D-1 pyramid. Something that (barely) eluded him as a player in 1999.

Done correctly (sincerely), it can be a very attractive sales pitch. I guess I always figured it was going to be Pat Foley who would be the guy to be selling it. Events have unfolded that have given that opportunity instead to MS7. I think we're all rooting for him to pull it off. Whether it's the Rangers in 1994, the Red Wings in 1999, or (*gulp*) BC in 2001 … it's always special when a team or a program that's been close, but experienced a long drought, finally breaks through to win it all. I hope we all live long enough to see it, it would have to be the greatest single sporting event in the history of New Hampshire if/when it finally does happen.

No pressure, guys.

Wings in ‘97. In ‘99 they bottled the three peat and Hully scored a dodgy cup clincher.

[HockeyRef]

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Mac Adam's back at it...'Cats hanging tough here comes the third...

[HockeyRef]

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OT here we come goooo 'Cats!!