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2009-2010 Official Vermont Season Thread

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Merry Christmas everyone.

I resolve to be a less frequent user of this board in 2010 as it has become a waste of time since Jcarter arrived to fan the flamefests.

Happy new year to all true cat fans and may 2010 be a good year for the UVM hockey club
 
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Thankfully, the UVM Men's Hockey Club is doing quite well.

Many of the posters on this particular board are also interested in the UVM Varsity Men's Hockey Team. They, unfortunately, are not doing quite as well as the Club team and can really use your good wishes for the 2010 portion of their schedule. That is, the portion of 2010 before all of coach Sneddon's future recruits show up to brighten the program's future.

Here's to a good 2010 portion of the 2009-10 season. I would love to see them be all they are capable of being and accomplishing all they are capable of accomplishing.
 
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"Here's to a good 2010 portion of the 2009-10 season. I would love to see them be all they are capable of being and accomplishing all they are capable of accomplishing."



I'm sure we all agree with you on that notion.
 
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Merry Christmas to all, UVM fans and others as well. Even you snowboarder, you will be missed.
 
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On here, Cat In TX, you don't always have to be even that introspective! It may not matter for anything.
 
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Hey all,

is there any video coverage of the tournament this weekend???

stev
 
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http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...2/SPORTS/The-decade-s-best-UVM-hockey-players

Nice article on the top 12 UVM hockey players of the decade. Not sure I agree with all of them but mostly.

Per the article :

Goaltenders

Fallon
Madore

D-men

Sifers - Macauley
Gunderson - Moborg

Forwards

Mitchell - Strong - Stalberg
Sharp - Misfud - Lenes


I would pretty much agree with all of them except IMO I think I would replace Lenes with Jeff Corey. JMO.
 
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Wow, four all-time greats on last year's team, that's a lot. I think it's great that one season can earn a player all-time great status.

No, wait, apparently it takes only half a season as this year's team is stocked with All-Next Decade Team members Chris McCarthy and David Pacan, who join existing all-timer Rob Madore. Plus, I am positive that after this season ends and as time allows perepctive, this team's defensive unit, in its entirety, will be acknowledged as an all-time unit and the Stalberg-like season Brayden Irwin is enjoying will place him in the all-time pantheon.

And then there's the coach.

These will certainly be remembered as the golden years of UVM hockey.
 
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jcarter7669 said:
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...2/SPORTS/The-decade-s-best-UVM-hockey-players

Nice article on the top 12 UVM hockey players of the decade. Not sure I agree with all of them but mostly.

Per the article :

Goaltenders

Fallon
Madore

D-men

Sifers - Macauley
Gunderson - Moborg

Forwards

Mitchell - Strong - Stalberg
Sharp - Misfud - Lenes


I would pretty much agree with all of them except IMO I think I would replace Lenes with Jeff Corey. JMO.
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I would also take out Lenes and instead add Brady Leisenring, the offense is the same but brady was more valueable at both ends.
 
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Cat lover said:
I would also take out Lenes and instead add Brady Leisenring, the offense is the same but brady was more valueable at both ends.
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Leisenring could easily replace Lenes or Corey. I put Corey in just because it always seemed to be me like he had more hustle then Leisenring. Almost like Brady was so good he could put in a 85% effort and get away with it, where as Corey just went 100% all the time. Maybe senility kicking in, but just my thoughts.



Tourney time is almost here, does UVM win their own tourney? The cats should have little trouble making the championship game where they will likely see UMD. UMD is currently 11th in the PWR and RPI, so it will be a good test for the cats. Two thoughts, UVM can and should beat UMD...UVM rarely wins their own tournament. Makes it a tough call, but they have been playing well of late ( even if it is ECAC teams) and Madore seems to be gaining some confidence and returning to form. With that in mind I gotta pick UVM to win the tourney.

Hope everyone had a good christmas.
 
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I really do agree with jcarter that the team is playing extremely well. Especially after a long weekend of Christmas cheer and toasts.

Forgetting the awful home loss to UNH, 2 big wins over ECAC contenders. I look back fondly on leading St. Lawrence 1-0 with 5 minutes to go, though the coach did solve the powerplay 'problem' as the team produced 2 PPGs. And the team played extremely well against Dartmouth, forgetting, as we must and should, giving up 2, not 1, 2, goals in the last minute of periods, allowing DC to go into the 3rd period tied 2-2. I know, UVM had exams. All the more impressive when you realize St. Lawrence and Dartmouth don't have exams.

So, after enough time to forget the details of the team's recent wins, I do agree that the team closed the first semester playing extremely well.

Midseason recaps of the various websites included an interesting summation of UVM's first semester, the team was 'exposed.' The team was exposed. The team was shown to have the most (self) overrated defense in Hockey East, in the NCAA, and, as coach Sneddon always likes to say, 'in hockey.' And the coach has done nothing to improve its play.

The team will rise or fall on the defense's play in the second semester. This veteran group has shown the ability to both leave their goalies defenseless and effectively keep the puck from the forwards. A hockey team is as good as its defense. This team was expected to be good because of its veteran defense and the team has been exposed largely because of its veteran defense.

If the most senior, leading defenders who log the most icetime and who the coach wants on the ice for the first and last minutes of every period (oops on the 2nd period against Dartmouth), keep getting scored on and icing passes and dump ins and taking bad penalties, without consequence from the coach, the team will only be exposed for what it is.

It is up to the coach to demand that the team play hockey the right way, that each player fulfill his role. So long as the coach appears to allow certain players to repeat the same mistakes season after season, let alone game-to-game, the team will be exposed to be the team we watch on the ice.

So, I agree that the team played extremely well to end the first semester and coming into the Catamount Cup Tournament. They just better play a whole heckuva lot better in the second half of the season if they want to achieve anything great. Coach Sneddon's streak of Penrose Trophy nominations relies on it.
 
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With some upsets in the holiday tourney UVM has moved up to 15th in RPI and PWR. While this is not a great place to be they are in position to decide their own destiny despite the up and down play of the first half. A good finish and a trip to the NCAA's is reasonable, continue their play and it will be the luck of the draw. Hope the cats got their woes out of their system and are ready for a strong second half.
 
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That really is a nice little bump in the computer ratings for the Catamounts.

And, they still need to play up to their capabilities in the second half of the season. 'Their capabilities,' over an entire game, are what they showed in battling Denver in two high level games, in smoking BC and then in rebounding from a lousy loss to win the second game at BC, maybe in the Lowell tie and in the Yale win and the BU tie. That's about it!

They need to start with out-of-conference wins this weekend - a win over Minnesota-Duluth will be a good win, and win 5 or more games - 6? - from Maine, UNH, UMass, and Lowell. They need to be a strong team and they need to play like a strong team. If they do this, beat good teams, they will be fine. If not, they will get credit for some good wins and fall just outside the Tournament.

If this team is good, if the players really want to repeat what they gave us last season, they have to start playing like it. Bonehead mistakes and stupid and selfish penalties have to stop. Goalies have to stop pucks and forwards have to make plays and score goals. And the coach needs to let the boys play and stop with his stupid lineup and personnel decisions and laughable PP units and configurations. When there's a 4-on-4 situation, stop sending out Jonathan Higgins and Matt Marshall, send out players who can use the open ice to score. The coach needs to stop putting his footprints on the team - that preposterous 3 defensemen PP unit is a pure Kevin Sneddon production, and insist that players, including team leaders, stop making the same lousy plays over and over again or suffer consequences and let the team play hockey.

The team, despite its terribly inconsistent and underachieving first half, is in position to bull their way to the top of the HE standings and into the NCAA Tournament. They just have to do it. And it's not likely to happen with guys in the penalty box all the time, with veteran defensemen making terrible blunders repeatedly, with silly PP units that are, coincidentally, glaringly unproductive, and with coaching that does not, despite its hollow, meaningless words to the contrary, hold all players accountable for their play.

Go Cats!
 
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Sneddon is an excellent coach and I am thrilled to have him leading the UVM program.

Now we need to get him the facility he needs to win the critical recruiting battles and solidify the rise of the program to prominence and consistency.
 
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