Sparkee
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Is Michael Ayers a good choice?
Greg Moore(USNDPT) would be a good choice though not sure UNH wants a Maine guy. The rule on that is you can win as many other games as you want except the games against Maine. Seems only fair.
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Is Michael Ayers a good choice?
Greg Moore(USNDPT) would be a good choice though not sure UNH wants a Maine guy. The rule on that is you can win as many other games as you want except the games against Maine. Seems only fair.
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
Word last year was that he was approached, but turned it down because his mom was ill and he didn't want to move north.
Thanks. I did not see the game, just following the live CHN box score. Looks like JPT’s 14+ minutes of TOI about same as Cronin’s, so does not appear he missed a shift. I completely agree with your take on faked soccer injuries, which I have described as “rolling around on the field as if one had been shot.” I think that one of the best hockey 2-minute penalties is “embellishment,” which must help at least a little to keep things honest. Tough job being a ref.
UNH makes another visit to Matthews on December 6th, when we will be likely still in the HEA basement with only one other HEA game between now and then.
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Robert Balin
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Speaking of Sardarian he has 9 points in 8 games for Mich tech. He's on first pp unit and has 3 GW goals. Damien Carfagna has 10 points in 12 games for Ohio St. he's a + 9 and on first defensive pairing.
I do not think that MS7 will be going anywhere anytime soon, but I would endorse all the above, especially Eric Boguniecki, who is now a scout for the NHL Utah Hockey Club, after 10 seasons as assistant coach for the AHL Bridgeport Sound Tigers, and still a reasonably young guy at 49 years old.
ClOuD 9
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Gonna go out on a limb and suggest the video replay, which they used to make the call iirc, influenced the decision more than anything.
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HockeyRef
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Hey maybe Jim Montgomery will be available...that's about as likely as MS7 being replaced....if you ask me. I should rephrase that...it IS likely that Monty will be fired unless the B's turn it around...while
it IS unlikely that MS7 is going anywhere. But like you, I'm down for that list.
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HockeyRef
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What were your thoughts on the game?
My vote for coaching answer is Route 4 to Concord, 89 north to Hanover. Reid Cashman. Challenge is providing the resources aka $ for Reid to jump and be successful. I'll admit it's wishful thinking. Second choice is Lang. Doubling down on my wishful thinking, I hope our AD as already reached out to him. I'd pull out my wallet for either TBH.
AIC is 2-8-1 and being outscored 42-20. 500 in conference last year.
They stink, again. Lang may have missed his chance to jump. As often as his name was mentioned for openings, perhaps industry perception doesn't line up with outside media/fanbase perception in this case. He would not be high on my radar for a program looking to be 'ambitious' in Hockey East/Nationally...
Cashman has more to prove at Dartmouth - but 18-10-10 over the past two years and a hot start this season. We'll see where they end up...
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Souza likely coaches out his contract, at least.
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If I was hiring a college hockey coach tomorrow - for any school - my first call would be to Jared DiMichel.
They stink, again. Lang may have missed his chance to jump. As often as his name was mentioned for openings, perhaps industry perception doesn't line up with outside media/fanbase perception in this case. He would not be high on my radar for a program looking to be 'ambitious' in Hockey East/Nationally...
Cashman has more to prove at Dartmouth - but 18-10-10 over the past two years and a hot start this season. We'll see where they end up...
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Souza likely coaches out his contract, at least.
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If I was hiring a college hockey coach tomorrow - for any school - my first call would be to Jared DiMichel.
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I must be watching different games as this teams passes too much and is leading to the scoring struggles.
It won’t happen as they are too poor to pay out and add a new coach. Whomever it is can’t be from the UNH family. We need change.
At 16-12-4, Yellow Jackets better than 0.500 in conference last season if counting postseason games that included the AHA tourney final. Also, they were 4-4-0 in OOC games, including two wins against HEA teams. Agreed that the Yellow Jackets stink this season, as they even got swept 5-2 and 3-0 by Bentley this past weekend in Waltham, which the Falcons rarely pull off, even on their home ice.
Also agreed that MS7 will complete his current three-year contract, at least, unless the Cats do not win another game this season and set the all-time low number of wins record.
Looking back at Boguniecki, whom with 178 NHL games played is 24th all-time for UNH alums, not to mention his 351 AHL games played, got me thinking how amazing has been UNH alum Warren Foegele’s NHL games played run, as recently this season he leapfrogged Jay Miller (437 games played) and Dave Lumley (446) into ninth place all time at 450 games now and counting.
But more importantly:
who owns the Chiefs?
brung in Michael Ontkean and three bespectacled brothers from Minnesota…old time hockey!
Dick Umile, channeling his inner Lou Gorman commenting on Willie McGee, - "Where would we put him?".
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
I'm already poised on a shaky branch I know little about (AIC), so why not let me creep a few more inches out on that branch ... with the announcement of AIC leaving AHA and going D-2, that can't be a positive motivating factor for the program. Gotta think the decision has been in the works/under consideration for a bit, and Lang may have either intentionally or subconsciously readjusted his recruiting pitch in the last cycle so as not to grossly mislead some of the guys who might have been at or near the top of his wish list? With all the questions this leads to in terms of the future of the head coach, coaching staff, and the players, the program is pretty much where Da Chiefs (invoked elsewhere in this thread) were before Reg hatched "Da Chiefs to Florida" narrative ... down and out, in a drab town ("Swingtown"), looking for motivation. Whether Coach Lang can come up with his own cunning narrative to keep AIC relevant in its final D-1 season remains to be seen, but if I were to judge him on this season, it would be lightly, and if he can rescue something out of it, huge props to him.
* Eric Bogueniecki
* Joe Dumais
* Eric Lang
* Jared DiMichel
* Michael Ayers
* Greg Moore
* Jim Montgomery
* Derek Lalonde (lol)
FWIW interesting to see Grouchy's scuttlebutt on the Ayers possibility last season. Certainly at least establishes there has been serious consideration given beyond the current HC. I still suspect the buyout option isn't as onerous on UNH as some believe it to be, especially as the parties had a chance to agree to new terms last Spring. When all is said and done, I think we're gonna find out it's not a three year contract (which seems/seemed over the top for one decent winning season) but rather three one-year contracts, renewable (or not) annually, with a 50% buyout ($150K-ish).
The "gooey cupcake center" part of the schedule is upon us after UMaine for a couple of months, we'll see where we stand at that point, and go from there ...
The same Lou Gorman who quipped “The sun will rise, the sun will set, and I’ll have lunch” when Roger Clemens left spring training camp?
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
The "too" much passing happens to be instances of trying to make highlight reel passes between the legs, drop passes and the like. That said, watch when the puck is skated across the blue line, comny and cy hold on to that puck like saviano on a penalty kill