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UNH 2024/2025 Goldberg Edition

Snively65 said:
I do not remember TyK getting flack here, as he was my most fun player to watch on those UNH teams, and he made other players around him better with his 110 assists.

As for Mike Vecchione, he ended up playing a second year with the USHL Tri-City Storm after decommiting from UNH, supposedly because he was not happy about being asked by Umile to do so. After four good years playing for Rick Bennett at Union, he has had great success with the AHA Hershey Bears where he and Joe Snively (four years at Yale) have won two Calder (?) Cups.

I think what also made Vecchione’s decommit so hard to take was that it followed Ryan Bourque’s decision to play Canadian juniors, Cam Reid’s and Matt White’s failure to meet UNH academic admissions standards, and Joey LaLeggia’s decommit. And it had been all heading in the wrong direction for UNH since, until last season, when MS7 turned everything around with a portal transfer goaltender:).
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Oh, I do, but, it's all good. He certainly did make other players better by his playmaking, you can look at Patrick Grasso's freshman year with I think, 20 goals? Man that line of TyK, Potsy, Correale was awesome...if I have that right. Those were the (my) days haha!

Merry Christmas!
 
Snively65 said:
I do not remember TyK getting flack here, as he was my most fun player to watch on those UNH teams, and he made other players around him better with his 110 assists.

As for Mike Vecchione, he ended up playing a second year with the USHL Tri-City Storm after decommiting from UNH, supposedly because he was not happy about being asked by Umile to do so. After four good years playing for Rick Bennett at Union, he has had great success with the AHA Hershey Bears where he and Joe Snively (four years at Yale) have won two Calder (?) Cups.

I think what also made Vecchione’s decommit so hard to take was that it followed Ryan Bourque’s decision to play Canadian juniors, Cam Reid’s and Matt White’s failure to meet UNH academic admissions standards, and Joey LaLeggia’s decommit. And it had been all heading in the wrong direction for UNH since, until last season, when MS7 turned everything around with a portal transfer goaltender:).
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Your namesake did indeed win those two Calder Cups with the AHL Hershey Bears. He's actually signed with the DRW AHL farm team in Grand Rapids MI this season, and the Yalie-turned-AHL-lifer has them at or near the top of their division so far this season. Must be that magic name! :)
 
HockeyRef said:
Oh, I do, but, it's all good. He certainly did make other players better by his playmaking, you can look at Patrick Grasso's freshman year with I think, 20 goals? Man that line of TyK, Potsy, Correale was awesome...if I have that right. Those were the (my) days haha!

Merry Christmas!
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My recollection is that Grasso played third line with fellow frosh Blackburn and BvR during entire 2016/17, which marked the best career season for all three of them. The next season Grasso was hurt and played only 12 games, Blackburn was the only double digit goal scorer with 10, and BvR was sinking fast. I think that in TyK’s senior 2016/2017 season he played on the first line with juniors Salvaggio and McNicholas, whom also would see their numbers drop the next season without TyK. I look at the 2015/16 (11-20-5), 2016/17 (15-20-5, thanks to TyK), and 2017/18 (10-20-6) seasons as Umile’s Swan Song Death Spiral (to borrow a figure skating term in part), with MS7 supposedly managing the PP, especially his creative 5 on 3 PP. I recall that the less productive second line during the 2016/17 season was Vela, Nazarian, and Eiserman). Wow, those three seasons put last season in better perspective.
 
Snively65 said:
My recollection is that Grasso played third line with fellow frosh Blackburn and BvR during entire 2016/17, which marked the best career season for all three of them. The next season Grasso was hurt and played only 12 games, Blackburn was the only double digit goal scorer with 10, and BvR was sinking fast. I think that in TyK’s senior 2016/2017 season he played on the first line with juniors Salvaggio and McNicholas, whom also would see their numbers drop the next season without TyK. I look at the 2015/16 (11-20-5), 2016/17 (15-20-5, thanks to TyK), and 2017/18 (10-20-6) seasons as Umile’s Swan Song Death Spiral (to borrow a figure skating term in part), with MS7 supposedly managing the PP, especially his creative 5 on 3 PP. I recall that the less productive second line during the 2016/17 season was Vela, Nazarian, and Eiserman). Wow, those three seasons put last season in better perspective.
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Thanks for the education! No surprise I.didnt do.the research lol. Always appreciate your sleuthing!

Speaking of TyK he must be listening as I just saw an instagram vid of him talking about getting back on the ice
Not sure of his injury status..hes had a great experience overseas.

Is it me or does Ryan Conmy seem to mimic aspects of his game? Both great playmakers!
 
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I had no idea about all those high profile decommits. Wow.

Have there been any notable UNH-ers who had previously committed elsewhere? Or does that typically only go one way...
 
teez said:
I had no idea about all those high profile decommits. Wow.

Have there been any notable UNH-ers who had previously committed elsewhere? Or does that typically only go one way...
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Not necessarily in the same list, but NHL draft first-rounder Tim Stutzle is another one who got away, he just decided to go pro immediately. And he was a Souza recruit to boot.
 
Scott said:
Not necessarily in the same list, but NHL draft first-rounder Tim Stutzle is another one who got away, he just decided to go pro immediately. And he was a Souza recruit to boot.
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Watching the Flyers the other night Joel Farabee was on the ice..hes another if he hasn't been mentioned. OOPS just saw Batch had mentioned him...
 
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HockeyRef said:
Thanks for the education! No surprise I.didnt do.the research lol. Always appreciate your sleuthing!

Speaking of TyK he must be listening as I just saw an instagram vid of him talking about getting back on the ice
Not sure of his injury status..hes had a great experience overseas.

Is it me or does Ryan Conmy seem to mimic aspects of his game? Both great playmakers!
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I think that half of Grasso’s 20 goals in his first year, 2016/17, were PPGs, so he was on the ice a fair bit with TyK that season, even if they were not line-mates.

Another former UNH player whose game was a good fit in Europe was Stevie “Mr High and Wide” Moses.
 
bakchk20 said:
You hit on a few really good ones but the list of got-aways, no-shows and mismanaged recruits is long, especially under Umile after McCloskey came off the road.

For the various reasons there was Joe Masonius, Joel Farabee, Joe Cipollone, Jake Ryczek, Drew Commesso, Jordan Masters (sad story on that one), and if you believed all the scuttlebutt at the time, Johnny Gaudreau. Granted that very few were at Vecchione's level and not all had signed letters (Gaudreau certainly didn't during his "reported" pit-stop on the way to BC...if that ever happened...) But for the most part, these guys were in the UNH recruiting queue at one level or another, along with the good ones Snively noted.

If I remember correctly (and these days I don't), most believed Ryan Bourque (and dad) levered the head fake to UNH for a better deal in the Q. But I don't really know...

Disclaimer: I'm writing this of the top of my head; don't have time to do the interweb digging, so correct me if I'm wrong. And add to the list for the ones I can't remember.
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Great recall, bakchk! Newer post on BU thread notes that Commesso made his NHL debut last night as backup in Black Hawks loss, 96th Terrier to play in the NHL. Yeah, we have 50.
 
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On paper, things may not look so good for the Cats tonight. But, I am with Chuck on this one, and predict a 5-3 win for us.

data, UNH, Dartmouth

goals per game, 2.9 (26th), 3.4 (5th)
goals against game, 2.4 (t45th), 2.5 (38th)
PP%, 15.6 (t47th), 29.0 (4th)
PK%, 88.9 (8th), 81.3 (t28th)
FOW%, 47.4 (38th), 51.4 (t22nd)
pen min, 123 (48th), 90 (60th)
 
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It's interesting to listen to the youngens (sp?) on NESN before the game. Raw innocence and lack of history.
 
All 3 Big G goals largely uncontested...beat on the change and not reading the game. Best Dartmouth team I've seen in my tenure...
 
Two UNH turnovers and a backdoor tap in goal for the Big Green. Whale not at his absolute best but that was a bad period in the defensive zone for UNH…
 
Kudos to the 'Cats for coming back in this one! Odd shootout don't think Souza really wanted to.do it as a non con game (we were sitting behind the team). Still good job when it did not look good early on. Shows adjustments were made...

Yeah 'Cats! (Meanwhile Ryan Conmy has an 8 game point streak going).
 
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