UNH 2024/2025 Goldberg Edition

[Chuck Murray]

Great game last night. The defense was excellent. Conmy's goal was amazing. It is not a stretch to think they will go 5-2 (win tonight, one sweep over either CT/VT and a split with BU) over the next 7 games and be sitting with a decent shot at another 20 wins and top 4 in Hockey East (forever optimistic)!!

I'm right there with you, given my preseason predictions. Early season losses to Q and PC (2) don't look so bad ...

 

[Chuck Murray]

Agree!! Thought I saw Jim Torts on the ice in a news story on the team/ WMUR....if he is involved you know they are getting great coaching D wise!!!

Almost like having an extra assistant coach, and one with a great track record, too. Kudos.

 

[Chuck Murray]

Those were the days eh? Where is Darin Weeks and his sidekick (I forget his handle)?

I believe e.e. darin is working in the banking world down on the Cape, where he was just getting started back in the day. Word is that he spends his free time with one of the Cape League baseball teams in the summah. So he's just anothah one of us, living the dream. He had a few of his collars-up crew a/k/a The Chestnut Hillbillies, like Mav and SteveF (or FSteve as others might say - RIP, IIRC?) but I assume you are referring to the incomparable CHRIS!!!!, and with the downfall of the PWRR, who knows where that bad boy is hanging out these days?? Jim Rittinger was a good read back in the day, but I assume he's moved on to bigger/better, etc.

Providence and Worcester Railroad - Wikipedia

I hate to put out lists like these, only because of course it's been SO many years since the height (Heights?) of those hotly contested years, and you inadvertently leave someone out. I've kinda ebbed and flowed myself through the child-raising years, so I'm assuming some of those guys (and gals) are probably still around, but posting under different names. So be it, y'know ... and if someone has changed their online identity, it's almost like respecting their privacy not to wallow in "who now used to be who then" right? And for every Bobo or NickUNH who isn't posting with their old name(s) with us (if at all?), there's no reason to think some of the old folks with the BC or UMaine or other HEA crews aren't doing the same. I've had my suspicions, some of which I'm 99% certain of, but I'll leave it at that.

Anyway ... especially with the BC and UMaine crew, we used to do between-period get-togethers, as you know, and it was always fun getting to meet these folks who were your pseudo online "enemies" in person. In the early Internet days, before smart phones and social media took it all over, there was still an opportunity to have this huge human element to an uncomplicated message board like this one. Some day, you got to eat the bear ... and some day, the bear would eat you. And 2-3 times a year, for a few peaceful minutes, you got to see folks in person, drink some beer and realize they are hockey freaks like you, just rooting for a different jersey.

In the end, I think everyone was mature enough not to get too worked up over it, but immature enough to want to continue the online battles, at least while they were still legitimate battles. Had BC not won 3 out of 5 from 2008-2010-2012, my guess is that there might still be some gasoline to throw onto that fire ... but they won, UNH never got the big one (actually nothing worth writing about since 2003 now), and UMaine also followed us into the depths of mediocrity. Now, with UMaine BACK, and UNH at least toying with being (lower case) back, there is hope we can revisit some of these long-dormant/surpressed rivalries, although we are all personally much grayer and less likely to be wearing a school's sweater to games than back in the day. Another UNH win this afternoon/evening would add a little more fuel for the fire to get them back to Boston, where any meaningful BACK must be measured ...

 

[HockeyRef]

Not a bad first!!! Wow Conmy...points in the past 11?? I have to tell you something..normally I would keep personal stuff off the board but...

I had surgery yesterday to fix a blocked artery...when I came to the nurse in the recovery room asked me if I were a hockey fan..I said yeah why do you ask? She said "you were mumbling to yourself and we asked you what you were saying...then you said "Maine hockey sux". Oh my....

Anyway am home and watching the 'Cats (watched yesterday in the hospital as you'd expect...) Things went well but of course today feel like I've been through the wringer. Sorry Maine fans I do have the utmost respect for your team but some things just have to be said!

'Cats have come to play let's see if we can get another shut out for Da Whale!!!

 

[HockeyRef]

Spoke too soon...

 

[RossiRules]

Not a bad first!!! Wow Conmy...points in the past 11?? I have to tell you something..normally I would keep personal stuff off the board but...

I had surgery yesterday to fix a blocked artery...when I came to the nurse in the recovery room asked me if I were a hockey fan..I said yeah why do you ask? She said "you were mumbling to yourself and we asked you what you were saying...then you said "Maine hockey sux". Oh my....

Anyway am home and watching the 'Cats (watched yesterday in the hospital as you'd expect...) Things went well but of course today feel like I've been through the wringer. Sorry Maine fans I do have the utmost respect for your team but some things just have to be said!

'Cats have come to play let's see if we can get another shut out for Da Whale!!!

I've had quad bi pass in 2018. It's a month of feeling like crap and 3 before you are back to average and 6 mo. before normal. Feel better. I chucked when I read your post.

 

[d.gerry]

Not a bad first!!! Wow Conmy...points in the past 11?? I have to tell you something..normally I would keep personal stuff off the board but...

I had surgery yesterday to fix a blocked artery...when I came to the nurse in the recovery room asked me if I were a hockey fan..I said yeah why do you ask? She said "you were mumbling to yourself and we asked you what you were saying...then you said "Maine hockey sux". Oh my....

Anyway am home and watching the 'Cats (watched yesterday in the hospital as you'd expect...) Things went well but of course today feel like I've been through the wringer. Sorry Maine fans I do have the utmost respect for your team but some things just have to be said!

'Cats have come to play let's see if we can get another shut out for Da Whale!!!

Glad to hear you’re home and on the mend! ‘Cats even pulled out a weekend sweep for you!

 

[HockeyRef]

I've had quad bi pass in 2018. It's a month of feeling like crap and 3 before you are back to average and 6 mo. before normal. Feel better. I chucked when I read your post.

Wow...thats alot to deal with! Glad you made it through...I hear that's a formidable thing to go through. We hockey fans are a tough bunch! Be well!!

 

[HockeyRef]

Glad to hear you’re home and on the mend! ‘Cats even pulled out a weekend sweep for you!

Thanks! Of course I had to keep my cool in that dreadful 6 shot 3 goals 2nd but they pulled it together. Naturally I asked my doc if I could go to the Yukon game Friday which he thought I should be able to...Had tix for the game in Storrs but that's not going to happen...

Glad we found a way to get the W makes for a better ride home!

 

[Dan]

Big effort this weekend. Coming through this key stretch with flying colors so far - honestly, its only been the draws with MC/NU that they'd really want back all year; 10-4-3 is not bad at all, but 12-4-1 would look really good. Oh well.

Huge weekend with UConn before the road gets really challenging. Win the home game on Friday, then look to get greedy...

 

[Snively65]

In case UMass-Flagship and NU split their home and home series next weekend, we need to pick up at least 5 points against Yukon to climb out of the HEA cellar. Meanwhile we have climbed into a tie with Ohio State at 8th in PWR, with Maine in 7th at the moment, although with a much higher RPI. Maybe we can slip into the NCAA’s as a 4th tier without getting to the Garden? I think that would be comical as it would send BC, Maine, and/or PC to Allentown or further West as 1st tiers.

 

[Chuck Murray]

I had surgery yesterday to fix a blocked artery...when I came to the nurse in the recovery room asked me if I were a hockey fan..I said yeah why do you ask? She said "you were mumbling to yourself and we asked you what you were saying...then you said "Maine hockey sux". Oh my....

That's effing hardcore, 'Ref! If Ben Barr has someone reading us for intel, I'm sure a "get well soon" card is on its way!

It's now been two full calendar years of increasingly competitive and entertaining hockey from MS7 & Company, and it's also encouraging that a UNH team has come out of the winter break without their usual hiccup, which seemed to be close to happening yesterday. If the team can keep winning the games they should win, and stay close to even in the more challenging match-ups, they should at least match their RS finish last season, and I'm gonna stick with my predicted Top Four RS finish until proven otherwise. Liking the idea they should be coming up against a kid who was their back-up goalie the last two seasons ... no doubt they've seen him plenty enough in practice to at least have some intel on how to work on his weaknesses. Gotta win the Friday night home date, and then get something out of Saturday's trip to The Hut That Luce Built.

No premature pronouncements yet, but MS7 gets a solid A-/B+ for the first semester. Keep up the good work!

 

[Snively65]

Tonight’s broadcasters seem to think they beat us in 1980.

Weird. Here is what I found for UNH-Princeton games in the CHN archives:

1/9/1976, UNH won 11-3 in Ingalls at the Ylae Classic

12/16/2000, UNH won 6-0, but location not noted (maybe CHN got this one wrong?)

12/29/2013, UNH won 3-2 in Germain Arena, Estero, at Florida Classic

11/30/2019, UNH won 3-2 in SSE Arena, Belfast, Ireland, at Friendship Classic

1/5/2024, UNH won 3-0 at the Whitt

1/6/2024, UNH won 4-3 at the Whitt


Now for UNH-Yukon games:

UNH 7-8-0 at the Whitt, including UNH 3-1 win on 11/30/2002 when Yukon was still in Atlantic Hockey

UNH 4-7-1 in Connecticut, including four games in Storrs, rest at XL Center

So, Yukon up by four games all time, 15-11-1.

Joke about Chuck’s Luce all you want, but Luce seems to hold the advantage over Dick and MS7.

UNH needs to sweep Yukon to have any chance for 20 wins this season.

 

[e.cat]

I believe e.e. darin is working in the banking world down on the Cape, where he was just getting started back in the day. Word is that he spends his free time with one of the Cape League baseball teams in the summah. So he's just anothah one of us, living the dream. He had a few of his collars-up crew a/k/a The Chestnut Hillbillies, like Mav and SteveF (or FSteve as others might say - RIP, IIRC?) but I assume you are referring to the incomparable CHRIS!!!!, and with the downfall of the PWRR, who knows where that bad boy is hanging out these days?? Jim Rittinger was a good read back in the day, but I assume he's moved on to bigger/better, etc.

Providence and Worcester Railroad - Wikipedia

I hate to put out lists like these, only because of course it's been SO many years since the height (Heights?) of those hotly contested years, and you inadvertently leave someone out. I've kinda ebbed and flowed myself through the child-raising years, so I'm assuming some of those guys (and gals) are probably still around, but posting under different names. So be it, y'know ... and if someone has changed their online identity, it's almost like respecting their privacy not to wallow in "who now used to be who then" right? And for every Bobo or NickUNH who isn't posting with their old name(s) with us (if at all?), there's no reason to think some of the old folks with the BC or UMaine or other HEA crews aren't doing the same. I've had my suspicions, some of which I'm 99% certain of, but I'll leave it at that.

Anyway ... especially with the BC and UMaine crew, we used to do between-period get-togethers, as you know, and it was always fun getting to meet these folks who were your pseudo online "enemies" in person. In the early Internet days, before smart phones and social media took it all over, there was still an opportunity to have this huge human element to an uncomplicated message board like this one. Some day, you got to eat the bear ... and some day, the bear would eat you. And 2-3 times a year, for a few peaceful minutes, you got to see folks in person, drink some beer and realize they are hockey freaks like you, just rooting for a different jersey.

In the end, I think everyone was mature enough not to get too worked up over it, but immature enough to want to continue the online battles, at least while they were still legitimate battles. Had BC not won 3 out of 5 from 2008-2010-2012, my guess is that there might still be some gasoline to throw onto that fire ... but they won, UNH never got the big one (actually nothing worth writing about since 2003 now), and UMaine also followed us into the depths of mediocrity. Now, with UMaine BACK, and UNH at least toying with being (lower case) back, there is hope we can revisit some of these long-dormant/surpressed rivalries, although we are all personally much grayer and less likely to be wearing a school's sweater to games than back in the day. Another UNH win this afternoon/evening would add a little more fuel for the fire to get them back to Boston, where any meaningful BACK must be measured ...

Yeah. It was Chris I was misremembering. Haha. Good times.

Feeling a bit optimistic on many fronts in the New Year (despite the tragic events in Nahlins) including the Cats.

 

[e.cat]

Big effort this weekend. Coming through this key stretch with flying colors so far - honestly, its only been the draws with MC/NU that they'd really want back all year; 10-4-3 is not bad at all, but 12-4-1 would look really good. Oh well.

Huge weekend with UConn before the road gets really challenging. Win the home game on Friday, then look to get greedy...

Agree big effort. I thought Princeton played hard and left it on the ice. UNHs skill players > Princetons.

 

[e.cat]

Not a bad first!!! Wow Conmy...points in the past 11?? I have to tell you something..normally I would keep personal stuff off the board but...

I had surgery yesterday to fix a blocked artery...when I came to the nurse in the recovery room asked me if I were a hockey fan..I said yeah why do you ask? She said "you were mumbling to yourself and we asked you what you were saying...then you said "Maine hockey sux". Oh my....

Anyway am home and watching the 'Cats (watched yesterday in the hospital as you'd expect...) Things went well but of course today feel like I've been through the wringer. Sorry Maine fans I do have the utmost respect for your team but some things just have to be said!

'Cats have come to play let's see if we can get another shut out for Da Whale!!!

OMG Ref. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

 

[HockeyRef]

OMG Ref. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Thanks e.cat...here's hoping these words don't come back to bite me too hard!

 

[Sparkee]

Not a bad first!!! Wow Conmy...points in the past 11?? I have to tell you something..normally I would keep personal stuff off the board but...

I had surgery yesterday to fix a blocked artery...when I came to the nurse in the recovery room asked me if I were a hockey fan..I said yeah why do you ask? She said "you were mumbling to yourself and we asked you what you were saying...then you said "Maine hockey sux". Oh my....

Anyway am home and watching the 'Cats (watched yesterday in the hospital as you'd expect...) Things went well but of course today feel like I've been through the wringer. Sorry Maine fans I do have the utmost respect for your team but some things just have to be said!

'Cats have come to play let's see if we can get another shut out for Da Whale!!!

Get well, HR

No need to apologize, no cost to us… Maine hockey lives there rent free.

 

[e.cat]

Jerod(not Gerard) Mayo out after one season. Let that sink in!

 

[Snively65]

Jerod(not Gerard) Mayo out after one season. Let that sink in!

Hard to believe but probably less qualified to coach than MS7?