UNH 2025 Offseason: Where in the World is MS7?

[acs64]

For planning, what do you get someone for their 10 year anniversary?

Mike Anthony @ManthonyHearst

How about a golden turtleneck to compliment the golden whistle ? What better way to show appreciation for a job well done? One would think the admin would see it as the proverbial finger to the rabid and vocals fans, no?

 

[HockeyRef]

For planning purposes, I see we are at UML 11/7 and at home 11/8. Guess I could look up the sched thread to see what else UNH is up to?

 

[Darius]

...a certain "Salvatore Lupoli, founder of the Sal's Pizza chain, and his wife Kathleen, together gave (Gov. Kelly) Ayotte $30,000" towards her 2028 re-election campaign.

So much for the fallacy that Lupoli isn't deeply invested in New Hampshire.

...or his own financial future lol

 

[Chuck Murray]

...or his own financial future lol

I thought that went without saying, Darius ... but absolutely yes, it's the way of the world. If there's a knock-on benefit for NH/USNH, even better.

 

[Chuck Murray]

Oh Buford, your life long quest to live off the wealth of others without ever reaching into your own pocket is astonishing and, I suppose, what you meant when you referred to it as “our way of life”. Outside Effingwoods, it’s called being a deadbeat and free loader. It’s actually disturbing that you are apparently stalking on Faro and Lupoli, but perhaps dealing with wackos is part of being wealthy.

Interestingly, Effingwoods is in the NH Top 5 wealthiest towns per Forbes. All USCHO UNH posters, plus Joe & Sal, are welcome here. You ... not so much ...

In any event, UMass is prepared to spend $400k to $600k in nil on hockey players for the ‘26-‘27 season. First rate facilities are now standard. The NIL era is upon us. BC, UMass, UConn, Providence, BU, Maine almost certainly have their guns loaded. Any ideas? Do you think Faro and Lupoli will give UNH a big payroll?

You're the guy who claims to have all the answers, so why don't you share your prediction with the rest of us? You've been wrong on everything else so far, might as well try to continue your "perfect" record.

Given the news of the last few days, I feel a lot better that said financial realities are sinking in at UNH. Whether it's JF or SL or TDL or JMS, or one of a cast of hundreds in and around the Seacoast who end up funding it, I really don't care. As long as the really big performance issue (MS7) and his newfound recruiting strategy pays off AND he and his staff can do a job worthy of retaining the new talent ... OR in a year or two from now, he fails (again), and our AD f/k/a SB gets religion and moves him out for the eventual long-term solution(s). Then we get to have an interesting discussion on who would be on the hiring committee?!?

 

[Potluck]

Goodness, Buford, you're hillbilly logic (i.e. let someone from Massachusetts save us) is rather unfortunate. The following is instructive, although well over your head. Others here will find it interesting. It helps explain New Hampshire's coming economic tsunami:

Opinion: New Hampshire’s budget crisis is self-inflicted

Todd Selig is the longtime Town Manager in Durham, where he lives with his family.

www.concordmonitor.com

 

[Chuck Murray]

Since it's offseason, I have been rummaging around the hockey world, and have been doing some catching up on the non-UNH topic of Derek Sanderson, who rose to prominence as the B's 3rd line center and penalty-killer extraordinaire back in the days of the Big Bad Bruins. Sharing today a video and literary one-two punch, starting with an extended late 1973 Sports Illustrated piece by Pat Jordan on "The Turk" in the aftermath of his short-lived WHA escapades, and then his prodigal son return to Boston, featuring here the point in his return where he had been demoted to the AHL Boston Braves, and Jordan joining him for the long bus ride from Boston to New Haven. Shades of Slapshot before Slapshot. Won't spoil the details, but I will crank out one obscure trivia question later on ...

THE VITA'S STILL DOLCE, BUT...

Alone, Derek Sanderson plays basketball on the floor of Boston Garden. Around him the gray deserted seats rise up to the maze of metal rafters. Sanderson

vault.si.com

Sandy's trip to the minors was a short but eventful stint, but even when he got back up to the big club, his inner demons were still in charge, as evidenced by a curious series of events in the following game, not too long after his recall and towards the end of his final season in Boston as a player, when he got thrown out of the game with a match penalty for assaulting a referee ... and this was just after the ref had awarded a PP to the B's for a blatant trip on a Chicago player. Even the reliable homer duo of Cusick and Pierson were aghast and perplexed by the incident. FWIW the game caps off with Orr getting thrown out for losing his sh!t on the refs for a late non-call in what was a frustrating B's loss. It's a great little time capsule into how the NHL game used to be played, with constant stoppages for offsides (two liners included - no "stretch passes" then) and pucks briefly tied up along the boards. And even in a loss, you get a clear sense on how Orr could affect the outcome of a game like no one else, before or since. It was his next-to-last full season in Boston, and one that would see a mediocre B's team take the Flyers to Game Six of the SCF in Orr's last Cup run. 122 points and a +84 on two bad knees, hard to explain, but that was Orr's greatness.

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Going back to Sanderson ... I'm not sure if he ever got suspended for the Chicago match penalty/referee attack, but the end was near regardless, as later that season in Oakland CA (home of the infamous California Golden Seals a/k/a Slobs) The Turk got into it with rookie Terry O'Reilly after practice, missed a plane back to Boston, and was given the rest of the season (and his B's career) off, being traded to the Rangers for the next season. This article captures some of the colorful comments in the aftermath (plus some gratuitous early Dead Wings coverage of front office bickering).

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/19/archives/bruins-at-ease-with-sanderson-hiding-about-pro-hockey-about-the.html

One legit question, followed by the WIS Trivia Question ...

* Can anyone determine if Sanderson was suspended for the 1/24/74 referee assault incident? If he was, I can't find it; and
* WIS Trivia - the SI article by Jordan mentions a certain Interstate 86 between Boston and New Haven. Where was it? (I had to look it up)

 

[Chuck Murray]

Goodness, Buford, you're hillbilly logic (i.e. let someone from Massachusetts save us) is rather unfortunate. The following is instructive, although well over your head. Others here will find it interesting. It helps explain New Hampshire's coming economic tsunami:

Opinion: New Hampshire’s budget crisis is self-inflicted

Todd Selig is the longtime Town Manager in Durham, where he lives with his family.

www.concordmonitor.com

More evidence that you're "from away" ... an opinion piece from the liberal town manager of a college town, placed in a liberal organ in a government town.

It's not any more "instructive" than it is "objective". But keep trying, potty. Your naiveté is charming, in an unintentional yet super hilarious way.

 

[Potluck]

More evidence that you're "from away" ... an opinion piece from the liberal town manager of a college town, placed in a liberal organ in a government town.

It's not any more "instructive" than it is "objective". But keep trying, potty. Your naiveté is charming, in an unintentional yet super hilarious way.

All you needed to write, Buford, is, “Correct, o can’t understand the essay.” Instead you choose not to read it and call dismiss the authors well reasoned and supported opinion because he’s well educated:

 

[Chuck Murray]

All you needed to write, Buford, is, “Correct, o can’t understand the essay.” Instead you choose not to read it and call dismiss the authors well reasoned and supported opinion because he’s well educated:

... or maybe I read it, have read many similar things before, and I (and many other reasoned, well-educated folks) simply disagree?