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UNH 2025 Offseason: Where in the World is MS7?
- Thread starter TheGrouchyCat
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Agree, seems like a slam dunk.
Jellsville USA
Registered User
I have to give MS7 some credit for being out in front with grabbing some high level CHL talent. I am hopeful they all have the core classes in place. I also feel as though mitigating a mass exodus to the portal was a win. I am ok with the loss of Conmy who never seemed to fit in here despite the talent. We should be 4 lines deep this season (helping prevent 3rd period let downs). My only reservation remains goaltending. If Maguire can help Whale improve behind his own net, we may have a decent rotation between Whale and Chauvette. The optimism is heating up again!!!!
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
There is no way Coach Umile is gonna take on the institution that gave him the opportunity to be be who he is. Publicly, he will always be the team player. Especially when he's the featured speaker on UNH's (lame) 100th anniversary video-to-the-world. Was it a live presentation, or recorded (w/edits?), Scott?
Although the quintessential "company man" in public, what he says privately about the situation to trusted confidantes comes across somewhat differently ...
It was a live ZOOM call with Mike Murphy as the moderator. I believe some of the questions that were asked may have been prepared, but Mike also fielded questions from fans on the ZOOM call.
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
As discussed, it's not like many on the current roster had a plethora of other options.
Let's not get too excited about retention stats
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
Exactly.
What was Dick going to say? 'Well, Mike. A blind man could see that a change needs to be made. MS7 had his opportunity and hasn't risen to the challenge. As such, I'm announcing my return to the UNH bench. I've been practicing my whistling for months!"
Sparkee
Blackbear
That would be such a Dick move…
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
It's time for the mock turtleneck to make a comeback
Well of course Umile is going to tow the University line. But blaming the needed renovations on the Whitt because they are hampering MS7's recruiting efforts right now was a bit ridiculous coming from him.
Maybe my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I don't recall Umile blaming the Olympic sheet or the lack of a decent training facilities in the Whitt impacting his recruiting, or the team's on-ice performance?
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
I didn't get to watch, but I'm curious if the enigma himself, MS7, made an appearance.
The school is grasping at straws and trying to spin a dysfunctional situation of its own making.
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2013hockeyfan
Active member
Do the CHL kids coming in all have 4 years eligibility?
2013hockeyfan
Active member
I missed the beginning and end but he did not appear during the majority of the discussion.
I personally enjoyed the roundtable but it felt more like a any-other-year type event than one celebrating the centennial season. Was particularly interesting to hear the perspectives of Weinberg-Hughes and Fisher-Bailey and their views on the history of the women's program which I'm much less familiar with. I hadn't realized how prominent that program was in the 90's. Sounds like it was the class of a burgeoning women's hockey movement nationwide.
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
If our AD fka SB didn't mandate the Head Coach's participation in this event, it tells the fans everything they need to know about the state of the program.
How can MS7 be a D1 coach in Hockey East if he has a phobia of the fans, the press and public speaking in general?
This could be tolerated if there was a sustained track record of success, a trip or two to the Garden or hell, let's dream big, a national championship, but he hasn't earned the benefit of the doubt. Right now, the school seems to be protecting him, looking the other way and shielding him from criticism or accountability from any party outside the UNH bubble.
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After the Whistle
Active member
Agree with your take on being out front on the early CHLers. Not sure how or why but it certainly appears to be a great job. Time will tell but I would imagine it could take awhile for the new guys to get their footing.
The third period let down it very obvious. I can really see it on the faces and posture. It is a
tough one since every coach wants his best players on the ice, all the time. You can see what happens as the games goes on, less and less ice for the third and especially the fourth line. To me the issue is “ice management”. Rotating lines longer into the game and balancing out ice time abit more.
Robert Balin
Active member
Yes.
I think that the big sheet worked in Umile’s favor with the smaller and speedier players that his assistants were able to recruit. And I think that the big sheet should have helped MS7 recruit those kinds of players also. UNH has never produced many future NHL players going back to the smaller sheet at Snively. I was for the Jumbotron before I was against the Jumbotron, but I was always against shrinking the rink.
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