HockeyRef
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Ugh matches the '24 season score and there's 16 mins left
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UNH 2026-27 Season Let's Go 'Cats!
- Thread starter HockeyRef
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TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
Embarrassing
Going back to last year, UNH has given up 25 goals in the last 4 games they’ve play. That’s almost 6 goals a game… who’s coaching defense on this team?!
Perhaps it would have been a good idea to play a scrimmage game to knock some of the rust off and get used to playing with new guys… best not to use an actual game as exhibition.
Merrimacks always plus us tough and with it being banner raising night for them you know they are going to come out hot. UNH must match that intensity if they are going to have a shot in that game.
This better get cleaned up in time for the home opener vs. MSU. They are certainly in the same echelon as QU, and if it’s 4-0 in the first, I presume Souza is gonna hear a certain chant pretty consistently for the next 40 minutes…
Perhaps it would have been a good idea to play a scrimmage game to knock some of the rust off and get used to playing with new guys… best not to use an actual game as exhibition.
Merrimacks always plus us tough and with it being banner raising night for them you know they are going to come out hot. UNH must match that intensity if they are going to have a shot in that game.
This better get cleaned up in time for the home opener vs. MSU. They are certainly in the same echelon as QU, and if it’s 4-0 in the first, I presume Souza is gonna hear a certain chant pretty consistently for the next 40 minutes…
HockeyRef
Well-known member
Well this isnt our first rodeo being embarrassed sadly. Seeing the looks of the players coming off the ice was tough.
umhockey91
Well-known member
It's time. 
Just an absolutely disastrous season opener...
There is a drill many teams do at the end of their warm-up period, where someone puts a puck on net and the entire team swarms the crease trying to put the rebound past the goaltender. That is what the first two periods looked like in front of Simpson, who played as well - and as helplessly - as a goalie possibly could in a .696 save-percentage outing. I actually thought he was the better of the two Wildcat goalies tonight. Kendrick was beaten on a couple of shots from distance. While the stats will likely ruin both goalies numbers deep into the season, if not entirely, I think you've got to wipe the slate clean and start over against MC with whatever you thought your goalkeeping plan was going to be this season. Tonight was NOT on those two pour souls...
I'm sure someone was charting turnovers for UNH, and they would have had themselves a very busy night. UNH defenseman were just throwing pucks into the neutral zone all night, and so many of those pucks were quickly turned around by the Bobcats for goals on the rush and at the doorstep. Give QU a lot of credit for how they played tonight, but that is THE worst defensive corp performance I remember watching in all my years as a UNH Hockey fan. Time and time again, when they did turn pucks over, they subsequently failed, en masse, to pick up ANYONE on their way back to their own goal.
So much of the excitement about this season's defensive potential revolved around the two newcomers. They were both awful in coverage and puck movement tonight. Von Richter was given a ton of responsibility playing top-four minutes and quarterbacking the top PP unit, and it was simply too much for a game one frosh. DeHaro was out of control and out of position far to often, as well. You'd expect Fitzgerald, Carr and Philbrick to be the most comfortable blueliners, and they were, but that's about as much as you can say for anyone's performance in the back...
Most of the forwards were invisible. Ring was the most consistently noticeably offensive threat, Zebeski popped with both goal and consistent effort, Svartstrom turned a few loose pucks into quick shots on goal, and Newcombe's size was a factor on the wall. That's about it for the forwards. So much is on the player's for their lack of positional discipline and poor performance, but I don't think the coaches' did them any favors with the line combinations...
There is a drill many teams do at the end of their warm-up period, where someone puts a puck on net and the entire team swarms the crease trying to put the rebound past the goaltender. That is what the first two periods looked like in front of Simpson, who played as well - and as helplessly - as a goalie possibly could in a .696 save-percentage outing. I actually thought he was the better of the two Wildcat goalies tonight. Kendrick was beaten on a couple of shots from distance. While the stats will likely ruin both goalies numbers deep into the season, if not entirely, I think you've got to wipe the slate clean and start over against MC with whatever you thought your goalkeeping plan was going to be this season. Tonight was NOT on those two pour souls...
I'm sure someone was charting turnovers for UNH, and they would have had themselves a very busy night. UNH defenseman were just throwing pucks into the neutral zone all night, and so many of those pucks were quickly turned around by the Bobcats for goals on the rush and at the doorstep. Give QU a lot of credit for how they played tonight, but that is THE worst defensive corp performance I remember watching in all my years as a UNH Hockey fan. Time and time again, when they did turn pucks over, they subsequently failed, en masse, to pick up ANYONE on their way back to their own goal.
So much of the excitement about this season's defensive potential revolved around the two newcomers. They were both awful in coverage and puck movement tonight. Von Richter was given a ton of responsibility playing top-four minutes and quarterbacking the top PP unit, and it was simply too much for a game one frosh. DeHaro was out of control and out of position far to often, as well. You'd expect Fitzgerald, Carr and Philbrick to be the most comfortable blueliners, and they were, but that's about as much as you can say for anyone's performance in the back...
Most of the forwards were invisible. Ring was the most consistently noticeably offensive threat, Zebeski popped with both goal and consistent effort, Svartstrom turned a few loose pucks into quick shots on goal, and Newcombe's size was a factor on the wall. That's about it for the forwards. So much is on the player's for their lack of positional discipline and poor performance, but I don't think the coaches' did them any favors with the line combinations...