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UNH Commits & Recruiting: 2019 and Beyond

Re: UNH Commits & Recruiting: 2019 and Beyond

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JedBaliotti?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JedBaliotti</a> (2/7/02) <a href="https://twitter.com/JBaliotti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBaliotti</a> junior goalie for <a href="https://twitter.com/BerkshireBVH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BerkshireBVH</a> (25 gms 2.06, .930) commits to <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHMHOCKEY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNHMHOCKEY</a>. 6'3" 185 lbs, left glove, New Canaan, CT <a href="https://twitter.com/_Neutral_Zone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@_Neutral_Zone</a> (2019 NE Select17 Camp): "takes away shooting angles..quiet in his own crease.. just stays true to his angles".</p>— Mike Lowry (@UNHHockeyBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHHockeyBlog/status/1245454074725699585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Re: UNH Commits & Recruiting: 2019 and Beyond

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNHCommit?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UNHCommit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JedBaliotti?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JedBaliotti</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JBaliotti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JBaliotti</a> is the only New England Prep goalie on <a href="https://twitter.com/_Neutral_Zone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@_Neutral_Zone</a>'s 2020 NHL Draft Watch List <a href="https://twitter.com/nhl_nz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nhl_nz</a> Ranked #279 "Quick Laterally, but stays in the paint. He made me write WOW every game I saw." <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHMHOCKEY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNHMHOCKEY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BerkshireBVH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BerkshireBVH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/StopItGoalies?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StopItGoalies</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NJ_Avalanche?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NJ_Avalanche</a></p>— Mike Lowry (@UNHHockeyBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHHockeyBlog/status/1245467271075635200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Re: UNH Commits & Recruiting: 2019 and Beyond

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNHCommit?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UNHCommit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidSacco?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DavidSacco</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dsacco20?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dsacco20</a> will play for <a href="https://twitter.com/BCHLSmokeEaters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BCHLSmokeEaters</a> next season. <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHMHOCKEY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNHMHOCKEY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LAHOCKEYISL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LAHOCKEYISL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SJP_Hockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SJP_Hockey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/capecodwhalers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@capecodwhalers</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/vjwhockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@vjwhockey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/_Neutral_Zone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@_Neutral_Zone</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nhl_nz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nhl_nz</a> <a href="https://t.co/YiwWdYxDJO">https://t.co/YiwWdYxDJO</a></p>— Mike Lowry (@UNHHockeyBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHHockeyBlog/status/1245794503266533376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
NCAA watcher said:
The ability to change one's philosophy is the greatest skill a coach can have.


Ryan Hardy @ryanphardy
Buckle up. Hot take on defense & the connotations associated w/it. We reward “defense” too much in our sport & convince players that reliability, conformity, etc., is > than skill. Skill (talent w/substance) is ��. Obsession with defense is for those lacking skill or creativity. https://twitter.com/W1ldH0ckeyGuy/status/1238912750962827264 …

“I think our sport generally is very conservative. People don’t want to get embarrassed. I think when you when you stay kind of in the middle, you don’t really put yourself in the position to get embarrassed and you can control the most things. I think teaching defense is much easier than teaching offense and allowing for creativity. I think it’s hard at times from a coaching perspective to give up control, to cede control to the players. But I think that when you get the right nucleus of players and you have the right environment, the players are playing the game.

“Like I watched this morning, I was watching from a couple of years ago ‘Stroke of Genius,’ the Nadal-Federer documentary. It kind of was rooted around their match in 2008 at Wimbledon. I just found it so fascinating about how a tennis coach can’t communicate with you in the middle of the match, so you have to problem-solve and you have to work things out. And as I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, like, wow, I wonder if we ever played a regular game in the USHL and just didn’t have our coaches go on the bench, what the kids would do? Could they figure it out?

“You always hear like, I don’t know what the cliché is, but about a good team is when everyone has bought into what the coach is saying from a cultural perspective and then like a great team is when the players themselves actually drive the culture. I think that even in the style of play, when the players, I think of them as artists, when you put a bunch of artists together and let them create, and, yeah, you have to put in some framework and some structure and there has to be this kind of give and take and this collaboration, but what could it be if you allow these people who are the best in the world at what they do the freedom to express themselves and show the true genius that they have, like what could that be? Are we putting ourselves in a box by virtue of just doing it this way that we’ve always kind of done it, you know? And, yeah, like there’s some risk that comes with what I’m talking about. But maybe if we allow ourselves to open our mind to what the possibilities are, maybe we’d be shocked at what we could uncover or learn a thing.”
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Made me think of Herb Brooks in Miracle.
 
Re: UNH Commits & Recruiting: 2019 and Beyond

NCAA watcher said:
The ability to change one's philosophy is the greatest skill a coach can have.


Ryan Hardy @ryanphardy
Buckle up. Hot take on defense & the connotations associated w/it. We reward “defense” too much in our sport & convince players that reliability, conformity, etc., is > than skill. Skill (talent w/substance) is ��. Obsession with defense is for those lacking skill or creativity. https://twitter.com/W1ldH0ckeyGuy/status/1238912750962827264 …

“I think our sport generally is very conservative. People don’t want to get embarrassed. I think when you when you stay kind of in the middle, you don’t really put yourself in the position to get embarrassed and you can control the most things. I think teaching defense is much easier than teaching offense and allowing for creativity. I think it’s hard at times from a coaching perspective to give up control, to cede control to the players. But I think that when you get the right nucleus of players and you have the right environment, the players are playing the game.

“Like I watched this morning, I was watching from a couple of years ago ‘Stroke of Genius,’ the Nadal-Federer documentary. It kind of was rooted around their match in 2008 at Wimbledon. I just found it so fascinating about how a tennis coach can’t communicate with you in the middle of the match, so you have to problem-solve and you have to work things out. And as I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, like, wow, I wonder if we ever played a regular game in the USHL and just didn’t have our coaches go on the bench, what the kids would do? Could they figure it out?

“You always hear like, I don’t know what the cliché is, but about a good team is when everyone has bought into what the coach is saying from a cultural perspective and then like a great team is when the players themselves actually drive the culture. I think that even in the style of play, when the players, I think of them as artists, when you put a bunch of artists together and let them create, and, yeah, you have to put in some framework and some structure and there has to be this kind of give and take and this collaboration, but what could it be if you allow these people who are the best in the world at what they do the freedom to express themselves and show the true genius that they have, like what could that be? Are we putting ourselves in a box by virtue of just doing it this way that we’ve always kind of done it, you know? And, yeah, like there’s some risk that comes with what I’m talking about. But maybe if we allow ourselves to open our mind to what the possibilities are, maybe we’d be shocked at what we could uncover or learn a thing.”
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I truly believe many coaches' fears of failure/embarrassment are their own biggest obstacles.
 
NCAA watcher said:
The ability to change one's philosophy is the greatest skill a coach can have.


Ryan Hardy @ryanphardy
Buckle up. Hot take on defense & the connotations associated w/it. We reward “defense” too much in our sport & convince players that reliability, conformity, etc., is > than skill. Skill (talent w/substance) is ��. Obsession with defense is for those lacking skill or creativity. https://twitter.com/W1ldH0ckeyGuy/status/1238912750962827264 …

“I think our sport generally is very conservative. People don’t want to get embarrassed. I think when you when you stay kind of in the middle, you don’t really put yourself in the position to get embarrassed and you can control the most things. I think teaching defense is much easier than teaching offense and allowing for creativity. I think it’s hard at times from a coaching perspective to give up control, to cede control to the players. But I think that when you get the right nucleus of players and you have the right environment, the players are playing the game.

“Like I watched this morning, I was watching from a couple of years ago ‘Stroke of Genius,’ the Nadal-Federer documentary. It kind of was rooted around their match in 2008 at Wimbledon. I just found it so fascinating about how a tennis coach can’t communicate with you in the middle of the match, so you have to problem-solve and you have to work things out. And as I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, like, wow, I wonder if we ever played a regular game in the USHL and just didn’t have our coaches go on the bench, what the kids would do? Could they figure it out?

“You always hear like, I don’t know what the cliché is, but about a good team is when everyone has bought into what the coach is saying from a cultural perspective and then like a great team is when the players themselves actually drive the culture. I think that even in the style of play, when the players, I think of them as artists, when you put a bunch of artists together and let them create, and, yeah, you have to put in some framework and some structure and there has to be this kind of give and take and this collaboration, but what could it be if you allow these people who are the best in the world at what they do the freedom to express themselves and show the true genius that they have, like what could that be? Are we putting ourselves in a box by virtue of just doing it this way that we’ve always kind of done it, you know? And, yeah, like there’s some risk that comes with what I’m talking about. But maybe if we allow ourselves to open our mind to what the possibilities are, maybe we’d be shocked at what we could uncover or learn a thing.”
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Made me think how much we will miss Max Gildon, whenever we play again.
 
Re: UNH Commits & Recruiting: 2019 and Beyond

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just posted: "UNH Commit Cam Gendron: A Long Forward With Net Vision And Touch" Includes interview, video highlights, scouting reports, stats. <a href="https://twitter.com/CamGendron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CamGendron</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHMHOCKEY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNHMHOCKEY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NAHLTitans?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NAHLTitans</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hockey_winch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hockey_winch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EMassSensHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EMassSensHockey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CCRaider_BHKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CCRaider_BHKY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/_Neutral_Zone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@_Neutral_Zone</a> <a href="https://t.co/BsfubX3j5l">https://t.co/BsfubX3j5l</a></p>— Mike Lowry (@UNHHockeyBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHHockeyBlog/status/1246166826645626886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Re: UNH Commits & Recruiting: 2019 and Beyond

Snively65 said:
Made me think how much we will miss Max Gildon, whenever we play again.
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He'll be missed, for sure. Talented kid. But this was a 9th place team in Hockey East this season.

And Gildon was recently selected as a Third Team (as in 3rd pairing) defenseman on the All-HE team:

https://hockeyeastonline.com/men/articles/2020/03/hockey-east-names-2019-20-all-star-teams.php

I don't remember Max rising to the occasion when the team needed him most down the stretch.

So I don't expect his absence - as opposed to the absence of more players like him - to be a big deal.

Very good D-1 player? No doubt, absolutely. I still think he has the tools to make it to The Show.

If UNH had Gildon back in '99 or in '03, he very well could have made the difference. His skills are conducive to the way those teams played, and those teams really could have used the added dynamic back-end play from a kid like Max. And it's hardly Gildon's fault that MS7 wasn't able to surround him with enough high-level talent to bring the absolute best out of him.

I think UNH will be OK without Gildon next season. But they need more "Gildons" - plural - make no mistake. In retrospect, UNH and Gildon seemed to be an odd match. His game seemed to match more with Northeastern's style of play, and too many of his UNH teammates seemed to be a stride or two too slow for his game. It will be interesting to see how Gildon fares in the AHL, when he's finally surrounded by like-kind talent. It can go either way for him - with the right mindset snd coaching, he might be another Brett Pesce … without those, be might be the next Blake Kessel. Time will tell.

But he gave UNH three seasons, at a time where there was a scarcity of truly big game excitement to lure him to stay longer, so (not that matters) he leaves UNH in my good graces. :)
 
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Thing is...Gildon had many skills that his teammates, esp on the breakout, couldn't always work with. UNH has, since I've been following at least, struggled with the breakout. He could just skate it out period. I'm thinking that's going to be a huge loss. Now, I think we do have some decent dmen like Maass, Ericksonn, who have shown they too can do this, but, it's going to be an adjustment. Obviously Fla felt he was ready, so that's that. Good luck Max...thanks for giving it 3 years.
 
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HockeyRef said:
Thing is...Gildon had many skills that his teammates, esp on the breakout, couldn't always work with. UNH has, since I've been following at least, struggled with the breakout. He could just skate it out period. I'm thinking that's going to be a huge loss. Now, I think we do have some decent dmen like Maass, Ericksonn, who have shown they too can do this, but, it's going to be an adjustment. Obviously Fla felt he was ready, so that's that. Good luck Max...thanks for giving it 3 years.
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I'm with you on this one. Other players skated with increased confidence knowing he was back there.
 
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Chuck Murray said:
He'll be missed, for sure. Talented kid. But this was a 9th place team in Hockey East this season.

And Gildon was recently selected as a Third Team (as in 3rd pairing) defenseman on the All-HE team:

https://hockeyeastonline.com/men/articles/2020/03/hockey-east-names-2019-20-all-star-teams.php

I don't remember Max rising to the occasion when the team needed him most down the stretch.

So I don't expect his absence - as opposed to the absence of more players like him - to be a big deal.

Very good D-1 player? No doubt, absolutely. I still think he has the tools to make it to The Show.

If UNH had Gildon back in '99 or in '03, he very well could have made the difference. His skills are conducive to the way those teams played, and those teams really could have used the added dynamic back-end play from a kid like Max. And it's hardly Gildon's fault that MS7 wasn't able to surround him with enough high-level talent to bring the absolute best out of him.

I think UNH will be OK without Gildon next season. But they need more "Gildons" - plural - make no mistake. In retrospect, UNH and Gildon seemed to be an odd match. His game seemed to match more with Northeastern's style of play, and too many of his UNH teammates seemed to be a stride or two too slow for his game. It will be interesting to see how Gildon fares in the AHL, when he's finally surrounded by like-kind talent. It can go either way for him - with the right mindset snd coaching, he might be another Brett Pesce … without those, be might be the next Blake Kessel. Time will tell.

But he gave UNH three seasons, at a time where there was a scarcity of truly big game excitement to lure him to stay longer, so (not that matters) he leaves UNH in my good graces. :)
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I was taken aback a bit with the Third Team selection too! Wish him well in F LA!
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNHCommits?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UNHCommits</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/NHLCentralScout?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NHLCentralScout</a> 2020 NHL Draft Final Rankings, North American Skaters: #83 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LukeReid?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LukeReid</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Reid_luke4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reid_luke4</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ChicagoSteel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChicagoSteel</a>). #111 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CarsenRichels?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CarsenRichels</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/cRichels?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cRichels</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/BHSBengalHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BHSBengalHockey</a>). #141 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidSacco?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DavidSacco</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dsacco20?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dsacco20</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/LAHOCKEYISL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LAHOCKEYISL</a>). <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHMHOCKEY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNHMHOCKEY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nhl_nz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nhl_nz</a> <a href="https://t.co/L4GlmImfhs">https://t.co/L4GlmImfhs</a></p>— Mike Lowry (@UNHHockeyBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHHockeyBlog/status/1247948698182725637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Very nice Mike. Looks like they are basically the same as earlier with Carson perhaps moving down (really up) a few slots.
 
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Just as a quick PSA to those who were participating in the COVID-19 thread … it was apparently going so badly for the other side that they pulled it over to the Café. Weak move (to say the least), but I'm figuring that I'll have way more time to do other more productive things. My apologies for cluttering this thread, just figured I'd save some of you a few minutes of confusion Thursday morning. :)
 
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Chuck Murray said:
Just as a quick PSA to those who were participating in the COVID-19 thread … it was apparently going so badly for the other side that they pulled it over to the Café. Weak move (to say the least), but I'm figuring that I'll have way more time to do other more productive things. My apologies for cluttering this thread, just figured I'd save some of you a few minutes of confusion Thursday morning. :)
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I saw that. There had been suggestions before that it be moved. My suspicion is that the name calling and personal attacks pushed it to the Café. It was fun for a while, filled the playoff posting void, was a microcosm of America and I'm done with it. More time to haunt the BU threads and get back to Ozark.
 
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Fun following UVM thread, too, as apparently Sneddon did not get to pick his successor.
 
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