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UNH Hockey 2023-2024 Season Thread - End Of The Cellar-Dweller Era??

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Guess it was time to get this thread going!

So we have our first six games of the season all at home, all but one against pre-season ranked opponents....and the first three are against BU (#1) and defending champs Quinnipiac (#2)

Come November, two additional games with Northeastern (#19) and Providence (#18).

Would love to steal a couple of points from the early games, but realistically, we could be looking at a 1-4 record before we face Providence on Nov. 3.

Have the Hockey East schedulers deliberately set up Souza to fail in the last year of his contract???
 
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That's a brutal opening 3 games. I think if they hang with these teams and keep it close then they might not self destruct like they did last year. Hopefully we'll see players improve and a couple guys step up big time.
 
Anyone know if tickets are still available for the Quinnipiac Friday evening game? The BU and second Quinnipiac games are on NESN, which will save me driving 360 miles.
 
That's a brutal opening 3 games. I think if they hang with these teams and keep it close then they might not self destruct like they did last year. Hopefully we'll see players improve and a couple guys step up big time.

But I thought that we won our first two games on the road last season, and still self-destructed. Or, maybe those first two games were the outlier wins during the first half of the season by a poorly coached team?

EDIT: oops, I forgot that we also beat Army 3-1 and AZ State 5-4 in OT last fall, before we went on the PHENOMENAL RUN over seven weeks from the beginning of January into mid-February. Had it not been for that run, we would have set the UNH fewest wins record, for sure.
 
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But I thought that we won our first two games on the road last season, and still self-destructed. Or, maybe those first two games were the outlier wins during the first half of the season by a poorly coached team?

EDIT: oops, I forgot that we also beat Army 3-1 and AZ State 5-4 in OT last fall, before we went on the PHENOMENAL RUN over seven weeks from the beginning of January into mid-February. Had it not been for that run, we would have set the UNH fewest wins record, for sure.

We did win our 2 openers in the North country I know was there. The Clarkson game went Oat and we beat St L handily. Was a beautiful Fall weekemd up there! Funny this comes up was just thinking about that trip. We came home very hopeful...

Excited tho to see how the 'Cats handle their first few games..just glad they are back on the ice period! Thanks fir starting a new thread Scott!
 
I realize we are UNH here but did anyone catch the Arizona vs. Arizona State exhibition score or details?
ASU won 16-0
The other website I use doesn’t usually give box scores for exhibition games.
 
Maybe something important, and maybe something totally irrelevant, but this was big local news in the last 24 hours ...

Key Auto Group owner Anthony DiLorenzo is high bidder for McIntyre building in Portsmouth (yahoo.com)

DiLorenzo seems to be taking on a high profile locally in the last few years, buying his own private island in Portsmouth to settle into, then sinking $4MM into improvements at The Whitt a/k/a Key Auto Group Complex, and now extending a $9MM bid to the GSA for the long-contested 2+ acre McIntyre Building property in the heart of downtown Portsmouth.

As stated above, it could be totally irrelevant to his UNH philanthropy ... or not?? 3,000-4,000 seater for performing arts and basketball (UNH or otherwise - G League and/or WNBA)? Portsmouth/Durham tends to be more hoops-centric than other parts of the state, and a facility of that size could fill a void that exists between the 10,000+ seater in ManchVegas, and the half-the-size Portsmouth Music Hall, Johnson Theater or Rochester Opera House in a booming city that probably wants to have more to offer its upscale downtown residents?? Parking could be hundreds of spaces underneath a new ground-level facility, and the restaurants and hotels dotted all around that area could really get behind this, and other large parking facilities are either a close walk away OR a short shuttle away off Deer St.

Residents have been very contentious as to what to do with the property over the last decade-plus, so I'm sure whatever is proposed will not be unanimously accepted, and there will of course be the politically-charged permitting approval hearings, etc. We spent some time discussing the growing NH footprint of Joe Faro in the Salem NH/Merrimack Valley MA area over the summer, and now DiLorenzo seems to be rising along the Seacoast region. Interesting ...
 
Maybe something important, and maybe something totally irrelevant, but this was big local news in the last 24 hours ...

Key Auto Group owner Anthony DiLorenzo is high bidder for McIntyre building in Portsmouth (yahoo.com)

DiLorenzo seems to be taking on a high profile locally in the last few years, buying his own private island in Portsmouth to settle into, then sinking $4MM into improvements at The Whitt a/k/a Key Auto Group Complex, and now extending a $9MM bid to the GSA for the long-contested 2+ acre McIntyre Building property in the heart of downtown Portsmouth.

As stated above, it could be totally irrelevant to his UNH philanthropy ... or not?? 3,000-4,000 seater for performing arts and basketball (UNH or otherwise - G League and/or WNBA)? Portsmouth/Durham tends to be more hoops-centric than other parts of the state, and a facility of that size could fill a void that exists between the 10,000+ seater in ManchVegas, and the half-the-size Portsmouth Music Hall, Johnson Theater or Rochester Opera House in a booming city that probably wants to have more to offer its upscale downtown residents?? Parking could be hundreds of spaces underneath a new ground-level facility, and the restaurants and hotels dotted all around that area could really get behind this, and other large parking facilities are either a close walk away OR a short shuttle away off Deer St.

Residents have been very contentious as to what to do with the property over the last decade-plus, so I'm sure whatever is proposed will not be unanimously accepted, and there will of course be the politically-charged permitting approval hearings, etc. We spent some time discussing the growing NH footprint of Joe Faro in the Salem NH/Merrimack Valley MA area over the summer, and now DiLorenzo seems to be rising along the Seacoast region. Interesting ...

And no Exetergranodiorite bedrock close to the surface as in Durham.
 
Skating Mother Theresa's we aren't! :-( But I do like their tenacity and a nice goal by Cafarelli and good for Nick Ring getting one. Onto BU.
 
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3-2:UMaine 7 penalties...maybe more haven't seen a box score.

Based on box score on UNH website, looks like the difference maker was the Maine PPG earlier in the game before Maine GWG with less than 2 minutes left. I think that Maine’s Breen-2xNadeau line will be one of the best in Div 1 this season. Good to see Sardarian and Ring step up for UNH. Obviously will need Muselik to be the second coming of Ty Rone this season.
 
Question for those who watched: Would you rather play an exhibition game like this or one against a Canadian goon college like we used to see?
 
Always prefer playing the smt's vs the goon canadians...lol. Seriously this exhibition did look a lot like a regular season game as far as intensity goes. Both teams I would say got a chance to get ready for the important games coming up. Didnt think either team looked to terribly rusty out there, so as a Mainuh I think its a good warmup for the season . Outcome of the game scorewise seems inconsequential at this point, I wouldnt mind seeing it an annual thing...Bowdoin College would be about halfway between the two schools. We could call it the Cellar Bowl.
 
Question for those who watched: Would you rather play an exhibition game like this or one against a Canadian goon college like we used to see?

I always thought Umile scheduled the Canadian teams to set a tone for his guys to jump in against physical, older opposition. Not sure if it was good or bad, but hey, "Champions of December" more than anyone else, too bad we didn't get a 2nd exhibition after the break 'cuz it always seemed like they needed the physical reminder right about then.

For now ... I like the UMaine thing IF it's gonna be an HEA opponent, but what I don't like about it is that if we take a "midway point" analysis like acs64 suggests, it's always gonna be a game in Maine. I want UNH to grow the college game in New Hampshire. If they're gonna do it for the long term, half of the time that game's gotta be at PSU or NEC. Didn't they play a game at PEA in the latter stages of the pandemic, or was that cancelled? If UMaine's not up to it, why not get UVM into a series where games are played in Keene or Kimball Union, or Norwich even?

Whatever the arrangement may be now, I strongly suspect next year & beyond will be on someone else's template ...
 
I always thought Umile scheduled the Canadian teams to set a tone for his guys to jump in against physical, older opposition. Not sure if it was good or bad, but hey, "Champions of December" more than anyone else, too bad we didn't get a 2nd exhibition after the break 'cuz it always seemed like they needed the physical reminder right about then.

For now ... I like the UMaine thing IF it's gonna be an HEA opponent, but what I don't like about it is that if we take a "midway point" analysis like acs64 suggests, it's always gonna be a game in Maine. I want UNH to grow the college game in New Hampshire. If they're gonna do it for the long term, half of the time that game's gotta be at PSU or NEC. Didn't they play a game at PEA in the latter stages of the pandemic, or was that cancelled? If UMaine's not up to it, why not get UVM into a series where games are played in Keene or Kimball Union, or Norwich even?

Whatever the arrangement may be now, I strongly suspect next year & beyond will be on someone else's template ...

Perhaps make the seemingly annual matchup with in-state Dartmouth a pre-season exhibition game at the SNHU Arena, like the olden days of the Riverstone Cup? Make the game half of a double-header with a couple non-Div 1 in-state teams amongst SHNU, St Anselms, NEC, PSU, and the like in the undercard game. So not exactly the Cow Hampsha Beanpot that you have been promoting, but at least a hockey night in Manchvegas.
 
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