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UNH Hockey 2023 Off Season Thread Turn and Face the Strange

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NCAA watcher said:
Jake Dunlap is in the portal now.

edit: Should have read this more closely to what it was saying without saying: our 11th leading scorer (Dunlap) is also gone.
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Dunlap was actually tied for 10th with Sardarian. Thought the quote was a bit odd, but makes sense now.

To be fair I am not sure that anyone scoring 7 points should be used in the same sentence as "leading".....
 
Yeah, I, too, am sorry to see Jake Dunlap go as I thought that he played well when he finally got a chance on the first line near season’s end. Kinda hard to rack up the points when buried on the fourth line with limited ice time most of the season. Also a Cow Hampsha native.

I smile every time I see that Warren Foegele has scored another goal as he moves up the UNH alum list in NHL games played. Another UNH player buried on the fourth line for a year plus a couple games before he bolted.
 
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Hey Snively

Got another non hockey question for you. Way, way back there used to be a restaurant in the same block a couple doors down from Town & Campus. I can't for the life of me remember the name.
 
Sean Pickett said:
I posted a chart on the PC thread showing the cumulative winning percentage of every coach since WWII, so I thought I would do the same here:


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As can be seen, Coach Souza is going in the wrong direction. From my research, I've concluded that in almost every case you can determine if a coach will be good after 5 seasons. Most show improvement from their first season, usually improving to 0.500 or better after 4 or 5 seasons. And while some coaches took even longer to reach a cumulative winning percentage of 0.500 or better, they showed other signs of being a top coach in those first five seasons: Coach Sandelin had a 0.471 winning percentage after 5 seasons, but he an excellent 4th season (0.667) in which he took UMD to the Frozen Four. Coach Berenson also had a slow start, with a 0.430 winning percentage after 5 seasons, but his 4th was a winning season (0.537), the first of 25 straight. And Coach Borek appears to be doing the same, as he has had back-to-back winning seasons at Merrimack in his 4th and 5th seasons.

Sean
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Many thanks for this graphic, Sean. For the young-uns here, Horace was known as Pepper Martin, who also coached baseball, and A. Barr was known as Whoop Snively, who passed soon after what became his namesake arena was approved for construction in 1964. Whoop was also swim team coach, and lifeguard at the old outdoor pool where all us townie kids learned how to swim. If only Rube Bjorkman had stayed, as he had great success in his four years at UNH that he never really had after moving back to his homeland to be HC at Nodak. The UNH HC who fell off a cliff his last two seasons was Charlie Holt.
 
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Felger said:
Hey Snively

Got another non hockey question for you. Way, way back there used to be a restaurant in the same block a couple doors down from Town & Campus. I can't for the life of me remember the name.
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I am forgetting the name of the restaurant at the moment, but underneath in the cellar was the infamous Down Under Pub where we would meet many of the hockey players after games. I remember one postgame Down Under celebration in particular when the hero of the night was Billy “Stinky” Monroe (R.I.P.) who seemingly single-handedly killed off the final 90 seconds of a BU game-ending PP with extra player for their pulled goalie (i.e., 5 on 3) for a rare win over BU for the Cats. I do not recall ever seeing Dick Umile at the Down Under.
 
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Snively65 said:
I am forgetting the name of the restaurant at the moment, but underneath in the cellar was the infamous Down Under Pub where we would meet many of the hockey players after games. I remember one postgame Down Under celebration in particular when the hero of the night was Billy “Stinky” Monroe (R.I.P.) who seemingly single-handedly killed off the final 90 seconds of a BU game-ending PP with extra player for their pulled goalie (i.e., 5 on 3) for a rare win for the Cats. I do not recall ever seeing Dick Umile at the Down Under.
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Yes, that's the building. I remember the name of the Down Under Pub, guess it didn't serve Italian food.
 
Felger said:
Yes, that's the building. I remember the name of the Down Under Pub, guess it didn't serve Italian food.
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Spent some time at the CP....back in the days when you and your roommates would decide if there was money for beer or food..nope don't recall Italian food :-)

That has been a deli (as well as still serving alcohol) and was recently sold...
 
HockeyRef said:
Spent some time at the CP....back in the days when you and your roommates would decide if there was money for beer or food..nope don't recall Italian food :-)

That has been a deli (as well as still serving alcohol) and was recently sold...
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what is “CP”?
 
Nifty16 said:
what does is say when you are losing New Hampshire kids after 1 year?
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So now we're up to, what, four in the portal? Captain, DeVita, Messy Fessy and now Dunlap??

The Fessenden-to-Amherst thing seems quick and definitive, wonder what the backstory was there?

Hate to see Dunlap go, thought he had some real potential, shame it took the coaches so long to tap into it ...
 
Chuck Murray said:
So now we're up to, what, four in the portal? Captain, DeVita, Messy Fessy and now Dunlap??

The Fessenden-to-Amherst thing seems quick and definitive, wonder what the backstory was there?

Hate to see Dunlap go, thought he had some real potential, shame it took the coaches so long to tap into it ...
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Fessenden must have been the “player to named later” when Umile stayed put in Durham all those years ago?
 
Meanwhile Torts tapped JvR to be second up in shoot out tonight and JvR delivered with the only shot out goal to give spoiler Flyers 5-4 win over Wild.
 
HockeyRef said:
Oh...Cellar Pub..guess you guys were talking about something else!? Long day at the rink haha...
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In the 1970s the pub in the cellar of Jesse Gangwer’s building with Town and Campus clothing store and flower shop and Dunfey’s restaurant at street level on the corner of Main and Jenkins Court was named the Down Under Pub.
 
Snively65 said:
In the 1970s the pub in the cellar of Jesse Gangwer’s building with Town and Campus clothing store and flower shop and Dunfey’s restaurant at street level on the corner of Main and Jenkins Court was named the Down Under Pub.
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Dunfey’s I don’t recall. Down Under I do. Jesse also owned Tin Palace, a restaurant just down the street a bit.

Bummed about Dunlap.
 
Darius said:
Dunfey’s I don’t recall. Down Under I do. Jesse also owned Tin Palace, a restaurant just down the street a bit.

Bummed about Dunlap.
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Yes indeed on the Tin Palace, which came along a bit later after Dunfey’s closed. Jesse Gangwer was a wonderful person and family friend, lived to be about 90, passing only a couple years ago.
 
Bummed to see Fessenden go. He may have been their best player this year.

On TV it looked like the Manchester regional was poorly attended :-(
 
This happened at least three times at the regional yesterday..almost the same convo as I walked around the arena or stood in line at consessions:

Random Fan: Whats up with UNH? You guys were always in these games

HR : How much time have you got?

Or...

UNH always had great teams but never seemed to be able to win when it really counted...

HR: Sigh.

Anyway it was an interesting day/night of hockey. Met some great fans and saw alot of the UNH faithful who I'm sure wondered the same thing. Talking to a few they seem cautiously optimistic for next season.

BU looked like the best team on the ice should be a big one for the title v The Big Red.

Whoever comes to play (Denver did not) is going to win it. Hows that for a prediction? And man, Lane Hutson is one good player. Commesso looked really composed
out there; he got a little fiesty too hope he's ready for more net crashing!

Meanwhile in the portal who saw Fess going to UMass? Or Dunlap? Who's next? Hopefully we get something decent in return.

Let's go Merrimack!!
 
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