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UNH Hockey 2023 Off Season Thread Turn and Face the Strange

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NCAA watcher said:
We'll see if their loyalty is to the Coaching staff or the new coach in April 2024. They'll be the new coach's first recruiting challenge, sort of like Carvel and Makar.
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Love the optimism for “the new coach in April 2024.” But, I think that the chances of a coaching change happening that soon are unlikely. Gotta give MS7 a few more years to prove that planned enhanced amenities help with recruiting and retention, if not coaching.

Edit: why cannot we hire a great alum player as a head coach like Colgate just did? Oh …….. wait ……..
 
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Snively65 said:
Love the optimism for “the new coach in April 2024.” But, I think that the chances of a coaching change happening that soon are unlikely. Gotta give MS7 a few more years to prove that planned enhanced amenities help with recruiting and retention, if not coaching.

Edit: why cannot we hire a great alum player as a head coach like Colgate just did? Oh …….. wait ……..
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You could always go after Tim Whitehead. Knows the league, well respected. Decent recruiter ?
 
Snively65 said:
Love the optimism for “the new coach in April 2024.” But, I think that the chances of a coaching change happening that soon are unlikely.
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Not sure why you would question my accuracy based on my track record of predications :smiley:;)

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03-31-2022, 08:53 AM
Another data point on coaching contracts
At RPI, Smith is in his fifth year at the school. ...
For context, I surmise that Souza received a contractual commitment to become head coach when he joined in 2015, so the question about his contract status is the length -- 3 plus 3? 3 plus 4? 3 plus 5? (think about that worst case scenario, an unproven kid four years into a mediocre career, getting a 8 year commitment!!!)

If 3 plus 4, it is up now. Even in the "worst case scenario of 3 plus 5", it expires after next year.

If it was 3 plus 3, and expired in 2021, there is no way a sane AD would have given more than a 2 year extension based on the meager results, so would still be up in 2023, or, if only a one year extension, would be up this summer. (I am assuming Marty was either semi-sane or at least neutered against a longer extension)

The TLDR version: the new AD will come in after this hiring season, so in any event will not make a decision on Souza until March 2023 when we are eliminated from the HE play-in game. At that point he will have a clean slate for a change.
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NCAA watcher 11-05-2022, 11:50 AM
If AD Rich has not remedied the men's and women's program after March I will be first in line with the pitchforks. ...I see no reason for Rich to stay "loyal" to coaches she never knew before June, and for programs she was hired to upgrade. It's the easiest fix in the world, made easier, I would guess, by the fact that Souza's contract must be up for renewal. (I say that based on him being here for 8 years. He was not given a 9 year deal to come here, and even if they threw a 4 year deal or even a 5 year deal at him when hired in 2018, that's up. The only conceivable way he could be under contract in 2023-24 is if his contract came up in 2022, and lame-duck Marty gave him a parting 2 year deal. Would Dean even allow that? There's no way the deal came up in 2021 and Souza negotiated a 3 year extension.
So, order 1 would be negotiating a deal, and I can't see how Mikey would approach that with someone he doesn't know. I'd be surprised if he's not been told outright he's coaching for his job.
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NCAA watcher 11-29-2022, 01:26 PM
A group of candidates will leak in late March, and by April 15th, in time for the Naples Coaches convention, UNH will name a new HC. His press conference will not be "golly gee, what a great family environment, that you Dick." The HC will acknowledge the faults, speak about resurrecting the program to its position, and about changing the culture. Five players will hit the portal, and 2 may find places within D1 teams.
UNH will still finish 9 or 10th in 2023-24, and the biggest challenge will be seeing growth among the current young team players. You hope that the 2024 recruits represent an upgrade, much like Maine's Nadeau brothers and Hopkins, who were not brought in the first couple of years (and so Maine is still struggling) but will help raise the talent level. The hope is 7th/8th place in 2024-25, but with momentum so the open recruits start to believe in the narrative that UNH is on the way up, and cast their lot with the new HC, signaling for other recruits.
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acs64 said:
Alfie? ...hmmm..Alfie somebody........ What ta heck was this guys last name? Cant think of it. Dam Alzheimers of mine.....chit I know the guy from somewhere. WAIT , WAIT...just came to me..... Michaud!!! Alfie Michaud !! Goaltender I think for UMaine back in 99 was it? Won some important game I believe. ;>)
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I do not think that I have told this story on these threads. I was not able to attend the FF in Anaheim, so a friend invited me over to watch the NC game on her TV. She had two young cats that she was trying to teach how to play hockey at the time, and during the first intermission said “watch this” as she flicked a small plastic puck onto the linoleum kitchen floor. The puck wound up in a corner with lower cabinets and after the cats skidded into the corner with both batting at the puck with their little paws for several seconds, the puck came flying out into the middle of the floor with both cats in quick pursuit. Just like in real hockey at the Whitt. The cats were napping, as cats are prone to do, when MS7 scored his goal, and as I jumped up and yelled, one cat shot straight up over two feet in the air while the other snoozed right through the commotion. That first cat’s response was my favorite memory of that game. No moral to this story.
 
Snively65 said:
I do not think that I have told this story on these threads. I was not able to attend the FF in Anaheim, so a friend invited me over to watch the NC game on her TV. She had two young cats that she was trying to teach how to play hockey at the time, and during the first intermission said “watch this” as she flicked a small plastic puck onto the linoleum kitchen floor. The puck wound up in a corner with lower cabinets and after the cats skidded into the corner with both batting at the puck with their little paws for several seconds, the puck came flying out into the middle of the floor with both cats in quick pursuit. Just like in real hockey at the Whitt. The cats were napping, as cats are prone to do, when MS7 scored his goal, and as I jumped up and yelled, one cat shot straight up over two feet in the air while the other snoozed right through the commotion. That first cat’s response was my favorite memory of that game. No moral to this story.
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I spent the better part of the first period of that game at someone's retirement party. A long time co-worker who I absolutely had to honor for all his contribution to the company over the years. You can bet I was a just a little antsy waiting for it to end so I could get home and watch.
 
Snively65 said:
UNH visits SHU on December 30th, which should help our SOS (strength of schedule) for PWR.
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Gonna have to check that out esp with the new arena..closer than Scenectady...cute story about the cats btw...

....will Bruce Cassidy get his ring? Knights in 5...Ps reading about him discovered his nickname is Butch...love it!
 
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HockeyRef said:
....will Bruce Cassidy get his ring? Knights in 5...Ps reading about him discovered his nickname is Butch...love it!
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Leaving lots of folks in the B's front office with egg on their faces ... but hey, look at the bright side, at least Jake DeBrusk and Brandon Carlo are happy not to get yelled at by big meanie Butch Cassidy every day in practice. There are just some things that are more important than wins and losses, after all ...

Revisiting Bruins' Firing of Bruce Cassidy One Year Later (thehockeywriters.com)
 
Scott said:
Just hearing about it too.

I will bet Holy Cross will make a pitch to join Hockey East...or Hockey East may make a pitch to them.
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That wouldn't surprise me either and would be a good fit. Strangely my post disappeared - I was editing it though, maybe I hit delete - oops!
 
After the Whistle said:
Scott do you think we would give them a waiver on there arena size. It is nice but very small -1500+/-?
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The Cross’s Hart is listed at 1400 capacity, which is 1150 seats less than Mac’s Lawlor.

Bentley’s arena seats 1917 with standing room at counters around the entire mezzanine adding another 200.

With Robert Morris returning to the AHA in 2023-24, the AHA scheduling will become complicated again like HEA scheduling with 11 teams.

There will be six women’s teams in the CHA in 2023/24, with five of the schools already having men’s teams in Div 1: Penn State (BiG), Mercyhurst, RIT, and Robert Morris (AHA), and Lindenwood (Independent) leaving Syracuse with its perennial discussion for adding Div 1 hockey.
 
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