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UNH Hockey 2023 Off Season Thread Turn and Face the Strange

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FYI. Tucker is back and on Twitter. Check out Ep. 1 @TuckerCarlson. Obligatory hockey content….It appears he is broadcasting from his bunker in Maine
 
Woo hoo!! Princeton coming to the Whitt for two on 5-6 January 2024! We have never lost to Princeton, beating the Tigers 3-2 in consolation games at Florida Classic on 29 December 2013 and at Friendship Tournament in Belfast on 30 November 2019, 6-3 at the Whitt on 16 December 2000, and 11-2 at some neutral site on 9 January 1976. Umile must be wondering why we could not schedule the Tigers for two at the Whitt when he was going for the NRN. And, yet, with the Tigers PWR at 44 last season, these two games should also help our SOS this coming season, along with SHU PWR at 42 last season (reminder: UNH PWR was 50 last season). A blockbuster OOC schedule in the making here!
 
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Snively65 said:
Woo hoo!! Princeton coming to the Whitt for two on 5-6 January 2024! We have never lost to Princeton, beating the Tigers 3-2 in consolation games at Florida Classic on 29 December 2013 and at Friendship Tournament in Belfast on 30 November 2019, 6-3 at the Whitt on 16 December 2000, and 11-2 at some neutral site on 9 January 1976. Umile must be wondering why we could not schedule the Tigers for two at the Whitt when he was going for the NRN. And, yet, with the Tigers PWR at 44 last season, these two games should also help our SOS this coming season, along with SHU PWR at 42 last season (reminder: UNH PWR was 50 last season). A blockbuster OOC schedule in the making here!
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What, no Stonehill? I'll be verrryyyy disappointed if we don't play Stonehill....When I started following the 'Cats in 2013 they were playing the likes of Michigan...Speaking of the Friendship 4 in Belfast (which for the first time this season it will be a women's tournament) Kohei Sato has signed with the Belfast Giants.
 
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Received an email today from someone at UNH ticketing with their season ticket pitch and an offer to book a time to meet with them to discuss; presumably went out to all single game ticket purchasers.

On the one hand, it's good to see them casting the net out there, this is the first time I've gotten an email from anyone other than the standard "UNH Athletics" email address trying to sell tickets, and the chance to discuss one on one with a rep provides a great opportunity to collect feedback.
On the other hand, I don't have the heart to waste the poor person's time making them prepare for a meeting just to hear that I won't be back until Souza is gone.
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A few days after ignoring the email I got a cold call, didn't recognize the number so didn't pick up. A voicemail was left trying to arrange a callback to discuss tickets for next season.

Conjecture on my part, but if they're pushing this aggressively in late May/early June I can't imagine renewals have gone well.
 
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A few days after ignoring the email I got a cold call, didn't recognize the number so didn't pick up. A voicemail was left trying to arrange a callback to discuss tickets for next season.

Conjecture on my part, but if they're pushing this aggressively in late May/early June I can't imagine renewals have gone well.
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Would love to see those numbers, esp of 'non renewals' stats over the past 5 to 6 seasons...not to mention 'new' STH numbers.
 
ClOuD 9 said:
A few days after ignoring the email I got a cold call, didn't recognize the number so didn't pick up. A voicemail was left trying to arrange a callback to discuss tickets for next season.

Conjecture on my part, but if they're pushing this aggressively in late May/early June I can't imagine renewals have gone well.
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I meant to reply earlier as I have not had any emails or phone calls from UNH hockey ticketing despite having purchased lots of single-game tickets over the years. Oh, maybe those are the phone numbers from all over Cow Hampsha that I do not recognize and my service provider labels as spam? But at least they could leave me a voicemail? Desperate times call for desperate measures?
 
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What, no Stonehill? I'll be verrryyyy disappointed if we don't play Stonehill....When I started following the 'Cats in 2013 they were playing the likes of Michigan...Speaking of the Friendship 4 in Belfast (which for the first time this season it will be a women's tournament) Kohei Sato has signed with the Belfast Giants.
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Still plenty of time to make room on schedule for Stonehill, although they will not help our SOS like Princeton (PWR 41), SHU (PWR 43), and RIT (PWR 22), as Stonehill (PWR 61) was one of 10 teams ranked below us in PWR last season (of course, Stonehill played only one Div 1 game). I still say with all the AHA/CHA chatter, UNH might be well served to join AHA, as that would be our best chance for getting back into the NCAA tournament.
 
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https://twitter.com/Hanson_Brothers/status/1665895829931020289/photo/1

Now there's your obligatory hockey content!!

Now, further on to the important stuff from e.cat, from the wilds of Woodstock ME ...

https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/05/02/bryant-pond-maine-tucker-carlson-fox-news/

Gotta love how the leftist tone of the Glob seeps through that quaint portrait of Deep Red Maine, not far from Conway NH.

How will Tucker fare on his own (or with Twitter) away from Fox? I dunno, 80+ million views in less than 24 hours ...

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/s...ine|twterm^screen-name:tuckercarlson|twcon^s1
 
Hey Snives ... if it comes down to Bentley v. Holy Cross for HEA #12, I suspect we lose since HC is in the Women's door.
 
Snively65 said:
I meant to reply earlier as I have not had any emails or phone calls from UNH hockey ticketing despite having purchased lots of single-game tickets over the years. Oh, maybe those are the phone numbers from all over Cow Hampsha that I do not recognize and my service provider labels as spam? But at least they could leave me a voicemail? Desperate times call for desperate measures?
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Maybe it was just a ploy to connect my real life identity to my message board name *wink*;)
 
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Hey Snives ... if it comes down to Bentley v. Holy Cross for HEA #12, I suspect we lose since HC is in the Women's door.
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Bentley: nicer arena with 2100 capacity (vs 1400 at HC), better record against HEA teams, shorter distance to the Beantown teams, women’s club team that maybe could become a Div 1 team

Holy Cross: maybe could play home games in 14,500-seat DCU Center only a couple miles from campus (compare with Yukon playing home games far away at Hartford Civic Center), better regular season and postseason records within AHA, already has HEA women’s Div 1 team, has other Div 1 teams
 
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Well, Damn, that goes against my conventional wisdom
The result, according to Berkery, shows that general managers could be undervaluing faceoff wins and costing their teams goals, points and jobs. He’s convinced at least one team to listen to a presentation of his research in the coming weeks, which he hopes will mark another advance in how the sport uses certain metrics to analyze success.
Berkery, a native of Herndon, Va., developed his hockey project along with Johns Hopkins students Chase Seibold, Justin Nam and Max Stevens as part of the school’s sports analytics research group. They set out to test the theory that faceoffs, which occur roughly 60 times per game, are undervalued in shaping puck possession between teams and could significantly influence the outcome of games.

“Our kind of rule of thumb is that if you can win six more faceoffs per game, you can add about 15 goals in production for free to your team’s bottom line. Six more faceoffs is kind of like a middle six forward,” Berkery said. “And with that significant impact on the table, we don’t see teams using faceoffs as a market inefficiency, to the extent that our models say it exists.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...key-analytics/
 
Anyone know if the money for arena improvements, included in the proposed state budget, was part of the final version approved in Concord yesterday?
 
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Well, Damn, that goes against my conventional wisdom

The result, according to Berkery, shows that general managers could be undervaluing faceoff wins and costing their teams goals, points and jobs. He’s convinced at least one team to listen to a presentation of his research in the coming weeks, which he hopes will mark another advance in how the sport uses certain metrics to analyze success.
Berkery, a native of Herndon, Va., developed his hockey project along with Johns Hopkins students Chase Seibold, Justin Nam and Max Stevens as part of the school’s sports analytics research group. They set out to test the theory that faceoffs, which occur roughly 60 times per game, are undervalued in shaping puck possession between teams and could significantly influence the outcome of games.

“Our kind of rule of thumb is that if you can win six more faceoffs per game, you can add about 15 goals in production for free to your team’s bottom line. Six more faceoffs is kind of like a middle six forward,” Berkery said. “And with that significant impact on the table, we don’t see teams using faceoffs as a market inefficiency, to the extent that our models say it exists.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...key-analytics/
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This is what happens when you let a bunch of nerds from Johns Hopkins - a notorious lacrosse school - have some say on a real sport like hockey. Have any of you guys actually seen lacrosse recently? Go ahead and run "FOGO" into your search engine of choice. You get bonus points if you can tell me what FOGO stands for without looking it up (I only know because a close pal was a D-1 lacrosse player at West Point many years ago).

So that's the template the JH nerd squad is referencing in trying to apply this to hockey. Now apply that to hockey, and ask yourself, "Is this a better quality game for spectators - US - if we have hockey FOGO's?"

Hockey and soccer are arguably the two sports least impacted by nerds this generation. It would be nice if we could keep it that way. Baseball has only started to push back (slightly) on some stuff that killed the spectator experience in recent years. Football and hoops no longer bear any resemblance to the games I played as a kid - and no, that's not a good thing. RESIST the nerds and stats geeks as if your game depended on it - because it does. JMHO.
 
Helpful visual aid to supplement my previous post. There is "specialization", and then there is next level specialization ...
 
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