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UNH- How Far West Do We Go?

Hockey East fared well last night going 3-1 and pushing UNH to 19 NPI. Take care of business this weekend and the boys are on track for a fun second half. Hoping we have everyone back tonight. Go Cats!!
 
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norbert said:
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This numerical sequence appears backwards to me, but I am probably missing something.

At the moment, HEA only has one team in the NCAA’s, so if the regular season were to end right now and Yukon were to win the HEA tourney at the Garden, and Bentley were to win the Atlantic Hockey tourney again, the Falcons would knock BC out rather than face them in the NCAA’s like last March, which I think would be more than worth it. Ha, ha, ha! Good thing that UNH faced Bentley when they did as there is no way that the Cats would beat the Falcons now.
 
Hi all,

Long time lurker on the thread, but Ive been following UNH hockey for over 25 years. I have fond memories of the late 90s/early 2000 powerhouses, the long string of NCAA tournament appearances, etc.

One of my earliest memories as a kid was watching the Finals against Maine and being devastated at the loss… perhaps that is what drew me to this lifelong fandom though - thinking they would soon be able to get to the top of the mountain after getting oh so close…

There have certainly been other great memories since, the tying goal at the buzzer against NoDak in the NCAA opening round (I believe 08 or 09? I remember JvR was on the team) and then the quick winner in OT by Leblanc comes to mind. Those good times have been few and far between in more recent years though, albeit the recent stretch to close our 2025 was fun.

Anyways, fast forward to tonight. Very tough loss against a team they should have beat. Watching on ESPN they appeared to come out pretty flat and were flat most of the night outside of a few small spurts especially with the second goal. The second goal by Colgate I’m not sure would have gone in it seemed like Philbrick may have helped push it in as he was sliding to the net…

Oh well. Have to forget quickly and move on to tomorrow night. Hopefully they knocked off the rust tonight and get a W tomorrow before the HE gauntlet starts later in January.

Great to finally e-meet all of you after lurking in the shadows for awhile. Let’s hope for a strong finish and (just maybe) a return trip to the Garden this year.
 
FlagUp17 said:
Hi all,

Long time lurker on the thread, but Ive been following UNH hockey for over 25 years. I have fond memories of the late 90s/early 2000 powerhouses, the long string of NCAA tournament appearances, etc.

One of my earliest memories as a kid was watching the Finals against Maine and being devastated at the loss… perhaps that is what drew me to this lifelong fandom though - thinking they would soon be able to get to the top of the mountain after getting oh so close…

There have certainly been other great memories since, the tying goal at the buzzer against NoDak in the NCAA opening round (I believe 08 or 09? I remember JvR was on the team) and then the quick winner in OT by Leblanc comes to mind. Those good times have been few and far between in more recent years though, albeit the recent stretch to close our 2025 was fun.

Anyways, fast forward to tonight. Very tough loss against a team they should have beat. Watching on ESPN they appeared to come out pretty flat and were flat most of the night outside of a few small spurts especially with the second goal. The second goal by Colgate I’m not sure would have gone in it seemed like Philbrick may have helped push it in as he was sliding to the net…

Oh well. Have to forget quickly and move on to tomorrow night. Hopefully they knocked off the rust tonight and get a W tomorrow before the HE gauntlet starts later in January.

Great to finally e-meet all of you after lurking in the shadows for awhile. Let’s hope for a strong finish and (just maybe) a return trip to the Garden this year.
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Welcome, FlagUp. At least you have your memories of the good ‘ole days, unlike poor HR.

Anyone notice that Dartmouth has lost four of their last five, which has not helped out NPI either. I forget who our poster was that predicted that the Big Green would be exposed as a fraud soon enough, but losing to Princeton? Ugh.

Meanwhile, Mac, Maine, UVM, and Yukon all OOC winnahs tonight, while UNH and PC were losahs, PC much more so than UNH, but a loss is a loss is a loss. UML TBD.
 
Snively65 said:
This numerical sequence appears backwards to me, but I am probably missing something.

At the moment, HEA only has one team in the NCAA’s, so if the regular season were to end right now and Yukon were to win the HEA tourney at the Garden, and Bentley were to win the Atlantic Hockey tourney again, the Falcons would knock BC out rather than face them in the NCAA’s like last March, which I think would be more than worth it. Ha, ha, ha! Good thing that UNH faced Bentley when they did as there is no way that the Cats would beat the Falcons now.
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The numbers mean that no year is different. post break regression. find a year where this program had an upswing post break.
 
For years they always seem to “play down” to lesser opponents, and typically play more of their “A” game when a ranked team comes to town. Not sure if it’s just a mentality thing, or they think can squeak by with reduced effort. I often hear the term “trap game” in other sports, but I think last night (and tonight) would fall in that category.

I’m willing to think last night may have also been some rust as outside of Lavins no one had played for 2+ weeks. Still… it makes tonight all the more critical before another bye week and then the HE schedule. They need at least a little bit of momentum for HE or things could get ugly fast.
 
norbert said:
The numbers mean that no year is different. post break regression. find a year where this program had an upswing post break.
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I can name several recent years in which we played superbly in January. Unfortunately, in none of those years did we continue to play well through February and March.
 
FlagUp17 said:
For years they always seem to “play down” to lesser opponents, and typically play more of their “A” game when a ranked team comes to town. Not sure if it’s just a mentality thing, or they think can squeak by with reduced effort. I often hear the term “trap game” in other sports, but I think last night (and tonight) would fall in that category.

I’m willing to think last night may have also been some rust as outside of Lavins no one had played for 2+ weeks. Still… it makes tonight all the more critical before another bye week and then the HE schedule. They need at least a little bit of momentum for HE or things could get ugly fast.
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And Colgate had not played in over three weeks, since December 6th, so I do not buy the “rust argument.” However, I do buy your “playing down to lesser teams mentality,” which I think goes back long before MS7 as head coach. And I think that this mentality occurs with other better teams also, with PC’s embarrassing lopsided loss last night an example.
 
Snively65 said:
And Colgate had not played in over three weeks, since December 6th, so I do not buy the “rust argument.” However, I do buy your “playing down to lesser teams mentality,” which I think goes back long before MS7 as head coach. And I think that this mentality occurs with other better teams also, with PC’s embarrassing lopsided loss last night an example.
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I can agree with your reasoning behind no rust. I think Colgate brought their “A” game knowing they were going against a superior opponent. Kudos to them for their prep as it paid off last night.

I think something similar happened with PC in reverse, as they handily beat Alaska on Friday and likely thought they could take it easy last night, but kudos to Alaska for playing hard and kicking PC in the teeth.

The Colgate loss last night reminded me of the game against Army (I believe 2 years ago?) where they lost to a clearly inferior team. If I remember that was the beginning of another 2nd half swoon… hopefully last night wasnt a harbinger for another 2nd half slide for the good guys.

They need whatever pep talk that Barr gave Maine after our sweep of them. Since then they’ve come out guns ablazin’ with a win against UML, a sweep of Lindenwood, and then an (almost) road sweep of Denver. Hopefully MS7 has that pep talk in him.
 
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