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UNH Men's Hockey 2022 Off Season Thread- Goodbye Lake Whitt!

HockeyRef said:
Saw that! I actually asked that she consider an interstate pre season hockey tournament with UNH SNHU NEC PSU..
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Hockey in the Queen City would be fabulous again! Always sad to see that big building just sitting empty...

A NH tournament to start the season would be super awesome. Even just a "NH Hockey Day" event. A triple header across all levels of NCAA... DIII - PSU v NEC, DII - SNHU v Saint A's, DI - UNH v Dartmouth.
 
SNHUPenman said:
Hockey in the Queen City would be fabulous again! Always sad to see that big building just sitting empty...

A NH tournament to start the season would be super awesome. Even just a "NH Hockey Day" event. A triple header across all levels of NCAA... DIII - PSU v NEC, DII - SNHU v Saint A's, DI - UNH v Dartmouth.
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Oh left out Dartmouth! Absolutely! I think it would be great and I believe it would pull a crowd! I nominate Chuck to organize it all...
 
SNHUPenman said:
Hockey in the Queen City would be fabulous again! Always sad to see that big building just sitting empty...

A NH tournament to start the season would be super awesome. Even just a "NH Hockey Day" event. A triple header across all levels of NCAA... DIII - PSU v NEC, DII - SNHU v Saint A's, DI - UNH v Dartmouth.
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A better idea than UNH playing SNHU, NEC, and PSU imo. If you beat them it's no big deal since you're supposed to, if it's close it's as good as losing, and if you actually lose... welp...

A while back when the Riverstone attendance started dipping and Lowell was beginning to get hot I suggested a holiday tournament with UNH & Lowell vs two invitees in Manchester as it is nearly equidistant for the Riverhawks, could easily repackage this in to the Icebreaker.
Though now, several years on, I dread to think what our attendance would look like for a game in Manchester... Might not be great for the brand.
 
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If Quinnipiac doesn’t pull this out, we move one step closer to the possibility of an all-Minnesota FF. With friends and former colleagues who attended each of the four schools, I cannot tell you how intolerably insufferable such an outcome will be. If there is a god, it CAN’T happen.
 
wildcatdc said:
If Quinnipiac doesn’t pull this out, we move one step closer to the possibility of an all-Minnesota FF. With friends and former colleagues who attended each of the four schools, I cannot tell you how intolerably insufferable such an outcome will be. If there is a god, it CAN’T happen.
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With all the HE teams out, Q is the 'only hope' for someone from the East to be in the FFour. (checks notes think I have this right haha) If you think that's bad, I think being a UNH fan who's team hasn't been in a Regional for 9 seasons is worse, but, that's just me :-( Hope you get what you are looking for; me? I'm cheering for Minnesota State! Let's Go 'Mavs!
 
ClOuD 9 said:
A while back when the Riverstone attendance started dipping and Lowell was beginning to get hot I suggested a holiday tournament with UNH & Lowell vs two invitees in Manchester as it is nearly equidistant for the Riverhawks, could easily repackage this in to the Icebreaker.
Though now, several years on, I dread to think what our attendance would look like for a game in Manchester... Might not be great for the brand.
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You've been around for awhile, so you probably remember Governor's Cup, which was a precursor to the Riverstone and the now-SNHU Arena. Four state schools, UNH-UML-UMaine-UVM (then still in the ECAC), playing a two day tourney which IIRC was either around Thanksgiving or right after the Winter break. I think it only ended up lasting two seasons, one in which Lowell hosted, and the other which I believe UNH hosted on campus. I don't think the schools liked it, because (aside from UVM) these would be non-conference games against conference opponents - just like a certain Boston tourney in February, which eventually got over the hump and became a "thing" long ago because there weren't rigid conference schedules in the CHDA (college hockey dark ages - not my term BTW). I thought they gave up too easily on Governor's Cup, but I can't see them revisiting it because now all four programs are in the same conference.

Your idea does work to the extent it excludes Dartmouth, which has their own Ledyard thing going on long-term, and Lowell is fairly local, so they won't see this as a logistics issue - plus you can sell Manchester to them as a neutral site. My guess is that Lowell is probably already "mowing UNH's lawn" in the Nashua area, and might see further incursion into Manchester as a fantastic opportunity to broaden their market- something that the folks in Durham have inexplicably struggled to get their heads around for most of the last generation. Figuring out who to round out the tourney with could be a lot of fun, and keep things fresh.

I really do hope the day comes when SNHU commits to upgrading its hockey program (probably along with hoops). There is an opportunity for someone out there to become the "Kings of NH Hockey" again by capturing the Queen City, and if UNH isn't gonna take it, it's right there on a platter for SNHU, which seems to be a pretty ambitious institution that already has long-term naming rights on the facility. What better way to optimize an asset than use it for growth of your own program?
 
wildcatdc said:
If Quinnipiac doesn't pull this out, we move one step closer to the possibility of an all-Minnesota FF. With friends and former colleagues who attended each of the four schools, I cannot tell you how intolerably insufferable such an outcome will be. If there is a god, it CAN'T happen.
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At least we have now confirmed there is a God, 'dc.

God does need to do some work on Eastern college hockey, though. It's like we're back in the CHDA all over again. And the only remaining Eastern team in this year's tourney was still only playing D-3 hockey the last time the East was this insignificant.
 
Darius said:
Anybody but MI. Preferably Western, then Mankato.
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I really don't disagree with you Darius.

But you have to admit that a Michigan-Western Michigan final would be must see tv this season. And it could very well be the most one sided game in terms of who fan bases are rooting for ever played.
 
Not even looking for a God. It's basically obvious and only a member of the athletic inner circle could perpetuate the error. With Dean having a national search, I'm comforted that there's nobody who will try to game the system going forward. And any new AD can make the layup presented: "do you want to extend the unqualified legacy guy who has 'remade' the team' since 2015 and never finished above 8th place, or make a hire that will immediately improve the situation?"
 
NCAA watcher said:
Not even looking for a God. It's basically obvious and only a member of the athletic inner circle could perpetuate the error. With Dean having a national search, I'm comforted that there's nobody who will try to game the system going forward. And any new AD can make the layup presented: "do you want to extend the unqualified legacy guy who has 'remade' the team' since 2015 and never finished above 8th place, or make a hire that will immediately improve the situation?"
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So much depends on this hire and their vision going forward. I'll be comforted in knowing (if we ever do know) that no extention was granted before the current AD leaves...to me that's a decent start in the process.

Like I said interesting how I read on Twitter that this UNH coach and that UNH coach got an extension but with hockey? Never. Maybe I missed something...
 
A UNH/Lowell GLI style tournament would be great - imagine Denver and Minnesota (or the like) joining every year. Teams would trip over themselves to attend, especially if you sold it as an NCAA Tournament dress rehearsal sort of experience - in a building that hosts every other year - and RPI builder...

Play a regional style schedule, make it a regional style feel, against regional style competition (yeah, yeah, UNH stinks), with no conference matchups and UNH would position itself along side the best teams in the sport. Rather than the local DIIIs...
 
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