UNH Men’s Hockey 22-23: the start of something new, or more of the same?

[HockeyRef]

Didn’t giving him the extension already send that message?

Oh my ...You'd think the bigger question is the ROI...which has been abysmal considering the won/loss record..tournament appearances.. Surely someone on the UNH board of trustees are wondering about "possible" lost revenue over these past few years? But it could be said that attendance is down throughout college hockey (or so ive read hear on these boards)

 

[Darius]

Didn’t giving him the extension already send that message?

You’re welcome.

 

[CarlS]

Hi, Chuck - I never post anymore, but do follow along. Making an exception re: your post above on the World Cup. My son lives and works in Qatar and has been to three games so far. Said the games have been great (all issues with Qatar aside). My daughter is working on her PhD in a subject related to hockey and sent me this regarding soccer:
How to fix soccer:
1. The field is f***ing huge. Shrink it.
2. Too many people on the field. Limit to three forwards, two defenders and a goalie (you can see where this is going).
3. Players should get to come in and out whenever they want. Don't stop for substitutions.
4. Shrink the goal
5. Ice everywhere

Had to tie it back to hockey as it is a hockey forum ...

 

[Snively65]

Hi, Chuck - I never post anymore, but do follow along. Making an exception re: your post above on the World Cup. My son lives and works in Qatar and has been to three games so far. Said the games have been great (all issues with Qatar aside). My daughter is working on her PhD in a subject related to hockey and sent me this regarding soccer:
How to fix soccer:
1. The field is ******* huge. Shrink it.
2. Too many people on the field. Limit to three forwards, two defenders and a goalie (you can see where this is going).
3. Players should get to come in and out whenever they want. Don't stop for substitutions.
4. Shrink the goal
5. Ice everywhere

Had to tie it back to hockey as it is a hockey forum ...

Excellent! I would add penalties (red cards or whatever they are called) for injury embellishment.

 

[HockeyRef]

Hi, Chuck - I never post anymore, but do follow along. Making an exception re: your post above on the World Cup. My son lives and works in Qatar and has been to three games so far. Said the games have been great (all issues with Qatar aside). My daughter is working on her PhD in a subject related to hockey and sent me this regarding soccer:
How to fix soccer:
1. The field is ******* huge. Shrink it.
2. Too many people on the field. Limit to three forwards, two defenders and a goalie (you can see where this is going).
3. Players should get to come in and out whenever they want. Don't stop for substitutions.
4. Shrink the goal
5. Ice everywhere

Had to tie it back to hockey as it is a hockey forum ...

That's ok Carl, shoot, I talk field hockey here. But it has the word "hockey" so I rest my case lol. Meanwhile, in hockey world, MC wins their 9th in a row beating Umassy 2-1. Sigh...

 

[Snively65]

That's ok Carl, shoot, I talk field hockey here. But it has the word "hockey" so I rest my case lol. Meanwhile, in hockey world, MC wins their 9th in a row beating Umassy 2-1. Sigh...

Sigh = “Why cannot we get a hockey recruiter/coach like Scotty Borek”? Oh. ……. Wait. ……..

 

[HockeyRef]

Excellent! I would add penalties (red cards or whatever they are called) for injury embellishment.

Ok, so, I have never played soccer competitively, but, the rolling around on the ground etc...is tiresome. Surly they aren't trying to manipulate the umpire? Hockey players be like 'hold my beer'

 

[Snively65]

JvR returned to the ice for Flyers tonight in 4-1 loss to bro TvR and Caps. In battle for net presence, JvR notched two SOG, TvR zero SOG, with neither collecting a point. Meanwhile, Brett Pesce on pace for his best scoring season with the Whalers.

 

[Chuck Murray]

Hi, Chuck - I never post anymore, but do follow along. Making an exception re: your post above on the World Cup. My son lives and works in Qatar and has been to three games so far. Said the games have been great (all issues with Qatar aside). My daughter is working on her PhD in a subject related to hockey and sent me this regarding soccer:
How to fix soccer:
1. The field is ******* huge. Shrink it.
2. Too many people on the field. Limit to three forwards, two defenders and a goalie (you can see where this is going).
3. Players should get to come in and out whenever they want. Don't stop for substitutions.
4. Shrink the goal
5. Ice everywhere

Had to tie it back to hockey as it is a hockey forum ...

LOL! Good to see you on here again, CarlS - been way too long!! Hope we don't have to wait for Qatar's next big brush with world notoriety for your next post, mon ami.

As to your daughter's take on "the big fix" for soccer, I'll share the following excerpt only to show that in its formative years, the "pitch" used to be WAY bigger than the ones they currently use ...

The history of football (soccer) (footballhistory.org)

The most admitted story tells that the game was developed in England in the 12th century. In this century, games that resembled football were played on meadows and roads in England. Besides from kicks, the game involved also punches of the ball with the fist. This early form of football was also much more rough and violent than the modern way of playing.

An important feature of the forerunners to football was that the games involved plenty of people and took place over large areas in towns (an equivalent was played in Florence from the 16th century where it was called Calcio). The rampage of these games would cause damage on the town and sometimes death to the participants. These would be among the reasons for the proclamations against the game that finally was forbidden for several centuries. But the football-like games would return to the streets of London in the 17th century. It would be forbidden again in 1835, but at this stage the game had been established in the public schools.

It took, however, long time until the features of today’s football had been taken into practice. For a long time there was no clear distinction between football and rugby. There were also many variations concerning the size of the ball, the number of players and the length of a match.

The game was often played in schools and two of the predominant schools were Rugby and Eton. At Rugby the rules included the possibility to take up the ball with the hands and the game we today know as rugby has its origin from here. At Eton on the other hand the ball was played exclusively with the feet and this game can be seen as a close predecessor to the modern football. The game in Rugby was called “the running game” while the game in Eton was called “the dribbling game”.

Never - not once - back in the glory days of UNH Hockey, did I ever think I'd be on here 20 or so years later babbling on about the World Cup in the middle of college hockey season. Thanks Dick.

 

[Chuck Murray]

JvR returned to the ice for Flyers tonight in 4-1 loss to bro TvR and Caps. In battle for net presence, JvR notched two SOG, TvR zero SOG, with neither collecting a point. Meanwhile, Brett Pesce on pace for his best scoring season with the Whalers.

TvR wins again, where it matters, and somewhere out there, BvR wonders where it all went wrong for him ...

 

[Dan]

Im going to be a rich man with a lot of time on my hands! Already I am able save my time, money and attention from the mismanagement that is UNH Hockey. Now I can do the same for the Boston Red Sox.

Soccer, nor Qatari affairs, will certainly not be my new hobby, any other suggestions...?

 

[Darius]

Im going to be a rich man with a lot of time on my hands! Already I am able save my time, money and attention from the mismanagement that is UNH Hockey. Now I can do the same for the Boston Red Sox.Soccer, nor Qatari affairs, will certainly not be my new hobby, any other suggestions...?

Only 69 days until the TaxAct Clearwater Invitational.

 

[ClOuD 9]

From a recent USCHO article on DI teams scheduling ACHA teams: “There’s not a massive difference between, I would say, the bottom 10 teams in (NCAA) Division I hockey and all the top teams in Division III, or with these club teams." - Rick Zombo, Lindenwood coach

UNH currently sits 50th in the pairwise out of 62...

https://www.uscho.com/2022/12/06/137470/

 

[Nifty16]

From a recent USCHO article on DI teams scheduling ACHA teams: “There’s not a massive difference between, I would say, the bottom 10 teams in (NCAA) Division I hockey and all the top teams in Division III, or with these club teams." - Rick Zombo, Lindenwood coach

UNH currently sits 50th in the pairwise out of 62...

https://www.uscho.com/2022/12/06/137470/

Sad but true!! Time to look forward. Sick and tired of people looking back 5 years and whining how we got here. Time to past that and time to look forward.

 

[Chuck Murray]

Im going to be a rich man with a lot of time on my hands! Already I am able save my time, money and attention from the mismanagement that is UNH Hockey. Now I can do the same for the Boston Red Sox.

Thanks for providing the springboard for a quirky historical take on the Red Sox, Dan. Without question THE most successful North American sports franchise of the early 20th and 21st centuries combined, Boston's American League entry has established a pattern last century that looks to be eerily repeating itself this century. The Sox won the first-ever World Series in 1903, and would win their first World Series after an 86 year wait in 2004. The Old Sox would then go on to win four (4) more World Series titles in 1912-1915-1916-1918; interestingly enough, another Boston team (the NL's Braves) would chip in with the 1914 World Series title, in what was probably the biggest longshot to win a WS until the Miracle Mets of 1969. In the century that's now underway, the current Sox would win three more World Series titles, in 2007, 2013, and (wait for it) ... 2018.

Now, here is where the parallels get a little weird. Both in 1919 and 2019, the Sox possessed arguably the most dynamic players in baseball at the time. In 1919, it was some guy named Babe Ruth, who at the time was doing a pretty good pre-impersonation of Shohei Ohtani, starring both as a regular starting pitcher and otherwise as an everyday outfielder (FWIW Ruth and Ohtani are really the only two guys to ever be able to pull this off simultaneously in the 150+ years of MLB; more recently, pitcher Rick Ankiel would lose his touch as a pitcher, and would eventually reboot as a more-than-serviceable MLB outfielder a few years later). in 2019, it would be Mookie Betts who was arguably the best all-around player in the game. After one full season apiece with the Sox after their respective '18 WS titles, both players would be moved along, as their teams "rebuilt", and neither brought much back in return for their services, as ownership's focus at the time seemed to be elsewhere. Harry Frazee was focused in 1919 on financing Broadway shows, and sold/traded a steady stream of Ruth's teammates to NY ... while in 2019 and thereabouts, FSG/John "Whitey" Henry seem to be WAY more focused on Liverpool FC, Pittsburgh Penguins, and a purported in-the-works plan to buy an NFL franchise TBD in the future, so they've hired a former Tampa Bay GM to hopefully keep the Sox competitive "on the cheap" as in TB.

So, what does this mean for you currently-spoiled, but soon-to-be-tested-beyond-all-comprehension Red Sox fans?

* The Sox will be horrible for the better part of the next decade, but they will probably see new ownership afterwards;
* The new owner will be "from away", and will do everything possible to ingratiate himself with the locals via charity;
* Said new owner will probably build his best early teams from retreads of a fellow successful AL franchise (Houston?);
* They will then stumble onto "the greatest hitter who ever lived", who will hit .400 just before World War 3 erupts;
* Said superstar will spend the prime of his career fighting bomber missions over Eastern Europe instead of hitting .400;
* The not-so-new owner will mistakenly put his faith in his former HOF shortstop, who will run things in a very racist way;
* The superstar's Eastern European successor will lead the Sox to a surprise (yet still losing) trip to the WS circa 2067;
* The now-long-in-the-tooth owner will pass away circa 2076 after another close-but-not-quite dalliance with a WS title;
* His surviving wife will co-own the team in trust with a former trainer and back-up catcher for another 10 or so years;
* The ownership in trust will eventually sell out to an albino day trader who wants out of owning an NL expansion team;
* The albino day trader leads the Sox back to the promised land circa 2103. After, he'll declare his predecessor as racist.
* Then lather, rinse and repeat for another 15 or so years of fantastic success, and another 85 years of off-field stupidity.

Soccer, nor Qatari affairs, will certainly not be my new hobby, any other suggestions...?

I did a deep dive into rugby a couple of years ago, and I can actually now tell the difference between rugby union and rugby league. There is a pretty good pro local team (NE Free Jacks) in the upstart Major League Rugby (MLR), who have a pretty spunky rivalry with their NY rivals, too. You still seem a little too young to be that into golfing, but maybe I'm mistaken? But at all costs, definitely avoid falling for that softball stuff ... ;-)

 

[Chuck Murray]

From a recent USCHO article on DI teams scheduling ACHA teams: “There’s not a massive difference between, I would say, the bottom 10 teams in (NCAA) Division I hockey and all the top teams in Division III, or with these club teams." - Rick Zombo, Lindenwood coach
https://www.uscho.com/2022/12/06/137470/

That would of course be Rick Zombo who was an 8th round DRW draft pick in the Jacques Demers Era.

Those would be the gradually-rising-from-the-Dead Wings. Fun team, fun era, good luck at Lindenwood!!

 

[Dan]

From a recent USCHO article on DI teams scheduling ACHA teams: “There’s not a massive difference between, I would say, the bottom 10 teams in (NCAA) Division I hockey and all the top teams in Division III, or with these club teams." - Rick Zombo, Lindenwood coach

UNH currently sits 50th in the pairwise out of 62...

https://www.uscho.com/2022/12/06/137470/

Cute statement, but I'd ask Zombo why his roster indicates very few - and perhaps ZERO? - hold overs from the Lindenwood club team.

 

[Dan]

Only 69 days until the TaxAct Clearwater Invitational.

Sent you a PM...

 

[friar97]

Cute statement, but I'd ask Zombo why his roster indicates very few - and perhaps ZERO? - hold overs from the Lindenwood club team.

There's actually 4 holdovers from the club days (and then the D1 recruits that played there last year while they waited to go D1)

There's a few kids from NH on that team too that could have helped the Wildcats offense. Zombo would help also. LOL. Guy's a great coach. They have more wins in their first season then UNH has this year - just to put things into perspective.

 

[Snively65]

There's actually 4 holdovers from the club days (and then the D1 recruits that played there last year while they waited to go D1)

There's a few kids from NH on that team too that could have helped the Wildcats offense. Zombo would help also. LOL. Guy's a great coach. They have more wins in their first season then UNH has this year - just to put things into perspective.

Thankful that we do not have Independents Lindenwood, LIU, and AZ State on our schedule this season. Oh. ……. Wait. …….