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

[Darius]

Thank you for this as I did see a tweet from the AD about it...but did not see the rest of this info. And, my post wasn't a 'slam' on the Athletic Dept..just a heads up for anyone who didn't know how this would impact them potentially. I myself...am not going to be there 2 hrs ahead.

I knew that

Total guess, but getting there super early is probably not necessary although always better safe than sorry. I suspect the crowd will be small. I'm educated guessing that the ticket scanners are down and they may be old school ticket tearing.

 

[Felger]

Looks like they are still trying to figure out a ticket process for the playoff basketball game on Saturday.

 

[Chuck Murray]

Well......HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!!

Ramona has been perusing these here pages and informed me that "I am missed". I can't help but be touched. Yesirree, like a good ol' fashioned case of VD, I just keep comin' back! Well, I suppose I should offer some hockey discussion.....some time away from my new rum operation in Jamaica is warranted.....uh....bad choice of words. More on that later.

Any one of you drunken woke nimrods could have seen what was going to happen last weekend!! A season sweep of ZOO-CONN???? C'mon!!!! Chiiiit.......if in fact SOOOUZA did sell his soul to the Devil, I'm sure that Lucifer himself said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa there little Mikey, baby steps, baby steps!"

Now.....about them stoned libturds from the Green Mtn. State......It's payback time for SOOOUZA and the boys to send Bernie's Bums back to BER-Lington with their tails between their legs for chrissakes!! I will tell ya this....if they lose to these dang "Can't-amounts", well you can forget the soul-selling theory. Oh SOOOUUZA....your fans turn their lonely eyes to you! HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!!

Oh, and Charlie.....for chrissakes....YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!! Yeah, I'm an old timer and a GROUCHY one at that!!! Been around these parts A LONG TIME. Glad that I provide you with some cheap entertainment, ya bad-cologne-wearin'-pontificatin' pile of road apples!!

PS - Ramona sends her love. HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!!

NOW GIT WITH ALL OF YOU!!!!

Looks like everyone's favorite octogenarian hobo has gotten into the fermented molasses a little early today!! :-D

 

[Snively65]

I knew that

Total guess, but getting there super early is probably not necessary although always better safe than sorry. I suspect the crowd will be small. I'm educated guessing that the ticket scanners are down and they may be old school ticket tearing.

Was anyone able to get through the gates to watch the UVM game?

 

[HockeyRef]

Blech. Totally disgusted. Couldn't be bothered to come to play the 2nd OR the 3rd. Whatever...game doesn't really matter but...you'd think they'd come to play. Esp after a great first. UvM upped their game and we didn't respond. Please tell me if that's the same game you all saw.

That...is really the let down worse than the score. Blech.

 

[Snively65]

UNH won 37-25 in the face off circles, and 35-23 in SOG, but ………….

Now we have the rest of HEA teams right where we want ‘em.

 

[Nifty16]

Blech. Totally disgusted. Couldn't be bothered to come to play the 2nd OR the 3rd. Whatever...game doesn't really matter but...you'd think they'd come to play. That...is really the let down worse than the score. Blech.

That third period was just ugly. Got beat to every puck, lost every battle along the boards, stupid turnovers. If they had been playing a good team can only imagine what the score would have been. Vermont made some adjustments after the first where per usual UNH didn’t. Felt like how they played in November

 

[HockeyRef]

That third period was just ugly. Got beat to every puck, lost every battle along the boards, stupid turnovers. If they had been playing a good team can only imagine what the score would have been. Vermont made some adjustments after the first where per usual UNH didn’t. Felt like how they played in November

Saw quite a few heads hanging at that final buzzer. Good analogy to November...sure felt like that. Well good for Vermont..too bad most of their points came from us...

 

[phb]

What an atrocious hockey school for so long now. So sad. Such a waste of history that took so much to build. Shame on the admin. When I moved away, I thought I would miss watching the games. Guess not. Kids can play hard, but talent wins out. Gotta have the recruiting….gotta have the coaching…gotta have the talent.

 

[HockeyRef]

What an atrocious hockey school for so long now. So sad. Such a waste of history that took so much to build. Shame on the admin. When I moved away, I thought I would miss watching the games. Guess not. Kids can play hard, but talent wins out. Gotta have the recruiting….gotta have the coaching…gotta have the talent.

Poignant comment regarding the history of the program.
I would like to ask you hockey aficionados is it common to mix up your entire line sheet in your last regular season game?

I thought at times they looked visibly frustrated and was wondering of some of it was that. At any rate hope things can turn around the legacy of the program depends on it.

Nice to see you tonight Scott as well as DB62 and wildcatdc was in town as well.

Onto the post season.

 

[phb]

Poignant comment regarding the history of the program.
I would like to ask you hockey aficionados is it common to mix up your entire line sheet in your last regular season game?

I thought at times they looked visibly frustrated and was wondering of some of it was that. At any rate hope things can turn around the legacy of the program depends on it.

Nice to see you tonight Scott as well as DB62 and wildcatdc was in town as well.

Onto the post season.

And I don’t want to sound “entitled”. Saw my first games in 1970 at Snively. UNH was middle-road, but competitive. They played hard for Charlie. Dick built on that — but he stayed too long. I did fantastic in my career when I was younger, hungry and energetic — not many can keep it up forever. Very common to hang on too long…and to be allowed to hang on too long.

 

[NCAA watcher]

This is now the genius of HE marketing, as the whole campus will be abuzz tonight and tomorrow wondering if we can hold on to 9th place, or if we get overtaken and end up 10th.

Back in the old days the lads would be told their season was done, and another year of no playoffs. Thankfully, the Coaches have come to see that bad teams over 5 months shouldn't be punished for being bad. Otherwise, some may never get to experience the playoffs:
15-16 10th place
16-17 10th place
17-18 11th place
18-19 8th place
19-20 9th place
20-21 10th place
21-22 9th place
22-23 9th/10th place

 

[Snively65]

Poignant comment regarding the history of the program.
I would like to ask you hockey aficionados is it common to mix up your entire line sheet in your last regular season game?

I thought at times they looked visibly frustrated and was wondering of some of it was that. At any rate hope things can turn around the legacy of the program depends on it.

Nice to see you tonight Scott as well as DB62 and wildcatdc was in town as well.

Onto the post season.

I was wondering about the lines last night when I read the box score with the Captain getting an assist on Devlin’s goal. I thought that Dunlap meshed well on the first line in the Saturday Maine game that I saw at the Whitt and in the game the night before that I watched on NESN. Maybe MS7 was looking ahead last night to the MBPBEGAM game by experimenting with line changes?

 

[Snively65]

This is now the genius of HE marketing, as the whole campus will be abuzz tonight and tomorrow wondering if we can hold on to 9th place, or if we get overtaken and end up 10th.

Back in the old days the lads would be told their season was done, and another year of no playoffs. Thankfully, the Coaches have come to see that bad teams over 5 months shouldn't be punished for being bad. Otherwise, some may never get to experience the playoffs:
15-16 10th place
16-17 10th place
17-18 11th place
18-19 8th place
19-20 9th place
20-21 10th place
21-22 9th place
22-23 9th/10th place

And yet we have had some success in the MBPBEGAM round, beating Mac two of three in 2016/17, beating Maine 7-2 in 2020/21, and giving BC a scare losing 4-3 in OT last season.

 

[HockeyRef]

I was wondering about the lines last night when I read the box score with the Captain getting an assist on Devlin’s goal. I thought that Dunlap meshed well on the first line in the Saturday Maine game that I saw at the Whitt and in the game the night before that I watched on NESN. Maybe MS7 was looking ahead last night to the MBPBEGAM game by experimenting with line changes?

He (MS7) needs to 'experiment' at this point of the season? Not saying this is the reason for the outcome they didn't match what UVM brought after the first (which could have easily been done, you know, be ready for the push that's going to come??) UVM has some very good skaters, we allowed them to win puck battles (as nifty pointed out) all over the ice etc etc. Dunlap had a beautiful assist on Kalle's goal; he's done a great job this season as a frosh.

Anyhoo, moving on I guess. Glad I am not working I'd be pizzed off all day, lol

 

[HockeyRef]

And yet we have had some success in the MBPBEGAM round, beating Mac two of three in 2016/17, beating Maine 7-2 in 2020/21, and giving BC a scare losing 4-3 in OT last season.

Yep you never know; was at that BC game last year (lost my fav UNH hockey hat on Tyler Ward's hattie) so anything is possible because its more than obvious that if you don't come to play.... Good to see you here 'Watcher...Funny, this morning I was thinking "I wonder if 'Watcher will post so I can see how things have gone the last 5 to 6 seasons' and now I know (your sig line records).

I know I seem like a sore loser but geeze...but I feel like that character in Steel Magnolias (which I somehow doubt any of you guys have everwatched haha) when one of the characters is told they are not a 'happy person'. Her retort: I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years. Seems fitting but we keep coming back...and I'm glad the team gets to continue to skate...This team made alot of strides this season and I hope they get something out of it..

 

[Chuck Murray]

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Will the last person to leave Towse Rink turn off the lights on your way out? Thx.

If I'm in charge, Soozer has two games to save the final year of his contract ...

 

[HockeyRef]

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Will the last person to leave Towse Rink turn off the lights on your way out? Thx.

If I'm in charge, Soozer has two games to save the final year of his contract ...

Hockey East commish Metcalfe was in the house last night we noticed sitting near us. Hope he enjoyed the game. Here's what's gonna happen: UNH runs the table all the way through to Tampa and wins it in OT over former HE foe Notre Dame. UNH athletics uses some of the funds for the improvements to build a NEW statue in front of the whitt that features Marty Scarano, Dick Umile and Mike Souza arms linked to celebrate the incredible Cinderella story! I'd donate to that...Next up, a MOVIE. Who's playing who?

Seriously tho, I hated seeing the looks on the boys faces as they skated around in their salute to the fans they always do. They deserve better..

 

[Scott]

Poignant comment regarding the history of the program.
I would like to ask you hockey aficionados is it common to mix up your entire line sheet in your last regular season game?

I thought at times they looked visibly frustrated and was wondering of some of it was that. At any rate hope things can turn around the legacy of the program depends on it.

Nice to see you tonight Scott as well as DB62 and wildcatdc was in town as well.

Onto the post season.

'Ref, great seeing you last night as well! Yah, it was a good 20-minute game.....we need to hang a banner, the March 2023 1st Period Champs!

Out-coached again....I don't know, Souza seemed to adjust to Luce and Barr a few weeks ago, why he didn't learn anything after their Burlington trip last November just baffles me. UNH owned by the last place team in Hockey East in 2022-23....embarrassing. The good news is with AD Rich's sudden "visibility" at recent games, she's seeing for herself the on-ice product instead of getting an earful from the STH's.

 

[After the Whistle]

Excuse me while I go backward for a moment but that line juggle last night made me nuts. You find 12 guys who seem to have chemistry and they win a bunch of games that you didn’t think they would, and then you change it up. WHY? WHY oh WHY!
In my mind another bigger loss than most seem to notice was the 2 game absence of Mr. Jenson. While we have a good group here, I believe that he is clearly the most consistent game in and game out. Most physical for sure, watch him (next year) next game. Strong in the corners, great out n front, just an under noticed solid presence.