I think it is fair to compare when the goalie is single-handedly keeping a team in a game, as Swayman has done in the past two losses when his teammates have had difficulties putting pucks in the net. I felt the same way about Jakub Hellsten this past season, whom I still believe was far more important to our winning season than was Souza’s recruiting and coaching prowess as implied in the interview article posted by Potluck.
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I think it is fair to compare when the goalie is single-handedly keeping a team in a game, as Swayman has done in the past two losses when his teammates have had difficulties putting pucks in the net. I felt the same way about Jakub Hellsten this past season, whom I still believe was far more important to our winning season than was Souza’s recruiting and coaching prowess as implied in the interview article posted by Potluck.
I thought exactly the same, Potluck. Also see my reply to ATW about the importance of having a great goaltender.
What would be really nice is to have a place that season ticket holders could go and see the awards being presented. Oh wait Marty ruined that when he got rid of the Friends.
Question is, if there was a banquet for STH, and we had to pay for a meal, how many would attend an event for the awards, hear some of the team speak, and maybe MS7 would do a state of the union?
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Read the Souza article (thanks for sharing Potluck) and agree with most of the thoughts on here so far, especially as to Conmy, where the proof of the staff's ability to develop Conmy for future challenges is still in the pudding, as they say. If he's still a 35 point player three years from now he will comfortably exceed the 100 point threshold, which these days is impressive enough. But will he have actually advanced as a player? It's something we'll all watch with great hope and anticipation for the player, but also as a measure of MS7's ability to develop.
An overall impression I got from reading the article is that Coach Souza is probably the walking, talking embodiment of the Peter Principle, which is basically that his success at lesser jobs has now landed him at a level where he is (with all due respect) relatively incompetent, as the skills that made him successful at lesser positions needed to be supplemented by new skills at his current station, which he simply does not possess. Whether it is the inability to develop his recruits significantly as players for next-level success - something Souza himself failed at as a player - or his hesitance to take on the more outward public responsibilities of running a successful D-1 program, or both ... it seems to be where he is. At the end of the day, he still seems to be the Middlesex League guy with a network of friends from that same universe (including his predecessor), and as 'Watcher has often pointed out in the past, those limitations are keeping a lid on UNH's potential to grow back to what we once were. At least to me, it is this point that comes screaming out of this well-intentioned article.
FWIW ... if you want a challenge, go ahead and try to locate "Hoggs Pond" or even "Hobbs Pond" in Wakefield MA, which Souza and the author describe as some well-known local-yokel incubator of youth hockey talent. I always thought I had a pretty fair understanding of the lay of the land down there - I worked for a company that bordered Lake Quannapowitt for almost 4 years, ironically when MS7 was probably still learning to skate on that mythical pond, and the name did not ring any bells. Neither did my Internet searches this morning. There is a lot of unnamed swamp and bogs between Wakefield and Lynnfield ... and there are ponds in neighboring towns with similar sounding names. Maybe someone can solve the mystery of "Where exactly is Hoggs Pond" from our on-line pool of know-it-all geniuses?
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Hey all back.from an amazing trip to the Grand Canyon and Sedona..beautiful country!!! Wore my UNH gear lol as much as possible. Weather was absolutely phenomenal but could do without the red eye back. Lots to catch up here it looks like...
Here's hoping the Bruins don't totally implode tonight haven't watched a game as of late. Too bad they couldnt send UNH alum Jack Edwards off on a good note...
Hope all are well! Funny Mr. HR and I felt our scenery was pretty drab compared to Northern AZ...esp Flagstaff's San Francisco Peaks. Good to be home tho..
Here's hoping the Bruins don't totally implode tonight haven't watched a game as of late. Too bad they couldnt send UNH alum Jack Edwards off on a good note...
Hope all are well! Funny Mr. HR and I felt our scenery was pretty drab compared to Northern AZ...esp Flagstaff's San Francisco Peaks. Good to be home tho..
Sparkee
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Did you find it odd there was still snow on the San Fran Peaks? I came back from there last weekend. The drive up through Oak Creek Canyon was great. I am hoping Maine schedules a series out there with them sometime in the near future.
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Was told by a local it (snow) would be up there til July or Aug! Yeah driving through Oak Creek to get to Sedona was really a great drive. I took many pics of those mtns from a variety of vantage points.
We also poked around Jerome and Cottonwood driving back to Phoenix. Def a place I'd like to return to!!
Sparkee
Blackbear
I went to Jerome before to that neat mining ghost town.
I want to check out Antelope Canyon next time. I haven’t seen the North Rim, Horse Shoe, or Hoover Dam yet. There is a lot to do there and it is spread out making it difficult to explore with just 1 week.
Did you feel the energy vortex in Sedona? Spiritual leaders travel from all over the world to experience Sedona’s energy vortices, which number five to seven depending on whom is counting.
In the 1990’s, I hiked to the top of Mount Humphreys (Arizona’s high point), where I met a guy a couple decades older who regularly ran from the floor of the Grand Canyon (2500 ft elev) to Humphreys’ summit (12,633 ft elev), 80 to 90 miles dependent on whom is measuring, I guess, in under 25 hours. The FKT (fastest known time) for this ultra-run is supposedly 20 hours, 23 minutes, set in 1983.
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Of course I had my Aura read...Lol. would love to return fir a spiritual retreat of sorts! That's quite a story about hiking. I struggled some with the elevation up there! Really beautiful countryside.
As for JvR I hope they bring him back next season...he wasn't a liability. Frankly I'm surprised he played last night but he did a great job...brings a ton of experience..
After not playing in the first two games, JvR earned his playing time the last five games.
In tracking the portal, I see that about half of the 300+ entries have found new homes, but not Cafarelli or Gendron. Either they are being more selective or they are not hot commodities, probably the latter?
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
DRW might be a decent trade partner on Ullmark, as we have our own lame duck goalie (Husso) for probably $1M-$2M less, and he should be OK to give the B's 25-30 games behind Swayman as a short-term solution. Ullmark likewise would be a short-term solution in Motown, while we wait for Sebastian Cossa and Trey Augustine (Michigan State) to gain the requisite experience to take their slots in the long-term YzerPlan.
Beggars can't be choosers. If Sweeney and Monty want him back next year, he'll be back. If they don't, he'll hope he can catch on somewhere else as a similar role player to what he's done in Boston. He just turned 35 this weekend, and this was the lowest goal-scoring season of his NHL career. I suspect he has one, maybe two years tops left in The Show. If Boston harbors legit Cup aspirations, they'll need better than him, sorry.
I'm relieved for Montgomery, to be honest. What he did with last year's team was amazing, and in some ways, getting what he got out of this year's roster was even more impressive. In a year or two, the B's will basically be a three player team - Swayman, Pasternak and McAvoy (the latter of whom is drastically overrated - he almost looked drunk on Saturday night) may be all that's left, and both McAvoy and Marchand saw their plus-minus figures plummet this season. Charlie Coyle just had a career year, but at age 32 I don't see that happening again. If not for the much-maligned Hampus Lindholm's equalizer, Monty may already have been fired, and the B's would be planning tee times over at Mount Hood for later this morning. My two Cup picks (Canes and Avs) made it out of the first round pretty easily, and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the winner of Canes v. Rangers goes the distance. B's will have their hands full with Florida, that's for sure ...
Our AD will have a new boss on July 1st, Elizabeth Chilton, who will succeed James Dean and become the University’s 21st president. Chliton is a first-generation college student, earning degrees in anthropology from SUNY-Albany (BS) and UMass-Flagship (MS and PhD). Her most recent admin appointment was chancellor of the Washington State University campus in Pullman. Her research included pre-colonial archeology in the New England area. Apparently she is a coral singer, so will unlikely be joining the UNH Pep Band for a cameo at the Whitt as did James Dean with his clarinet. She is also reported to be an avid hiker. 
Darius
Go 'cats!
Elizabeth Chilton named 21st President of UNH:
https://tnhdigital.com/23304/news/elizabeth-chilton-named-21st-president-of-unh/
https://tnhdigital.com/23304/news/elizabeth-chilton-named-21st-president-of-unh/
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Meet the Provost | Office of the Provost | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
“I spent about 57 years of my life in New York and New England,” she said. “My research is on New England native peoples and ecology. And so I spent some time in New Hampshire…conducting my own research.”
Roughly translated, the new Prez was born and raised in New York State, and has spent 95% of her time in academia in either New York State or Massachusetts. "Spent some time in New Hampshire" probably means participating in a few archaeological digs, here and there. She'll definitely have her finger on the pulse of our State lol ...
... sorry Darius, I hate always being the wet blanket on these things ... is it your impression that she's been hired to address the rough financial situation UNH finds itself in, and will then move on (again)?
"I sometimes like to say that a strategic plan is only fiction unless you can figure out ways to leverage the resources to make good on that strategic plan,” she said. “I know that there’s a desire both to have the next strategic planning process start, as well as take a look at the budget model and resource allocation in order to support it and I’m excited to dig into both of those.”
I mean ... does anyone really talk like this, outside of a Certified Public Accountants convention????
Come back, Dean Dean, all is forgiven!!
Meet the Provost | Office of the Provost | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
“I spent about 57 years of my life in New York and New England,” she said. “My research is on New England native peoples and ecology. And so I spent some time in New Hampshire…conducting my own research.”
Roughly translated, the new Prez was born and raised in New York State, and has spent 95% of her time in academia in either New York State or Massachusetts. "Spent some time in New Hampshire" probably means participating in a few archaeological digs, here and there. She'll definitely have her finger on the pulse of our State lol ...
... sorry Darius, I hate always being the wet blanket on these things ... is it your impression that she's been hired to address the rough financial situation UNH finds itself in, and will then move on (again)?
"I sometimes like to say that a strategic plan is only fiction unless you can figure out ways to leverage the resources to make good on that strategic plan,” she said. “I know that there’s a desire both to have the next strategic planning process start, as well as take a look at the budget model and resource allocation in order to support it and I’m excited to dig into both of those.”
I mean ... does anyone really talk like this, outside of a Certified Public Accountants convention????
Come back, Dean Dean, all is forgiven!!
Unfortunately, CPA-speak is synonymous with being a public university president these days, especially in a state like New Hampshire that ranks third lowest ($4141 per FTE) in support of higher education (only Colorado and Arizona were lower in FY2021). In FY2020, only Vermont ($3542 per FTE) and Arizona ($2514 per FTE) were lower than UNH ($3861), but UNH is in a better position today than they were in FY2013 when they were dead last with $1186 per FTE.
Like most public universities, UNH is tuition-driven, but one area that has kept UNH afloat financially has been its perennial ranking in the top 15% or so in external research funding for all universities (129th out of 890) with $210 mil in FY23, including $66.9 mil from NASA, $14.9 mil from NOAA, $15.7 mil from NSF.
Average tenure for university presidents nationwide has dropped from about 8.5 years in 2006 to about 6.5 years in 2016 to about 5.9 years in 2023. UNH has had nine presidents since 1971, so an average tenure of 5.9 years (Thomas Bonner was 12th serving three years, James Dean was 20th serving six years, and Mark Huddleston was 19th and the outlier serving 12 years preceding James Dean). As for UNH presidential reigns during our hockey hay days, Joan Lietzel served from 1996 to 2002 and Ann Weaver Hart served from 2002 to 2006. Maybe Elizabeth Chilton will oversee a return to UNH hockey prominence.
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Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Unfortunately, CPA-speak is synonymous with being a public university president these days, especially in a state like New Hampshire that ranks third lowest ($4141 per FTE) in support of higher education (only Colorado and Arizona were lower in FY2021). In FY2020, only Vermont ($3542 per FTE) and Arizona ($2514 per FTE) were lower than UNH ($3861), but UNH is in a better position today than they were in FY2013 when they were dead last with $1186 per FTE.
Like most public universities, UNH is tuition-driven, but one area that has kept UNH afloat financially has been its perennial ranking in the top 15% or so in external research funding for all universities (129th out of 890) with $210 mil in FY23, including $66.9 mil from NASA, $14.9 mil from NOAA, $15.7 mil from NSF.
Average tenure for university presidents nationwide has dropped from about 8.5 years in 2006 to about 6.5 years in 2016 to about 5.9 years in 2023. UNH has had nine presidents since 1971, so an average tenure of 5.9 years (Thomas Bonner was 12th serving three years, James Dean was 20th serving six years, and Mark Huddleston was 19th and the outlier serving 12 years preceding James Dean). As for UNH presidential reigns during our hockey hay days, Joan Lietzel served from 1996 to 2002 and Ann Weaver Hart served from 2002 to 2006. Maybe Elizabeth Chilton will oversee a return to UNH hockey prominence.
Snives, you're sounding more and more like the Bill James of statistical academia analysis, mon ami ...
Bill James Baseball Abstract 1986, The - Reference Book - Noble Knight Games
Excellent video!
One of my fondest memories of special events attended at the Boston Museum of Science was one that featured Bill James as the honored guest a couple of decades ago. Must have been a precursor for the cyber metrics that inspired the film Moneyball?