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UNH Offseason Contract Edition.

deltabravo62 said:
https://www.macewangriffins.ca/sports/mice/2023-24p/releases/20240307n5p5ho

I didn't realize there were still draft rights for him at this point since he has never signed.
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Before Dan beat me to posting about WF being only one of two UNH alums remaining in the NHL post-season, I now realize that I should have posted who would be the last UNH alum “playing” in the post-season, or “skating” in the post-season, which would have been Foegele even if the Canucks had won with CdS in his backup net tender role. That Ty Taylor now could be an EBUG net tender in Edmonton is truly bizarre.

Not sure how TT’s trade rights from Tampa Bay to Edmonton via Anaheim on 6 March 2024 escaped the watchful eyes of the WIS research team over two months ago, but also of interest to me is the lack of impact the supposed key pieces of the trade, Sam Carrick and Adam Enrique, have had in the Oilers line up, with the latter playing only in game 2 and the former only in games 6 and 7 of the Canucks series, with neither recording a point, or even a SOG (e.cat!). The lingering WIS question about why the younger Ceci bro would not get the EBUG designation over TT in Edmonton is an interesting one. Also, who will be the EBUG net tender in Dallas? Related, older bro Cody Ceci scored goals in games 1 and 7 against the Canucks.

Really digging deep here to keep this thread on page 1.
 
Scott said:
Nick Cafarelli to RIT, per C-H-C's twitter...or X...or whatever it's called.
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Yup, now posted on the portal site, where apparently Cam Gendron is still homeless. Happy for Nick Cafarelli as RIT is a good team, as UNH well knows based on recent and past history. I wonder if RIT might be coming to the Whitt this year in return for our visit to Rochester last fall?
 
deltabravo62 said:
https://www.macewangriffins.ca/sports/mice/2023-24p/releases/20240307n5p5ho

I didn't realize there were still draft rights for him at this point since he has never signed.
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Neither you nor myself, db62. I put the question of how long an NHL team holds a player's draft rights for to an Internet search engine, and it claims the team holds them until the player is 24 years old. Taylor was born (per hockeydb.com) on 7/5/99, so he turned 24 last summer, and technically will be 24 years old until 7/5/24, when he turns 25. That his rights were traded this past March when he apparently was already 24 makes me seek the alternate explanation, which runs contrary to common sense and all, but the whole situation is curious.

Reading the article, it's an interesting insight into the mindset of a young pro hockey player who was a low round draft pick (afterthought), and has since gone almost a full six (6) years past his draft date without accomplishing much of anything, despite dropping down to leagues FAR removed from the NHL, yet the kid is still convinced he is just a lucky break away from The Show. It's hard letting the dream die, and if it does turn out Taylor (who apparently has never so much as been offered a contract by either Tampa Bay NOR Edmonton) IS actually sitting in on the playoffs as Edmonton's EBUG, then that's the (final?) road he seems to have settled on.

I thought it was interesting to note that his short time in Canadian college hockey was spent in close proximity to the Oilers' practice facility, so between that and the possible EBUG situation - whether or not it arises from the Ceci Jr. link - you put yourself in his skates, and you channel yourself as a kid who shows up at Fenway with your baseball glove, hoping to make the big catch of a foul or home run, and draw the attention of the bored scouts in the stands, who'll descend upon you/your folks immediately to "sign me up" ... sad ...
 
Chuck Murray said:
- you put yourself in his skates, and you channel yourself as a kid who shows up at Fenway with your baseball glove, hoping to make the big catch of a foul or home run, and draw the attention of the bored scouts in the stands, who'll descend upon you/your folks immediately to "sign me up" ... sad ...
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Not just “….a kid ….” but also an adult who brought his glove to Fenway for nearly every game he attended with his STH friend whom since 1978 had field box seats one section down the RF line from the Sox dugout. The one time that the adult forgot to bring his glove, he injured two fingers trying to barehand catch a David Ortiz line drive foul ball. The adult did not try that stupid stunt again.
 
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MS7's latest recruiting coup...
 
Tallies of HEA portal pick ups from Grand Forks Herald site:

BC 1, BU 2, Yukon 2, Maine 4, UMass-Flagship 2, UMass-Bazin 5, Mack 8, UNH 1, NU 5, PC 5, UVM 2

Bentley senior netminder Nicholas Grabko apparently still available, as is UNH senior forward Cam Gendron.
 
Snively65 said:
Tallies of HEA portal pick ups from Grand Forks Herald site:

BC 1, BU 2, Yukon 2, Maine 4, UMass-Flagship 2, UMass-Bazin 5, Mack 8, UNH 1, NU 5, PC 5, UVM 2

Bentley senior netminder Nicholas Grabko apparently still available, as is UNH senior forward Cam Gendron.
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I see old friend Scotty B is still an advocate for quantity over quality, this time of the dumpster-diving variety ...
 
Snively65 said:
When will we learn whom MS7 is bringing in for a second goal keeper for the upcoming season?
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O ye of little faith, Snives! MS7 can move mountains when he puts his mind to it. But it's been a tough year on the old boy, what with coaching a winning D-1 team AND campaigning 24/7 to keep his job ... he's plumb exhausted. I'm sure him and his team will be right on it, at least once the two month vacation is over. Patience is a virtue!!
 
Chuck Murray said:
O ye of little faith, Snives! MS7 can move mountains when he puts his mind to it. But it's been a tough year on the old boy, what with coaching a winning D-1 team AND campaigning 24/7 to keep his job ... he's plumb exhausted. I'm sure him and his team will be right on it, at least once the two month vacation is over. Patience is a virtue!!
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I am lacking patience. Need to replace one Nick (Cafarelli) with another Nick (Grabko), before it is too late. Clock is ticking, MS7.
 
Snively65 said:
I am lacking patience. Need to replace one Nick (Cafarelli) with another Nick (Grabko), before it is too late. Clock is ticking, MS7.
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I am on this page with you Snively. Can’t imagine that there is a young, D1 ready goalie who has been overlooked and a freshman means 4 years and could mess up our other young commit. One thing I have thought about is perhaps working the European market, Sweden appears to be a hot bed but again they may not want a freshmen. Grabko appears to be the most logical choice.
 
It appears that we could have the best starting 6 D men in years. Can’t remember a better 6. The problem is that the following year we will return only 1 (Fitzgerald) and he could look elsewhere. We would potentially start 25/26 with only 1 D man with any experience. Tell me who is going to seat out games in their senior year. No ice, no development. Someone one said the Portal, how many would you need? 2/3, and could you convince the best ones to come.
 
Chuck Murray said:
O ye of little faith, Snives! MS7 can move mountains when he puts his mind to it. But it's been a tough year on the old boy, what with coaching a winning D-1 team AND campaigning 24/7 to keep his job ... he's plumb exhausted. I'm sure him and his team will be right on it, at least once the two month vacation is over. Patience is a virtue!!
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As MS7 inches closer to a junior AARP Membership, my hope is that he's on a Viking River Cruise with the sock and sandal wearing crowd searching, incognito, high and low for an undiscovered netminder who is as wide as I am tall.
 
TheGrouchyCat said:
As MS7 inches closer to a junior AARP Membership, my hope is that he's on a Viking River Cruise with the sock and sandal wearing crowd searching, incognito, high and low for an undiscovered netminder who is as wide as I am tall.
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LOL the only thing I can see MS7 scouting during such a cruise is the quickest shortcut to a bar for happy hour.

ATW, I'm guessing this upcoming D group would be maybe a step or two behind the 2013/2014 blueliners led by TvR, Knodel, Pesce, Agosta, Cleland and Maller/Quast. The year before that with Hardowa was probably not too far behind. Arguably had any of the UNH FF teams of the Umile Era had the blueline quality and depth of the 2014 team, there might actually be some ultimate hardware on display at The Whitt.
 
Chuck Murray said:
LOL the only thing I can see MS7 scouting during such a cruise is the quickest shortcut to a bar for happy hour.

ATW, I'm guessing this upcoming D group would be maybe a step or two behind the 2013/2014 blueliners led by TvR, Knodel, Pesce, Agosta, Cleland and Maller/Quast. The year before that with Hardowa was probably not too far behind. Arguably had any of the UNH FF teams of the Umile Era had the blueline quality and depth of the 2014 team, there might actually be some ultimate hardware on display at The Whitt.
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Chuck, great response. But you may have missed my point that as good as this year might be, we are in for a bog pay back with no easy answers.
 
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