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UNH Offseason Contract Edition.

Well into NHL free agent signing season and still no word on anyone picking up JvR for next season. Rumors had the Ducks, Avs (Parise and Cogliano retired), and Panthers (Tarasenko left) as possible destinations in need of a middle six forward for cheap money.

TvR is signed with the Caps on a three-year contract through the 2025/26 season for $9 mil ($3 mil/ season).

Pesce just signed a six-year contract with the Devils through the 2029/30 season for $33 mil ($5.5 mil/season).

Foegele just signed a three-year contract with the Kings through the 2026/27 season for $10.5 mil ($3.5 mil/season).

CdS just signed a three-year contract with the Stars through the 2026/27 season for $3 mil ($1 mil/season).

Crookshank just signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Senators for the 2024/25 season for $775,000.
 
Snively65 said:
Well into NHL free agent signing season and still no word on anyone picking up JvR for next season. Rumors had the Ducks, Avs (Parise and Cogliano retired), and Panthers (Tarasenko left) as possible destinations in need of a middle six forward for cheap money.

TvR is signed with the Caps on a three-year contract through the 2025/26 season for $9 mil ($3 mil/ season).

Pesce just signed a six-year contract with the Devils through the 2029/30 season for $33 mil ($5.5 mil/season).

Foegele just signed a three-year contract with the Kings through the 2026/27 season for $10.5 mil ($3.5 mil/season).

CdS just signed a three-year contract with the Stars through the 2026/27 season for $3 mil ($1 mil/season).

Crookshank just signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Senators for the 2024/25 season for $775,000.
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JvR is pretty much cooked. He's not really even a "middle six forward" at this point, at least not at the NHL level. He could still find a home with a team that values him as a power play specialist to stand in front of the goalie, but most NHL power plays have moved on from the old model to one that focuses on perimeter possession and seam passes for one-time weak side shots, to move opposing goalies from post to post. So-called "bumpers" in the high slot have to some degree made the old JvR-friendly model functionally obsolete. We're probably gonna find out in the next few months how badly JvR still wants to play (or not). Vancouver lost some pop, so maybe that's where he lands? Question is, does a 35 year old guy (36 in midseason next year) who has earned well into 8 figures and played his entire career in the Eastern time zone want to go West for mere peanuts, and only a fair shot at a Cup??

Kudos to brother TvR for a very good contract at his age (33). In the meantime, little bro Brendan looks to have hung up his competitive skates for good after netting a haul of six (6) career goals in the Coast over parts of three seasons, and is using his Northeastern Masters' degree to run his own little start-up, doing God knows what.

(2) Brendan van Riemsdyk | LinkedIn

CDS has basically become the Ty Conklin of his generation as a career NHL backup, which is remarkable considering how he almost drove his whole career into a ditch a few Labor Day weekends ago in Durham. As far as Crookshank, as discussed earlier, this is pretty much "make or break" season for him in terms of an NHL career. Good luck all.
 
Chuck Murray said:
JvR is pretty much cooked. He's not really even a "middle six forward" at this point, at least not at the NHL level. He could still find a home with a team that values him as a power play specialist to stand in front of the goalie, but most NHL power plays have moved on from the old model to one that focuses on perimeter possession and seam passes for one-time weak side shots, to move opposing goalies from post to post. So-called "bumpers" in the high slot have to some degree made the old JvR-friendly model functionally obsolete. We're probably gonna find out in the next few months how badly JvR still wants to play (or not). Vancouver lost some pop, so maybe that's where he lands? Question is, does a 35 year old guy (36 in midseason next year) who has earned well into 8 figures and played his entire career in the Eastern time zone want to go West for mere peanuts, and only a fair shot at a Cup??

Kudos to brother TvR for a very good contract at his age (33). In the meantime, little bro Brendan looks to have hung up his competitive skates for good after netting a haul of six (6) career goals in the Coast over parts of three seasons, and is using his Northeastern Masters' degree to run his own little start-up, doing God knows what.

(2) Brendan van Riemsdyk | LinkedIn

CDS has basically become the Ty Conklin of his generation as a career NHL backup, which is remarkable considering how he almost drove his whole career into a ditch a few Labor Day weekends ago in Durham. As far as Crookshank, as discussed earlier, this is pretty much "make or break" season for him in terms of an NHL career. Good luck all.
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You are probably right about JvR’s NHL prospects for this coming season, although my guess is that he would play for “peanuts” if given the opportunity. JvR leads UNH in NHL games played over his 15 seasons (1011), ahead on Rod Langway (994 NHL games over 15 seasons, although Langway also played 52 games in the WHA before his NHL run).

Any ideas on what contracts pay in the Swiss league? Dan Winnik, who is third in NHL games played for UNH alums (978 over 14 seasons), has played the past six seasons for Geneva Sevette. One cannot say that either of these guys has not been durable, and my guess is that either might play for minimal compensation for the love of the game.

TvR’s current contract will give him 12 NH seasons played, Pesce’s new six-year contract could give him 15 NHL seasons played, matching Langway and JvR, and Foegele’s new three-year contract could give him nine NHL seasons played. Foegele has played all 82 regular season games in two of the past three seasons.

With his new three-year contract, CdS (165 NHL games played over six seasons, 71-54-21) could surpass Ty Conklin’s 216 NHL games played (96-67-21) over eight seasons.
 
The original was not from him, I think it was a retweet if that matters. I saw it a couple of days ago and figured folks would be all over it. Found it again yesterday and showed my wife. Can’t seem to find it now, but what
 
About a page back there was mention of a tweet that Ryan Conmy “was a real dog” at the Kings camp, which led me to be provocative and speculate that maybe Conmy would be accelerated in development and be “one and done” at UNH.
 
After the Whistle said:
WiSh I could tell you Chuck? Old post just appeared. What I had submitted was that they have usually welcomed the incoming freshmen by now. Yes. I am aware that most of us already know. They should build a little excitement. I know, why start now?
would also like to see the schedule.
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When was our schedule released last summer?
 
Um...was told the schedule was live but doesn't seem to be? Opening with Stonehill exhibition Oct 5..

Out of Conference: Bentley (first home game) Dartmouth RPI RIT Princeton QU LIU ...exhibition mid Dec with Under 18 team.

Sorry folks I tried to type in the sched but this site is being a pain in the glutes so I gave up. Hopefully they will put up the schedule...soon.
 
Thanks for schedule, Scott and HR.

Good to see that Bentley is back on the UNH schedule. Their all-time series is tied 2-2-0, but Bentley leads in total goals scored 15-12.
 
Snively65 said:
Thanks for schedule, Scott and HR.

Good to see that Bentley is back on the UNH schedule. Their all-time series is tied 2-2-0, but Bentley leads in total goals scored 15-12.
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What's Bentley got this season? Not that it matters; we struggle with them it seems..
 
HockeyRef said:
What's Bentley got this season? Not that it matters; we struggle with them it seems..
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This question reminds of one in 2008 when Holy Cross was coming to the Whitt for the first time (the Crusaders had played UNH once previously at Snively in December 1986). The question was something like: “Who is Holy Cross and what kind of team will they bring to the Whitt?”

The first post in answer was very long, longer than most of Chuck’s posts, and began something like: “The first part of the question should be be not ‘Who is Holy Cross,’ but rather ‘What is the Holy Cross?’ and then went on for several paragraphs to explain the cross as a cruciform sign to involve the blessing of Christ, especially for touching the forehead, breast, and shoulders; then covered a short history of the Roman Catholic Church; and finally focused on the history of the College of Holy Cross, including its founding in the 1830’s for men who were not allowed to enroll in other colleges and universities at the time. Finally, the poster was much less verbose in answering the second part of the question with something like: “Given that the game will be played on ice, most likely Holy Cross will be bringing their men’s ice hockey team to the Whitt.” I sure wish that these two posts could be found in the Fan Forum archives.

But, I digress. One of Bentley’s goalie tandem pair last season, Nick Grabko (2.40 GAA, 0.908 Sv%) transferred to Alaska-Fairbanks for his extra Covid season, leaving rising junior Connor Hasley (2.22 GAA, 0.905 Sv%) likely to play most of the minutes in net this season. At forward the Falcons will have junior Stephen Castagna, along with sophomores Ryan Mansfield, Kelian Hjartarson, and Chase Davis, with the four combining for 29 goals last season. I think that the Falcons will be weaker on their blue line this season, led by Sam Duerr (6 goals, 7 assists), rising senior transfer from Maine last season. This coming season will be only HC Andy Jones’ second at Bentley, who was formerly one of Norm Bazin’s assistants at UML.
 
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James van Riemsdyk is still out there looking for an NHL job in a dwindling free agent marketplace. Vancouver looks to have taken a pass, and signed former DRW fourth line winger Daniel Sprong over the weekend. TML may be mulling making an offer to bring JvR back, with minimal cap space left to offer him. Increasingly looking like he might not catch on with an NHL contract before training camps start. Is a PTO option in the mix?
 
Chuck Murray said:
James van Riemsdyk is still out there looking for an NHL job in a dwindling free agent marketplace. Vancouver looks to have taken a pass, and signed former DRW fourth line winger Daniel Sprong over the weekend. TML may be mulling making an offer to bring JvR back, with minimal cap space left to offer him. Increasingly looking like he might not catch on with an NHL contract before training camps start. Is a PTO option in the mix?
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He is probably the best free agent left out there at this point. However, if a club doesn't scoop him up, and it comes to a PTO, at this point in his career I think he'll chose to retire.
 
d.gerry said:
He is probably the best free agent left out there at this point. However, if a club doesn't scoop him up, and it comes to a PTO, at this point in his career I think he'll chose to retire.
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Personally, I'd opt for Tyler Johnson, who has been involved with Cup teams in Tampa Bay ... but after being a consistently plus player his whole career, the last two years in Chicago have been eye-openers (and not the good way).

Top 5 remaining NHL free agents still available to sign | July 22, 2024 (msn.com)
 
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