UNH Wildcats - '10 Playoff Edition

[unhpuckfan2001]

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I don't like many of the BC fans (especially on here; in person it's a bit different), but I like Coach York.

My sentiments, exactly. He's credit to both Hockey East, and the entire game of college hockey.

 

[WildKitty]

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Was York the one who admitted to "flipping a coin" over the phone with the other Comm Ave Team over who was wearing their reds in some little, no-importance game? Brilliant, whichever it was.

 

[e.cat]

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There are few coaches as classy as coach York. And to be honest, Other than UNH, there's no team I enjoy watching more than BC. The fans make it difficult to want them to win, but I love the way BC plays, the games against UNH are often some of the best, most clean, high flying games every year...

THanks for posting that quote

ditto.

Loved the line about Eaves' kid and BC.

Wish I could tell you who scored for us, but that's gone from my mental hard drive.

But yes, that was quite a squad. How's this for just a handful?:

Forwards:
Ralph Cox (126 goals in 127 college games!)
Bruce Crowder
Barry Edgar
John Fontas
Bobby Gould
Bob Miller

Defensemen:
Frankie Roy
Tim Burke
Sean Coady
Jim Harvie
Rod Langway
Paul Powers

Yikes!

talk about gettin' off the bus with the best talent(Parker likes to use that line!)

 

[unh_hockey]

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There are few coaches as classy as coach York. And to be honest, Other than UNH, there's no team I enjoy watching more than BC. The fans make it difficult to want them to win, but I love the way BC plays, the games against UNH are often some of the best, most clean, high flying games every year...

It started with a few guys almost 10 years ago, but I think most of that is for show. The BC fans i've met in person are lagit.

 

[jcarter7669]

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It started with a few guys almost 10 years ago, but I think most of that is for show. The BC fans i've met in person are lagit.

I agree, they can be real jerkoff's but every once in a while they let their guard down and show you they can be human.

But some definitely are just that way.....NickP....JD.....especially that fool.

What about that UML fans.........have they always had that chip on their shoulder or what?

 

[NCAA watcher]

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Wish I could tell you who scored for us, but that's gone from my mental hard drive.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...833,4518918&dq=mike-eaves+new-hampshire&hl=en

 

[bomberhockey]

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[ Rod Langway (a football recruit, whose name is on the Stanley Cup and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Who'd a thunk?)
A Vermont Football Recruit until the demise of UVM Football.

 

[snively]

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http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...833,4518918&dq=mike-eaves+new-hampshire&hl=en

Thank you, Watcher -- amazing that you could/did find that clipping (cool search engine!). Crowder, Burns and Fontas -- not bad talent, eh?

e.cat -- loved the Parker line about getting offf the bus with the best talent. He/they sure did that a lot back then...

bomber: indeed. Their loss was our gain -- helluva linebacker. Hockey was arguably his "minor"...

 

[buoldtimer]

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Was York the one who admitted to "flipping a coin" over the phone with the other Comm Ave Team over who was wearing their reds in some little, no-importance game? Brilliant, whichever it was.

That was Jack Parker. The scene took place a day prior to the 1978 NCAA Championship Game.

 

[WildKitty]

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Thanks, Old Timer - I thought I had SOMETHING mixed up there!

Still bloody brilliant.

 

[Darius]

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Sadly, no. We beat Brown in OT (4-3?) to advance to our first ever trip to the Garden for the ECAC's, then beat Cornell 10-9 in double (!) OT in the semis, before BU topped us in the championship game 8-6

Thanks. I must be thinking of one of the OT wins because the free beer, which we did not receive, chant was for real. The BU part must be a wishful recollection as beating BU back then was as big or bigger than beating ME in the 90s. Let's go 'cats, beat Cornell!

 

[acs64]

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Got a bit excited seeing that Priceless gave UNH a vote.. until i started looking and realized that every team has a vote from Priceless!!!

Priceless dont know chit about hawkey anyway. You got a vote from me, so ur a lock to make the FF this year. Bank on it.

 

[Aerman]

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You got a vote from me, so ur a lock to make the FF this year. Bank on it.

The new meds must really agree with you. This is a much more mild-mannered AC than years gone by

 

[acs64]

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The new meds must really agree with you. This is a much more mild-mannered AC than years gone by

You got only a couple hundred posts....how far back do you go? I am a libra man....fair and balanced.

 

[MarkL]

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Nope, we beat Cornell in 2 OT 10-9, then lost to BU the next night in a defensive struggle, 8-6. BU had a comeback of their own in the semis. They were down to Clarkson by two with less than five minutes to go, then scored three to win in regulation. All offense back then. We never beat BU in the ECAC's until we hosted them in a quarterfinal series in 1983, the one where Jerry August pulled a nutty. The next year they beat us at Walter Brown in the stupid mini-game in the last ECAC game for both teams.

I was out in Detroit for those games. It was my first exposure to Wisconsin hockey and, just as important, their fans. Badger fans are the best in all of hockey. I think they truly are the seventh man for their team. Anyway, Wisconsin had some great players on that team, including Eaves, Steve Alley, and sophomore Mark Johnson. His dad, Badger Bob (It's A Great Day for Hockey) was the coach. Their goalie was Julian Baretta, who was always introduced while skating through the gauntlet of Wisconsin players to the tune of "Penny Lane" by the Beatles. Pretty quirky.

My recollection is, at the start anyway, that the Badgers didn't respect UNH. But we had some pretty good offense and I do remember that Joe Rando had the game of his life on defense and Magnarelli, who could be unbelievably shaky, played very well. I too, do not remember who scored for UNH but we were ahead in the third period, 2-1, before Wisconsin tied it up. I was sitting across the ice from the winning face-off, which was to the left of Magnarelli. Had no idea the puck went into the net until I saw the Badgers celebrating. Got pretty drunk that night. BTW, I've been told that, somewhere, there is a VHS or DVD of that game. I'd love to get my hands on it.

Bob Miller had 89 points that year and his linemate Ralph Cox had 40 goals. Absolutely will not see stuff like that ever again. There were 8 guys on that '77 team who played in the NHL (Miller, Bobby Gould, Bruce Crowder, Jon Fontas, Dave Lumley, Gary Burns, Bob Francis, and Rod Langway, plus Cox and Tim Burke who were All-Americans but never got a sniff of the big show. Langway was a two-time Norris Trophy winner and Lumley had the good fortune to play on Gretzky's line for awhile in Edmonton and, because of it, at one time held the NHL record for goals in consecutive games. He's probably one of the most underrated players in UNH history.

The mention of Paul Powers playing defense brings to mind Charlie Holt's habit of taking puckhandling forwards and moving then back to defense. In his time he had Guy Smith, Gordie Clark, Bruce Crowder, Dave Lumley, Andy Brickley, and Jeff Lazaro, all future NHL forwards, play all or at least part of a year on defense. The whole idea was to get the offense moving. This led to a lot of goals at both ends of the ice. A lot of fun to watch, for sure, but not much defense. Goalies had no help in those days.

Great memories, but let's think of this Friday. UNH has to bring Tiger's A game (the one on the golf course), if they expect to win. A strong first period is a must. Jump on the Big Red early, make it a skating game, and play great transition. That, and solid game by Foster, are the keys to victory in my book.

I was late arriving to this discussion but needed to add my memories of this great time in UNH Hockey history. I too attended UNH from 1973-1977. I recall that September of Dave Lumley's freshmen year. It was as early as the first weekend of school when several upperclassmen in the dorm decided to show this kid from Ontario what "cow tipping" was all about. I will give Lumley credit, he did not give up right away. I can not describe the look and smell of him covered in cow s_ _ t. Lumley was a great guy. Extremely friendly and like most of us at UNH at the time enjoed his cocktails. The first exhibition game rolls around and he urges a bunch of us from the dorm to come watch him play his first game. So as a freshmen it took few shifts before he jumped on the ice. We all watched in amazement has he made about three skating strides and laid a two hander to the head of an opposing team player with his stick. Game Misconduct!!!.. His debut lasted about 10 seconds. And we all thought he was a nice guy. he should have been arrested.

 

[unh1982]

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I was late arriving to this discussion but needed to add my memories of this great time in UNH Hockey history. I too attended UNH from 1973-1977. I recall that September of Dave Lumley's freshmen year. It was as early as the first weekend of school when several upperclassmen in the dorm decided to show this kid from Ontario what "cow tipping" was all about. I will give Lumley credit, he did not give up right away. I can not describe the look and smell of him covered in cow s_ _ t. Lumley was a great guy. Extremely friendly and like most of us at UNH at the time enjoed his cocktails. The first exhibition game rolls around and he urges a bunch of us from the dorm to come watch him play his first game. So as a freshmen it took few shifts before he jumped on the ice. We all watched in amazement has he made about three skating strides and laid a two hander to the head of an opposing team player with his stick. Game Misconduct!!!.. His debut lasted about 10 seconds. And we all thought he was a nice guy. he should have been arrested.

And there were two players who had a car accident , one died warren brown the other i dont think finished the season , it was said he might have been there best.

 

[bomberhockey]

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And there were two players who had a car accident , one died warren brown the other i dont think finished the season , it was said he might have been there best.

There were 2 others on their way back to Canada for break during the gas crisis. Warren Brown's car with extra gas in tanks on a a foggy night. A truck rear ended them setting car on fire. I think one of the others was Dave Bertolo?? He wore gloves under his gloves to protect his burnt hands from infection and skin break down for the rest of the season, burnt them putting out Brown.

 

[bcfan131]

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I hadn't seen this until tonight, from the USCHO article on the brackets:

“I’m really excited to get three teams in from our conference,” York said of Hockey East. “During the last few weeks we were always talking about is it going to be one, is it going to be two. Three looked like a reach there for a while. Also with Hockey East, it’s all different brackets. Now we can really root for each other. Now it’s, ‘Hey let’s get as many teams.’ We can get three teams in the Frozen Four. It happened in Anaheim [in 1999] . I’ll be texting [Vermont coach] Kevin [Sneddon] and [New Hampshire coach] Dick [Umile] this morning, ‘I’ll see you at Ford Field.’”

I don't like many of the BC fans (especially on here; in person it's a bit different), but I like Coach York.

York is a huge Hockey East guy. At the very beginning of the Battle of Comm. Ave movie, they ask both York and Parker if they were rooting for the other one in their most recent national championship game appearances. York said yes, Parker said no. It's pretty funny watching it, because the way they each respond to the question is stereotypical of how fans around the league typically perceive both coaches.

 

[RockTheWhit]

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I was lucky enough to sit in on the press conferences at the garden this weekend. When York entered the room Saturday night after BC won the championship, he asked one of the reporters if he knew the field for the tournament. When the guy replied that both UNH and Vermont had made it in, York's face lit up with delight and he said "Oh, that's great!" Truly classy guy.

 

[JB]

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York is a huge Hockey East guy. At the very beginning of the Battle of Comm. Ave movie, they ask both York and Parker if they were rooting for the other one in their most recent national championship game appearances. York said yes, Parker said no. It's pretty funny watching it, because the way they each respond to the question is stereotypical of how fans around the league typically perceive both coaches.

I think Parker is a funny interview to listen to, and a baby on the bench.

I think York is a boring interview to listen to, and gentlemen on the bench. I also think York believes a rising tide lifts all boats. He probably saw it as good for BC for BU to win it all. He probably sees it as if BC doesn't win it all it is good for BC if UNH or UVM somehow pull it off. Make the conference better you make yourself better.

Then there are the fans... I like the BU ones better at this point.