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UNH Wildcats 2012-2013 Season Thread

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Redhead said:
Want a legitimately scary experience? Try being a Maine fan in the age of TIMMAY. Interested in trading players, goalies, coaches, arenas?...you name it. UHN barely made the playoffs last year now they're #5. Enjoy the ride.
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Why in god's name would anyone but Merrimack or Providence want to trade for the Alfond? Absolute dump.
 
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Snively65 said:
Thanks for the offer, but not free on Sunday.

However, hoping to visit Tsongas for UNH-UML game on Friday night; I wonder what my chances are for getting tickets at the gate this year?
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Milan Lucic will be there signing autographs so I imagine it will be a decent crowd.

On the subject of UNH-UML tickets, Seacoast Deals & Viva Manch Vegas are running a deal with 4 tickets for $30 (4 tickets for the price of 2)

http://vivamanchvegasdeals.com/products.cfm?cid=148 (87 left)
http://www.seacoastdeals.com/business.cfm?id=14087&pid=1622 (54 left)
 
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I am curious as to why Vermont has a free web video for their games and New Hampshire hasn't gotten around to that yet?
 
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Well, we won. I'd say it was one of the weaker efforts this year. Not a lot of successful offensive plays, mostly shots from the parameters. We're going to need to step it up X3 to compete with a hot BU team. I think we'll have to play our best game of the year on Sunday. BU is playing well - a very different team when compared to our earlier match-up.

EDIT: How am I still in the red? I got absolutely rocked by NU fans when I predicted a team (not UNH) would beat NU in the 2010 1/4 finals... good God.
 
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Saetia22 said:
Well, we won. I'd say it was one of the weaker efforts this year. Not a lot of successful offensive plays, mostly shots from the parameters. We're going to need to step it up X3 to compete with a hot BU team. I think we'll have to play our best game of the year on Sunday. BU is playing well - a very different team when compared to our earlier match-up.

EDIT: How am I still in the red? I got absolutely rocked by NU fans when I predicted a team (not UNH) would beat NU in the 2010 1/4 finals... good God.
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I actually thought that the UNH offense played fine tonight, but the UML defense clogged the middle really well and did a good job clearing loose pucks. Burke's injury late in the first meant line shake ups for the remainder of the game. DeSmith's play of late has been sensational.
 
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While it wasn't an outstanding game offensively, UNH continues to impress me in the defensive zone, especially with the poise they are playing with. Even with decent stretches of possession in the 2nd and 3rd, the UNH d'men never panicked, they relied on their positioning and covered for each other nicely. DeSmith is ridiculously solid and reacts so quickly. I know they haven't exactly played good offensive teams during this stretch, and Sunday will be a much bigger test, but To win anything when it matters, you need to have a solid back end and they have that. Once again they were opportunistic offensively. They didn't make a lot of pretty plays, but they were a few bounces away from being up 6-0. I haven't seen a lot of games in person, but I was satisfied with they way they won in an arena that in recent history has been a house of horrors for them, I believe?
 
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WAAAAY off topic, but...

If any of you guys are in greater Washington, DC, the UNH Alumni Association is having a gamewatch at noon tomorrow for the UNH-Towson football game. They have the whole lower floor of P.J. Clarke's... food specials, UNH related trinkets to keep... the works. Should be fun. Please pass this along to UNH folks you know in the area.

http://pjclarkes.com/dc/

Advanced apology for crossposting, but I'm going to put this in tonight's game-thread, as well.
 
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Snively65 said:
I actually thought that the UNH offense played fine tonight, but the UML defense clogged the middle really well and did a good job clearing loose pucks. Burke's injury late in the first meant line shake ups for the remainder of the game. DeSmith's play of late has been sensational.
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Fair enough. I appreciate a different perspective. From what I say on the webcast, it seemed most of their shots were wristers from the tops of the circles, and they didn't really have any nice passing plays that lead to a more effective scoring opportunity.

So pending Burke and Camper miss a few games... I want Willows to take a fulltime role on third line, and then we continue swapping freshmen on the 4th. I'm kinda shocked about the lack of time Willows has had. In my opinion there is potential waiting to be unlocked, but even if its not unlocked, I don't think he hurts us.
 
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Saetia22 said:
Fair enough. I appreciate a different perspective. From what I say on the webcast, it seemed most of their shots were wristers from the tops of the circles, and they didn't really have any nice passing plays that lead to a more effective scoring opportunity.
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I was sitting on the offensive blue line for the second period and UML was getting in the way of everything. There were a lot of perimeter shots as you mentioned, and I felt early on they were making it too easy on Carr. Many of the perimeter shots were taken with at least one if not two UNH players screening Carr so if more had gotten through it may have led to better results. Ultimately it appears they are more careful with the puck and have a focused effort on defense, playing conservative on offense, and scoring on defensive breakdowns or excellent breakouts caused by their own defense.

I also noticed they began to have success exploiting UML's shot blocking, the TVR goal was scored because one UML player was injured blocking a shot, and he was able to skate around a defender who went down to block. This got him close with a screen to unleash the shot. I'd like to see them open it up a little on offense but their formula is working so far.
 
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another DeSmith shutout? seriously??:eek: Do we really have to wait until Jan 11th to see UNH-BC?:confused: best of luck sunday, please win:)
 
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another DeSmith shutout? seriously??:eek: Do we really have to wait until Jan 11th to see UNH-BC?:confused: best of luck sunday, please win:)
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So, in crunching numbers last night...
2 goals allowed in the last 5 games (1 in regulation).
6 goals allowed in 7 hockey east games
3 of those goals were in the first period against Northeastern at home
Outside of that period, 3 goals allowed in the other 20 periods (plus overtime at UMass)- .45 GAA (ish)
Outside that period, 2 goals allowed in regulation (20 periods) - .3 GAA
In league play...

Tough to continue those kind of numbers, but it's been amazingly good so far....
 
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What really impresses me is that, in nine games, UNH has given up more than one goal only twice in a period (NU and SCSU).
 
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I also noticed they began to have success exploiting UML's shot blocking, the TVR goal was scored because one UML player was injured blocking a shot, and he was able to skate around a defender who went down to block. This got him close with a screen to unleash the shot. I'd like to see them open it up a little on offense but their formula is working so far.
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Exactly. TVR saw the screen and made no mistake in beating Carr to upper left over his stick hand. But, I still think that UML watched a lot of film showing the early season success UNH had crashing the middle and for the most part put a stop to that by clogging the middle on Friday night. Will be interesting to see if Parker has the Terriers try the same thing on Sunday afternoon.
 
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Anybody making the trip to Colorado? I'm headed there from Minneapolis Friday morning, going to try to catch Saturday's game, at a minimum (DU). May have to eschew the CC game as my buddy's band is playing in Boulder Friday night. If anyone's around, a DU pre-game might be a good time.
 
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wildcatdc said:
Anybody making the trip to Colorado? I'm headed there from Minneapolis Friday morning, going to try to catch Saturday's game, at a minimum (DU). May have to eschew the CC game as my buddy's band is playing in Boulder Friday night. If anyone's around, a DU pre-game might be a good time.
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My brother who lives in Lakewood will be attending both games, as he is not coming back east for a visit until late December when we will attend the Ledyard Classic in Hanover. If you post something here about a UNH alums get together, I will let him know the plans.

Nice win by Wildcats at Agannis this afternoon. I believe that DeSmith set the all-time UNH record for consecutive minutes without giving up a goal before getting beaten for the only BU goal early in the second. Good play by Goumas all over the ice and great to see Maxim Gaudreault get his first career goal in his fourth game played (he is from Annapolis, Md., not Quebec, eh).
 
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