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UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
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FiveHole12
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Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
In my recliner, got me some popcorn.
This should be good.
In my recliner, got me some popcorn.
This should be good.
Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
This thread is beginning to sound like Maine threads of 3 years ago or so. So you are making some progress. Until the beetching and moaning reaches a loud crescendo, the needed changes wont happen. But you guys will get sky high to beat Maine , do just that, and the fanbase will be placated for yet another Umile year.
This thread is beginning to sound like Maine threads of 3 years ago or so. So you are making some progress. Until the beetching and moaning reaches a loud crescendo, the needed changes wont happen. But you guys will get sky high to beat Maine , do just that, and the fanbase will be placated for yet another Umile year.
Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
Im sitting with some wine , cheese and crackers waiting for the counter salvo
In my recliner, got me some popcorn.
This should be good.
Im sitting with some wine , cheese and crackers waiting for the counter salvo
This thread is beginning to sound like Maine threads of 3 years ago or so. So you are making some progress. Until the beetching and moaning reaches a loud crescendo, the needed changes wont happen. But you guys will get sky high to beat Maine , do just that, and the fanbase will be placated for yet another Umile year.
I really do think UNH plays up and down to their competition more than most. I just hope that the Cats have been informed that the Bears are playing great hockey again. These games are always the best for our fans, although the home and home in one weekend is a bit cumbersome this season.
HockeyRef
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This otta be good!
HockeyRef brace yourself, this is going to be a rough ride
Mk! Think I will sit this one out...
NCAA watcher
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Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
Well, except for the steroids, which put him on the bubble.
Well, except for the steroids, which put him on the bubble.
e.cat
Seasoned Veteran
At least it is not as insipid as the lame self-praising on the Maine thread.
e.cat
Seasoned Veteran
Ya. They are in perpetual la la land. They probably think they're going to win it all this year! Talk about groundhog day
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
First of all, thanks for your kind comments. Much appreciated. I work hard to "improve my craft" every day too, and it's good to see you think I've taken it to such an elite level. First ballot, huh?? You flatter me, truly. 
((( ... and P.S. to Watcher - and I'm wagging my finger at you - I've never EVER done steroids!! 
))
You see ... part of me wants to commend you for showing some passion with your comments. This program needs more of that, on AND off the ice. But then after getting all fired up at me (and I'm fine with that - I've taken better shots than yours from much better-informed posters) ... you seem to give them (players,coaches, etc.) the good ol' "but they're trying their best" get-out-of-jail-free card, as if just trying really really hard makes being a mediocre program OK, or even something to be admired.
Just to be clear here ... do you know what the definition of "mediocre" is? I'll tell you, and save you the trip to your computer. It means "average or ordinary in quality". UNH is currently floating around with a .500 overall record, and a .500 record in Hockey East. There was a high profile coach in these here parts once upon a time named Bill Parcells, and he famously said "You are what your record says you are". The players and coaches on UNH may all be totally wonderful people, and they may indeed be working their hardest to get better every day. Guess what? So is their competition. Until their results improve, they remain a mediocre D-I hockey program.
Today's next word is "complacency". This is defined as "a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of or unconcerned with unpleasant realities". I'll go ahead now and put these two words now in a sentence to show how they apply to this subject:
Many long-time fans of UNH Hockey are troubled by the apparent sense of complacency exhibited by leadership in UNH administration, whom they view as curiously inactive and unaware of the program's slow but steady slide from among the HE elite to their current state of mediocrity.
Now I'm guessing from your arguably-ageist "19 oh what" comment and the number of your posts that you're probably relatively young, naive and impressionable, so I'm going to let you skate on that comment. If you're not old enough to remember even 10 years ago, and your frame of reference for what is the "norm" with UNH Hockey is just the last few years, then I can probably at least understand why you seem so eager to act as chief apologist for the status quo with the current state of the program.
I haven't called out Coach Umile (at least not any time recently), other than to make suggestions about how a different approach to his staff might bring new energy to the program. I mean, it's really not that crazy an idea; after all, guys like Coach York (5 D-1 titles and counting between BC and BG), Coach Parker (3 D-1 titles) and even good ol' Walshy (*2 D-1 titles) all took that approach. Coach Umile and his "blue skies" boss have had a front row seat to most of those D-1 titles. But I guess they know better, eh?
You can call it negative. I call it reality, which means this is a D-1 sport in one of (if not THE) most competitive conferences in college hockey. Most (if not all) of the players are on some form of scholarship, for whch they've competed for at least the last 10 years of their lives. Some harbor dreams of playing professionally for a long-term living. All the while, fans are asked to pay top dollar for seats at an arena that was basically built primarily with college hockey in mind. Not checkers, not Outward Bound, and certainly not for some Greater Madbury 4-H convention. There are huge advertising dollars tied up all around said rink. So if you want to be "Pollyanna" (I'll let you research that one for yourself ) and treat this as nothing different than a glorified Boy Scouts program where we're all just along to help boost everyone's self-esteem, then good for you. Enjoy.
(signed) Chuck Murray, Class of 1903
P.P.S. - get off my gol'darned lawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First of all, thanks for your kind comments.
Much appreciated. I work hard to "improve my craft" every day too, and it's good to see you think I've taken it to such an elite level. First ballot, huh?? You flatter me, truly. ((( ... and P.S. to Watcher - and I'm wagging my finger at you - I've never EVER done steroids!! ))You see ... part of me wants to commend you for showing some passion with your comments. This program needs more of that, on AND off the ice. But then after getting all fired up at me (and I'm fine with that - I've taken better shots than yours from much better-informed posters) ... you seem to give them (players,coaches, etc.) the good ol' "but they're trying their best" get-out-of-jail-free card, as if just trying really really hard makes being a mediocre program OK, or even something to be admired.
Just to be clear here ... do you know what the definition of "mediocre" is? I'll tell you, and save you the trip to your computer. It means "average or ordinary in quality". UNH is currently floating around with a .500 overall record, and a .500 record in Hockey East. There was a high profile coach in these here parts once upon a time named Bill Parcells, and he famously said "You are what your record says you are". The players and coaches on UNH may all be totally wonderful people, and they may indeed be working their hardest to get better every day. Guess what? So is their competition. Until their results improve, they remain a mediocre D-I hockey program.
Today's next word is "complacency". This is defined as "a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of or unconcerned with unpleasant realities". I'll go ahead now and put these two words now in a sentence to show how they apply to this subject:
Many long-time fans of UNH Hockey are troubled by the apparent sense of complacency exhibited by leadership in UNH administration, whom they view as curiously inactive and unaware of the program's slow but steady slide from among the HE elite to their current state of mediocrity.
Now I'm guessing from your arguably-ageist "19 oh what" comment and the number of your posts that you're probably relatively young, naive and impressionable, so I'm going to let you skate on that comment. If you're not old enough to remember even 10 years ago, and your frame of reference for what is the "norm" with UNH Hockey is just the last few years, then I can probably at least understand why you seem so eager to act as chief apologist for the status quo with the current state of the program.
I haven't called out Coach Umile (at least not any time recently), other than to make suggestions about how a different approach to his staff might bring new energy to the program. I mean, it's really not that crazy an idea; after all, guys like Coach York (5 D-1 titles and counting between BC and BG), Coach Parker (3 D-1 titles) and even good ol' Walshy (*2 D-1 titles) all took that approach. Coach Umile and his "blue skies" boss have had a front row seat to most of those D-1 titles. But I guess they know better, eh?
You can call it negative. I call it reality, which means this is a D-1 sport in one of (if not THE) most competitive conferences in college hockey. Most (if not all) of the players are on some form of scholarship, for whch they've competed for at least the last 10 years of their lives. Some harbor dreams of playing professionally for a long-term living. All the while, fans are asked to pay top dollar for seats at an arena that was basically built primarily with college hockey in mind. Not checkers, not Outward Bound, and certainly not for some Greater Madbury 4-H convention. There are huge advertising dollars tied up all around said rink. So if you want to be "Pollyanna" (I'll let you research that one for yourself
) and treat this as nothing different than a glorified Boy Scouts program where we're all just along to help boost everyone's self-esteem, then good for you. Enjoy.(signed) Chuck Murray, Class of 1903
P.P.S. - get off my gol'darned lawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In case you missed the latest USCHO rankings, Chuck, mighty Bentley is one point ahead of UNH this week, and just may have a better chance for a NCAA auto seed this year. But, UNH still holds a huge advantage in SOG and SOS.
walrus
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I don't see anyone praising themselves
NCAA watcher
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Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
Well, the forward recruits in the pipeline are a pretty good group, but the defenseman will need some bolstering.
As long as they don't hire a safe "older" technician (ahem, neighbors to the North) they should be able to prop themselves back up in the second tier, back over PC and Lowell, and on par with Notre Dame. BC and now with Quinn's recruiting, BU, will again be 1&2.
Well, the forward recruits in the pipeline are a pretty good group, but the defenseman will need some bolstering.
As long as they don't hire a safe "older" technician (ahem, neighbors to the North) they should be able to prop themselves back up in the second tier, back over PC and Lowell, and on par with Notre Dame. BC and now with Quinn's recruiting, BU, will again be 1&2.
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The Zlax45
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Both PC and Lowell have better facilities than UNH with coaches that right now are better than the turtleneck!
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
Pros and cons of the coaches aside (and while conceding that Leaman and Bazin are the two hottest coaching properties currently in HE, let's not forget that neither of those guys has yet attained anything that Coach Umile already hasn't) ... I'm not sure either of those schools have better hockey facilities than UNH. Sure, Providence is upgrading, but let's not get too giddy over a revamp of Walter Brown Arena South. As for Lowell, the facility itself is fine, but I don't see it being any better than a "push" with The Whitt.
Just trying out my New Year's Resolution for 2014 to be more positive and less negative. 
Pros and cons of the coaches aside (and while conceding that Leaman and Bazin are the two hottest coaching properties currently in HE, let's not forget that neither of those guys has yet attained anything that Coach Umile already hasn't) ... I'm not sure either of those schools have better hockey facilities than UNH. Sure, Providence is upgrading, but let's not get too giddy over a revamp of Walter Brown Arena South. As for Lowell, the facility itself is fine, but I don't see it being any better than a "push" with The Whitt.
Just trying out my New Year's Resolution for 2014 to be more positive
and less negative. sterlippo1
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Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread
I dont know what the other facilities for the respective hockey teams on campus are like but to me Tsongas is a nicer facility by at least a few lengths (and they serve beer).................AND you can actually walk to your car without standing in line for 20 minutes
I dont know what the other facilities for the respective hockey teams on campus are like but to me Tsongas is a nicer facility by at least a few lengths (and they serve beer
).................AND you can actually walk to your car without standing in line for 20 minutes- Status