UNH Wildcats 2014/2015 - Wait 'Til Next Year!!!

[e.cat]

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http://mmqb.si.com/2014/12/04/helmetless-football-practice-university-of-new-hampshire/

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that Felger.

 

[HockeyRef]

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Thanks so much for letting me know that HockeyRef. Means a lot to me. I hope that eventually you'll have just as many (or even more) recollections of great UNH hockey moments, and that you can pass them on to yet another generation of UNH Hockey maniacs to enjoy

Haha I hope that I will have some great memories to share! I do actually have a couple already, nothing too earth shattering tho like you guys! This season when it's all said and done will certainly be one of them for many reasons. Read last night that Umile is going to run Willow, Poturalski, and Fogele tonight as a line (here's hoping). Would love to surprise BC this weekend...I mean, e.cat said we would! Snively65 wow, enjoy your trip to big sheet. See ya later!

 

[e.cat]

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Great to have you back before the post-season this year, "original" snively. I am heading to the big ice sheet (Antarctica) next Friday until late January, so trust that you folks will keep this thread hopping during my Internet silence.

So, I did get to see Louuu-iiii (with accent on that second syllable by the screaming Snively fans) for every home game during his three seasons in Durham, 1968-1969 to 1970-1971. Frigon was a fluid skater, especially compared with his right wing, fellow Québécois and an indigenous Abenaki (I think) Guy Smith. I still remember their odd man rushes the length of the ice, which commonly led to the puck in the back of the opposing net. I cannot remember who played left wing with those two, as Umile skated second line those last two years, I believe, moving up to first line after those two graduated. Loui finished his three years (frosh did not play varsity back then) with 98 G, 95 A, 193 Pts, in 89 games, so over 2 Pts per game as you noted. Sorry that I missed the next few years at Snively while in grad school, first in Orono (before they had an indoor rink and hockey team there; "I would rather be stabbed in Lowell than a Black Bear in Maine"), and then Boulder (still no Div 1 hockey there). But, I saw some of those post-season games on national TV. (my first smiley in over a month).

Safe travels there 65. I'll be on top of the SOG count in your absence!

 

[Snively65]

Great stuff Snively65. I'll even forgive you for running away from the cold here to head to a place in the height of mid summer.

I'm sad to say I got to see neither Frigon nor Smith, even though I moved to Durham in November of 1968 and stayed until graduating from Oyster River in June of 1970. I didn't know until now that Smith was Abenaki. Pretty interesting tidbit. Thanks also for spelling Quebec correctly

The 98 goals and 95 assists in 89 games... wow. 'Nuf said. And you will corroborate my claim that Snively was, shall we say, thunderous noise wise, no?

Have a great summer vacation, and try to make it back before it all melts...

Spring 1970 was the year that students on college campuses "went on strike," including at UNH. I was very involved like many in the anti-war movement, which morphed into a lot of other "anti-corporate stuff," like the first Earth Day, etc. I was also taking as an overload that semester a course titled "American Indian" taught by undergraduate sociology majors in which Guy Smith was an invited speaker. He was fantastic, and had a superior world view. That particular class was SRO, and the Q&A extended to the Down Under (pub under Town & Campus, where many of our hockey players were celebrities; drinking age was 18 during Viet Nam War years, but not sure that I remember ever seeing Umile there). I think that I remember reading something about Guy's untimely passing a few years ago; perhaps can be found in the UNH alum magazine archives?

USCHO spelled correctly Québécois for me; gotta love this site! Wish that I had found it in 1999, when many of you did. If I had, I would have chosen a different moniker. But, "65" works for me, for the year that Snively was built. And, yes, the noise level could be deafening at times, as you remember snively, which always makes me laugh when they flash the words "Make Noise" on the digital board at the far end of The Whitt. (my second smiley in past month).

My brother, who was back from Colorado for Thanksgiving, still remembers your hiking/camping trips in the Whites, snively.

 

[C-H-C]

Haha I hope that I will have some great memories to share! I do actually have a couple already, nothing too earth shattering tho like you guys! This season when it's all said and done will certainly be one of them for many reasons. Read last night that Umile is going to run Willow, Poturalski, and Fogele tonight as a line (here's hoping). Would love to surprise BC this weekend...I mean, e.cat said we would! Snively65 wow, enjoy your trip to big sheet. See ya later!

Along with Eiserman-Downing-Kelleher would be very interesting.

 

[e.cat]

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Haha I hope that I will have some great memories to share! I do actually have a couple already, nothing too earth shattering tho like you guys! This season when it's all said and done will certainly be one of them for many reasons. Read last night that Umile is going to run Willow, Poturalski, and Fogele tonight as a line (here's hoping). Would love to surprise BC this weekend...I mean, e.cat said we would! Snively65 wow, enjoy your trip to big sheet. See ya later!

Hope is all we have at this point Ref. If they are going to make a move, now is the time. It won't be easy but that's why they play the games.

 

[HockeyRef]

Along with Eiserman-Downing-Kelleher would be very interesting.

Looking forward to seeing the line charts for tonight...yep that's a great line combo! e.cat you know how I feel about hope. Long as it's not "Helplessly Hoping " (Crosby, Stills, Nash reference you old dogs know that one yes?)

 

[Felger]

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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that Felger.

I read MMQB pretty regularly. Was shocked to see the "New Hampshire" headline on there.

Between things like that and of course Chip Kelly's evolution, UNH football seems to have an image for being close to, if not on, the cutting edge.

 

[e.cat]

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I read MMQB pretty regularly. Was shocked to see the "New Hampshire" headline on there.

Between things like that and of course Chip Kelly's evolution, UNH football seems to have an image for being close to, if not on, the cutting edge.

That was my take away too. Pretty cool!

 

[sonar]

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Great stuff Snively65. I'll even forgive you for running away from the cold here to head to a place in the height of mid summer.

I'm sad to say I got to see neither Frigon nor Smith, even though I moved to Durham in November of 1968 and stayed until graduating from Oyster River in June of 1970. I didn't know until now that Smith was Abenaki. Pretty interesting tidbit. Thanks also for spelling Quebec correctly

The 98 goals and 95 assists in 89 games... wow. 'Nuf said. And you will corroborate my claim that Snively was, shall we say, thunderous noise wise, no?

Have a great summer vacation, and try to make it back before it all melts...

I am both sad and glad to have the opportunity to watch Louie Frigon and Guy Smith (46G,107A,153 pts.) play for UNH. Not bad totals for only 3years of varsity competition. One of my favorite memories from that era was the upstart 1969 team that won the Great Lakes Invitational by beating Michigan Tech 7-0, and Michigan State 4-3. UNH did not get invited back for 35 years!

 

[NCAA watcher]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_LH_87HGQk

I remember him after practices when he moved back to the area in 1986-87. Doing curls above the circle, getting a puck and picking corners from 40 feet out. Just a rocket shot. Great to see him so level headed -- Greg Moffet from the 78-79 team also fits that mold of scholar athletes that Charlie Holt recruited.

 

[Darius]

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35 Matt Labbe Sr G 6-3 185 Cumberland, ME / Greely High School

 

[e.cat]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_LH_87HGQk

I remember him after practices when he moved back to the area in 1986-87. Doing curls above the circle, getting a puck and picking corners from 40 feet out. Just a rocket shot. Great to see him so level headed -- Greg Moffet from the 78-79 team also fits that mold of scholar athletes that Charlie Holt recruited.

Amazing story. I've had guys tell me that getting cut from a team is a life changing event (I only got once from a team and it did change me!). Sure seems like it was life altering for Ralph too.

 

[snively]

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Spring 1970 was the year that students on college campuses "went on strike," including at UNH. I was very involved like many in the anti-war movement

Even though I was still a senior at ORHS, I was so involved with that on the campus that spring that be willing to bet we met. Remember "SPU" -- our tamed down of SDS? Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin speaking? And how about this? http://unhblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/1970-at-university-of-new-hampshire.html

And, yes, the noise level could be deafening at times, as you remember snively, which always makes me laugh when they flash the words "Make Noise" on the digital board at the far end of The Whitt

Very few things in sports are lamer than that. Anyone who needs to be told that shouldn't be there anyway. "

My brother, who was back from Colorado for Thanksgiving, still remembers your hiking/camping trips in the Whites, snively.

Now I'm REALLY intrigued. His first name?

 

[snively]

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The Q&A extended to the Down Under (pub under Town & Campus, where many of our hockey players were celebrities; drinking age was 18 during Viet Nam War years, but not sure that I remember ever seeing Umile there).

Funny you should mention that. My wife (also a UNH) student was a waitress at the Tin Palace -- another place hockey players would go (she tells me they were particularly good tippers).

I'm in there one night (must have been 1975-76 season) and in walks a coach with half a dozen Bowling Green players. His name was Jerry York.

 

[Snively65]

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Great Jerwy York story.

Yes, my brother Scott, you, and Bill Kelly were the ORHS anti-war ring leaders, as I recall. Bill's older sister's boyfriend Gary Anderson filmed Mayflowers. The 40-year anniversary event at UNH was organized by an ORHS student. Mark Wefers no doubt saved many lives that spring night in 1970 by warning the 7000+ students that the campus was surrounded by hundreds of armed guardsmen waiting to move in to quell any rioting with deadly force (no question like at Kent State), so students amazingly retreated to the safety of their dorms. I realize that this story is thread drift, but the hockey season was over, and we had nowhere else to vent our frustration.

 

[snively]

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Great Jerwy York story.

Yes, my brother Scott, you, and Bill Kelly were the ORHS anti-war ring leaders, as I recall. Bill's older sister's boyfriend Gary Anderson filmed Mayflowers. The 40-year anniversary event at UNH was organized by an ORHS student. Mark Wefers no doubt saved many lives that spring night in 1970 by warning the 7000+ students that the campus was surrounded by hundreds of armed guardsmen waiting to move in to quell any rioting with deadly force (no question like at Kent State), so students amazingly retreated to the safety of their dorms. I realize that this story is thread drift, but the hockey season was over, and we had nowhere else to vent our frustration.

Scott! How cool is that? Tell him I said hi, and let me know how I can ask to Facebook Friend him (or vice versa). Tell him also that Richard Jones -- the other component of our infamous Tuckerman's Ravine (let's just call it "Tuck's") foray --is already Friended there.

Back soon, but my wife Trish just walked in to tell me that the UNH/BC is on TV down here right now! First time in 20 years living here that that has happened.

 

[e.cat]

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What I remember about the Down Under Pub in the Spring of 1970 is waiting in line to get in and my friend telling me to "just walk in like you own the place!" So I did and don't remember anything else after that. Must have been a good night

 

[snively]

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And how was the morning?

 

[Snively65]

So, given that a BC-UNH weekend game thread is unlikely to be started by a Cats fan, what are our predictions for this coming weekend? I will get crazy and say that the Cats will pick up 1 point with a tie In Durham, with a close loss at Conte, where we do manage to squeak out yet another win in the SOG.

Just call me Nostradamus65.