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UNH Wildcats 2015-2016 (Part Two) - Managing Decreasing Expectations

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Chuck Murray said:
He'll correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Darius was complimenting you folks for your non-PC tendencies.

Or he was complimenting you folks for being younger? Not sure, but +1 is usually a good thing. :)
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Chuck Murray said:
He'll correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Darius was complimenting you folks for your non-PC tendencies.

Or he was complimenting you folks for being younger? Not sure, but +1 is usually a good thing. :)
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Ahhh, I see what you mean now after rereading the post. Thanks! My bad.
 
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Tip o the cap to the entire UNH hockey team and Coach Umile for coming to my friend's wake tonight...class act and much appreciated.
 
riverchief1 said:
Take in a game out at the Mullins Center in Amherst if you want to see a far less PC group of fans. Absolutely the worst in HE, maybe in DI. Will never go to a game there again, first and last was probably 15 years ago.
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There are like zero fans at UMass games
 
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HockeyRef said:
Tip o the cap to the entire UNH hockey team and Coach Umile for coming to my friend's wake tonight...class act and much appreciated.
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+1, and I mean as a good thing.

See some of you on Friday night.

UNH and UVM tied in PWR, and tied with 16 points in HEA standings; huge weekend series coming up at the Whitt.
 
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Bump. Back to page 1. Big 'cats on Cats weekend. Statistically similar teams that went to OT last time. Both need points. Who wants 'em more? We do.
 
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Darius said:
Bump. Back to page 1. Big 'cats on Cats weekend. Statistically similar teams that went to OT last time. Both need points. Who wants 'em more? We do.
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Bump +1.

Beat those dirty hippies and get some much needed points!
 
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If you could nominate TWO of the following players for the Hobey Baker award, who would YOU pick...??

Player A: 29 GP, 10-5--15 (6-4--10 in '14-15) // Player B: 29 GP, 8-15--23 (11-13--24 in '14-'15) // Player C: 28 GP, 7-33--40 (18-24--42 in '14-'15)
 
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e.cat said:
Bump +1.

Beat those dirty hippies and get some much needed points!
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Dang straight!!!!!! Here we go 'Cats!!!! Wildcats, that is... :D 4 big points up for grabs
 
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Dan said:
If you could nominate TWO of the following players for the Hobey Baker award, who would YOU pick...??

Player A: 29 GP, 10-5--15 (6-4--10 in '14-15) // Player B: 29 GP, 8-15--23 (11-13--24 in '14-'15) // Player C: 28 GP, 7-33--40 (18-24--42 in '14-'15)
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Player B and Tyler Kelleher, I mean, player C!
 
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So I checked out the HE standings going into the 3rd to last RS weekend. UNH is in a four (4) way tie for 6th place with NU, UVM and UConn, with Merrimack and UMaine tied for 10th but only 2 points behind the pack ... and finally UMass doing what UMass does best, 2 points behind those two in the HE cellar. There is a 9 point gap between 6th and BU in 5th place, and I think there is a 99.99% chance they won't be dropping down below their current station.

So 6th place RS appears to be the ceiling for your 2016 UNH Wildcats, and there's a very real chance the team that does get to 6th (the schedule favors Northeastern, which has 4 home games of their final 6 against fellow second-tier teams, and is also playing the best of those teams anyway) won't finish higher than 2 games below the .500 mark. One of the current 6th place teams would need to finish up their last 6 games of the RS going at least 5-1-0 or 4-0-2 to get to that exalted level. I don't even see the Huntington Hounds pulling that off, and frankly it's beyond anyone else in that group.

The good news in all of this abject mediocrity is that your 2016 UNH Wildcats have a pretty darned good chance at somehow finishing in the upper half (6th!!) of the HE RS standings. And it was at right around this time of the season LAST year when things finally began to click for the 'Cats. Two home games with UVM this weekend starts it all off, followed by two home-and-away series following that against BU and UConn. A 3 point weekend (UVM), a split (BU) and a sweep (UConn) allows UNH to finish up on a 4-1-1 roll, and that's probably enough to get them a 6th place finish - or at least raises the bar on what NU needs to do to get them into 6th.

The bad news of course is that there is a LOT of competitive sludge in the second tier of HE this season, and your 2016 UNH Wildcats are (sadly) covered in that sludge. The gap between the top 5 and the bottom 7 is absolutely stark and looks like the frickin' Grand Canyon.

And then I look around and see the lack of activity on this thread at this time of the season.

Thank god we got the Jumbotron up there this season, I'd hate to think where we'd be without it ...
 
e.cat said:
Player B and Tyler Kelleher, I mean, player C!
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Congratulations! You're smarter than a Hobey committee member! Player C IS Tyler Kelleher, who's snub is bad enough in its own right. Let alone when it is compared to the nominations of Players A and B (who will also skate at the Whitt this weekend)...

Player B is Mario Puskarich, a very talented if somewhat under-achieving player. He has Hobey nomination ability and Hobey finalist potential, but is limited by his offensively deficient teammates and the system at UVM. He has no business being on the list ahead of Kelleher, but I can understand why he was nominated.

Player A is Jarid Privittera who apparently earned his nomination on the strength of a pitiful freshman season and a few goals as a sophomore despite never showing anything close to Hobey level production or ability at this level to date. Unless he has, unbeknownst to me, developed a cure for cancer, his inclusion on the list at all is a complete mystery.

It's one thing for fans to vote poorly for awards like this, but when the 'experts' who are directly involved make oversights and decisions like this what is the point...
 
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Chuck Murray said:
So I checked out the HE standings going into the 3rd to last RS weekend. UNH is in a four (4) way tie for 6th place with NU, UVM and UConn, with Merrimack and UMaine tied for 10th but only 2 points behind the pack ... and finally UMass doing what UMass does best, 2 points behind those two in the HE cellar. There is a 9 point gap between 6th and BU in 5th place, and I think there is a 99.99% chance they won't be dropping down below their current station.

So 6th place RS appears to be the ceiling for your 2016 UNH Wildcats, and there's a very real chance the team that does get to 6th (the schedule favors Northeastern, which has 4 home games of their final 6 against fellow second-tier teams, and is also playing the best of those teams anyway) won't finish higher than 2 games below the .500 mark. One of the current 6th place teams would need to finish up their last 6 games of the RS going at least 5-1-0 or 4-0-2 to get to that exalted level. I don't even see the Huntington Hounds pulling that off, and frankly it's beyond anyone else in that group.

The good news in all of this abject mediocrity is that your 2016 UNH Wildcats have a pretty darned good chance at somehow finishing in the upper half (6th!!) of the HE RS standings. And it was at right around this time of the season LAST year when things finally began to click for the 'Cats. Two home games with UVM this weekend starts it all off, followed by two home-and-away series following that against BU and UConn. A 3 point weekend (UVM), a split (BU) and a sweep (UConn) allows UNH to finish up on a 4-1-1 roll, and that's probably enough to get them a 6th place finish - or at least raises the bar on what NU needs to do to get them into 6th.

The bad news of course is that there is a LOT of competitive sludge in the second tier of HE this season, and your 2016 UNH Wildcats are (sadly) covered in that sludge. The gap between the top 5 and the bottom 7 is absolutely stark and looks like the frickin' Grand Canyon.

And then I look around and see the lack of activity on this thread at this time of the season.

Thank god we got the Jumbotron up there this season, I'd hate to think where we'd be without it ...
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I think what would be hilarious is if UML gets swept by both BC and BU to end up their regular season having to win the HEA tourney to get to the NCAAs, just like our Cats.
 
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Snively65 said:
I think what would be hilarious is if UML gets swept by both BC and BU to end up their regular season having to win the HEA tourney to get to the NCAAs, just like our Cats.
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Never gonna happen, Snively. Neither of those teams will sweep Lowell. Especially not BU.
 
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Dan said:
Congratulations! You're smarter than a Hobey committee member!

Was there ever any doubt?

Player C IS Tyler Kelleher, who's snub is bad enough in its own right. Let alone when it is compared to the nominations of Players A and B (who will also skate at the Whitt this weekend)...

Player B is Mario Puskarich, a very talented if somewhat under-achieving player. He has Hobey nomination ability and Hobey finalist potential, but is limited by his offensively deficient teammates and the system at UVM. He has no business being on the list ahead of Kelleher, but I can understand why he was nominated.

Player A is Jarid Privittera who apparently earned his nomination on the strength of a pitiful freshman season and a few goals as a sophomore despite never showing anything close to Hobey level production or ability at this level to date. Unless he has, unbeknownst to me, developed a cure for cancer, his inclusion on the list at all is a complete mystery.

It's one thing for fans to vote poorly for awards like this, but when the 'experts' who are directly involved make oversights and decisions like this what is the point...
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Chalk it up to some sort of political perversion. All politics is local as Tip O'Neill once put it. I don't know who's on the committee but with popularity contests such as the "Hobey" I'm sure there are political persuasions involved.
 
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Snively65 said:
Well, then, maybe UML will lose to the Yellow Jackets? :)
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Where are those pesky Bentley Falcons when you need them, eh Snively? :D

e.cat said:
Chalk it up to some sort of political perversion. All politics is local as Tip O'Neill once put it. I don't know who's on the committee but with popularity contests such as the "Hobey" I'm sure there are political persuasions involved.
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With the (over)abundance of UVM Hobey candidates, and with "all politics (being) local" ... it sounds like Bernie Sanders' influence is being felt at the D-1 level too. :eek:
 
Chuck Murray said:
Where are those pesky Bentley Falcons when you need them, eh Snively? :D

With the (over)abundance of UVM Hobey candidates, and with "all politics (being) local" ... it sounds like Bernie Sanders' influence is being felt at the D-1 level too. :eek:
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Ha, ha, ha; pesky Falcons will need to sweep Canisius in Watertown this weekend without me, as I will be at the Whitt tonight and in Plymouth (NH) to see the Panthers take on Framingham State tomorrow night. As I noted on our previous thread before their first encounter ever at the Whitt last fall, the Falcons and Cats are more alike than different this season, with both having one line that can score (check out Div 1 Stats), D-men who cannot skate or pass the puck out of their own zone, on again - off again goaltending, and almost identical records and standing in their respective conferences (i.e., needing to win their tourneys to advance to the NCAAs; sigh).

Feeling the Bern?
 
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