Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Re: UNH Wildcats 2015 Offseason - Future Planning ...or Just Rearranging the Deck Cha
(squeaky voice) ... you're absolutely right, Mike!
Just a brief nod to our never-meant-to-be "broadcast" talk show or whatever.
Seriously, I do agree that I've let the fans off way too easily. I cringe at the silly stuff that gets put up on video boards at other arenas, and can only hope and pray that we don't have to deal with "Kiss Cam" or "Wildcat Watch" or whatever ... featuring those incessant fan cameos during breaks in the action. "The Culture of Narcissism" indeed. And folks just seem to lap that stuff up. Ugh. Git off ma lawn.
The original "Whiteout" was terrific. But it's since been co-opted and tamed, and is now sadly just another gimmick.
Maybe someone over at NHPTV or NESN who has access to the tapes of the two original WOTW games can put together a piece someday about that exciting moment in UNH Hockey history? I still get goosebumps of that short video with Clark-Hislop-Cox going off for those 3 goals in less than a minute against RPI at Snively, and I'd love to see the '79 ECAC title game (vs. Dartmouth of all teams) at the original Garden again - was a HS senior watching my first live-in-person UNH game at the time - but I've never seen any of that exciting game on tape anywhere, so I'm fairly positive that's been lost to the passage of time.
UNH - actually, college hockey in general - hasn't exactly done a great job in preserving its own history. Obviously, TV wasn't quite as omnipresent then as it is nowadays, so you can understand how a lot of that stuff fell between the cracks (where it even existed). And arguably still being a (slightly larger) niche sport at the D-1 level works against us as well. I wonder whether there is even a tape of the 1999 Finals (which I believe was still carried live on ESPN back in the day) or if that tape is with Walshy in the afterlife.
Anyway ... glad new hockey is on the horizon, and I'll just continue as the grumpy old man in these here parts.
(squeaky voice) ... you're absolutely right, Mike!
Just a brief nod to our never-meant-to-be "broadcast" talk show or whatever.
Seriously, I do agree that I've let the fans off way too easily. I cringe at the silly stuff that gets put up on video boards at other arenas, and can only hope and pray that we don't have to deal with "Kiss Cam" or "Wildcat Watch" or whatever ... featuring those incessant fan cameos during breaks in the action. "The Culture of Narcissism" indeed. And folks just seem to lap that stuff up. Ugh. Git off ma lawn.
The original "Whiteout" was terrific. But it's since been co-opted and tamed, and is now sadly just another gimmick.
Maybe someone over at NHPTV or NESN who has access to the tapes of the two original WOTW games can put together a piece someday about that exciting moment in UNH Hockey history? I still get goosebumps of that short video with Clark-Hislop-Cox going off for those 3 goals in less than a minute against RPI at Snively, and I'd love to see the '79 ECAC title game (vs. Dartmouth of all teams) at the original Garden again - was a HS senior watching my first live-in-person UNH game at the time - but I've never seen any of that exciting game on tape anywhere, so I'm fairly positive that's been lost to the passage of time.
UNH - actually, college hockey in general - hasn't exactly done a great job in preserving its own history. Obviously, TV wasn't quite as omnipresent then as it is nowadays, so you can understand how a lot of that stuff fell between the cracks (where it even existed). And arguably still being a (slightly larger) niche sport at the D-1 level works against us as well. I wonder whether there is even a tape of the 1999 Finals (which I believe was still carried live on ESPN back in the day) or if that tape is with Walshy in the afterlife.
Anyway ... glad new hockey is on the horizon, and I'll just continue as the grumpy old man in these here parts.
Talk about a cheap, simple fix to freshen up the place a bit.