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UNH Wildcats 2017 Off-season: The Clash Question

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chickod said:
Which, of course, lends credence to the theory that changing the coach doesn't always help. The coach can't play, right? Just some "devil's advocate" food for thought... :D :D :D
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My husband is fond of saying "he can't skate for them". :D
 
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Not a matter of ignoring NH kids, just failing to get them.

Starting freshman defenseman in today's NCAA game.

Mon. 7/22/13

Young Chooses PC

Phillips Exeter defenseman Spenser Young, a ’97 and a rising sophomore, has committed to Providence College, most likely for the fall of ’16.

Yale, Harvard, Merrimack, UMass, UNH, and Boston College were all schools that were either watching and/or recruiting him.

Friars head coach Nate Leaman had watched Young, a 5’10”, 165 lb. Brentwood, NH native, at the Exeter Invitational back in early December, and worked the case hard.

Young’s coach at Exeter, Dana Barbin, first became of aware of Young when the latter was a nine-year-old. Barbin was coaching his son’s baseball team and Young was his shortstop.
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Notice the cheating by the Friars, having a head coach "work the case hard".

Not quite a NH kid, but Newburyport just 15 minutes away and played for the Seacoast Spartans:
Ben Mirageas, who will be starting for Providence in next year's NCAAs. And tying in to Chuck's observations:
Chuck Murray said:
The things you learn on this board ... if nothing else, it's a treasure trove for fascinating stuff, including:

* The hockey camp at The Whitt attracts many of the best teens around, but few return for college :(

Keep it coming!! :)
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A Borek coup, setting up that camp, so he could watch all the players he will coach once he goes to another school.


Fri. 8/2/13--updated

Top '99s and '00s at UNH Camp

USHR made its annual trip up to the University of New Hampshire Hockey Team Camp which, for four years now, has attracted some of the top young players around. The alumni list is impressive, and includes sure-fire NHL firstround picks Connor McDavid (Erie-OHL), Josh Ho-Sang (Windsor-OHL), Aaron Ekblad (Barrie-OHL), Roland McKeown (Kingston-OHL), and Noah Hanifin (NTDP/Boston College). The list doesn’t end there, either, as top-flight prospects Sonny Milano (NTDP/Notre Dame), Brandon Fortunato (NTDP/Harvard), Ryan Hitchcock (NTDP/Yale), Luke Kirwan (NTDP), Matt Tkachuk (NTDP/Notre Dame), Casey Fitzgerald (NTDP/Boston College), Jeremy Bracco (NTDP/Harvard), Cam Askew (Drummondville-QMJHL), Sam Bennett (Kingston-OHL), JJ Piccinich (Youngstown/Boston University), Chris Birdsall (Cedar Rapids/Boston College), Bobby Nardella (Sioux City/Notre Dame), Jake Linhart (Green Bay/Wisconsin), Adam Fox (LI Gulls/Harvard), and Chad Krys (Connecticut Oilers) have also made their way up to “Lake Whittemore” in recent summers.

Ben Mirageas, D (Seacoast Spartans) — The younger brother of Governor’s defenseman Zach Mirageas is a solid, puck-moving defenseman who is going to be very good at the prep school level.
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Add in Jake Ryczek, and Borek now coaches 3/6 of the defense that really should be playing for UNH.
 
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Many NH high school-ers do not consider UNH because it is the state school/everybody goes there/not wanting to see the same people they saw in HS. Interestingly, after a year at another school and conversing with HS frieds at UNH, many transfer to the U. Not so easy for an athlete to do.
 
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Darius said:
Many NH high school-ers do not consider UNH because it is the state school/everybody goes there/not wanting to see the same people they saw in HS. Interestingly, after a year at another school and conversing with HS frieds at UNH, many transfer to the U. Not so easy for an athlete to do.
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Yeah, it's the same thing with Zoo Mass/Amherst, only they don't go there because it sucks. :)
 
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HockeyRef said:
That BU/NoDak game I think will be one of the better ones...
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I hope you're right! :D Because there are only two ways that one can go....close or a blowout for NoDak. So if it's not close I'll be turning it off early...
 
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You gotta admit, it's mighty friendly of the UNH folks to host that summer on-campus tourney so everyone else can come take a quick, cheap look-see without having to invest in airfare and a couple of nights in a hotel.

I wonder how many times our legendary soon-to-be-coach-emeritus passed on his summer morning foursome at Mount Hood or Pease to say hi to all the prospective future recruits making use of his home ice.

I know, I know - d'oh - outside the job description. Silly me, what was I thinking ...
 
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You gotta admit, it's mighty friendly of the UNH folks to host that summer on-campus tourney so everyone else can come take a quick, cheap look-see without having to invest in airfare and a couple of nights in a hotel.

I wonder how many times our legendary soon-to-be-coach-emeritus passed on his summer morning foursome at Mount Hood or Pease to say hi to all the prospective future recruits making use of his home ice.

I know, I know - d'oh - outside the job description. Silly me, what was I thinking ...
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The reality of Borek's UNH summer camp is it does draw elite talent AND Borek never got one of those kids to go to UNH. And some insist we're supposed to give him credit for holding a camp??
 
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Notice the cheating by the Friars, having a head coach "work the case hard".
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After a weeks worth of posts about how UNH needs to bring back former players, and recruit former player's kids, etc, I was more taken by the fact that a former Wildcat captain, (actually co-captain with Sean Coady) couldn't steer one of his star players to Durham
 
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Felger said:
After a weeks worth of posts about how UNH needs to bring back former players, and recruit former player's kids, etc, I was more taken by the fact that a former Wildcat captain, (actually co-captain with Sean Coady) couldn't steer one of his star players to Durham
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You do remember the Hamlet-style drama surrounding the last high-profile recruit steered to UNH from PEA?
 
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Chuck Murray said:
You do remember the Hamlet-style drama surrounding the last high-profile recruit steered to UNH from PEA?
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Was actually thinking of him today. Or more accurately thinking of his father. Perhaps related to Lonzo Ball.
 
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On another note; I was shocked to see that Harvard got it's first win in the NCAA tourney in 23 years! The negativity on this thread would be unbearable if UNH had a similar record!
 
e.cat said:
On another note; I was shocked to see that Harvard got it's first win in the NCAA tourney in 23 years! The negativity on this thread would be unbearable if UNH had a similar record!
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Duly noted sir...oddly I was pondering the same . God help us if that's how long it takes us to get back! I'll be well....much older 🙄😉
 
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Snively65 said:
Greg, you mentioned earlier that UNH brought in a player (I forget the name) in an attempt to get Sean Collins to play at UNH; I heard at the time that Sean's teammate Steve Saviano, a year ahead of Collins at Reading High, was that player.

I have returned from snowbirding in Florida to replace 1932 here. :-)
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Saviano did come a year before Collins but, from what I was told, Collins got off the fence only after Eddie Caron signed with UNH. Hard to believe now but Caron was a top recruit that year. The other thing that Reading people told me was that, although Saviano and Collins had played together forever, they went their separate ways off the ice. So not sure one was definite to follow the other.
 
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What is it they say: don't ask a question you don't want to know the answer to. Could have been uncomfortable for Marty if 80% of the former season tix holders said Dickie was the biggest problem. Much easier to imagine that the Jumbletron is the missing feature, and work on getting that done for the remaining 600 fans.
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Having been in sales my entire professional career, I can tell you that the biggest mistake you can make is not finding out why a long time client has left you. On the flip side, I can't tell you how many clients I picked up because their former agent wouldn't return their calls. UNH ticket office in the business of selling season tickets. If you don't find out why they are not buying, how can you improve your selling?
 
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