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UNH Wildcats 2021/2022 - Return of the Champions of October?

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Dan said:
Interesting tangent to the Devlin/Speed conversation - the game is about putting pucks in the net, not being fast/tenacious. Devlin has never been a scorer. Richels and Cafarelli have their limitations but they've always been producers. Its coaches looking at the wrong things or being afraid of certain limitations, when the limitation to avoid is top-line forwards who can't score or create...

I was younger, maybe my memory is off - but I remember some pretty shaky 'skaters' scoring a lot of goals and earning AA honors for UNH. Recruit production. Play production. If you can't score in prep or juniors, youre not going to suddenly start scoring in college (unless youre flanked by AA's).

There's a difference between simply fast - and a guy like Willows, who was fast and scored a ton in HS and JRs. My kingdom for mediocre skaters who score like Bekar, Hemingway, JVR, Niklaus or slower skating production from guys like Haydar & Krog...

They players getting run aren't scoring goals and they're not preventing goals. So give me more Richels, Cafarelli, Margel, etc - guys who have scored. They at least deserve the shot, the status quo certainly isn't working...
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Entirely agree, and it always has been this way. In the late 1960s/early 1970s, Guy Smith (RIP) skated like he was in downhill ski boots, but he could score goals. Of course, it helped that his center was Loui Frigon.
 
Snively65 said:
Entirely agree, and it always has been this way. In the late 1960s/early 1970s, Guy Smith (RIP) skated like he was in downhill ski boots, but he could score goals. Of course, it helped that his center was Loui Frigon.
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So put Devlin, with Richels and Cafarelli but that obv can't work etc. I think they need to shake things out and give some of these guys you mention a shot. Cannot hurt and this weekend is a very good weekend to do just that. Have always loved our UVM games and this is a good chance for the 'Cats to play well against them esp at home. Speaking to your points, the combo of players is crucial. I have thought about your post ATW about judgements about players and I hear that. I think we have some gifted players who do great things in Piersonn and Engaras, for example. We are fortunate to have Tyler Ward and Luke Reid. Hopefully we'll see these players get in decent combinations that work.

Have already spoken about Devlin. He gets it about crashing the boards. They all should be doing that. Huard I think is going to be a player that has a lot of potential. Thanks to CHC's blog I saw alot of his work in jrs. So, I mean, that's the stuff to be paying attention to. I think we all recognize what we have and I'd like to be thinking more in those terms right now.

As always, I value and learn from all of your posts; helps me understand the game that much better and the sport as well. And regardless of how it's going I still love it and am in it for the long haul...Now come on Bruins!
 
If someone had told us 20 or so years ago that a UMaine in-season thread would be focusing on Women's Field Hockey, and a similar in-season UNH thread would be focusing on Men's Soccer, I think we all would have found that just a little hard to believe ... truth is stranger than fiction ...
 
Chuck Murray said:
If someone had told us 20 or so years ago that a UMaine in-season thread would be focusing on Women's Field Hockey, and a similar in-season UNH thread would be focusing on Men's Soccer, I think we all would have found that just a little hard to believe ... truth is stranger than fiction ...
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Yeah, but Maine Field Hockey about to get blasted by the Miami RedHawks. What's a FH blowout these days? 3-0?
 
Dan said:
Yeah, but Maine Field Hockey about to get blasted by the Miami RedHawks. What's a FH blowout these days? 3-0?
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Yeah, that's not a great game but I'd say 5-0 is more of a blow out....esp at the college level. I am planning on watching that game online. UMaine has a decent team; and in FH anything can happen. That said, looking at their season (Miami) they got killed by defending champ NC (which is not surprising those women can play...) so I think it could be closer than you think! We'll see! No dog in this hunt I just love the sport. You should go out and watch!
 
Big game in Durham tonight for the AE Championship. I would love to get to a game but it's a bit too far of a drive for me. Has anyone been? How's the atmosphere?

There is a lot of (deserved) negativity towards UNH hockey, but it's been wonderful to watch the meteoric rise of UNH Soccer under Marc Hubbard. What a stud.
 
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teez said:
Big game tonight in Durham tonight for the AE Championship. I would love to get to a game but it's a bit too far of a drive for me. Has anyone been? How's the atmosphere?

There is a lot of (deserved) negativity towards UNH hockey, but it's been wonderful to watch the meteoric rise of UNH Soccer under Marc Hubbard. What a stud.
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I'm thinking of wandering over there tonight, if I can clear a couple of other things off my agenda.

I've seen both sides of the program play at home, but never at The House That Blue Skies Built ...
 
MIAMI WINS! The RedHawks comes from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in OT, despite starting the extra-time down two players, and send the Black Bears packing! #Love&Honor (that's pretty much a 3-0 win, after flipping the switch!)
 
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MIAMI WINS! The RedHawks comes from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in OT, despite starting the extra-time down two players, and send the Black Bears packing! #Love&Honor (that's pretty much a 3-0 win, after flipping the switch!)
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Was quite a game...not easy to do in FH coming back from 2 down players and score to win it! D1 is a different animal. Look up some North Carolina FH if you wanna really see how it's done (and teams like Michigan, Louisville). Kudos to Maine and good luck to your Red Hawks going forward. Go Men's Socccerrrrr!

ps in D3 FH action in Bowdoin it's Bowdoin 6 Eastern Ct 0 at the half...that...is a beat down. Final FWIW: Bowdoin 9 EC 0 (those are awful to offciate)
 
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Dan said:
MIAMI WINS! The RedHawks comes from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in OT, despite starting the extra-time down two players, and send the Black Bears packing! #Love&Honor (that's pretty much a 3-0 win, after flipping the switch!)
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Huh?

You're exulting over the Maine women having to bus it to Ohio at the crack of dawn to play a lower seeded team?

Wow. Maybe you should review the AE standings before you grow so tumescent via the schadenfreude, you dope.

EDIT: Damn, my bad, fell for another iteration of Fat Chuckie... But the "dope" remark still holds water.
 
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Fishman'81 said:
Huh?

You're exulting over the Maine women having to bus it to Ohio at the crack of dawn to play a lower seeded team?

Wow. Maybe you should review the AE standings before you grow so tumescent via the schadenfreude, you dope.
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Dan is an alum of Miami, you dope. Let him bask in the afterglow of his alma mater's big FH win.

In other non-hockey news here on UniUSCHO, the UNH Men's Soccer team advanced to the AE Tourney Finals tonight with a dominant 4-0 win over UMBC (and FWIW my UMaine-iac friends, UMBC's goalie looks like he's been in heavy Krispy Kreme training with Coach Fortier). In scoring four (4) goals tonight, Coach Hubbard's 'Cats matched the combined output of MS7's charges over the last three games (plus an OT). #7 ranked UNH (16-0-2, and one of only two undefeated teams left in D-1) will face UVM in the "other" version of the "Border Battle" on Sunday for the conference hardware. Looks like about 2,500 folks braved the chill of a November evening in Durham, and hopefully twice that many will come to see the game Sunday!!

It'll be interesting to see where UNH gets seeded for the national tourney. Been awhile since we could say that with a straight face on here about the, y'know, Men's Hockey team ...
 
Fishman'81 said:
Huh?

You're exulting over the Maine women having to bus it to Ohio at the crack of dawn to play a lower seeded* team?

Wow. Maybe you should review the AE standings before you grow so tumescent via the schadenfreude, you dope.
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Lol, happy for the alma mater alone - but this ^ definitely warms the heart just a bit more...

* lower ranked, not lower seeded. I'd imagine the committee reviewed the two schedules and (rightly) came to the conclusion that removing the variable of Miami's vastly more difficult schedule yielded the RedHawks more deserving. And they were correct, considering once Miami found their footing Maine was outclassed.
 
Our puck-chasing cats could learn something from our ball-chasing cats; wonder if any of the former were in the stands watching the latter on Thursday evening?
 
Snively65 said:
Our puck-chasing cats could learn something from our ball-chasing cats; wonder if any of the former were in the stands watching the latter on Thursday evening?
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Wouldn't be surprised if several were there to watch, it IS part of the overall college experience.

Not sure if their coaches would have attended, given as Hubbard is undercutting their excuses ...
 
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