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

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HockeyRef said:
Yes! Especially since Harvard's averaging 4 goals per game!
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... yet for all of the bellyaching about how this is a "down" year for Hockey East, the mighty Harvard Crimson are winless in two games against HEA opposition, and have scored less than 0.50 GPG in that (admittedly small) sample of games. Things that make you go hmmmmm ...
 
What are you using for tickets to tonight's game, didn't get them in my season ticket holder's envelope with the rest of them. . . . found them in the back of the stack, guess the game was added after original printing.
 
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Chuck Murray said:
... yet for all of the bellyaching about how this is a "down" year for Hockey East, the mighty Harvard Crimson are winless in two games against HEA opposition, and have scored less than 0.50 GPG in that (admittedly small) sample of games. Things that make you go hmmmmm ...
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Not sure why you would consider a team (which didn't even play last season) and only has wins over Cornell (25), Colgate (31) Bentley (40) Dartmouth (47) and Brown (57) "mighty".... The covid protocols probably did them a favor moving forward...

Speaking of Cornell, pretty sure Will Rogers never met their head coach.
 
Felger said:
Not sure why you would consider a team (which didn't even play last season) and only has wins over Cornell (25), Colgate (31) Bentley (40) Dartmouth (47) and Brown (57) "mighty".... The covid protocols probably did them a favor moving forward...
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Sarcasm, Felgie. Should have italicized and/or bolded the word mighty.

Point being, scoring 4 goals per game against Ivy/Atlantic cupcakes, NBD ...
 
The last 10 minutes, it felt like the ‘cats knew they had it under control or at least knew what they needed to do. Coach referenced last week’s home game vs. UMA in the post game interview. Allowing 0 or 1 goal per game isn’t a long term strategy for getting back to where we all want to be, but for this team it might be best. Bonus that it was not hard to watch. We stayed somewhat aggressive, never went into pack it in and hang on mode.
 
All is right with the world when Chuck uses Yiddish, (previous post used “kvetch”), in a post about a New England state school!

Personal anecdote:: When I left for UNH in 1973, my parents were concerned that I’d never meet a Jewish girl by going to New Hampshire….of course, they weren’t aware of how close Boston was to campus…..

Can we actually get Black Betty to play again? Maybe a quick snippet of Wipeout….get some old Mojo going and rebuild UNH as a hockey team to be reckoned with? Small steps…..
 
It was Ben Smith, coach of women's national team, who complained about Black Betty. Check out Black Betty debacle in Wikipedia. Oddly, when the women's team appeared on a national morning show shortly after, they played Black Betty. lol.
 
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It was Ben Smith, coach of women's national team, who complained about Black Betty. Check out Black Betty debacle in Wikipedia. Oddly, when the women's team appeared on a national morning show shortly after, they played Black Betty. lol.
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Ah yes...correct. Well at least I was on the right track, I knew that it was someone with a past affiliation with NU and was coaching women's hockey at the time. ;-)
 
Chuck Murray said:
... yet for all of the bellyaching about how this is a "down" year for Hockey East, the mighty Harvard Crimson are winless in two games against HEA opposition, and have scored less than 0.50 GPG in that (admittedly small) sample of games. Things that make you go hmmmmm ...
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Thanks...wasn't aware of their record just going by what's out there. Still a ranked team and it does feel good to beat em! Not so ranked today tho...still plenty of hockey left!

Could it be that we are indeed the "up and coming" Wildcats? (From game article on this site)

Let's go Up and Coming 'Cats!!!
 
So far uneventful quite the last 30 seconds....at least we got a PPG......figured the game would gotheway it has if I'm honest! Hopefully a strong third!
 
Great to see Margel break his duck! Called his dad who missed the goal because CollegeSportsLive wasn’t working for him… UGH!
 
Nice way to finish off the hockey weekend! Back to .500, which isn’t something we would have been proud of 15 years ago, but I’ll take it right now. Guys have showed some pluck the last couple weekends
 
UNH wins two winnable games, tacked onto the UMass OT win, and it's a three game winning streak in Titletown. Two more winnable games next weekend (home and away vs. BU), then 3/4 out of the next 4 games upon their return to action come against ECAC opponents. So that's at least 5 winnable games over the next 6, and even BC on neutral ice isn't out of reach.

Things could go either way from here ... there is somewhat of the same vibe as Coach Umile's final season, when the team had some momentum coming out of the break, but then spit the bit in the winter, and The Quest would end up about a half-dozen games short of its goal. The rest of this season kind of sets up similarly, and hopefully for MS7 it plays out differently.

Robinson has come back from exile to string together some nice performances to get these results, and I would guess MS7 is going to the "ride the hot hand" approach, unless he buckles and gives Fessenden one of the starts vs. BU before the break. Would be really nice to see UNH light up Commesso with a big goal haul (say, 3 goals per game!) next weekend, hafta think MS7 wouldn't mind revisiting his previous recruit in a victorious post-game handshake line, eh?

Now the eyes of Wildcat Nation turn west to Corvalis OR to see if the Soccer 'Cats take another big step towards the Soccer Cup (D-1 soccer's version of the Frozen Four) against top-ranked OSU. Given that another OSU (Columbus OH chapter) lost a pretty meaningful contest this afternoon up in Ann Arbor ... hoping UNH pelts the Beavers tomorrow night on the road, leading to more pain for OSU!!
 
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