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UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
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HockeyRef
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Re: UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
If Vermont loses, won't we play UML or do I have that wrong..
If Vermont loses, won't we play UML or do I have that wrong..
HockeyRef
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Re: UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
OK, yeah, that's right. My Friars...uh oh.
OK, yeah, that's right. My Friars...uh oh.
Re: UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
You'll get your wish if Maine wins this game...that will make it:
BU - Merrimack
Providence - Maine
BC - UNH
Lowell - Notre Dame
You'll get your wish if Maine wins this game...that will make it:
BU - Merrimack
Providence - Maine
BC - UNH
Lowell - Notre Dame
Open up the Coffin.... Let's do this!!!
HockeyRef
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Re: UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
que the music kiddies! PC it is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
que the music kiddies! PC it is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
Re: UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
This is my preferred match-up. I disagreed with Chuck about wanting Maine in round one and I disagree with his wanting BC in round two. What this team needs to build for next year, is to keep this winning streak going as long as possible - allowing them to gain confidence, momentum and motivation along the way. I think they'll take a lot more from a series win then they would from getting smoked at Conte.
Don't get me wrong, I think Providence is absolutely the favorite - but I know UNH has an opportunity here. BU is clearly the most talented team in Hockey East this year. They're well ahead of UNH man-for-man. BC plays the same type of game as UNH, but they do so with better skaters, better finishers and better defenders. Lowell plays their own style of hockey and they have flat-out locked up UNH, while capitalizing on seemingly every opportunity, in recent games with the Wildcats.
Providence is a great team, with a great goalie, but I think this is UNH's best opportunity to move on - slim as it may be - and if they do it all comes down to single-elimination and every game is a coin-flip...
This is my preferred match-up. I disagreed with Chuck about wanting Maine in round one and I disagree with his wanting BC in round two. What this team needs to build for next year, is to keep this winning streak going as long as possible - allowing them to gain confidence, momentum and motivation along the way. I think they'll take a lot more from a series win then they would from getting smoked at Conte.
Don't get me wrong, I think Providence is absolutely the favorite - but I know UNH has an opportunity here. BU is clearly the most talented team in Hockey East this year. They're well ahead of UNH man-for-man. BC plays the same type of game as UNH, but they do so with better skaters, better finishers and better defenders. Lowell plays their own style of hockey and they have flat-out locked up UNH, while capitalizing on seemingly every opportunity, in recent games with the Wildcats.
Providence is a great team, with a great goalie, but I think this is UNH's best opportunity to move on - slim as it may be - and if they do it all comes down to single-elimination and every game is a coin-flip...
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HockeyRef
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Re: UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
Thinking PC has not forgotten losing to UNH in the Garden last year...but we'd like to remind them just one more time! yes it's going to be a stretch to get past the/my (ha) Friars but those are the cards! Go 'Cats!!
ps just took a look at the ticket thing at friars.com seems they pick the seats for ya here if I have that right. Thinking going the UNH route is best bet. Anyone else have insight into tix for this?
pss: Cool cheer could be "Better Mascot" clap, clap, clap clap clap!!
Thinking PC has not forgotten losing to UNH in the Garden last year...but we'd like to remind them just one more time! yes it's going to be a stretch to get past the/my (ha) Friars but those are the cards! Go 'Cats!!
ps just took a look at the ticket thing at friars.com seems they pick the seats for ya here if I have that right. Thinking going the UNH route is best bet. Anyone else have insight into tix for this?
pss: Cool cheer could be "Better Mascot" clap, clap, clap clap clap!!
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Darius
Go 'cats!
sterlippo1
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Re: UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
not the best BC team but the PC team is up there with their best......agree with HE not being what it used to be but that's because it needs UNH and Maine to come back to the top
not the best BC team but the PC team is up there with their best......agree with HE not being what it used to be but that's because it needs UNH and Maine to come back to the top
Chuck Murray
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Re: UNH Wildcats Official Wait til Next Year...14/15 thread
Yes. I think one of the PC fans came up with this over a decade ago. Low attendance and lack of atmosphere at the time defnitely contibuted to the moniker, and it may also have incorporated the drab industrial appearance of the place at the time as well. Throw in the relatively low ceiling (not quite Merrimack, but still lowish), some religious overtones with the school's background, a mascot the same poster referred to as "Friar Spawn", and I believe that all contributed to christening of "The Coffin".
Old Walter Brown Arena had a lower ceiling and a VERY industrial, faceless appeaerance, but that placed was noisy and always rocked (plus they sold beer!). Schneider ... not so much (and no beer). I've always liked the place, though. Maybe that's down to ease of seating, and no bad seats in the entire facility. Our kids always liked the close seating behind the team's benches. As you probably know, the location is kinda weird, in a neighborhood on the very perimeter of the PC campus. Parking used to be a HUGE issue if there was a good turnout (not often to be fair), but that's improved a little in recent years. I haven't seen the place post-renovation yet but hope to make it down there on Friday night.
My prediction: whoever wins Game 1, wins the series. UNH has the momentum, and PC just had the weekend off, and with the Spring break down there, the turnout should be relatively tame. UNH couldn't ask for better overall circumstances. If PC wins on Friday night, they'll sweep. If UNH wins on Friday, they'll win in 3 games. I'll predict the latter, and an improbable return trip to the Garden against either BU
or BC.
Yes. I think one of the PC fans came up with this over a decade ago. Low attendance and lack of atmosphere at the time defnitely contibuted to the moniker, and it may also have incorporated the drab industrial appearance of the place at the time as well. Throw in the relatively low ceiling (not quite Merrimack, but still lowish), some religious overtones with the school's background, a mascot the same poster referred to as "Friar Spawn", and I believe that all contributed to christening of "The Coffin".
Old Walter Brown Arena had a lower ceiling and a VERY industrial, faceless appeaerance, but that placed was noisy and always rocked (plus they sold beer!). Schneider ... not so much (and no beer). I've always liked the place, though. Maybe that's down to ease of seating, and no bad seats in the entire facility. Our kids always liked the close seating behind the team's benches. As you probably know, the location is kinda weird, in a neighborhood on the very perimeter of the PC campus. Parking used to be a HUGE issue if there was a good turnout (not often to be fair), but that's improved a little in recent years. I haven't seen the place post-renovation yet but hope to make it down there on Friday night.
My prediction: whoever wins Game 1, wins the series. UNH has the momentum, and PC just had the weekend off, and with the Spring break down there, the turnout should be relatively tame. UNH couldn't ask for better overall circumstances. If PC wins on Friday night, they'll sweep. If UNH wins on Friday, they'll win in 3 games. I'll predict the latter, and an improbable return trip to the Garden against either BU
or BC.
HockeyRef
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So glad that this year we do not have the always cynical Jacques "Rabbit" Poriveau chiming in around this time of the season.
Careful what you ask/wish for mon amie
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