Vermont Catamounts Season Thread 2025-2026: Go Cats Go or No Cats No?

[DNAEagle]

VT came to play, start to finish the better team. Good for them. Now finish off a good week end in Providence.

 

[pc88]

VT came to play, start to finish the better team. Good for them. Now finish off a good week end in Providence.

Go easy on us tonight! Rumor has it that Simpson will get the start in net tonight for PC.

 

[rufus22]

What a disappointing weekend. After flashes of promise, we are settling towards just where we were predicted to end the season.

 

[UVM Cat in Texas]

What a disappointing weekend. After flashes of promise, we are settling towards just where we were predicted to end the season.

Yeah, for sure. We still can’t beat Lowell, which says a lot!

 

[Cat lover]

I swear I just watched the same game played 3 times in a row. We score first then give up 4 then score and pull the goalie down 4-2. Sad the school has resorted to showing reruns.

 

[UVM Cat in Texas]

25 goals against in the last 5 games. Not gonna win many (or any) giving up 5 goals a game.

 

[rufus22]

Aaaaaaaaand here we are last place. Year after year the preseason polls make the pick and we oblige them.

 

[Cat lover]

I swear I just watched the same game played 3 times in a row. We score first then give up 4 then score and pull the goalie down 4-2. Sad the school has resorted to showing reruns.

Ok the order of goals was different but we still were down 4-2 again.

 

[rufus22]

We need better goaltending. I don’t know if Oster would have been the starter or not. But this goaltending won’t get it done.

 

[Cat lover]

5 straight games being down 4-2. The Gut was a morgue last weekend. We had 3-win seasons that drew better crowds. I sit at center Ice and have a whole row of Providence fans sitting in front of me. I'm not gonna blame the coach as it's not his fault the top players won't come to Vermont. The program lost to many of its diehard base after covid as many either didn't want to go into a big crowd or have gotten tired of coming to a rink permantly under construction or just no longer wanted to watch a team lose all the time. In the past Vermont usually would have a few good years every decade that made the bad years livable.

 

[rufus22]

Catlover my only question is whether with a proven coach we could get a few top players to Vermont. For example, how on earth does any program get a kid to move to Orono Maine (unless they are from Nova Scotia, which has served Maine well lately?) Is it all about the Gut being old? All about staying so close to Boston? If it's simply about our losing record for the last decade, then it IS about the coach. Hire a real coach with a record and not just whomever might be convenient.