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Got an email from UConn offering $5 Dunkin Donuts cards. Have to wonder what kind of crowd will show up tonight.

SHU is growing superfast. What is the all-time series record anyway?
 
Our mortal enemy is SHU. Almost feels like having Merrimack as a rival, except people attend Merrimack games.
 
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This team has always played poorly in these ‘should win’ games including a horrible loss at the Taft school rink a few years back. Let’s see if they’ve got any pride
 
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Against Sacred Heart! Again!

SHU can't beat QU or Yale but own us.
 
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huskymedic said:


They should save the $350k and just finish out the season @ Freitas
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I'd still go. But they should. Why bother. Teams given up anyway. Freaking embarrassment. Again.

And they just take it.
 
We have lost 6 in a row to SHU. We are finished for the year - 7-16-2 (1-5-1 this month).
Are you kidding me?

Let's address the fact that Cavanaugh is just not getting it done. I hope Benedict knows something about hockey because he should be looking for a new coach now!
 
Sea Goat said:
We have lost 6 in a row to SHU. We are finished for the year - 7-16-2 (1-5-1 this month).
Are you kidding me?

Let's address the fact that Cavanaugh is just not getting it done. I hope Benedict knows something about hockey because he should be looking for a new coach now!
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He gets next year. But I bet he'd leave first anyway based on what I've heard.
 
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Fine with me if he goes. We pay good money - competitive with UMass and UNH. We can get a decent coach who can teach discipline and fundamentals to young, raw and talented kids.
 
The Viking said:
Leave because of....
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He was promised things that have not materialized and he sees the way the tea leaves are.

BTW, if he goes, do not be surprised if he gets a HC job somewhere else in Hockey East. You watch. I think he would get hired pretty quickly at a UVM or a Maine.

*I* think its insane, but its what I've heard. Nothing concrete. Just rumblings.
 
Sea Goat said:
Fine with me if he goes. We pay good money - competitive with UMass and UNH. We can get a decent coach who can teach discipline and fundamentals to young, raw and talented kids.
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College hockey's like high school lunch. Word's out. Everyone knows.

UConn will not be able to attract as qualified a candidate. And I do not think Cav has done a good job. But you are not getting the top recruiter for a top 5 program to walk in here. You are fishing out of a really shallow pool with some ugly fish.
 
What's "the word" that is out? The size of the new arena? 2500 or 3000 sounds small but having hockey games on campus will bring out the students and at least a portion of the season ticket holders. Are HE arena's putting more than 3K ACTUAL fannies in the seats for games all the time? I doubt it. Hell you look at some UConn's road games on TV at some of the "blue blood" HE arena's and it looks like maybe you see 50% capacity, some its worse.

The locker rooms, etc for the coaches and players are supposed to be state-of-the-art....so what recruits are getting scared off by that?
Then for the big games you play in a current AHL/former NHL arena that can bring 5-6K ACTUAL fans to a game if the team is playing well against good opponents.

He just brought in a big recruiting class that won't see the improvements mentioned above.

I think we overdo the doom and gloom of the future facility/setup for hockey. Bottom line it is definitely going to be a big improvement based on what is there NOW where's he's already bringing in good recruiting classes.
 
The Viking said:
What's "the word" that is out? The size of the new arena? 2500 or 3000 sounds small but having hockey games on campus will bring out the students and at least a portion of the season ticket holders. Are HE arena's putting more than 3K ACTUAL fannies in the seats for games all the time? I doubt it. Hell you look at some UConn's road games on TV at some of the "blue blood" HE arena's and it looks like maybe you see 50% capacity, some its worse.

The locker rooms, etc for the coaches and players are supposed to be state-of-the-art....so what recruits are getting scared off by that?
Then for the big games you play in a current AHL/former NHL arena that can bring 5-6K ACTUAL fans to a game if the team is playing well against good opponents.

He just brought in a big recruiting class that won't see the improvements mentioned above.

I think we overdo the doom and gloom of the future facility/setup for hockey. Bottom line it is definitely going to be a big improvement based on what is there NOW where's he's already bringing in good recruiting classes.
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the word is out the ad is so broke they can barely update a roster online.

the word is out it isnt going to get get better - there isnt actually any money to pay for the pathetic planned building and the XL center might close in any given instance.

the word is out the head football coach is paying raises for assistants out of his own pocket
 
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