UNH 2018 Offseason- Out with the old , in with the semi new?

[Snively65]

Q: how common is it that UNH isn't playing any kind of exhibition game, and, does this make a difference? I'm disappointed because its the one game you get to see all of the players, etc. Plus, we aren't home forever. Wah! Ok, just keeping the thread alive. Won't be long now. Nice article by C-H-C regarding David Sacco. Great comments about him 'chirping the ref' all the way back to the box...haha not that we haven't seen this before. Kind of reminds me of Matt W will be looking forward to see how he develops; seems like a lot of potential there.
Anyway...hope everyone has had a great summer. Guess we'll see ya Oct. 27....

Thanks. I realized that Martz made the most of his opportunity in the FF, but I did not realize that he made the all-tourney team. Good for him.

[Chuck Murray]

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Disappointed there apparently won't be an exhibition game this season - it's been one of the few opportunities I get to see the team play at home before my other commitments start up again in earnest - but if this is down to a new approach by the new head coach, then I think we owe him our understanding and support for trying something different. The program has grown SO stale in recent seasons, almost any change feels like a breath of fresh air. Less than two months to go now …

[BlackI]

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Velcome....

http://finishyourcheck.com/topic/118...mment-14855505

Luuk vor 8

[C-H-C]

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2020 UNH Commit Tim Stützle game-winning goal against Slovakia at U17 5 Nation Tournament:
https://youtu.be/dPjtiG18i4c

[BlackI]

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2020 UNH Commit Tim Stützle game-winning goal against Slovakia at U17 5 Nation Tournament:
https://youtu.be/dPjtiG18i4c

You got a good one, huh?

[Snively65]

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I am delighted that UNH is recruiting across the Pond, but we still need a Finn, or two. I think that this creative recruiting strategy reflects well on the new regime. Now, if only these Euro's can perform, eh, Jacques "Rabbit" Porriveau?

[HockeyRef]

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2020 UNH Commit Tim Stützle game-winning goal against Slovakia at U17 5 Nation Tournament:
https://youtu.be/dPjtiG18i4c

He's really doing well!! Curious as to what his path will be; will he come directly to UNH when he's 18 or will he play in Jr's first? Here's hoping he does indeed land on the ice at the 'Whitt...lots of talent here!!!

[Snively65]

He's really doing well!! Curious as to what his path will be; will he come directly to UNH when he's 18 or will he play in Jr's first? Here's hoping he does indeed land on the ice at the 'Whitt...lots of talent here!!!

Whatever path he takes, will arrive just in time to replace Blackburn, and maybe even play on a top two line as a freshman.

[Dan]

Whatever path he takes, will arrive just in time to replace Blackburn, and maybe even play on a top two line as a freshman.

Cross your fingers he makes it to Durham. Watcher had hoped Stutzle's teammate Tim Fleisher would be a UNH target as well - but he has decided he's ready to come to North America at 17 and will be playing with Hamilton of the OHL. Major Junior is a real threat if Stutzle feels he has developed as much as he can in the German system and needs a new challenge before he turns 18 (hopefully that would be the USHL, if so, but who knows)...

Another teammate Mike Fischer is walking right into professional hockey in Europe at 18 (DEL/DEL2). That is another threat to Stutzle's arrival that will need to be monitored.

UNH will also have to break from tradition and monitor Stutzle's academics closely. Just last week, UW lost a recruit because they failed to keep an close eye on the player's TOEFLE score (despite plenty of time in which he could have tested again). He was turned away and will play at rival Minnesota instead.

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On a brighter note, Stutzle was very good playing in the first line for Germany as the U18 Five Nations. He skated alongside two other '02 prospects UNH should absolutely be targeting. Go all in on Germany and the Stutzle pipeline and it might solidify him sticking to his NCAA commitment...

Stutzle, Florian Elias and Lukas Reichel (nephew of long-time NHLer Robert Reichel) were great and the key to Germany's win over the US. The Americans (a second-teir US U18 group, but the point remains) could not handle German's top-line. All three would look good in UNH blue...

[Chuck Murray]

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Stutzle, Florian Elias and Lukas Reichel (nephew of long-time NHLer Robert Reichel) were great and the key to Germany's win over the US. The Americans (a second-teir US U18 group, but the point remains) could not handle German's top-line. All three would look good in UNH blue...

Perhaps the second coming of the old-school Bruins' so-called "Kraut Line" of the 1940's??

WIS sets the odds of "Sargent" Stutzle ever making it to Durham at 3-1 against.

[Snively65]

Perhaps the second coming of the old-school Bruins' so-called "Kraut Line" of the 1940's??

WIS sets the odds of "Sargent" Stutzle ever making it to Durham at 3-1 against.

Except that the Kraut Line was from Kitchener, Ontario. My parents watched them play at the Garden until they enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force for WWII. Bobby Bauer retired soon after the war ended, and the line was not quite the same, which was amazing. One year Bauer, Milt Schmidt, and Woody Dumart were the top three scorers in the NHL, and they led the B's to Stanley Cups in 1939 and 1941. Schmidt only passed away last year at age 98.

Really hope that Stutzle and maybe a couple of his teammates show up in Durham.

[Chuck Murray]

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Maybe a couple of weeks from now, I'll get the 2018/2019 thread started? There was this futuristic tale of competitive sports set in 2018, back in the days of my youth … just revisited it for the first time in eons, feeling inspired.

[UNH1932]

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I am a geezer like many others on the board. What might be derogatory for some and normal for others, may cause our younger generation fans and players to think of us as racist. Kraut is not necessarily offensive to some but it might be best if we choose a different path on naming current day lines as it could be offensive to our younger readers. I am sorry to be PC, but it might be best to stay away from old line names to be safe.

I hope you all are having a wonderful off-season and I hope to see you all at the Whit in late October.

[Chuck Murray]

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I am a geezer like many others on the board. What might be derogatory for some and normal for others, may cause our younger generation fans and players to think of us as racist. Kraut is not necessarily offensive to some but it might be best if we choose a different path on naming current day lines as it could be offensive to our younger readers. I am sorry to be PC, but it might be best to stay away from old line names to be safe.

So … I have this radical idea. How about we treat our younger fans with due respect and credit for having the ability to think for themselves, rather than assuming they're sycophantic programmed robots lapping up the latest PC pre-programmed virtue signaling messages from their socialist-leaning mentors, apparently on their way to earning their Masters' degrees/Eagle Scout badges in SJW for their latest discovery of latent racism in every nook and cranny of the Internet?

'32, I think you know we've agreed and (mostly) disagreed in the past on a whole range of topics, but I've always encouraged you to keep posting, even with stuff we're not on the same page with. That kind of full-blooded debate used to be the lifeblood of this forum. Nowadays, there's too much sensitivity and PC-induced snowflakery that keeps this place far too sterile. Can't we both be true to our respective selves, post what we think freely without fear of retribution, and set an enlightened example for the posters - young and old alike - of how free speech and freedom of expression is supposed to work? It beats the crap out of the silly game of "gotcha" that the world of social media has created around us over this last generation.

I know, you're probably too tied into campus life, and the group-think echo-chamber "bubble" and that made you feel a need to chime in like this. Understood, and I do appreciate you kept the tone of the semi-rebuke civil, so I suspect you're probably not entirely on board with the "new ways". But rest assured, I'm not going to change how I communicate, and if it offends some of our readers, then that's their problem - not mine. As noted in my signature, I'm not worried about pandering to those folks.

If folks are going to take offense at a factually-accurate description of the name of an elite line of hockey legends, then I think they're trying too hard (see above comments about the virtue-signalers' aims). If you want to pander to/accommodate them and their march towards rewriting/sanitizing history, hey, that's your choice. Enjoy the rest of the summer, and maybe we'll meet at some point this season. Gonna miss not having that home exhibition game, though.

[Snively65]

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I have missed the at-times non-PC, golf course saga, bloody episodes and all, from last year's off-season thread. :-)