UNH Wildcats 2014/2015 - Wait 'Til Next Year!!!

[sonar]

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Allow me this:

As I pondered the home opener tomorrow night I thought .... "been there done that." And then I thought .... "no I have not been there for this season opener." This will be my 47th UNH season opener as a fan - and there have obviously been highs and lows. It has all been fueled by hope. If I reflect on the Bacon quote (below) .... I can say that although I don't think I have had my supper yet .... lunch is a distant memory.

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Francis Bacon

[e.cat]

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We may learn a little tonight at 7:00 on NESN: MI at UML.

Good point. I was thinking the same.

[e.cat]

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Allow me this:

As I pondered the home opener tomorrow night I thought .... "been there done that." And then I thought .... "no I have not been there for this season opener." This will be my 47th UNH season opener as a fan - and there have obviously been highs and lows. It has all been fueled by hope. If I reflect on the Bacon quote (below) .... I can say that although I don't think I have had my supper yet .... lunch is a distant memory.

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Francis Bacon

I used to work with guys who had suppah at around 10am and dinner at 5pm.

[FiveHole12]

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Allow me this: ... This will be my 47th UNH season opener as a fan - and there have obviously been highs and lows.

47th opener?!?! .... I think your fellow Cat fans can cut you some slack and allow you just about anything.

[sonar]

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I used to work with guys who had suppah at around 10am and dinner at 5pm.

You must have worked in the same paper mill I did in my "youth" ....

[HockeyRef]

Allow me this:

As I pondered the home opener tomorrow night I thought .... "been there done that." And then I thought .... "no I have not been there for this season opener." This will be my 47th UNH season opener as a fan - and there have obviously been highs and lows. It has all been fueled by hope. If I reflect on the Bacon quote (below) .... I can say that although I don't think I have had my supper yet .... lunch is a distant memory.



"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Francis Bacon

I like your style and congrats on the longevity as a UNH fan. As we know I came late to this party and I'm loving it...I'm glad this board has different approaches to being a fan. To each his own! And as for hope....from the Shawshank Redemption "Hope is a good thing..maybe the best of things...and no good thing ever dies".

[HockeyRef]

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I wouldn't be so sure about that. Colorado College might be one of the worst teams in the nation this year. There is a lot of quality opposition on the schedule this season, but CC ain't part of it. I don't expect that this game will prove much, but that won't stop the crowing

Personally, I prefer cackling as opposed to crowing. Sure, some of us got a lil excited last Friday with the win. Why not? Who thought UNH would even be IN that weekend series? So it got a lil exuberant. We might not have much room for that this season, given the schedule, given the adversity, yada, yada. Don't you worry...I'm getting the drift...

[Snively65]

You must have worked in the same paper mill I did in my "youth" ....

Hey, sonar, Franconia Paper Corp in Lincoln, NH, summer 1970, for me. But, my first UNH hockey games were at Batchelder Rink (outdoors) in the late 1950s / early 1960s.

Solid posts earlier, Chuck and Hockey Ref.

[sonar]

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Fraser Paper Company - Madawaska,Maine, June 1960 to August 1961 (saw the light and went to college after that) .....

Hey, sonar, Franconia Paper Corp in Lincoln, NH, summer 1970, for me. But, my first UNH hockey games were at Batchelder Rink (outdoors) in the late 1950s / early 1960s.

Solid posts earlier, Chuck and Hockey Ref.

[e.cat]

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You must have worked in the same paper mill I did in my "youth" ....

Actually, the summer before my freshman year, I worked for the State of NH Highway Dept, district 4 I think it was, in the Lebanon, Lake Sunapee area. The old timers I worked with were short on dialogue and long on hard labor but salt of the earth people.

BTW, congrats on your 47th opener. That pretty cool.☺

[JB]

So Michigan crushed Lowell 8-4, what the heck does that mean?

[ClOuD 9]

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So Michigan crushed Lowell 8-4, what the heck does that mean?

Still too early to tell, very limited sample sizes.

[e.cat]

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From my standpoint, a loss is a loss, whether it's 1-0 or 4-0,

Lowell got thumped by Michigan tonight 8-4 and outshot 37-30. Is that just a loss? You might think so but I don't!

Carry on.

[Chuck Murray]

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So Michigan crushed Lowell 8-4, what the heck does that mean?

You got me, JB. Never bought into the "We beat Team A, Team A beat Team B, so we'll beat Team B next weekend" pseudo-logic before, and I'm not about to start buying into it now.

For what it's worth, UML will be exiting a pretty tough opening five games (BC, QCx2, Michigan & MSU) tomorrow night at no worse than .500, and quite possibly at 3-1-1. Their next 11 games until the winter break look like a relatively leisurely stroll, and it won't be until mid-to-late January before their schedule gets tough again. I fully expect the Riverhawks to be a Top 4 HE team again this season. Whether they can three-peat is another issue entirely, but I'm sure Coach Bazin will use tonight's result as a wake-up call to ward off any early season complacency. If UNH can get any points off of UML next weekend, I'll be (pleasantly) surprised.

[gochiefs]

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So Michigan crushed Lowell 8-4, what the heck does that mean?

It means that Lowell's defense took the game off and Boyle was atrocious. Enough said!