aaa8316
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Post by aaa8316 on Feb 21, 2021 19:58:48 GMT -5
During this 10-game losing streak...
Goals for: 10 (not a typo) Goals against: 38
Shots for: 230 (avg. of 23 per game)
Shots against: 341 (avg. of 34 per game)
Shut out 4 times.
Scary, scary numbers.
Only a few more games until the off-season. FASCINATED to see and hear what this staff and AD Marcus Blossom have for a recap.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Feb 21, 2021 20:08:15 GMT -5
You're going to hear squat, so move on.
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Post by thecrossisback on Feb 21, 2021 20:36:37 GMT -5
It's long overdue time to make a change.
Ice breaker tournament at home next year. Would be nice to have a good showing.
I guess the one thing about HC is they have played good against HE opponents but in the midst of another awful year. How long can you keep going like this?
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Post by aaa8316 on Feb 21, 2021 20:50:15 GMT -5
You're going to hear squat, so move on. Move on? Hah, not happening partner.
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Post by HC92 on Feb 21, 2021 21:02:01 GMT -5
I want to be on record as recommending Tim Coghlin for our next head coach. He’s won lots of games at a small Catholic college that stunk when he got there. No idea if he’d want to leave a place at which he’s been very successful at 56 years old but I did 15 minutes of research and he’s my guy. Need someone who has won consistently as a head coach. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Coghlin
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Post by matunuck on Feb 21, 2021 21:07:22 GMT -5
Real shame Pearl walked. Can’t say I blamed him at the time.
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Post by thecrossisback on Feb 21, 2021 21:10:53 GMT -5
HC92 that would be good. I would like to try Mike Bavis and see if he is interested. Obviously Pearl if he would come back.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Feb 21, 2021 22:03:31 GMT -5
Interesting name, 92.
Only question I have is: Why’s he been the coach at St. Norbert for nearly 30 years?
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 22, 2021 0:02:31 GMT -5
He likes cheese? It would be great to have him.
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Post by bfoley82 on Feb 22, 2021 10:09:03 GMT -5
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 22, 2021 10:21:13 GMT -5
He likes cheese? It would be great to have him. The quote by long suffering brings back memories from high school. i attended a high school that was run by the Norbertine Order, who also runs St. Norbert’s College. Among the faculty was a Fr. Frigo, whose family owned Frigo cheese. Often during the year, he would bring in cheese sandwiches and samples from the Frigo Company to his classes. www.frigocheese.com/enIf Tim Coughlin became the next Holy Cross hockey coach, he would be the second former St. Norbert’s head hockey coach on Mt. St.James, Meredith Roth, currently Associate Head Coach of the Women’s team, was previously the Women’s Coach at St. Norbert’s.
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Post by cruskater31 on Feb 22, 2021 10:39:39 GMT -5
HC92 that would be good. I would like to try Mike Bavis and see if he is interested. Obviously Pearl if he would come back. Bavis is an interesting suggestion. I wonder if he would leave his alma mater (BU) to come out to Worcester. As assistant and now associate head at BU, he certainly has put in his time as assistant. I believe he also coached in the ECHL for Wheeling for a while. Our current head coach is a long time Hockey East assistant and this didn't exactly work out. I still like the Hockey East connection in hopes of continuing to forge bonds between conferences. Pearl, for obvious reasons, would be fantastic. I suspect Pearl and Bavis would both bring a wealth of recruiting expertise as well. The wild card would be a young, energetic coach of the Chesney model.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Feb 22, 2021 11:47:03 GMT -5
While I never like to discuss a position that isn't open, an assurance of HE coming at some point in the future would allow HC to attract good candidates if the job opens. Staying in the AHA and bussing endless hours to rust belt outposts such as Erie and Rochester in the dead of winter isn't exactly desirable.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 22, 2021 11:47:44 GMT -5
I disagree with the assessment regarding Cornerstone being a nicer or better facility for a college program for several reasons. 1.The facility rink that the men’s team skates seats 1,674, only slightly larger than the Hart Center. While Cornerstone is newer, built in 2000, and now has three ice sheets, they all appear single sided regarding seating. 2. The facility is non controlled or owned by St. Norbert’s, thus scheduling of practice and games can be an issue. 3.,All team training cannot take place in a single integrated site, i.e, weight, ergo, running, film etc. 4. College sports medicine is not on site at Cornerstone. Hart has a very large new sports medicine suite, (3,000 sq ft) with state of the art rehabilitation equipment and systems. 5. The facility is 3.7 miles from the St. Norbert’s campus. The flaws with the Hart rink are its seating configuration, and site lines due to the seat angle and control booth being in the center and often obstructing views in the corner. The rink was not in the original design of the Hart, in 1973, as a swimming pool was originally planned where the rink was built and the design was not sufficiently modified regarding seating configuration. The rink was built for a program that was D3, in 1975, without the understanding and foresight of major changes and expansion of college hockey. Most of the rinks being lauded were built recently for schools with a substantially larger student population. In 1975, both UConn and MIT played in outdoor rinks. Large rinks on college campus may be reconsidered in a post Covid environment. Bentley’s brand new rink only seats 2,207). Venerable Hobey Baker Rink at Princeton built in 1921, only seats 2,092. We will see if Sacred Heart will be able to construct a new 4,000 seat rink on the former General Electric campus in Fairfield. Hockey East should reconsider their requirements regarding the practically and expense of facility. Quinnipiac’s beautiful facility, with a conceptual design of the original Hart of having both basketball and ice hockey in the same facility, only seats 3,386 for hockey and do not meet Hockey East requirements. UCONN may be staying in the XL Center as building an expanded Freitas Ice Forum seems to have hit a current roadblock regarding funding. Freitas seats 2,000. According to the UConn blog, locker rooms space is an issue for two major programs as well as warm up space. www.theuconnblog.com/2020/11/13/21563879/uconn-huskies-mens-hockey-freitas-ice-forum-requires-modifications-to-host-this-seasonConstruction of a new or expanded rink may not be on the immediacy horizon, unless a wealthy hockey alums decides to earmark a gift, as HC will be looking at spending between 250 to 300 million on new campus town house village and complete renovation to all Easy Street dorms.
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Post by woorat on Feb 22, 2021 11:59:55 GMT -5
Mike Bavis should have been hired when Pearl left. He was one of 4 finalists. Unfortunately, MOST committee members were overwhelmed with Dave Berard's marketing skills. He did an unbelievable job during his interview. Unfortunately, most of the interviewers (including the fraud Pine) no squad about hockey. When talking hockey, Bavis was "off the chart". From his player development skills, recruiting philosophy, practice planning, etc. Jason Lammers was also very impressive, but Bavis was the best. Pine had no clue what he was doing. While Berard is a great guy, a change is needed.
I am a huge Pearl guy and would love to see him back. Not sure if he or Bavis would be interested. If they both were, it certainly would be a pleasant problem. Also, Marcus seems to have a lot of connections from his BC days, especially with Jerry York. Speaking of Jerry, you would be interested to know that he gave a glowing recommendation for Bavis. Imagine that, a BC hockey guy praising a BU guy!
Here is another name I will throw at you, Patrick Rismiller.
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Post by bfoley82 on Feb 22, 2021 12:42:18 GMT -5
Mike Bavis should have been hired when Pearl left. He was one of 4 finalists. Unfortunately, MOST committee members were overwhelmed with Dave Berard's marketing skills. He did an unbelievable job during his interview. Unfortunately, most of the interviewers (including the fraud Pine) no squad about hockey. When talking hockey, Bavis was "off the chart". From his player development skills, recruiting philosophy, practice planning, etc. Jason Lammers was also very impressive, but Bavis was the best. Pine had no clue what he was doing. While Berard is a great guy, a change is needed. I am a huge Pearl guy and would love to see him back. Not sure if he or Bavis would be interested. If they both were, it certainly would be a pleasant problem. Also, Marcus seems to have a lot of connections from his BC days, especially with Jerry York. Speaking of Jerry, you would be interested to know that he gave a glowing recommendation for Bavis. Imagine that, a BC hockey guy praising a BU guy! Here is another name I will throw at you, Patrick Rismiller. Marcus also spent time at Providence when they hired Leaman so that is another connection. Marcus though was never a sports administrator for hockey programs at BC or PC. He was always involved with the basketball side according to his bio.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 22, 2021 12:46:50 GMT -5
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Post by hc17 on Feb 22, 2021 14:10:30 GMT -5
It has been quite clear for some time now that the Hockey program is trending in the wrong direction. Year 7 of Berard and I can't say that the program fills me with an ounce of hope. Come season's end I do expect Blossom to make the change and re-orient the ship. At the time of Berard's hiring, I recall folks touting his recruiting chops, connections to Hockey East and his effort in steering UConn to winning season as Interim coach. Without knowing many details of the other candidates, I was filled with optimism. Over the last 7 years, I'm not quite sure what went wrong. Admittedly, I have a hard time assessing Berard. Is it as simple as Xs and Os, an inability to recruit to HC? Does the College not fund enough scholarships relative to our AHA peers? It's probably some combination. With that said, we have a 7 year track record and it's time to move along. As some have pointed out, a potential shift to Hockey East makes this job a hell of a lot more enticing for a coaching candidate. Factor in the Ice Breaker Tournament ( It is still pretty wild that HC/Worcester is in fact hosting) and you have the makings of nice out of conference schedule already. Hockey presents a massive opportunity to the College. In this day and age, it's fair to argue more so than Football/Basketball. While the Hart is far from perfect, UConn and Merrimack play/plan to play in small venues as well. If the opportunity is there and we know HC has flirted with HE in past....seize it!
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Post by thecrossisback on Feb 22, 2021 14:42:22 GMT -5
Mike Bavis should have been hired when Pearl left. He was one of 4 finalists. Unfortunately, MOST committee members were overwhelmed with Dave Berard's marketing skills. He did an unbelievable job during his interview. Unfortunately, most of the interviewers (including the fraud Pine) no squad about hockey. When talking hockey, Bavis was "off the chart". From his player development skills, recruiting philosophy, practice planning, etc. Jason Lammers was also very impressive, but Bavis was the best. Pine had no clue what he was doing. While Berard is a great guy, a change is needed. I am a huge Pearl guy and would love to see him back. Not sure if he or Bavis would be interested. If they both were, it certainly would be a pleasant problem. Also, Marcus seems to have a lot of connections from his BC days, especially with Jerry York. Speaking of Jerry, you would be interested to know that he gave a glowing recommendation for Bavis. Imagine that, a BC hockey guy praising a BU guy! Here is another name I will throw at you, Patrick Rismiller. Good insight woorat. As a Bu hockey fan I thought for sure Bavis would have got the job after Jack Parker left. I would be interested to see if Patrick Rismiller is interested.
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Post by bfoley82 on Feb 22, 2021 15:37:30 GMT -5
UConn's new rink will NOT be hosting most of the Men's games. They will still be in Hartford with very few held in Storrs. It is more of a Women's Hockey/Men's Hockey Practice rink.
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Post by aaa8316 on Feb 22, 2021 16:24:51 GMT -5
A couple things:
1) Paul Pearl is NEVER EVER coming back. I cannot reaffirm that any more confidently. The school decided to spend $100 million dollars in the Hart renovation that essentially did zero to the rink. At the time of this finalized plan (under AD Dick Regan) Men's Hockey was without question the most successful HC program during that era. That was the final straw for Pearl, in addition to endless other major challenges he faced in his 19-year tenure at HC. (Most notably the absolute embarrassing presentation to the ECAC years ago when Quinnipiac was ultimately chosen over HC). He's since been at Harvard (endless resources) and now BU (endless resources). And been very successful at both places. He also makes way more money away from HC than they would ever pay him to come back.
2) I can't say this with 100% confidence, but I believe there is still at least 1 former head coach of other HC programs on the books after being fired. For an Athl Dept notoriously cheap, I'm not sure how many other coaches can be on the payroll after firing.
3) Tim Coughlin is a great talent. He's had numerous opportunities over the years to leave St Norbert, and never has. From anyone I know in the profession, he isn't leaving.
4) There are so many unbelievable coaches out there for HC to consider. If (and I pray every night it's soon a "when") HC is hiring a new Head Coach, the pool should be decent. And I have faith in Blossom to do this right...citing his frequent affirmation that he expects HC programs to be winners. ** Note I said coaches...not pretenders, marketing gurus, fundraising specialists, etc. This program needs a HOCKEY COACH, that can recruit his a** off, win battles, and WIN GAMES.
HC Men's Hockey needs a full reset on strategy that focusses on being competitive again on the ice. In ATLANTIC HOCKEY -- not Hockey East. The program plays in the AHA, and are currently last place with 3 games to go this season. Berard's role in this era has been well documented in previous posts.
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aaa8316
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Post by aaa8316 on Feb 22, 2021 16:39:36 GMT -5
Mike Bavis should have been hired when Pearl left. He was one of 4 finalists. Unfortunately, MOST committee members were overwhelmed with Dave Berard's marketing skills. He did an unbelievable job during his interview. Unfortunately, most of the interviewers (including the fraud Pine) no squad about hockey. When talking hockey, Bavis was "off the chart". From his player development skills, recruiting philosophy, practice planning, etc. Jason Lammers was also very impressive, but Bavis was the best. Pine had no clue what he was doing. While Berard is a great guy, a change is needed. I am a huge Pearl guy and would love to see him back. Not sure if he or Bavis would be interested. If they both were, it certainly would be a pleasant problem. Also, Marcus seems to have a lot of connections from his BC days, especially with Jerry York. Speaking of Jerry, you would be interested to know that he gave a glowing recommendation for Bavis. Imagine that, a BC hockey guy praising a BU guy! Here is another name I will throw at you, Patrick Rismiller. Regarding Pat....awesome guy. Hasn't recruited 1 day in his life. Massive red flag.
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Post by thecrossisback on Feb 22, 2021 16:40:24 GMT -5
HC Men's Hockey needs a full reset on strategy that focusses on being competitive again on the ice. In ATLANTIC HOCKEY -- not Hockey East. The program plays in the AHA, and are currently last place with 3 games to go this season. I agree HC has done nothing in Atlantic. But if they have a chance to make the jump to Hockey East, you have to do it. The bottom of HE has been pretty bad the last few years. Getting HE teams to come to the HART or DCU would draw really well.
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Post by hc17 on Feb 22, 2021 16:58:18 GMT -5
Winning aside, the conference schedule doesn't pop off the page. Frankly, it's not exciting and I find myself attending the out of conference games. At the end of the day, we all want a winning program and that needs to be prioritized. If that is in the AHA, we'll take it. A move to Hockey East would come with a big financial commitment (I hope) from the College and a tremendous schedule. For the casual fan, it'll be a hell of a lot easier getting fans back in the building and generating excitement. Unfortunately, the current slate is non-starter for many of my HC pals
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Post by newfieguy74 on Feb 22, 2021 17:06:40 GMT -5
I hate to see anyone get fired, but I can't think of a single reason to feel positive about the program under Dave Berard's leadership.
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