Man, Quinnipiac's defense has been great tonight. Blocking shots left and right. Tender playing solid. Get that goal, Bobcats.
Well, this lasted for a while after I posted it.sachmoney said:Man, Quinnipiac's defense has been great tonight. Blocking shots left and right. Tender playing solid. Get that goal, Bobcats.
Montgomery, 43, is currently the head coach and general manager of the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League. He was previously an assistant coach at Notre Dame (2005-06) and Rensselaer (2006-10) after a 12-year pro career that included 122 NHL games with five teams.
Montgomery was a finalist along with former DU assistant and RPI head coach Seth Appert, Green Bay Gamblers’ (USHL) head coach and ex-Denver assistant Derek Lalonde and Boston College associate head coach Greg Brown.
I think it's safe to say Montgomery was the name most of the fans were hoping for. He's a great hire for Denver and will do a good job there. I was really looking forward to seeing him behind the bench at the Alfond.Laser Show said:I believe Montgomery was the assumed favorite for the Maine job.
FWIW, there's no way the acceptance rate is 10%. To yield a class of 1800, they probably accept close to 6,000. a good yield rate for a non-ivy (or mini-ivy) is somewhere in the mid 20's... basically only 2-3 of every 10 students that get accepted actually attend.deanx0 said:My son is a senior in high school (in Milford, CT) and when he was picking schools to apply to, I told him to pick 1 or 2 that he'd be sure to get into. He told me he was applying to Quinnipiac. He got in (and it's his top choice) but when we went to accepted students day and the President told the crowd about those stats, I started hitting him, explaining that a school with a less than 10 percent acceptance rate is not a safe choice.
steveluck7 said:FWIW, there's no way the acceptance rate is 10%. To yield a class of 1800, they probably accept close to 6,000. a good yield rate for a non-ivy (or mini-ivy) is somewhere in the mid 20's... basically only 2-3 of every 10 students that get accepted actually attend.
Working in Higher Ed, it bothers me slightly when schools tout low acceptance rates. It detracts some possibly qualified students from applying, Fortunately for your son, he wasnt deterred
Laser Show said:I believe Montgomery was the assumed favorite for the Maine job.
gopats84 said:I think it's safe to say Montgomery was the name most of the fans were hoping for. He's a great hire for Denver and will do a good job there. I was really looking forward to seeing him behind the bench at the Alfond.
With that said, you have to wonder if this might have worked out differently had the UMaine Administration not taken three weeks at the end of the season to do its evaluation of the hockey program. The decision to fire Whitehead should have taken three minutes not three weeks.
gopats84 said:Big announcement coming Tuesday in Orono....UMaine will be announcing the committee that will conduct the search for Tim Whitehead's replacement.
So it has taken the administration and AD Steve Abbott a week to form a search committee following a three-week evaluation of the entire hockey program that ultimately led to Whitehead's firing and cost them a chance to hire Jim Montgomery. Meanwhile Denver fires and hires a new coach all in the span of two weeks.
When do we form a search committee for a new AD?
Philip Jeff Frye said:I can't believe this has happened. My dad grew up in New Haven and went to Yale. He was a huge fan. He went to at least one Yale football game every year from 1943 until he died in 2006, even though we often lived nowhere near New Haven. Following in his footsteps, I too went to Yale, but just in time for Ivy League football to fall off the face of the earth and for the Yale administration to decide that sports was no longer something in which it was interested. In the 31 years since my freshman year, Yale has won 2 Ivy League football titles and no basketball titles. We haven't even beaten Harvard in football in 11 years. Worst if all, most people at Yale are perfectly happy with this situation, particularly the decision makers. The only "sport" in which we're nationally competitive is squash. Barf.
In the midst of this crapfest, Keith Allain shows up and takes an occasionally competitive ECAC team, down on its luck in Tim Taylor's last few seasons, and turns it into a national power. Two years ago, we were, not unlike Quinnipiac this year, the top ranked team in the country for much of the season, only to suffer a bitter loss in the regionals. Oh well, that was fun, it will never happen again. And then it did, only with an amazingly inconsistent team that was fortunate to even get in the tournament. If I'm remembering correctly, Yale beat the #1, 2, 3 and #6 teams in the final regular season poll to win the championship. Its the most remarkable thing I've seen since the Miracle on Ice. Personally, even the 2004 Sox don't rank with this (and I'm a huge Sox fan obviously ).
My dad died of cancer in 2006. Towards the end, I took turns with my sisters spending nights in his hospital room with him. The last Yale sports event we ever watched together was a game against Quinnipiac that NESN was airing. I hope he was watching tonight.
Doug Beerabelli said:Congrats to Yale. They certainly played better than QU in the final. QU not scoring on a couple of one on nones with the Yale goalie set the tone. Hartzell's brain fart of a clear with seven seconds left did the same. Yale was on a roll, what a run.
But you know what? Congrats to he Bobcats on a fantastic season. I dont think anyone expected theyd run away with the ECAC regular season, and mking the FF finals despite cooling off late in the season showed the quality
Ive been a season ticket holder for three years now, and the uccess this year was surreal. There were plenty of times in past I could not give my tickets away. This year, in February, I had numerous friends seeing if mine were available. My seven year old son and I continue to bond at these games. He's hooked on the sport, loves going to games. We both stayed until past 11 on St Paddy's Day to see the 2x OT game v Cornell. Our sets this year were in a great spot- the refs gave him and his friends at least 10 pucks as they hi the locker room between periods this year. It's a great facility, and the downside of parking far away in the garage is a side effect of the success. A very like able team, some really underrated players who we got to enjoy before the nation got to know them a bit. Peca, the twins, Langlois, Samuels-Thomas, Hartzell, St. Denis, Bui in the clutch. I feel pretty strongly the success this year and national exposure will help keep this going despite a lot of seniors on this year's team.
Congrats, QU. Keep it going.
Tim Whitehead was relieved of his duties as head coach at the University of Maine on April 9. In the weeks since, not only has Maine director of athletics Steve Abbott yet hire his successor, but a prominent former player, Jim Montgomery, took the head coaching job at Denver, the university named Bob Corkum its interim head coach and Corkum, through university staffers, penned a not-so-cryptic open letter to Maine hockey fans that not-so-politely separated himself from Whitehead.
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According to a story in Monday’s Bangor Daily News, Abbott will likely name a successor next week. The paper goes on to cite sources reporting that UNH assistant Jim Tortorella, Yale assistant Red Gendron and former Ohio State coach Mark Osiecki are all candidates along with Corkum.
Then there’s rumblings that Abbott would like to woo New York Islanders head coach Jack Capuano, a Maine alum, back to Orono to run the hockey program. Given the Islanders’ success this past season, making the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 2007, on paper, it appears to be a long shot. But according to two sources, there have been overtures made and while Islanders’ majority owner Charles Wang would be smart to ink his head coach to a contract extension after the success the team enjoyed this season, nothing is certain. Not with the Islanders.
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New York Newsday reported in April that it’s widely believed that Capuano’s contract with the Islanders expires at the end of this season, though the coach and GM Garth Snow (also a Maine graduate, for what it's worth) refused to comment on his deal.
Capuano's daughter attends Maine and his son is set to play baseball there starting next school year.
Philip Jeff Frye said:In the midst of this crapfest, Keith Allain shows up and takes an occasionally competitive ECAC team, down on its luck in Tim Taylor's last few seasons, and turns it into a national power.
Taylor, who graduated Harvard in 1972, went 342-433-55 in 28 seasons with Yale, the only Division I head coaching job he ever had. He was away from the team for the 1984 Olympics, as an assistant coach, and 1994 as the head coach. He parted ways with the university in 2006, his last win being a 5 OT classic over Union in the 2006 ECAC playoffs.
The ECAC Coach of the Year award was later named in his honor.
After leaving Yale, Taylor was a volunteer assistant coach at New Hampshire for one season. The next year he joined the U.S. National Team Development Program as a scout and helped build the team that won last year's World Junior Championships gold medal.
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Taylor was a two-time winner of the ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year Award (1991-92, 1997-98). The award was later named in his honor after he left Yale. He also was the Spencer Penrose Award winner as national coach of the year three times (1986-87, 1991-92, 1997-98).
"Tim Taylor gave so many of us young American hockey players the opportunity to achieve amazing goals," former U.S. Olympian Mike Eruzione said via Twitter. "Not many people outside of U.S. hockey knew of Tim Taylor but any young player growing up in New England knew exactly who he was."
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Current Yale coach Keith Allain, who played for Taylor in the late 1970s, said Taylor taught him that coaching could be a noble profession.
"(Taylor's) an educated guy, he went to Harvard, he has a degree in English. He could've done anything in the world, but he chose to coach," Allain said. "And the way he carried himself with such professionalism, and his demeanor ... he was a teacher, he was a leader, all those things meant nobility to me."
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Current Yale assistant Red Gendron summed up the feelings of many following the Bulldogs' national championship earlier this month.
"When I was a high school coach, and went to district camp, Tim Taylor made me feel like I was important when there were other college coaches who didn't have time for me," Gendron said. "I don't know what he recongized. He always treated me like a peer when I was anything but his peer. Throuhgout my coaching careeer, he's been a mentor, somebody I can bounce ideas off of, someone who was there to support me.
"You know, I was fired a couple of times, like a lot of people who get into this racket. But I could pick up the phone and call Tim and there were words of encouragement. He was there to tell me, 'Hey you're a pretty good coach Red, something else will come up.' He's a very, very special man."
RedOctober3829 said:Look for Red Gendron to get the UMaine job.
The University of Maine introduced Dennis "Red" Gendron as its new head hockey coach at a press conference on Tuesday inside Alfond Arena.
Gendron, 55, who is embarking on his first head coaching job in college hockey, has been a longtime collegiate assistant coach, including serving last season as the associate head coach of the national champion Yale Bulldogs.
Gendron's first college hockey coaching experience was with the Black Bears, where he assisted Shawn Walsh with the 1993 national championship team.
Any one that come with mace included, at least for the January 11th game.Bucket1923 said:Tickets are going on pre-sale today for Frozen Fenway 2014. Anyone have any thoughts on which scetions are good seats for hockey at Fenway?
Indoors and free/cheap, I agree with you, . . .kenneycb said:There will always be enough demand for the Gophers in Minnesota.
Only just saw this - I'm guessing he prefers to stay on an NHL track at this point for a variety of reasons. I think he got frustrated with the college game at NU - too much stuff to deal with beyond just coaching hockey.Mr. Wednesday said:
Cronin? Or does he prefer to stay on an NHL track?
Dan to Theo to Ben said:Sorry if this was talked about before somewhere, but news to me.
Is there really enough demand for this? I know the Gophers are fairly big, but this concept is getting out of hand IMHO
http://www.hockeycityclassic.com/
Fred not Lynn said:
Why do you say it's getting out of hand? What's happening is that the concept is evolving from being a novelty into being a tradition. It's successful, people enjoy it, money is made. At its core, ice hockey is an indoor-outdoor sport...
This year will likely be the best year ever to watch college hockey on television. ESPNU and ESPN News have seven Big Ten games. CBS Sports Network has 18 NCHC games. NBCSN has 17 Hockey East and 5 Big Ten games. These national telecasts are in addition to the many more that will air regionally on NESN, FSN, BTN, and others.twibnotes said:Boston College at Michigan tonight, and the game is not televised in the Boston area. Really wish more college hockey was televised. Hopefully we see more and more with channels like Big Ten Network and some of the regional sports channels.