Weekend Preview: For the Birds

Official Site

D'Onofrio's Dish (video)

CHN's Tale of the Tape

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Game Day: Winning in Wisconsin

**LATE BREAKING**

***10/31/2009 Update***

This game is being rebroadcast as of 7:00pm Eastern and is in progress (First Intermission) at the same link below.

You can watch this game (if you want, and that's a big IF) streamed online at 11:00pm Eastern time! Fifteen minutes from now!

Here's the link.



The Wildcats vs Wisconsin presents the most tantalizing match-up in college hockey this weekend. Can the high-powered undercats overcome their defensive nemesis in the Badgers.

Will the hometown kid wow with his return?

How many w's can I work into this writing?

The Official Site.

CHN's Tale of the Tape.

Check back tonight to see if I can pull off The UNH Men's Hockey Blog's first live-blog of the season!

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On The Net: Greg Burke

The College Hockey news is currently featuring a story with University of New Hampshire freshman and local, Greg Burke.

From the title-linked article:

"It's the little things, walking into the locker room and having jerseys to sign, seeing your jersey hanging up. I've waited a long time for this." - Greg Burke

Glad to have you, Greg!

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Wednesday's Wildcat Alumni Weekly

Feeling a bit under the weather here today but wanted to get this out to everyone in Wildcat Nation.

The Other UNH Men's Hockey Blogger Guy has come through with the names and locales of the guys playing over seas. Thanks Other Guy!

In brief:

Radja - TPS Turku FNL - GP 14, G 5, A 3
Kapstad - Riessersee SC 2.GBun - GP 11, G 1, A 4
Martz - Alleghe HC Italy - GP 6, A 5
Gare - Bad Nauheim GerObL - GP 2, G 3, A 2
Truelson - Cortina SG Italy, GP 7, G 1, A 4
Dzieduszycki - Hannover Scorpions DEL - GP 14, G 5, A 7
Mowers - Fribourg-Gotteron Swiss-A - No Stats Yet

Back on this side of the pond.

James van Riemsdyk nets his first NHL goal and maintains his point-per-game pace with 1 goal, 7 assists through 8 games. See his first goal in his NHL profile video.

Daniel Winnik recorded a multi-point effort this past week with two assists on terrific pressuring plays. He has a goal and three assists through ten games and a plus-two rating as does van Riemsdyk. Dan is back in action tonight as his Phoenix Coyotes pay a visit to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Ty Conklin had an up and down week. First posting a shutout before coming in a backup for a period and then getting left out to dry against the Dallas Stars in an effort that saw him allow four goals. With Chris Mason, the other half of the St. Louis Blues' goaltending duo, coming up hot last time out - I wouldn't expect to see Ty tonight in Carolina.

Jason Krog is called up after a spectacular four point, +5 game as the Captain of his Chicago Wolves and an injury to the Atlanta Thrashers' superstar, Ilya Kovalchuk. The Thrashers will host the red hot Capitals and their superstar, Alexander Ovechkin who currently has 11 goals in 11 games as well as 8 assists and a +11 rating.

And one last AHL note.

Jacob Micflikier has already earned a recall to the AHL and scored in his first outing playing for the Albany River Rats.

That's all for this Wednesday's Wildcat Alumni Weekly! Be sure to comment if you have any UNH Men's Hockey Alumni stories that you want to share.

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Wildcat Hockey Monday

Well, well, well! I'm finally getting on the same page with the ongoing season - almost.

But it's all Wildcats all the time here and how about those Wildcats!?

More like Alleycats - rough, tough and reckless... and I like it!

This is Wildcat Hockey Monday!

The 2009-2010 Wildcats seem to be a team that hearkens back to Wildcat Teams of lore, piling on the offense, but with a brand new dynamic - mucking it up.

Dalton Speelman worked his way onto the first line this weekend with Bobby Butler and Peter LeBlanc and in the process got his first two collegiate goals with one simple philosophy - go to the net. Way to earn it, Dalton!

Mike Borisenok is well on his way to the upset in the Most Improved category or at least trying to prove that I was far too hasty in awarding it to Kevin McCarey. Setting a torrid pace to this point Mike has two multi-point games for a total a three goals and three assists in just five contests.

Blake Kessel. The dominating d-man will likely be looking forward to the trip home this weekend to Wisconsin where I'm betting he will pile up a couple more points on his team leading total of ten with just four games played. One starts to wonder, did we get Blake or his brother Phil!? One thing's for sure, Blake may just be looking to top his brother's 18 goal, 33 assist +22 season back in '05-06.

Brian Foster's numbers may have indicated some early struggles but between facing the number one ranked team in the country and a team in front of him that certainly puts the wild in Wildcats - things are only looking up for the solid netminder.

The Wildcats' play to date has been reckless, but it has paid off. They play with the abandon of a team with nothing to lose. They've been written off, put down and ignored - and they don't care. When they show up at the rink everything else goes away and there is only hockey. They want to win and they're willing to fight for it every night - with reckless abandonment.

Enjoy the new song from The Spill Canvas.(click the playlist to open in a new window and listen to the entire song)

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Game Day: Hockey East Weekend

Our University of New Hampshire Men's Hockey Team will drop the puck on their first league game versus Northeastern tonight on the New England Sports Network and follow it up tomorrow night with the annual White Out The Whit versus rival Maine. Both games are 7:00pm start times.

Full details from UNHWildcats.com

CHN: Tale of the Tape

And definitely watch:

The Concord Monitor's UNH hockey - Weekend preview - Oct. 23-24, 2009(YouTube)

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Wednesday's Wildcat Alumni Weekly

Ty Conklin improves to 2-0 on the season recording a 26 save shutout and his desperation save on Corey Perry earned him the nod for 5^th in the Top 10 Saves of the Week on NHL.com.

James van Riemsdyk stays on his pace of an assist per game - four in four - but has yet to put the puck in the net himself. In his latest outing after returning from a minor injury Big James created a turnover with a strong forecheck leading to the first goal of the game for his Philadelphia Flyers.

Daniel Winnik fed Scottie Upshall with a cross-ice, breakout pass through center-ice who ripped it over Tim Thomas' glove side shoulder giving the Phoenix Coyotes a 4-1 lead, their second goal in just 44 seconds at a crucial moment in the game from which the Bruins never recovered and giving Dan his second point of the year. The Coyotes' third goal came from a player with Wildcat ties - Bryan Yandle's younger brother, Keith - who nearly came to UNH himself - scored his first of the season on the powerplay.

Colin Hemingway has been signed by his old team, the AHL's Peoria Rivermen for whom he played for over the course of three years early in his professional career, but is still in Alaska with the ECHL's Aces on loan with four assists in three games.

Not to be outdone, Jacob Micflikier has four of his own but bests his fellow alum with one in the goal column.

And Josh Prudden has turned up on the roster of the ECHL's Las Vegas Wranglers in the place of Jerry Pollastrone.

Hopefully I will get to the guys overseas in next week's edition.

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