The Massachusetts Minutemen hope to continue their strong start to the season as they head south to Trenton, New Jersey where they’ll spend Halloween weekend participating in the Capital City Classic. UMass will take on the Maine Black Bears in a non-conference matchup on Friday evening before facing either #13 Yale or Princeton on Saturday. This weekend’s action will represent the beginning of the regular season for the two Ivy League participants.
Posted by rocks22 on October 29, 2015
https://fearthetriangle.com/2015/10/29/preview-%e2%96%b2-unbeaten-minutemen-travel-to-capital-city-classic/
Today was Hockey East Media Day and, like the media members over the weekend, the league coaches also picked the Massachusetts hockey team to finish 12th in the 12 school league. Again, not a big surprise given that the Minutemen are losing their top two players off a squad that finished 12th last year as well. Will the dueling polls with UMass in last serve as motivation for the players and staff? We’ll have to see. Here’s the whole poll:
Posted by rocks22 on September 21, 2015
https://fearthetriangle.com/2015/09/21/hockey-east-coaches-pick-umass-to-finish-12th/
Sometime in recent weeks Joseph Manno backed out of his commitment to UMass. This isn’t a huge surprise as his original commitment seemed touch and go with conflicting reports about whether he was or was not coming through at that time. Then there were rumors at the beginning of the summer that Manno was facing problems qualifying academically due to issues regarding transfer of credits from his school in Canada to his prep school in Connecticut. I’m not sure if that drove this decision or something else, but either way Manno will not be suiting up this fall. Coach Cahoon still has a sizable freshman class coming in, so someone should be able to step up and fill the minutes he may have provided. This could open up some minutes for an Andrew Tegeler or Emerson Auvenshine.
Reportedly Manno is exploring either catching on with Providence or going the major junior route with Saint John of the QMJHL.
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Eddie Olczyk, Darren Rowe, and Troy Power are spending part of their summer in Sin City playing in an amateur hockey league there. The No Dome MacTavish’s (obviously a reference to the former Lowell player who was the last NHLer to play without a helmet) is representing Western Mass with two UMass players and three from AIC.
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Congratulations to former UMass radio commentator Donnie Moorhouse who was named Director of Strategic Sales for the Springfield Falcons. The job seems like a great fit for the Springfield native and former AIC goaltender.
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Lastly, in the last couple days Fear The Triangle reached 200,000 total views. Thanks to everyone for reading and making this place the central place for UMass hockey fans on the internet.
Posted by rocks22 on August 2, 2011
https://fearthetriangle.com/2011/08/02/manno-decommits/
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