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UNB Reds Thread (Part5)

dm8895 said:
You are 100% correct . I read that wrong!

Regardless the point stands about the fanbase.
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100%. They don't know the game, they don't know the league, they don't understand development. They only know wins and losses.

As I've said many times, UNB fans are spoiled. I doubt that it will happen, but if UNB "falters" and drops down with the rest of the pack, a lot of these fans will leave.
 
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As I've said many times, UNB fans are spoiled. I doubt that it will happen, but if UNB "falters" and drops down with the rest of the pack, a lot of these fans will leave.
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While I don’t disagree, I’ve also heard comments from people over the years that were along the lines of “why bother going when you know UNB is going to win in a blowout?”
 
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While I don’t disagree, I’ve also heard comments from people over the years that were along the lines of “why bother going when you know UNB is going to win in a blowout?”
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I feel like people outside Fredericton don’t get how common this way of thinking is within the city…

I think of the guys I play pickup with, that is a decent sized sample group that you would anticipate would have the most hockey fans … As many if not more of them were going to watch senior hockey in the junction… I constantly here the “UNB always wins, why bother” and I completely get why they feel this way, id probably feel the same if I didn’t grow up a UNB fan but that is the thought process of the vast majority of hockey fans I talk with who aren’t regulars at the AUC.
 
I really hope MacPhee doesn't play his way onto an American team if Halifax ends up going on a run
 
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Rob said:
Well that will be coming to an end next season for sure. It will be interesting to see how much it impacts attendance.
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I’d referenced on another thread watching STU games at Grant Harvey towards the end with an entire section to myself lol. Do I think it gets that bad ? No, but as the STU team declined so did the attendance. I imagine it will be gradual but if they are a sub .500 team I could see it falling off pretty hard .
 
In 2014/15 UNB lost 15 players and had 13 rookies and won Silver. It's who you find, how you coach and a bit of luck.

For me - losing Culligan/MacNeil and Desnoyers/Shutron was devastating, but it worked out, Mignardi/Brace and Gazzola/Suellentrop worked out.

Out: Culligan, Cutting, Desnoyers, Houde-Caron, Kewin, Labardo, Lavigne, Maclise, MacNeil, Nesbitt, Priamo, Shutron, Thomas, Vienneau & Waye

In: Beauvillier, Boudens, Brace, Caissy, Carrozzi, Chisholm, Fraser, Gazzola, Mignardi, Shantz, Suellentrop, Trainor and Wall
 
Drummer said:
In 2014/15 UNB lost 15 players and had 13 rookies and won Silver. It's who you find, how you coach and a bit of luck.

For me - losing Culligan/MacNeil and Desnoyers/Shutron was devastating, but it worked out, Mignardi/Brace and Gazzola/Suellentrop worked out.

Out: Culligan, Cutting, Desnoyers, Houde-Caron, Kewin, Labardo, Lavigne, Maclise, MacNeil, Nesbitt, Priamo, Shutron, Thomas, Vienneau & Waye

In: Beauvillier, Boudens, Brace, Caissy, Carrozzi, Chisholm, Fraser, Gazzola, Mignardi, Shantz, Suellentrop, Trainor and Wall
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Yes but look at the quality of player they added , the new struggle is that players are going to take longer to develop.. You can plug and play a major junior star without skipping a beat …

It’s now going to become a 4 year developmental cycle for everyone , the top teams won’t be able to add a Beauvillier, Brace or Gazzola and just keep trucking …Hell Peter Trainor was a bust at UNB but he had a 100 point season in the Q… These guys don’t exist anymore

Nothing UNB has experienced in the “dynasty era” was a true rebuild aside from the post covid season , it’s just been a restocking of the cupboards.
 
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McCallum - MVP , UNB Male Athlete of the Year

Reynolds - Rookie of the Year , UNB Male Rookie athlete of the year

MacKay - Red & Black Award
 
That 2013/14 team was a weird one…maybe the least memorable in the Championship era (2007-present), outside the shortened season. A bunch of players left after that season despite having multiple years of eligibility remaining, including rookies Labrador/Cutting/Maclise/Vienneau.
 
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