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UNH Hockey Tradition Continues March 4, 1970 – Sophomore forward Dick Umile accepts the Roger A. LeClerc Trophy as the team’s Most Valuable Player, from UNH Trustee Buck Buchanan. February 27, 1971 – Louis Frigon has a hat trick and seven assists as UNH routs Colgate, 15-7. The seven assists and 10 points in the game still stand as UNH records. While at UNH he set single season records for goals, assists and points. January 15, 1972 – With an overtime goal by Guy Smith, UNH upsets #1 in the nation Harvard, which had Hockey East Commissioner Joe Bertagna in goal 3-2. 1971-72 — Umile captains UNH to a 20-10 record and a berth in the ECAC Tournament. Umile finishes his career with 60 goals and 84 assists for 144 points. September 1972 – The Friends of UNH Hockey is founded. From its humble beginnings, it has become the largest college hockey booster club in the East. March 1974 – Gordie Clark and Cap Raeder are named First-Team All-American by the American College Hockey Association. It is the first time that two Wildcats are named All-American in the same season. February 18, 1975 – Jamie Hislop scores two in a 7-0 win over UMass-Amherst. It is the 31st straight game, dating back over a year to 2/15/74, in which Hislop has tallied at least one point. The record still stands. March 2, 1976 – Jamie Hislop sets a UNH record with a goal and five assists in the first period of a 9-7 win over RPI. January 20, 1977 – The Wildcats score a record three goals in 38 seconds during a 14-5 rout of St. Lawrence. The 1976-1977 edition of the Wildcats goes on to be the highest scoring team in the school’s history with the most goals (245) and assists (421). March 8 & 11, 1977 – Dave Lumley’s goal at 5:31 of overtime gives UNH a 4-3 ECAC quarterfinal victory over Brown and their first trip to Boston for the semifinals in five years. Three days later Bob Gould scores at 19 seconds of the second overtime to give the ‘Cats a shocking 10-9, come-from-behind win over Cornell. The win earns the
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Wildcats their first trip to the ECAC finals, where they bow to Boston University 8-6 in another shootout. March 1977 – For the third time in four years, UNH has two players named to the All-American team. Bob Miller, who was ECAC Rookie of the Year in 1975 and a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1976, finished second in league scoring. His 59 assists and 89 points still stand as UNH individual records. January 30, 1978 – Junior Bob Gould scores a goal in his 12th consecutive game, a UNH record that still stands, in a 10-0 win over Bowdoin. February 15, 17, & 18, 1978 – Captain Jon Fontas scores all 12 goals in three games, all on the road. After notching a hat trick against Providence, two nights later he scores four at Clarkson and then tops it off the next afternoon by getting five against Colgate. His four in one period against the Red Raiders still remains the UNH record. February 2, 1979 – Ralph Cox pours in four goals in a 6-4 victory at Clarkson. Cox, from Braintree, MA, goes on to become UNH’s all time leading scorer with 243 points. He was the first player in UNH history to score more than 100 goals in his career (127), the only 40 goal scorer in UNH history, having done it twice (1977-78 and 1978-79), and is the only Wildcat to amass at least 70 points in three consecutive years. Cox is named All-American for the second straight year. March 6, 1979 – Freshman Dan MacPherson scores a UNH playoff record four goals as the Wildcats rout Yale, 9-2, in the ECAC quarterfinals. March 10, 1979 – After defeating Cornell 5-2 in the semifinals, UNH edges in-state rival Dartmouth 3-2 to win the ECAC Championship. Captain Bob Gould scores at 17:17 of the third period to give the Wildcats what turns out to be their first and only league title. Goalie Greg Moffett is named tournament MVP. November 9, 1979 – Facemasks come to college hockey, but the requirement is only for Eastern teams. UNH visits Ohio State, which is maskless, and fights break out. The Wildcats wind up forfeiting two games to the Buckeyes. It’s an inauspicious start to the first losing season in Charlie Holt’s career. July 11, 1983 – The athletic directors of UNH, Providence College, Boston College, Boston University and Northeastern announce the formation of a new “super college hockey league” to be called Hockey East. Created in order to provide “a better brand of college hockey for our fans,” the league soon includes UMass-Lowell and Maine. An interlocking schedule with the Western Collegiate Association.(WCHA) is planned, with play to begin in the 1984-85 season.With the later addition of Merrimack (1989), Massachusetts (1993) and Vermont (2004) the league now has 10 members. December 7, 1984 – UNH defeats Michigan Tech 8-2 for its first victory as a member of Hockey East.
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