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“This upcoming chapter of UMass hockey could be the best one yet in the program’s history…..My advice to everyone is to get on board. Support this team and its new leadership with your presence, your voice, and if possible your wallet because the program can really only be successful if the faithful rally around UMass hockey. There’s new blood behind the bench and new blood in the AD’s office. Those are the two spots we’ve kept pointing too as holding back UMass hockey from being competitive in Hockey Ea
I was optimistic when I wrote those words in the Summer of 2016 in my farewell post . Ryan Bamford, on the job for about a year and a half, had replaced head coach John Micheletto at the end of the season with Greg Carvel, a well-thought-of former NHL assistant coach who had had success as coach of his alma mater, St. Lawrence, though had not been able to get them to the NCAA tournament.
Did I think when I wrote that that Carvel would win just five games in the upcoming season? Yeah, sadly plausible.