It's there when he talks about his players. It's there when he talks about the fans. It's there when he talks about the university. The excitement is nowhere to be found, however, when he talks about himself.
Great players make coaches look good.
Throughout his coaching career, he has enjoyed great success and is preparing to guide one of the best hockey teams in UNH history into the postseason. He is simply living out a dream that began on a pond in Massachusetts more than 40 years ago. It didn't take long for Umile to realize that hockey would play a major role in his life. He grew up in Melrose, Mass., and first laced up a pair of skates when he was five or six years old. There wasn't much organized hockey back then, so we used to skate out on the ponds.