OT: General College Hockey Talk

[Jim Bob]

He is Anthony’s younger brother.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Chainshot]

Minnesota opens the season with a pair of wins against new D1 Lindenwood. Huglen and Johnson had an assist each, Huglen picked up a pair of penalties (one in each game), Johnson a single penalty in the opener.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[misterchainsaw]

Brutal loss to open the season for RIT, 4-3 to Union. Absurd officiating - a couple of penalties called on them were completely phantom, one was a hold actually committed by the Union player but RIT got called.....5 Union power plays in the 2nd period including ~3 minutes of 5 on 3, 6 PP's to 0 for the game. RIT killed the penalties but it obviously took a toll on them and Union got 2 in the 3rd to win.

Hopefully we can get officials that realize two handers to the back are penalties in the return game at Blue Cross :

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Will be interesting to see how MSU fares under their new coach. The Spartans have been irrelevant for a long time.

Michigan will be heavily reliant on an uber-talented freshman class to replace the proven scoring punch of departed forwards, but is anyone else surprised to see them ranked at #6?

Here are the results of weekend games for Top 20 teams.

 

[Jim Bob]

Will be interesting to see how MSU fares under their new coach. The Spartans have been irrelevant for a long time.

Michigan will be heavily reliant on an uber-talented freshman class to replace the proven scoring punch of departed forwards, but is anyone else surprised to see them ranked at #6?

Here are the results of weekend games for Top 20 teams.

Michigan gets a crazy amount of hype. So, I am not surprised that they are ranked 6th early in the season.

Time will tell whether they live up to that hype or not.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]

Will be interesting to see how MSU fares under their new coach. The Spartans have been irrelevant for a long time.

Michigan will be heavily reliant on an uber-talented freshman class to replace the proven scoring punch of departed forwards, but is anyone else surprised to see them ranked at #6?

Here are the results of weekend games for Top 20 teams.

Michigan State was one of the three universities that I considered out of high school. My best friend growing up went to Michigan State hockey camp growing up and had wanted to go there and play. I was a year ahead of him, so I applied and got in before knowing where he was going.

Hindsight being 20/20, the reasons that I did not like Michigan State were misguided (I didn't like that you waited to declare a major) and mis-planning (we took a visit before students showed up for the fall semester and the campus was dead).

And I did only look at good college hockey schools (Clarkson, Michigan State, and Cornell).

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Michigan gets a crazy amount of hype. So, I am not surprised that they are ranked 6th early in the season.

Time will tell whether they live up to that hype or not.

To clarify, I expected them to be ranked higher.

Portillo returned. Luke Hughes will likely be the best d-man in the country and is the early Hobey favorite. Fantilli will almost certainly be a top 5-pick, probably top-3. He leads a strong freshman group that includes Nazar, #13OA, and McGroarty, #14OA. 8 other players have been drafted.

Sounds like a strong roster to me, but maybe I'm a victim of the hype. Not being sarcastic; I wouldn't describe myself as terribly knowledgeable about NCAA hockey.

 

[Jim Bob]

To clarify, I expected them to be ranked higher.

Portillo returned. Luke Hughes will likely be the best d-man in the country and is the early Hobey favorite. Fantilli will almost certainly be a top 5-pick, probably top-3. He leads a strong freshman group that includes Nazar, #13OA, and McGroarty, #14OA. 8 other players have been drafted.

Sounds like a strong roster to me, but maybe I'm a victim of the hype. Not being sarcastic; I wouldn't describe myself as terribly knowledgeable about NCAA hockey.

With all the coaching drama, I’d be surprised if they were ranked higher.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

With all the coaching drama, I’d be surprised if they were ranked higher.

Good point.

Otoh, none of their players sought transfer, afaik, and ditto for their commits. I'll take talent over coaching any day.

And with what we know, the returning players might well consider the coaching change "addition by subtraction".

 

[Jim Bob]

Good point.

Otoh, none of their players sought transfer, afaik, and ditto for their commits. I'll take talent over coaching any day.

And with what we know, the returning players might well consider the coaching change "addition by subtraction".

Yeah, but they also lost a lot of talent with Power, Beniers, and Johnson all turning pro.

 

[Chainshot]

Yeah, but they also lost a lot of talent with Power, Beniers, and Johnson all turning pro.

Not just those guys, they lost 8 of their top 10 scorers as well as their checking center (Beecher, he was 13th in scoring) to guys turning pro or graduating. That's a lot of talent departing, even if Luke Hughes stayed.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Chainshot]

He's small but man, De St. Phaille strikes me as a gamer.

 

[Burgmania]

Looking closer to home, the Canisius Golden Griffins have named their leadership group:

Captains are graduate student J.D. Pogue, seniors Keaton Mastrodonato & David Melaragni; and alternate captain junior Max Kuznetsov.

The Griffs open their regular season-slate with a non-conference weekend at Penn State Friday/Saturday. The home opener is Tuesday, October 18 as the Griffs say hello to old friend Dave Smith and the RPI Engineers.

 

[Jim Bob]

Hockey East 2022-23 Season Preview: Rivalry reignited with new faces behind the bench at Boston College, Boston University - College Hockey | USCHO.com

New coaches at two of the league's Boston-based schools, high expectations for the other, and the return of Frozen Fenway highlight the storylines heading

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[old kummelweck]

I see Vermont v NEU is on tomorrow on ESPN+.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Chainshot]

Weird to find out that former Penn State one-man breakout Erik Autio has retired from pro hockey in Finland. He was someone I thought was going to get a North American pro deal when he left PSU. (His brother transferred up to Vermont and is facing Levi tonight, leading me to look to see how his brother was doing.)

 

[Chainshot]

So weird seeing Northeastern going things like completing passes and being creative with the puck. Yes, yes, the Cats aren't a strong program but there is marked improvement in the Huskies compared to last year.

 

[Chainshot]

"Alternate" game tonight is also the Huskies... MTU vs. NTDP. And the U18's are winning 3-0 early in the 2nd.

 

[Chainshot]

 

[Jim Bob]