OT: General College Hockey Talk

[Gabrielor]

2 years straight I watched what looked like a stacked team lose to an underdog.

Denver over BC

Quinnipiac over Minnesota

 

[RabidBadger]

Usually scoring only 8 goals in the tournament is not a recipe for winning a title. Matt MFing Davis has cemented himself as a folk hero in Pioneer lore.

I wonder what the fewest amount of goals scored is for a title winning team?

 

[RabidBadger]

Final thoughts on the season:

-I hope David Carle sticks around the NCAA ranks. He is pretty much the only guy we could be mentioning in the same breath as Jerry York, Jack Parker, Badger Bob...etc.

-This was the first Frozen Four in a while I felt any team could win it. Denver came in as the highest scoring team with a unheralded, but awesome defense and a top goalie who went ballistic in the tournament. Michigan was on a roll and they can always skate with anyone, even on a down year . BU is so solid aside from having 2 game breakers in Hutson and Cellibrini. BC had the most NHL ready players.

-Quinnipiac was the coulda, shoulda, woulda team of the tournament. They had BC on the ropes and I was genuinely disappointed they didn't get a chance to repeat.

-Michigan State is my year ahead prediction for the FF next year. They will be bringing back most of the team and I'm expecting Trey Augustine to be a strong Hobey candidate.

-I dislike the off-season. The only thing to follow until next October is decommits, who turns pro, or the transfer portal (which has been exciting in the worst way at Wisconsin).

It's been great college hockey chatting with you my dudes.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[misterchainsaw]

Final thoughts on the season:

-I hope David Carle sticks around the NCAA ranks. He is pretty much the only guy we could be mentioning in the same breath as Jerry York, Jack Parker, Badger Bob...etc.

-This was the first Frozen Four in a while I felt any team could win it. Denver came in as the highest scoring team with a unheralded, but awesome defense and a top goalie who went ballistic in the tournament. Michigan was on a roll and they can always skate with anyone, even on a down year . BU is so solid aside from having 2 game breakers in Hutson and Cellibrini. BC had the most NHL ready players.

-Quinnipiac was the coulda, shoulda, woulda team of the tournament. They had BC on the ropes and I was genuinely disappointed they didn't get a chance to repeat.

-Michigan State is my year ahead prediction for the FF next year. They will be bringing back most of the team and I'm expecting Trey Augustine to be a strong Hobey candidate.

-I dislike the off-season. The only thing to follow until next October is decommits, who turns pro, or the transfer portal (which has been exciting in the worst way at Wisconsin).

It's been great college hockey chatting with you my dudes.

Well you have Tommy Scarfone coming in between the pipes from the transfer portal - probably the perfect type for Hastings style - a little more average on one on one breakaway type chances (even against AHA quality competition), but reads the game extremely well and is one of the best I've ever seen at RIT in terms of controlling rebounds and using his stick to clear pucks. His game against BU wasn't his best - I think he's going to come in extremely motivated knowing this coming year will really be his last shot to show his worth against elevated competition.

Not sure who else you having coming in to compete between the pipes - or how Scarfone's game will translate to the Big Ten (although he did shut out Notre Dame last season), but I'm confident in saying he's at least better than Barczewski who just made the FF with Michigan after transferring from Canisius.

EDIT: Aiden Hansen-Bukata also just entered the portal today after all but saying he was staying ....that's 3 out and 0 in so far from the portal for us

 

[Chainshot]

 

[misterchainsaw]

This is insane. Hopefully part of it is this year is the last of the 5 years of eligibility from Covid.

I've heard from a couple people around college hockey that tampering is a huge problem - technically no one is supposed to be able to talk to/offer/gauge interest a player that is already attending and playing for a school may have in coming to a new program, but it's basically a not so open secret that it happens literally all the time (probably in more sports than just hockey, frankly).

RIT's administration has been publicly supportive of staying in Atlantic Hockey and trying to raise the level of the league. I wonder if they keep losing their best 2-3 players to other conferences every year if that changes and teams start really look at realignment in the Northeast.

 

[Puppa2Miller]

This is insane. Hopefully part of it is this year is the last of the 5 years of eligibility from Covid.

I've heard from a couple people around college hockey that tampering is a huge problem - technically no one is supposed to be able to talk to/offer/gauge interest a player that is already attending and playing for a school may have in coming to a new program, but it's basically a not so open secret that it happens literally all the time (probably in more sports than just hockey, frankly).

RIT's administration has been publicly supportive of staying in Atlantic Hockey and trying to raise the level of the league. I wonder if they keep losing their best 2-3 players to other conferences every year if that changes and teams start really look at realignment in the Northeast.

The loophole is teams contact the player's junior or high school coach to guage interest. Sometimes a family member. You just can't contact the player directly (and that still goes on at the college football level anyway at the very least and I assume elsewhere)

 

[Burgmania]

Former Canisius & Michigan G Jacob Barczewski signs an ATO / AHL deal with the Colorado Eagles.

Super happy for my guy. Hope he continues to turn heads.

 

[Jim Bob]

Ivan Milovidov - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Ivan Milovidov, 2006-11-27 Federal Way, WA, USA USA. Most recently in the 18U AAA with Atlantic Coast Academy 18U AAA 1. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

I wasn't sure where to throw this.

I saw that this kid was the All-Greater Rochester HS Hockey POTY. With that name, I had to look up his Elite Prospects page.

It is really interesting.

 

[Chainshot]

Ivan Milovidov - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Ivan Milovidov, 2006-11-27 Federal Way, WA, USA USA. Most recently in the 18U AAA with Atlantic Coast Academy 18U AAA 1. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

I wasn't sure where to throw this.

I saw that this kid was the All-Greater Rochester HS Hockey POTY. With that name, I had to look up his Elite Prospects page.

It is really interesting.

The Regals U18 team he is on was lead in scoring by one of my HS friend's kids.

 

[misterchainsaw]

Cody Laskosky into the portal.

Arguably their best 6 players have left now - 4 through the portal.

Good thing they have a big class coming in - there's going to be some chances to make some noise.

 

[Jim Bob]

Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America join to form Atlantic Hockey America - Rochester Institute of Technology Athletics

NAPLES, Fla. – April 30, 2024 – The Atlantic Hockey Association and College Hockey America announced Tuesday they will begin competing jointly as one united league

ritathletics.com

 

[misterchainsaw]

Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America join to form Atlantic Hockey America - Rochester Institute of Technology Athletics

NAPLES, Fla. – April 30, 2024 – The Atlantic Hockey Association and College Hockey America announced Tuesday they will begin competing jointly as one united league

ritathletics.com

To clarify for the headline readers - the CHA is a women's only league and the AHA is a men's only league, so they're merging the management of the two leagues. From a team stand point the two leagues will look exactly the same next year (although there's been murmuring that the Syracuse women's team is in trouble.)

 

[NotABadPeriod]

To clarify for the headline readers - the CHA is a women's only league and the AHA is a men's only league, so they're merging the management of the two leagues. From a team stand point the two leagues will look exactly the same next year (although there's been murmuring that the Syracuse women's team is in trouble.)

It will be interesting though if Lindenwood then becomes a member for both men's and women's, since right now they are CHA for women's but independent for men's.

 

[misterchainsaw]

It will be interesting though if Lindenwood then becomes a member for both men's and women's, since right now they are CHA for women's but independent for men's.

I have a hard time seeing it with the AHA at 12 on the men's side already and Lindenwood not exactly fitting in the geographic footprint. I know we have Air Force too on the men's side but Lindenwood wouldn't even work as a travel partner for them - they're 10 hours from the nearest noetheastern school (Mercyhurst) and 12 from Air Force. They frankly should be knocking on the door of the CCHA - the leagues are of similar calibre at this point and it's a much closer drive for most of those schools. The CCHA is also at 9 teams once Augustana becomes a full member

EDIT: I was reminded that Altantic Hockey is only 11 teams, so I guess there's a sliver of a chance there, but aside from Lindenwood already being in on the womans side you'd think LIU would be a better fit in almost every way if the AHA really wanted to add.

 

[Burgmania]

Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America join to form Atlantic Hockey America - Rochester Institute of Technology Athletics

NAPLES, Fla. – April 30, 2024 – The Atlantic Hockey Association and College Hockey America announced Tuesday they will begin competing jointly as one united league

ritathletics.com

Well, my script isn't changing much:

"On behalf of University President Steve K. Stoute, Director of Athletics Bill Maher, and Head Coach Trevor Large - we welcome you to tonight's Atlantic Hockey America contest featuring the Niagara Purple Eagles . . . and your Canisius Golden Griffins!"

 

[RabidBadger]

I've got Michigan State winning the natty next year. I guess I'm a little bored since there's not much else to talk about on the NCAA front

 

[Chainshot]

 

[misterchainsaw]

Saw yesterday Cody Laskosky ended up in Wisconsin as well (14-27-41 in 37 GP for RIT last year)

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[misterchainsaw]

Most interesting to me is the change in high-sticking re: a goal being scored. It's not the crossbar any more, it's always judged on the player's shoulders. So a tall player could have a goal scored where the puck is contacted above the crossbar, while a short player could have one disallowed where contact is made below the crossbar.

Other than that giving the officials the full range of penalty options on contact to the head and hitting from behind is good I think - I can't count the number of times AHA officials would just call it something else to avoid giving a major if they didn't want to.

Also gone is the penalty still being called if you score during the delayed penalty. That rule didn't last long

 

[Jim Bob]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1802698969325228195

 

[Jim Bob]

Clarkson Turns to Alum J.F. Houle as Next Coach

Laval Rocket head coach Jean-Francois Houle, a Clarkson alum, has been named the next head coach of the program. Houle replaces Casey Jones, who resigned last week to become the head coach-in-waiting&...

www.collegehockeynews.com

When Casey Jones left to be the coach in waiting at Cornell, I didn’t think they could get JF to leave Laval.

But, I am so glad they did!

Let’s go Tech!

 

[Chainshot]

Clarkson Turns to Alum J.F. Houle as Next Coach

Laval Rocket head coach Jean-Francois Houle, a Clarkson alum, has been named the next head coach of the program. Houle replaces Casey Jones, who resigned last week to become the head coach-in-waiting&...

www.collegehockeynews.com

When Casey Jones left to be the coach in waiting at Cornell, I didn’t think they could get JF to leave Laval.

But, I am so glad they did!

Let’s go Tech!

Good for them. I think that hurts Laval too.