College Hockey 2015-2016
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6 seniors 4 of them who actually play and 2 who can be easily replaced (Jonzzon and Minor Barron). As long as they don't lose Toews and either Clifton early they are getting everyone back with the biggest losses St. Denis and Garteig.
Biggest takeaway for me is that Rand, Riga and Cashman have to convince players like a Boeser to end up in Hamden even if they stay a year or 2. They need some high end NHL talent that can take over a game. That CBS line destroyed us all night and you could see the vast talent gap when they were on the ice against us all night long. Just having a few of those guys could be the difference in winning it all and not winning it all.
I'm still really proud of this team. They were even in the preseason top 10 and reached the final. Now heading back to the cold for a few days.
Plenty. This team joined the ECAC in 2005. Division II until 1998. Played in equivalent of Atlantic before 2004. As someone who grew up in the area and went to Calvin Murphy baseketball camp there 35 years ago, when the facilities reminded me of a large high school, the college has really come a long way in prominence. Built a great hockey/hoops facility, and has found national success on the ice with players that are not top notch recruits, or have the amount of recruits drafted by the NHL in the same numbers as some other schools. Like BC, whom QU beat to make it to the final game. If that's not something to be proud of, or something to feel good about, or is not some sort of accomplishment, that doesn't say much about BC.
I'm not a QU alum, just a season ticket holder that got in at a good time a few years ago. Great place to bring my family to games. Selling out the arena past few seasons. 20 minutes from my house. Less than $10 a ticket.
I get it - no trophy yet for QU, BC has many. Good for them - they are a great program and York is a wonderful coach. As an alum of the law school, I root for BC in hockey (not hoops or football, though). QU fans can't play the "count the rings" game yet, but they don't give off the faint odor of Yankee fans post ALCS 2004 either.
What he said. I was hoping to make the tourney this year at start of season due to that youth. Garteig is big loss, and they may have a situation like when Hartzell graduated from the 2013 national runner up team. Played a lot as soph and junior on teams that were good, and peaked as Senior. Team's fortunes followed the goalies in many ways. They've got to "train" the next guy, so I dont expect the success of this past year, and seasons more like 2014 and 2015.
The next guy is Air Force transfer Chris Truehl who starter 2 years there but had to sit out this year. It definitely should not be Sean Lawrence. He stinks.
First of all I don't mean to disparage QU's accomplishments at all. I am a BC fan but loyal to the east coast in hockey, and Quinnipiac had a juggernaut of a team this year. But while they may not be losing many seniors, this team was not "young" in any sense. They scoop up players who have spent time in junior leagues and as a result these guys stay in college until they're 23, 24, 25 years old. There is not a single teenager on the roster and the weighted average age of all point scorers this year is almost 22 and a half. These guys are men -- and there's nothing wrong with that, it's a completely valid way to build a team in the current NCAA (especially to make up for the inordinate number of NHL draftees that end up on teams like BC or UND), but they are not a young team.
That's fair and correct. "Young" was meant more as "inexperienced at college level" and "underclass men". Like you said, the age and staying 4 years helps make up for fact they don't get top NHL talent.
As far as I know now, that's standard operating procedure - finish high school, commit to a college, go play USHL or similar amateurism compatible Junior hockey, and THEN go to your college.
It is, unless you're pulling in the truly elite like the BC's and BU's of the world. Sometimes schools will have guys spend multiple years in junior hockey though. Pretty sure (for NU) guys like Szmatula and Schule were 20 or 21 when they finally arrived on campus.
I know of one player headed to Wisconsin who is doing at least one year, maybe 2 in the BCHL...