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I’m anxious for the season to get started so hence the early start to the season thread. Our conference will be competitive and hopefully stronger than given credit for.
If you watched last year’s championship game you should have been impressed with the speed of both teams. The college game is a game of speed which is great for fans. We were a fairly fast team last year and hopefully have gotten even faster. We better be fast because we are small. Our forwards average 5’-11”, and d-men 6’-1”. Overall we average 6’-0”. We have thirteen guys under 6’-0”, four at 6’-0”, and only eight over 6’-0”.
But it’s not good enough just to be fast. We need to play an up-tempo game with fast transitions. I hope that is an emphasis of the coaching strategy. We should be a fun team to watch this year.
We also seem to cast a fairly wide recruiting net. We have 6 guys from the AJHL, 8 from the BCHL, 3 from the NAHL, 3 from the SJHL, and 7 from the USHL. Not sure if that’s good, bad, or indifferent. It’s good to see five Alaskan kids on the roster. And getting ex-Ice Dog/Gopher Jared Larson was a late but good addition.
We play Air Force, Quinnpiac, Denver, and WMU in October, and as a Nanook player, if you aren’t both a little excited but a little worried about their speed and skill players, then you may be missing a hockey gene.
October should really get us ready for conference play, and it can’t come soon enough:
Oct 5 - vs British Columbia (Exhibition – Carlson Center)
Oct 11 - vs Air Force (@ Kendall in Anchorage – Sullivan Arena)
Oct 12 - vs Quinnpiac (@ Kendall in Anchorage – Sullivan Arena)
Oct 18 - vs Denver ( Brice Alaska Goal Rush – Carlson Center)
Oct 19 - vs WMU ( Brice Alaska Goal Rush – Carlson Center)
Oct 25 – vs Mercyhurst (UAF Patty Ice Center)
Oct 26 – vs Mercyhurst (UAF Patty Ice Center)
Go Nooks!
I’m anxious for the season to get started so hence the early start to the season thread. Our conference will be competitive and hopefully stronger than given credit for.
If you watched last year’s championship game you should have been impressed with the speed of both teams. The college game is a game of speed which is great for fans. We were a fairly fast team last year and hopefully have gotten even faster. We better be fast because we are small. Our forwards average 5’-11”, and d-men 6’-1”. Overall we average 6’-0”. We have thirteen guys under 6’-0”, four at 6’-0”, and only eight over 6’-0”.
But it’s not good enough just to be fast. We need to play an up-tempo game with fast transitions. I hope that is an emphasis of the coaching strategy. We should be a fun team to watch this year.
We also seem to cast a fairly wide recruiting net. We have 6 guys from the AJHL, 8 from the BCHL, 3 from the NAHL, 3 from the SJHL, and 7 from the USHL. Not sure if that’s good, bad, or indifferent. It’s good to see five Alaskan kids on the roster. And getting ex-Ice Dog/Gopher Jared Larson was a late but good addition.
We play Air Force, Quinnpiac, Denver, and WMU in October, and as a Nanook player, if you aren’t both a little excited but a little worried about their speed and skill players, then you may be missing a hockey gene.
October should really get us ready for conference play, and it can’t come soon enough:
Oct 5 - vs British Columbia (Exhibition – Carlson Center)
Oct 11 - vs Air Force (@ Kendall in Anchorage – Sullivan Arena)
Oct 12 - vs Quinnpiac (@ Kendall in Anchorage – Sullivan Arena)
Oct 18 - vs Denver ( Brice Alaska Goal Rush – Carlson Center)
Oct 19 - vs WMU ( Brice Alaska Goal Rush – Carlson Center)
Oct 25 – vs Mercyhurst (UAF Patty Ice Center)
Oct 26 – vs Mercyhurst (UAF Patty Ice Center)
Go Nooks!
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