LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

[LSSULaker889294]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

Schedule news from Laker Hockey Show this week:
-Michigan State series will be on Great Lakes State Weekend.
-Omaha series will be played shortly after Christmas
-We go to UAH early in the season
-We go to Alaska later in the season. We play at NMU the weekend after. Damon might try to shift that series though.

[sm2pk]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

That's if Alaska is still having a team .

[LSSULaker889294]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

Schedule news from Laker Hockey Show this week:
-Michigan State series will be on Great Lakes State Weekend.
-Omaha series will be played shortly after Christmas
-We go to UAH early in the season
-We go to Alaska later in the season. We play at NMU the weekend after. Damon might try to shift that series though.

More scheduling news I didn't mentioned in my previous post...
-We will play Michigan starting with in the 2017-18 or 2018-19 season for three seasons. Two series will be in Ann Arbor with one in the Sault. One season in between though the teams won't play because of scheduling conflicts.
-In a few years, we will travel to Wisconsin to play the Badgers. We might play in Green Bay possibly after that.
-There still the possibility of a non-conference home/home series with Michigan Tech early in the season.

Also the Conference opponents should line up like this:
Home and Away- NMU, Ferris, Mankato, UAH, Alaska
Home only- BGSU, UAA
Road only- Bemidji, MTU

[Bill]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

Chris Dilks is reporting that we have a new verbal commitment. 98 forward Robert Blueger from Shattuck-St Marys. He has 14G and 31A in 41 games this season.

http://www.ssmathletics.org/sports/h...Blueger_Robert

[John J. MacInnes]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

Chris Dilks is reporting that we have a new verbal commitment. 98 forward Robert Blueger from Shattuck-St Marys. He has 14G and 31A in 41 games this season.

http://www.ssmathletics.org/sports/h...Blueger_Robert

Would he be the younger brother of Teddy Blueger from Minnesota State? He's also a Shattuck product.

[Bill]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

Would he be the younger brother of Teddy Blueger from Minnesota State? He's also a Shattuck product.

Yes. I think he attended one the of the Lakers playoff games against Minnesota State this past weekend.

[purpleinnebraska]

Yes. I think he attended one the of the Lakers playoff games against Minnesota State this past weekend.

I'm guessing he attended the Saturday game!

Congrats on getting him. If he's half the hockey player and student-athlete that Teddy has been, you've found yourself a good one!

[PerkyforPrez]

I'm guessing he attended the Saturday game!

Congrats on getting him. If he's half the hockey player and student-athlete that Teddy has been, you've found yourself a good one!

It was the Saturday night game,nice timing.

[John J. MacInnes]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

It was the Saturday night game,nice timing.

Former Laker Adam Nightingale is still working with Shattuck, I'm sure that didn't hurt either.

[PerkyforPrez]

Former Laker Adam Nightingale is still working with Shattuck, I'm sure that didn't hurt either.

I'm sure it didn't either. Rich has some recruiting success at SSM. I'm very excited with the caliber of players that Damon and his staff has been getting. Great job.

[Bill]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

There are plans for a monthly edition of the Laker Hockey Talk show during the off-season. Probably from May through September. Once details are worked out, there should be something on the Lakers website with a schedule.

[RapidsCity]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

It was a nice season of improvement for LSSU. One thing that I liked is that after a very tough time in the middle of the year, the team kept battling and showed progress toward the end. Our goaltending looks solid for the near future and the D looks pretty good too. Hopefully we can find a way to put a few more pucks in the net on a consistent basis and find ourselves at home for the playoffs soon.

[blackswampboy]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

does the noticeable Laker improvement this year mean than the roquettes are finally dead and buried?
RIP. Amen.

[Bill]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

does the noticeable Laker improvement this year mean than the roquettes are finally dead and buried?
RIP. Amen.

One of them (LakerBaker) has still been posting.

[PerkyforPrez]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

Damon said on the radio show that they are going to reach out to the Lakers alumni to get them involved. I really like the idea of former players making it to the games. That wasn't very common the 8 years prior to coach Whitten coming in.