Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Season 2018-19: The Motzko Era Begins!
I don't disagree with you about these seniors current production. I don't disagree with you that they were put into Lucia's system and mindset, there is certainly blame to be laid there. I still think there is more to it than that.
People always bring up Boeser. I don't follow recruiting all that closely so what's the story? Was he not recruited by Lucia? Did he turn Minnesota down? What's the deal?
As I've stated in previous posts. Teams like Mankato and SCSU seem to have gone about recruiting a little differently. Older, foreign, not highly recruited, etc.
UMD and UND are different. UMD gets a lot of kids from the range, a fair amount of kids from the metro, and a few Canadians. To their credit it's working. UND gets high end kids from everywhere. They are in a very similar recruiting position as Minnesota. With that you'd think they win a national championship every year. No? Well then, Frozen Four year in and year out at least right? Oh, they missed the tournament last year too? Interesting.
If tournament success is your barometer for the quality of program and their recruiting, I guess I'm not sure what to tell you. The NCAA men's ice hockey tournament is a crapshoot, plain and simple. Heck, if tournament success was the only trait taken into account for a coach then I bet Motzko would not have gotten the Minnesota job.
EDIT: p.s. I feel like you cherry picked the last comment of mine that you quoted without taking into account some of the other points I made in response to St Clown.
Originally posted by 5mn_Major
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People always bring up Boeser. I don't follow recruiting all that closely so what's the story? Was he not recruited by Lucia? Did he turn Minnesota down? What's the deal?
As I've stated in previous posts. Teams like Mankato and SCSU seem to have gone about recruiting a little differently. Older, foreign, not highly recruited, etc.
UMD and UND are different. UMD gets a lot of kids from the range, a fair amount of kids from the metro, and a few Canadians. To their credit it's working. UND gets high end kids from everywhere. They are in a very similar recruiting position as Minnesota. With that you'd think they win a national championship every year. No? Well then, Frozen Four year in and year out at least right? Oh, they missed the tournament last year too? Interesting.
If tournament success is your barometer for the quality of program and their recruiting, I guess I'm not sure what to tell you. The NCAA men's ice hockey tournament is a crapshoot, plain and simple. Heck, if tournament success was the only trait taken into account for a coach then I bet Motzko would not have gotten the Minnesota job.
EDIT: p.s. I feel like you cherry picked the last comment of mine that you quoted without taking into account some of the other points I made in response to St Clown.
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