Irish hockey '12-'13: Why would you not wanna go there?

[Jeff_Jackson_for_Pres.]

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So the game at Minnesota is now on a Tuesday?! It has been moved to Tuesday, January 8th I presume for tv purposes as it will be on FSN.

So ND has 4 mid-week games and 2 Sunday games (not counting the exhibition game) this season. Within the span of a month (actually, within the span of 25 days), the Irish will play 10 games (Tuesday, January 8th to Saturday, February 2nd). IIRC, last season when they averaged about a game every 2.5 days earlier in the season, they went 7-0-3. I'll take that.

[Jeff_Jackson_for_Pres.]

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Wasn't Lee playing center regularly until he came to Notre Dame?

Yes.

[IrishHockeyFan]

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In addition to moving to the center position, Lee will apparently be the only captain this year. I think it was expressed a time or two in this forum that the oddity of having two players wear the "C" did not seem to be overly successful last season, so a little more traditional approach is probably welcome. I wonder if Lee's move to center -- which was talked about somewhere in the off-season -- has something to do with Peterson not being on the roster. After playing both wings last year in the season's opening months, Peterson played the second half centering the fourth line. Wasn't Lee playing center regularly until he came to Notre Dame?

[Jeff_Jackson_for_Pres.]

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The Hockey News' Ryan Kennedy interviewed Coach Jackson for THN's upcoming college hockey preview. Irish fans should expect to see T.J. Tynan and Anders Lee on separate lines this season as Lee is moving to center. Now there's a good Christian Hanson replacement. Lee went about 60% on his faceoffs, but he took only about 30, whereas Tynan went about 58% on his faceoffs, but took about 660 of them.

[IrishHockeyFan]

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Odd news about Garrett Peterson. He seemed to have a fairly steady freshman season. Good +/-, found the scoresheet as much as any of the part-timers (and more than a few full time skaters) and the team played well when he dressed, 13-5-2 when he was in the lineup versus a horrible 6-13-1 without him. He skated in most of the best wins of the year as well, BC, BU, the Minn game. This may have a bigger impact on the team than it may otherwise appear at first glance. I have no idea why he is not on the roster.

[Jeff_Jackson_for_Pres.]

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He still goes to school there. He still hangs out with the hockey team. Maybe a mistake was made when they released the roster.

I would say no mistake was made as he was not included in the intros on their Twitter page. They are working their way through the juniors now.

Everyone should have their season tix by tomorrow. Mine arrived today. Hot dog!

[NotreDameFan27]

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Something just occurred to me...Garrett Peterson is not on the team anymore. Anyone know what happened?

He still goes to school there. He still hangs out with the hockey team. Maybe a mistake was made when they released the roster.

[Jeff_Jackson_for_Pres.]

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Something just occurred to me...Garrett Peterson is not on the team anymore. Anyone know what happened?

[Jeff_Jackson_for_Pres.]

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This wasn't the first practice. The captains have led practices for about a week and there have been voluntary practices since school began. The first official practice that would be mandatory and have all coaching staff present is in 2 weeks.

Other than that, nothing special to report.

[NotreDameFan27]

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So how did the first practice go?

[Jeff_Jackson_for_Pres.]

So here is the new season thread. The title (as per usual) is a song by my favorite Philly band, Hoots and Hellmouth. It's about a "fanciful kingdom."

Captains should be announced next week, but they are already leading practices. You can attend tomorrow morning's 10:00 practice and hopefully make it out of there before the football rush gets too thick. The first official, all-in practice is October 6th. In the meantime, you can meet the players (freshmen are up first) on ND's Twitter account. Strange. Steven Fogarty looks nothing like Christian Hanson...