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  • Originally posted by Thiessen'sBetter View Post
    Anyone have a status update on John Stevens? Would be a huge shame if they didn'the have the captain for the playoffs and if he finished his career with 99 points.
    Madigan said in his press conference he is now Day to day, and upgrade from being week to week. Optimistic.
    John told me in the postgame gathering he plans on playing vs Maine. So, gotta hope for a clean, healthy week of practice.
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    • Originally posted by NU_Husky View Post
      Madigan said in his press conference he is now Day to day, and upgrade from being week to week. Optimistic.
      John told me in the postgame gathering he plans on playing vs Maine. So, gotta hope for a clean, healthy week of practice.
      Great news, thanks for the update. Over my 11 years of watching this team, they've been extremely Jekyll and Hyde in Orono so Johnny would certainly help.
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        Recap, with thoughts on the seniors and the weekend

        http://northeasternhockeyblog.com/20...mike-jamieson/
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          Scouting report on 2018 forward Bobby Hampton, playing at Cedar Rapids in the USHL. With commentary from Scott Herbst

          http://northeasternhockeyblog.com/20...chicago-steel/
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          • Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

            Union doing a great job pushing the Hobey baker candidates on campus (cc Split N)

            https://dailygazette.com/article/201...ker-candidates
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            • Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

              Maybe NU_Husky should apply for Sports Information Director (or whatever the athletic communications guy/gal is called) since NU doesn't seem to have one.
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              • Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

                Originally posted by Split-N View Post
                Maybe NU_Husky should apply for Sports Information Director (or whatever the athletic communications guy/gal is called) since NU doesn't seem to have one.
                The SID is Matt Houde, who does a very good job. I've thought maybe I should do marketing over medicine, but it's really just a hobby for me. Medicine is my calling. I'm just passionate about NU hockey and want it to do well/get exposure it deserves when it deserves it. I appreciate the sentiment though
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                • Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

                  Ruck received some well-deserved recognition for his play this past weekend. http://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-m..._tw_sf57649257

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                  • Maine road games will tell us a lot about his mindset going into playoffs. If he has finally found it.. (hopefully).. watch out

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                      Originally posted by beanstalk View Post
                      Ruck received some well-deserved recognition for his play this past weekend. http://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-m..._tw_sf57649257
                      that's awesome. Wouldn't be surprised to see him get HE DPOTW either
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                      • Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

                        Originally posted by NU_Husky View Post
                        The SID is Matt Houde, who does a very good job...I'm just passionate about NU hockey and want it to do well/get exposure it deserves..
                        I'm sure what you say is true. Just puzzled at why the SID and/or other powers that be aren't more pro-active/out in front on behalf of the two NU kids the way Union and others are for their respective players. Credible Hobey candidates and, by extension, the program itself would seem to fit your reference to deserved exposure. I'm just not seeing much from my perch.
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                          Originally posted by Split-N View Post
                          I'm sure what you say is true. Just puzzled at why the SID and/or other powers that be aren't more pro-active/out in front on behalf of the two NU kids the way Union and others are for their respective players. Credible Hobey candidates and, by extension, the program itself would seem to fit your reference to deserved exposure. I'm just not seeing much from my perch.
                          They may have a bit of a dilemma by having two guys who are legitimate candidates in ZAR and Sikky. If you promote them both, then you dilute the effect of the promotion and it is useless. If you promote one over the other, then you offend the one you're not promoting. I almost think they were waiting for one of them to break away from the other in scoring, so they could throw all of their eggs in that basket. For those of us who watch all or nearly all of the games, ZAR is clearly the more complete player and he's a senior, so he is the candidate who deserves the full court promotion. However, the team is still fighting for HE playoff position, and then will be seeking to repeat as HE champs and secure an NCAA birth. JM probably does not want the official university apparatus to promote one over the other while the team chemistry is so good. Therefore, as silly as this sounds, it may be up to NU_Husky and other NU fans to do the promoting right now, by sending clips and tweets to Buccigross (who seems to be in the Vecchione camp) and others. A grass roots campaign is needed - suggestions welcomed.

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                            Originally posted by beanstalk View Post
                            They may have a bit of a dilemma by having two guys who are legitimate candidates in ZAR and Sikky. If you promote them both, then you dilute the effect of the promotion and it is useless. If you promote one over the other, then you offend the one you're not promoting. I almost think they were waiting for one of them to break away from the other in scoring, so they could throw all of their eggs in that basket. For those of us who watch all or nearly all of the games, ZAR is clearly the more complete player and he's a senior, so he is the candidate who deserves the full court promotion. However, the team is still fighting for HE playoff position, and then will be seeking to repeat as HE champs and secure an NCAA birth. JM probably does not want the official university apparatus to promote one over the other while the team chemistry is so good. Therefore, as silly as this sounds, it may be up to NU_Husky and other NU fans to do the promoting right now, by sending clips and tweets to Buccigross (who seems to be in the Vecchione camp) and others. A grass roots campaign is needed - suggestions welcomed.
                            Knowing both of the players, and Gaudette, who deserves to be in the conversation too, none of them would be upset if their teammates were promoted over themselves. I could see JM not wanting to promote one or the other, however.

                            I will be having a feature on ZAR's candidacy next week on the blog, I strongly feel that he has the best case out of any other candidate. I'll be looking at ZAR/Vecchione/Kelleher as the top 3 candidates, where thir production is coming from (PP vs SH vs EV) and comparing their quality of competition by both opposing teams combined SV% and combined opposing records. I'm excited to do the research and look into it. I'll post it here obviously and hopefully it circulates around to the powers that be.
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                              I was looking at how high on the all-time scoring list ZAR could realistically end up. It obviously depends how far they go in the HE tournament, but say they lose in the quarters and play some combination of 5 playoff games in the 2 rounds, he'd have 7 games left. At his current points per game pace that'd give him 12 more points and 153 for his career, which would put him 10th all time. Cracking the top ten would be pretty special, considering everyone else in the top 10 graduated over 20 years ago.
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                                Originally posted by NU_Husky View Post
                                Knowing both of the players, and Gaudette, who deserves to be in the conversation too, none of them would be upset if their teammates were promoted over themselves. I could see JM not wanting to promote one or the other, however.

                                I will be having a feature on ZAR's candidacy next week on the blog, I strongly feel that he has the best case out of any other candidate. I'll be looking at ZAR/Vecchione/Kelleher as the top 3 candidates, where thir production is coming from (PP vs SH vs EV) and comparing their quality of competition by both opposing teams combined SV% and combined opposing records. I'm excited to do the research and look into it. I'll post it here obviously and hopefully it circulates around to the powers that be.
                                Good luck. Just one bit of advice - don't get so bogged down in the stats that you lose sight of ZAR's other contributions. If you look at it as only a statistical race, then you're tacitly supporting an argument that somebody else should win if their stats near the voting deadline slightly exceed ZAR's. ZAR is a 200 foot player who hits everything in sight and can dominate an entire game without a single line on the stat sheet. The other guys are scorers. Despite that, he's also scoring at a better rate.

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