BU 2020-21 Season: The Road to … Nowhere?

[Lemonade]

BU needs to find some players that can put the puck in the net. Matt Brown from UML would be the #1 guy on my list. Just a sophomore and would make a great addition up front.

[buoldtimer]

Quercia transferring.

Albies entire first recruiting class is gone before they're seniors.

Albie doing some spring cleaning.

[DLG]

Quercia transferring.

Albies entire first recruiting class is gone before they're seniors.

Wonder if he already knows where he is going
Not very productive but did good job killing penalties
Maybe could find a home at Ohio State with 3 other BU players

[brassbonanza]

Quercia transferring.

Albies entire first recruiting class is gone before they're seniors.

[BU Fan 84]

Exactly. I see good systems when I watch those two teams along with UMass. At PC, the success has led to improved recruiting as well (at least in terms of landing some USNTDP guys, which I know isn't always the best thing as we have been discussing).

"Improved recruiting" hasn't resulted in any real improvements, though. Both guys have been there long enough that their history of "success" should have resulted in better recruits. Which should then, in turn, result in something better than the NCAA tournament bubble. It hasn't, and that makes me wary of these guys.

[brassbonanza]

So trying to win through the draft as opposed to signing free agents. Got it.

I'd love to see them trade a few forwards for a solid stay-at-home defenseman. Who's available?

BU Hockey: Professional Grade

Huh? Are you advocating Albie cut a crap load of forwards and try to backfill through the transfer portal?

[Friend_of_BU_Hockey]

I'd pass on Cullen...

https://www.uscho.com/2021/02/07/wch...nnesota-state/

[J.D.]

The best names I have seen on defense are Will Cullen from BG and Chase Blackmun from UML. Cullen will be 25! at the start of next season. Three productive years at BG. Blackmun is 22. Three good years at UML for him. Not sure either would be classified as stay at home though. Michael Karow was a pretty good stay at home dman this year!

[Bomber]

I wouldn't be surprised to see a few more of our forwards leave, particularly those who haven't been able to crack the lineup.

Rising Seniors/superseniors: Cockerill Amonte Kaufman Quercia
Rising Juniors: Armstrong Boguslavsky Mastro JOB Stevens Phillips Skoog
Rising Sophomores: Zabaneh Tuch Peterson

That's 14 forwards without counting the incoming freshmen. Of those, the 10 bolded players are sharpied in the lineup every night if healthy. Not a lot of space up front.

So trying to win through the draft as opposed to signing free agents. Got it.

I'd love to see them trade a few forwards for a solid stay-at-home defenseman. Who's available?

BU Hockey: Professional Grade

[brassbonanza]

Not sure they have much room. They only lost Farrance/Deboer/witkowski/wise to my knowledge. They probably Can take 4 incoming recruits and be all set roster size wise.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a few more of our forwards leave, particularly those who haven't been able to crack the lineup.

Rising Seniors/superseniors: Cockerill Amonte Kaufman Quercia
Rising Juniors: Armstrong Boguslavsky Mastro JOB Stevens Phillips Skoog
Rising Sophomores: Zabaneh Tuch Peterson

That's 14 forwards without counting the incoming freshmen. Of those, the 10 bolded players are sharpied in the lineup every night if healthy. Not a lot of space up front.

[Sean Pickett]

Given what PC and UML were before those guys arrived, that 12-20 PWR ranking is pretty damn good. The thinking is what could those guys do with the talent pool BU usually gets players from.

I'm still waiting for the 2019 & 2020 NCAA report from UML, as well as PC's 2020 Form 990, but here are the total annual compensation reported for Coaches Leaman and Bazin:

	Bazin	Leaman
Year	Total	Total
2012	294,690
2013	354,641	332,441
2014	425,310	388,061
2015	432,988	449,788
2016	489,315	547,962
2017	569,350	586,475
2018	620,872	572,862
2019		932,238

Sean

[Lemonade]

So, BU hasn't been active in the transfer frenzy. Not interested? Rumors, hearsay?

Not sure they have much room. They only lost Farrance/Deboer/witkowski/wise to my knowledge. They probably Can take 4 incoming recruits and be all set roster size wise.

[buoldtimer]

So, BU hasn't been active in the transfer frenzy. Not interested? Rumors, hearsay?

[defkit]

Given what PC and UML were before those guys arrived, that 12-20 PWR ranking is pretty damn good. The thinking is what could those guys do with the talent pool BU usually gets players from.

Exactly. I see good systems when I watch those two teams along with UMass. At PC, the success has led to improved recruiting as well (at least in terms of landing some USNTDP guys, which I know isn't always the best thing as we have been discussing).

[J.D.]

Given what PC and UML were before those guys arrived, that 12-20 PWR ranking is pretty damn good. The thinking is what could those guys do with the talent pool BU usually gets players from.