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  • Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

    Sorry - question begs to be asked as plundering season continues apace.

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    Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

    The Capitals stole our last blue-chip recruit, Jake Hauswirth.
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    • #3
      Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

      Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
      The Capitals stole our last blue-chip recruit, Jake Hauswirth.
      The Caps didn't steal him. Hauswirth couldn't get into school.
      Originally posted by dicaslover
      Yep, you got it. I heart Maize.

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      Maybe I'm missing something but you just asked me which MSU I go to and then you knew the theme of my homecoming, how do you know one and not the other?

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      • #4
        Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

        Originally posted by MaizeRage View Post
        The Caps didn't steal him. Hauswirth couldn't get into school.
        That is flat out not true.

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        • #5
          Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

          I think the most damage done to a school was the Islanders taking Okposo in the middle of the season, and then bad mouthing Minnesota for ruining their best prospect. Of course, it was all done to take the heat off of Snow's horrible job of running the Islanders, giving the fans something to talk about at the end of a failure season, and Okposo doesn't seem the worse for wear. Everything worked out great for everyone, except Minnesota. A competent GM would have signed Okposo before the season.
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          • #6
            Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

            Originally posted by Chuck Schwartz View Post
            That is flat out not true.
            I thought that was the case, but now I'm not seeing where I read that. My bad if it's not true.
            Originally posted by dicaslover
            Yep, you got it. I heart Maize.

            Originally posted by Kristin
            Maybe I'm missing something but you just asked me which MSU I go to and then you knew the theme of my homecoming, how do you know one and not the other?

            Western College Hockey Blog

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            • #7
              Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

              Originally posted by Happy View Post
              I think the most damage done to a school was the Islanders taking Okposo in the middle of the season, and then bad mouthing Minnesota for ruining their best prospect. Of course, it was all done to take the heat off of Snow's horrible job of running the Islanders, giving the fans something to talk about at the end of a failure season, and Okposo doesn't seem the worse for wear. Everything worked out great for everyone, except Minnesota. A competent GM would have signed Okposo before the season.
              Add that with the Islanders scouting dept. throwing Lucia under the bus about Ness' development.

              We learned from the two incidents that The Islanders are never at fault for their scouting failures.
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              • #8
                Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

                I'll take a shot in the dark and say Michigan fans aren't too happy with the Kings.
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                • #9
                  Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

                  Id say the Hawks and Wings. Seems like quite a lot of Badgers have ended up on those 2 teams.
                  Instead of looking at it as NHL teams, "damaging" the UW hockey program, I look at it more as a testament to how good the UW is at churning out quality hockey players.
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                  He blossomed after he left the U, and they still named a city in Minnesota after him?
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                  Sieve, Minnesota? Never heard of it.
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                  • #10
                    Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

                    Originally posted by Happy View Post
                    I think the most damage done to a school was the Islanders taking Okposo in the middle of the season, and then bad mouthing Minnesota for ruining their best prospect. Of course, it was all done to take the heat off of Snow's horrible job of running the Islanders, giving the fans something to talk about at the end of a failure season, and Okposo doesn't seem the worse for wear. Everything worked out great for everyone, except Minnesota. A competent GM would have signed Okposo before the season.
                    im just shocked okposo didn't get a 15 year deal to play a dozen games a year
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                    • #11
                      Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

                      Originally posted by MaizeRage View Post
                      I thought that was the case, but now I'm not seeing where I read that. My bad if it's not true.
                      I think that he had some struggles in school and that may have led to him spending another year in the USHL. But he was fully ready to play for Michigan Tech right before he signed with Washington. He was just presented with a great opportunity and he and his family took it.

                      So you're not entirely wrong, for that I apologize for jumping on you. From what I know Jamie Russell was not a happy camper as one would expect.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

                        Originally posted by MaizeRage View Post
                        The Caps didn't steal him. Hauswirth couldn't get into school.
                        That's Zabotel you're thinking of.
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                        • #13
                          Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

                          Originally posted by Chuck Schwartz View Post
                          So you're not entirely wrong, for that I apologize for jumping on you. From what I know Jamie Russell was not a happy camper as one would expect.
                          No, he was definitely not happy. I sent him a letter about six weeks ago to express my thoughts and general disappointment with the way things have gone in the past two seasons. When the response came less than a week later, he spent a paragraph discussing the recruiting situation and I could tell he was quite tired of defending himself regarding the Zabotel & Hauswirth situations, both of which I knew were certainly beyond his control.

                          So to recap, it was Zabotel who couldn't make it past the NCAA academic clearinghouse. It was Hauswirth who decided he'd rather get paid (and to be fair, Russell knew that neither CPZ nor Hauswirth were likely to be four or even three year players).

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                          • #14
                            Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

                            Originally posted by GoBucky36 View Post
                            Id say the Hawks and Wings. Seems like quite a lot of Badgers have ended up on those 2 teams.
                            Instead of looking at it as NHL teams, "damaging" the UW hockey program, I look at it more as a testament to how good the UW is at churning out quality hockey players.
                            I suppose I could qualify this by narrowing the discussion to underclassmen who regret falling for the snake-oil pitch and are now spinning their wheels in the minors. Some early signings are foregone conclusions. Not much damage done if your coaching staff has planned and recruited with that in mind. Others ... the term "under the cloak of darkness" seems to apply.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Which NHL team has caused your school the most damage?

                              The Washington Capitals / Hershey Bears...

                              They signed the only player to leave RIT early (so far)
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