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UNH- How Far West Do We Go?
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Jellsville USA
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Lavins for the win!!!!!!
cinnamoroll
baby sharks enthusiast
cinnamoroll
baby sharks enthusiast
Bonus treat for the night: Connor MacPherson with a pretty one for Halifax
It is a joke you moron. Go away. Please.
I am surprised you can read and no. Once you are a pro you can't come back. I am actually concerned that this question is so dumb you might be having a stroke.
It is actually 27:20 mark, the 10 minutes is what is left in the podcast.Mike McMahon received a question in the mailbag section of his podcast last week about whether "UNH should fire Souza if they finish < .500." Talks about the topic for about 10 mins starting at 27 min mark.
You seemed so certain. But you are not correct.
Graham Sward - Men's Ice Hockey - Quinnipiac University Athletics
Graham Sward (15) Defenseman - BEFORE QUINNIPIAC Played 47 games in the ECHL with the Norfolk Admirals, including 11 playoff games. Totaled 13 points with tw...
Hudson Thornton - 2025-26 - Men's Ice Hockey - Bemidji State University
Hudson Thornton (5) D - Personal Appeared in 42 games for the Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL during the 2024-25 season along with seven games for the South Carolina
bsubeavers.com
Pro Players in College Hockey Now? Let's Explain
Arizona State's latest signing played 40 games in minor pro last season. He's not alone.
As long as they’re making ‘less than cost of attendance’ salaries and are age appropriate they are eligible to return. At least for now, though I can’t see the NCAA taking any action to take player rights away. Hell, they moved to legalize student-athlete gambling on professional sports just this morning!
Reading the URL on the college hockey news piece indicates there are likely 18 former ECHL/AHL professionals playing college hockey this season, ranging from one to 50+ games played…
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cinnamoroll
baby sharks enthusiast
this is correct, and 18 might be right if you count the ATOs after a junior season finishes, but those are barely anything- maybe 2 or 3 games and often with little ice time. if we are talking significant pro time, it's maybe 5? there's a salary threshold for them and they go through eligibility center like everyone else. a good chunk of these guys went through something similar for usports too. the first article on this is the Bemidji Pioneer one from Jared Rubado after certified freak of sports nature Tom Serratore released his roster (the morning after i posted a preview of every CHL recruiting class in the CCHA!!! thanks for nothing Tom) and it had 4 new guys on it, including the two guys with pro experience. when asked about how he knew it would work, he said he didn't but he's gonna try anyways just in case it does, and it did. some inspiration came from baseball players who played in pro leagues internationally in the SEC getting eligibility. you'd assume veteran coaches might rankle against all the changes, but apparently Serratore is so excited by all this he's practically aged backwards.You seemed so certain. But you are not correct.
Graham Sward - Men's Ice Hockey - Quinnipiac University Athletics
Graham Sward (15) Defenseman - BEFORE QUINNIPIAC Played 47 games in the ECHL with the Norfolk Admirals, including 11 playoff games. Totaled 13 points with tw...gobobcats.com
Hudson Thornton - 2025-26 - Men's Ice Hockey - Bemidji State University
Hudson Thornton (5) D - Personal Appeared in 42 games for the Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL during the 2024-25 season along with seven games for the South Carolina
Pro Players in College Hockey Now? Let's Explain
Arizona State's latest signing played 40 games in minor pro last season. He's not alone.www.collegehockeynews.com
As long as they’re making ‘less than cost of attendance’ salaries and are age appropriate they are eligible to return. At least for now, though I can’t see the NCAA taking any action to take player rights away. Hell, they moved to legalize student-athlete gambling on professional sports just this morning!
Reading the URL on the college hockey news piece indicates there are likely 18 former ECHL/AHL professionals playing college hockey this season, ranging from one to 50+ games played…
before someone feels Very Original about a low-hanging joke, no this does not mean connor mcdavid could come to college hockey. everyone has their own takes on it but it's not like they can change it without getting sued to hell and back even more than they already are. people have said stuff about how they should live with their bad decisions made at 20, which is kinda laughable imo because this is punishing players for decisions made at 14/15. if the rule change happened a few years earlier, they would've just gone to college instead of wallowing in the coast. theres a thread on this forum somewhere about it if you really want to get into it but its mostly the predictable reactions.
and yes, i did in fact have a stroke! i didn't notice if i got any dumber though, considering how i was only 3 months old... i seem to be keeping up with this stuff just fine at least.
I’ll stick around, loser boy. Hurry and crawl back under your rock.
Having read Dans post, I think at this point even you agree that you are the dumbest person posting here. Perhaps you should self suspend for three months.
adios, meathead
Sparkee
Blackbear
I think what you will see is a small number heading into NCAA from ECHL mostly. These would be players that aged out of juniors mostly and had to take jobs in ECHL at 21. So now the NCAA is looking at it like… if you weren’t elligible and you didn’t make much money and then you can come to NCAA to prolong your development. I don’t believe we will see any all stars from AHL level coming back. From AHL it would likely be ones on the border of being sent down to ECHL. So Potluck is actually right, NCAA teams can now essentially recruit those players. Though I don’t think you will see them going out of their way to travel to rinks everywhere. In Maine and or UNH’s case, maybe their assistants take in a game once in a while in Portland to see if anyone resembles a former CHL guy that only played a year or two there so far.
Sparkee
Blackbear
I think it is fair to cut people some slack because this is relatively new and not everyone has been following the rules as closely as some of us do.
Now, having said all of that feel free to level all sorts of attacks at Chuck if you need to.
Yes, indeed, under most circumstances. But not with Norbert (Meathead). He actually called me a moron for posting something that was correct. I can handle ignorance being bliss but not ignorance being arrogant. That's Meathead in a nutshell. Just dumb.
While I love UNH hockey, a primary reason I post here to is put the knucklehead bully posters like Norbert (Meathead) and Chuck (Buford) in their place. Social media know nothing cowboys should get a taste of their medicine and called out. Buford and Meathead need to get slapped around. It's actually good for them. Buford's posting lately has been more responsible and respectful. I'll take credit for that.
You mean Buford, right?
Darius
Go 'cats!
Pretty tasty for fans of laissez-faire capitalism as well.
No, you don't love UNH hockey. What you love is drama and to respond to posts you don't agree with and call everyone names. There's a difference. Maybe try going to a game for once.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
My new favorite poster. Good call, Em. Please be sure to hang around, your blunt direct commentary is most welcome here.
Also, before going any further ... happy to report 'Ref is out of surgery and doing well. I'm sure she'll be on here any moment now.
Best line of the morning (all due respect to serious posters like Dan) is potty taking credit for "reining me in". Delusional or head wound victim? Your call. But still funny when I've been laying relatively low, seeing I'm still living rent-free in what passes for the "brains" of at least two of our visitors. Keep up the good work.
Let's see what the rematch looks like. Regardless, nice to see UNH get off to a good start with a road W against a #2 team, and their 2nd round DRW draft pick goalie.