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NCAA Hockey 2025- CHA now welcome

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Kepler said:
They're a for real team for the first time in my hockey memory (since 1982).

Cashman is an excellent coach.
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I'm still amazed they didn't make the NCAAs at least once in the 2000-2008 era, give or take. Some of those teams had a 1/2 dozen future NHLers.

Though in fairness they finished as the last team out at least 3 of those years, so it's not like they weren't close. They just couldn't get that one extra win and/ or suffered from a weak ECAC bringing them down.
 
Some fun stats:

Stonehill's goaltenders made 70 saves (19-26-25). Stonehill players blocked a further 6 shots. That's a possible 93 shots headed towards goal. Overall, Wisconsin took 124 shots. 11 Badgers took at least 7 shots. 10 had at least 5 SOG.

Wisconsin had 35 SOG in the second period.

Nobody had more than 5 points -- very surprising to me. 15 Wisconsin skaters had points.

Wisconsin skaters combined for a +69. Nice. Stonehill was a combined -70 . Bella Sacca had a -8. Prior to tonight, she was -2 on the year.

Reminder: BC beat Cornell men's hockey 24-1 on 12/27/39 at the Rye Playland Ice Casino. Sadly, I do not have the box. If any of you are still giving NYT money (hint: stop): https://www.nytimes.com/1939/12/28/...ell-eagle-sextet-rolls-up-241-triumph-at.html "Pryor" was 6-5-11.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Simon Fraser had been in the early stages to field an NCAA hockey team, but that won’t be happening anymore. The lone Canadian NCAA school announced they are looking to go back to U Sports. Doing so will also kill the softball, golf, and track programs.

www.sfu.ca

Simon Fraser University to pursue U SPORTS membership

www.sfu.ca www.sfu.ca
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Interesting. They’ve been relatively successful at the D2 level, they just won a share of the GNAC volleyball title for example.
 
The executive team feels that competing in the U.S. is not sustainable due to financial and logistical constraints and other decision-making factors outlined in the independent report.
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While money is the big factor, I have to think current cross-border relations are factoring into that decision, even if it went unsaid in the report.
 
Maybe NIL increases the barrier to entry, with no internal pressure to engage in an arms race and no interested alumni network to bribe er develop.

If it stops factory schools in Texas and Florida and California from joining D1, good. College hockey media can find another way to jerk themselves off than ruining our sport.
 
Kepler said:
Maybe NIL increases the barrier to entry, with no internal pressure to engage in an arms race and no interested alumni network to bribe er develop.

If it stops factory schools in Texas and Florida and California from joining D1, good. College hockey media can find another way to jerk themselves off than ruining our sport.
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To be honest, the game needs new programs quite desperately. It’s far more likely that current programs will fold in the next decade. UAA and UAF are going through the death throes, Lake State might not even exist by then, and if/when the economy tanks who knows what programs will be cut to save money.
 
Lake State is out getting endowments to keep the hockey program going, but I keep hearing the school itself is in big financial trouble as enrollment keeps shrinking each year. Whitmer's plan to make 2 years of community college or trade school free for HS grads, while necessary and important, will not help them at all. Gen Z does not see the value of spending $50k on a directional state school degree (and I cannot blame them one bit).
 
BTW I am always on the lookout for a site that tracks the old polls from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. I believe Marquette was the source of one (by the NMU AD maybe?), and another originated from a news radio station in, I want to say, Michigan. Detroit? The Boston Globe probably had them all but I'm not paying for that rag just to use their impossible search functions.

Don Birkmeyer likely reprinted them in his beautiful Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter, the inspiration for TBRW (the yellowed coloring on the background of the non-title banners is my tribute to Don).

I have always wanted to extend this back to the beginning of time.
 
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