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UMaine 25-26: Marques My Word: Back to the Big Time

ticapnews said:
Every team except the top of the NCHC and BTHC were weak. This was an awful season for college hockey. Hopefully not a harbinger of things to come.
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Honestly, have to agree here. No truly great teams to my eye, but even then the top of teams were still considerably better than the rest. I'm willing to chalk it up to an adjustment period, r.e CHL imports, and hope it stabilizes, but I agree I hope this wasnt a sneak peak of the future of the game at the college level.
 
amkirby10 said:
Honestly, have to agree here. No truly great teams to my eye, but even then the top of teams were still considerably better than the rest. I'm willing to chalk it up to an adjustment period, r.e CHL imports, and hope it stabilizes, but I agree I hope this wasnt a sneak peak of the future of the game at the college level.
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I think it is the future, its been creeping in this direction for a while now with it accelerating last couple years.
The accumulation of money and talent in a low % of the overall teams has/will create great divides within D1.
Where it ends up - ?? -
Maybe schools just shut down their program, maybe shools break away from ncaa, maybe ncaa figures out how to level the playing field.
 
ticapnews said:
Every team except the top of the NCHC and BTHC were weak. This was an awful season for college hockey. Hopefully not a harbinger of things to come.
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Seriously. Eastern hockey taking it on the chin this season. It will be interesting to see which programs thrive in the age of NIL....and which ones fall by the wayside.
 
I dunno. I think it was a year of upheaval while everyone tries to figure out NIL/Revenue Sharing, CHL eligibility, etc. Every long term plan got balled up and thrown in the trash last January. Schools and coaches will figure it out.
 
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