For those calling for Jan Korec to step in: you’re delusional.
He had his shot last year and cloutier 100% outplayed him. Nothing has changed. No offense to Korec, who I’m sure is a great kid. Can Henrique’s play better that cloutier? Maybe. But in no way has he proved that to be the case yet. Browns job is to continue to give henriquez chances until he proves he is not his own worst enemy . If he doesn’t he suffers the same fate as Korec. Regardless cloutier is the guy.
As for Powell, he went back to the Ushl and regrouped just like amico for bu. He’s a good player. But when bc had minnetian, forestscu, and Gustafson he was always going to be lower on the list. He bet on himself and moved on and that was clearly a good move. You can’t be anything but happy for Seamus Powell but it wasn’t in the cards for him at bc given who he was competing against. And that’s ok. Powell and the Mack are better off for it. Did bc lose out? At the time no. In the long run yes. Again it was a good call for Powell and more power to him.
No idea about hagens. Obviously a good player and maybe so good he was pissed he had to be multidimensional and play forward at bc. Vermont seems like a good landing spot for him and he’s obviously making the most of it. I hope he has a killer year. His brother certainty reps bc well.
With respect to bc, I’m not sure how you have a seriously competitive hockey team with 5 defensemen getting serious minutes (Joyce, beauschencne, and malgrave out). That’s just bad luck. You can’t predict injuries. And on top of that, a bunch of decent developing forwards are out as well. Vanhanenen is potentially a special player but guys like the mutryn brothers are likely three or four year players (like Stiga) and I personally believe those are the guys that, sprinkled with a potential first rounder like Alexis Joseph, win championships. We’ll see.
With respect to this season, not a great situation. But whatever. I hope the dmen get serious minutes and develop (Woodall is going to prove to be a big time college man despite never being drafted. I think beauschence will be a good one too), The roster composition is one for the long run, but I admit this year doesn’t look great.
Bu was awful last year and they bounced back. Bc will do the same.