Providence College 2026-27 Official Season-Long Thread

Overall a good weekend. Way to come back after a lackluster first period tonight! So much depth in the forward this season, will be curious to see how starting lineup will change. Was surprised to see no Jelsma yesterday and no Klippenstein yet.

Sumpf, Blake and Cali were my top 3 forwards from the weekend. If the team can rotate and keep everybody happy, I hope they don't regret having that many extra players. With Monteiro out for a bit that gives some relief of who to bench. Only a sample size but hopefully Sumpf's early success translates over the course of the season and his development takes a big leap.

Don’t think you mean “that many extra players”, because there might not be enough to respond to a string of injuries or a locker room filled with players with the flu because the roster size is lower now than it used to be. Hopefully the player cap will be expanded rather than reduced. Since player lineups are limited to 4 lines of forwards and 3 lines of defenders + 1 extra, there will always need to be scratches, but perhaps your concern is about healthy scratches of good players which is what happens with a deep bench. That is a tough spot for coaches and risks hard feelings, but that is how it has always worked and the better PC gets at recruiting, the more difficult that challenge will be. Perhaps that is why coach Leaman recalled some NHL alumni who didn’t get much time as freshman in a recent radio show and mentioned that Malinowski was going to need to battle even harder for minutes had he stayed this year.

PaulKorea said:

Sumpf, Blake and Cali were my top 3 forwards from the weekend. If the team can rotate and keep everybody happy, I hope they don't regret having that many extra players. With Monteiro out for a bit that gives some relief of who to bench. Only a sample size but hopefully Sumpf's early success translates over the course of the season and his development takes a big leap.

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They did well in replacing Malinoski. I think he had a really disappointing junior year, and weighing him staying vs. potentially losing any of the new players this year, it's time to reset the clock and bring in some freshman bodies that can (hopefully) have a peak higher than Malinoski should they play through three years.

Liked the determination in tonight’s game vs Union. The team rallied from behind after two periods in the third and scored on a beautiful passing sequence in OT with the final scoring shot executed by Gamache. Didn’t realize that an OT win is a win this year, whereas last year it was a tie with the OT or Shootout winner getting an extra league point, (not really sure if I am correct that this is a change - anybody know?). But coming back after being down after 2 is pretty uncommon, (it would be if you are the opponent vs PC under coach Leaman). Union looked pretty darn good to me so they will probably be another team, (like Stonehill), that will over achieve this year.

Look forward to the start of league play next weekend, go Friars!

Good to see Gamache get a big one after a lackluster goal scoring season last year!!!