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...I like this Kid alot...come's with a EDGE to his game,especially the last part of the season...will need him to add some goals to take the pressure off the 1st Line of Nyquist/House/Flynn...hopefully he got stronger over the off-season in the upper body area...small player but has a BIG Heart for the game...which bodes well for UM Hockey.
...A good Interim A.D. for UMaine would be Stu Haskell...wonder if he would be willing to help out for a while..?
Yes, I believe Stu was in charge when Maine had some NCAA violations, but I don't think you can blame that on Stu (not that Bob is "blaming" him). In those days, you had a culture at UMaine which said that Maine is purer than the driven snow, because we're the University of Maine, which woundn't even allow beer commercials. But Maine did not have the understanding of what NCAA regulations required and it did not have an athletic department infrastructure in place to ensure that violations did not occur. That wasn't Stu Haskell's fault. Eventually, the President's office and the AD recognized what was needed to implement "institutional control" for Maine athletics, and although the boosters weren't particularly happy about it, the appropriate reforms were implemented and we went on from there. Would Stu be a good interim AD today? Who knows? He's 15 years older, which doesn't help, and I don't have any idea whether he's kept abreast of the issues related to athletic administration in today's world. But I wouldn't dismiss him, just because some violations occurred way back when.
