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2015-2016 Coaching Changes

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Or the other way around. ;)

I was going to make that joke first but it occurred to me that it would be him inviting her to join not her inviting herself.

Really a topic for another thread but I have seen coaches interact outside the game and, unsurprisingly, witnessed that there are some who like or dislike each other that is separate from the games their teams have played. I take this offer to mean that they like/respect each other enough that they enjoy working together. That to me is a good thing.
 
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I was going to make that joke first but it occurred to me that it would be him inviting her to join not her inviting herself.
My guess is that she made this commitment before getting the UMD job and has decided to go ahead with it. I think it means that she will be gone for a few games during the season. That's a gutsy decision, if true.
 
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My guess is that she made this commitment before getting the UMD job and has decided to go ahead with it. I think it means that she will be gone for a few games during the season. That's a gutsy decision, if true.
The exact IIHF Women's U-18 tournament dates have not been published yet, but it typically starts in late December (after Christmas), culminating the first weekend of January. That said (and after consulting a calendar), it may go through the second weekend this coming year - January 9 & 10 - which could conflict with collegiate games.

The tournament will be at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario.
 
The exact IIHF Women's U-18 tournament dates have not been published yet, but it typically starts in late December (after Christmas), culminating the first weekend of January. That said (and after consulting a calendar), it may go through the second weekend this coming year - January 9 & 10 - which could conflict with collegiate games.

The tournament will be at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Typically USA Hockey holds the Winter Camp in late December, with the 18 team in attendence, and the tourney usualy starts around the sixth of the new year.
 
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My guess is that she made this commitment before getting the UMD job and has decided to go ahead with it. I think it means that she will be gone for a few games during the season. That's a gutsy decision, if true.

No different than some other college coaches in the past making a commitment to a national team whether it be four nations or some other event/team during the season.
 
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No different than some other college coaches in the past making a commitment to a national team whether it be four nations or some other event/team during the season.

I would have to guess most colleges / ADs would embrace one of their coaches getting an opportunity to coach at the national level. It adds to the coach's perceived value to the college program he or she represents and in theory it SHOULD help on the recruiting trail although it never helped at poor St. Cloud when Mr. Fetter was there and coaching with the Canadian U18 team for a couple of years. He wasn't able to translate that national team position into a single recruit for the Huskies most likely because of his reputation as a goofball of a coach.
 
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That was an excellent hire by the Oilers (My Fav NHL team until we got our own team in town in '92). Chiarelli is from here.

I thank Peter (slightly) for the first Cup the Bruins have won since the Orr era although perhaps Mike O'Connell had more to do with it than he did as Mike signed Tim Thomas from the oblivion of a Euro league someplace and Timmy arguably put on the best playoff performance by a goaltender since Dryden in '71 in stealing the cup for the B's in '13.

I do wish however that he studied accounting while he was at the YAHHD and playing in the Bean Pot!

PC has left the franchise tight up against the cap and hamstrung with a bunch of role players on inflated deals. B's will be in purgatory now for 2-3 years as a result unless Don Sweeney (another Harvard Dman but with a much better NHL pedigree) comes in and moves Chara and others to clear some cap space.

As for Peter, from back in his days with the Sens, he was arrogant....he proves the old adage " you can always tell a Harvard man, you just can't tell him much". Edm. has some good young talent but be careful what you wish in the what was the former City of Champions he may send the Blu/orange to purgatory as well:cool:
 
I thank Peter (slightly) for the first Cup the Bruins have won since the Orr era although perhaps Mike O'Connell had more to do with it than he did as Mike signed Tim Thomas from the oblivion of a Euro league someplace and Timmy arguably put on the best playoff performance by a goaltender since Dryden in '71 in stealing the cup for the B's in '13.

I do wish however that he studied accounting while he was at the YAHHD and playing in the Bean Pot!

PC has left the franchise tight up against the cap and hamstrung with a bunch of role players on inflated deals. B's will be in purgatory now for 2-3 years as a result unless Don Sweeney (another Harvard Dman but with a much better NHL pedigree) comes in and moves Chara and others to clear some cap space.

As for Peter, from back in his days with the Sens, he was arrogant....he proves the old adage " you can always tell a Harvard man, you just can't tell him much". Edm. has some good young talent but be careful what you wish in the what was the former City of Champions he may send the Blu/orange to purgatory as well:cool:

Not that any of this has anything to do with the subject of the thread, but the Bruins won the Cup in 2011. Rask was in the cage when the B's finished as the 2013 runner-up to CHI.
 
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Not that any of this has anything to do with the subject of the thread, but the Bruins won the Cup in 2011. Rask was in the cage when the B's finished as the 2013 runner-up to CHI.

Charlie...thanks that '13 loss was a killer. Thought for sure B's would get it to a game 7 but the last 40 seconds were brutal. Rask was somewhat of a sieve (at least at the end).

I watched that game with my dad who was dying of cancer. We were both hoping the Bs would get it done. 11 seems like a long long time ago. it will be a long time now for another cup here in beantown:(
 
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I thank Peter (slightly) for the first Cup the Bruins have won since the Orr era although perhaps Mike O'Connell had more to do with it than he did as Mike signed Tim Thomas from the oblivion of a Euro league someplace and Timmy arguably put on the best playoff performance by a goaltender since Dryden in '71 in stealing the cup for the B's in '13.

I do wish however that he studied accounting while he was at the YAHHD and playing in the Bean Pot!

PC has left the franchise tight up against the cap and hamstrung with a bunch of role players on inflated deals. B's will be in purgatory now for 2-3 years as a result unless Don Sweeney (another Harvard Dman but with a much better NHL pedigree) comes in and moves Chara and others to clear some cap space.

As for Peter, from back in his days with the Sens, he was arrogant....he proves the old adage " you can always tell a Harvard man, you just can't tell him much". Edm. has some good young talent but be careful what you wish in the what was the former City of Champions he may send the Blu/orange to purgatory as well:cool:

Hesitated to respond, since it is off topic, but many in the industry would disagree with you. It was Chiarelli who brought in Chara, and if memory serves correctly he also traded away Kessell for two high draft picks and some goalie to get Rask. He also brought in Kelly from Ottawa. Key moves that brought the B's to a cup win and a final, after being a non-factor for well over a decade. I'd say he did pretty well while in Beantown, but salary cap issues and the loss of Savard were two key challenges that ended the good run.
 
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On March 11, 2015 Mike MacAdam opened his Schenectady Daily Gazette article “Losses keep piling up for Union College women's hockey” with this:
“There’s inertia, and then there’s the Union College women’s hockey program.
Quick question:
Athletic director Jim McLaughlin said he’s pleased with the progress the program has made.
Was that a quote from four years ago, when my colleague Mark McGuire wrote a column about the program, or a quote from yesterday?”

He closed the article with another question:
“In the history of NCAA women’s hockey, there are 74 head coaches with at least 200 games. Of those, Barcomb’s overall winning percentage of .181 in 270 games is the worst and one of just four who are under .300. “Wins and losses are not the bottom line as it is at some institutions,” McLaughlin said. “All of our teams want to win every time they step on the field or the ice, but it’s not the bottom line.”
Maybe not, and perhaps it’s worth asking why someone like me should even bother paying attention to what the Union women’s hockey team is doing.
It’s because the message being sent is that Union is OK with this.
And I guess that’s their right.
But if that’s the case and you’re a women’s hockey recruit, no matter what other non-hockey reasons you may have to want to attend Union, is this the place you want to go?”

My question is: who’s time is it to go: McLaughlin’s, Asano-Barcomb’s, or both?
If you want to read the complete article before answering, that’s fine:
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2015/mar/11/0311_maccolumn/?print
And please, we no longer need to compare Asano-Barcomb to other Union Women’s hockey coaches. She got to stand on her own 8-year record. Would you want your daughter to play under her? Would you want to play for her?


Jim McLaughlin has been the Director of Athletics at Union College, his alma mater, since March of 2005. |
C A Barcomb
14-15 Overall - 34 GP (4-22- 8 .235)| Conf Only - 22 GP (1-16- 5 .159)
13-14 Overall - 34 GP (9-24- 1 .279)| Conf Only - 22 GP (4-18- 0 .182)
12-13 Overall - 34 GP (7-23- 4 .265)| Conf Only - 22 GP (0-18- 4 .091)
11-12 Overall - 34 GP (4-26- 4 .176)| Conf Only - 22 GP (2-18- 2 .136)
10-11 Overall - 34 GP (2-29- 3 .103)| Conf Only - 22 GP (1-19- 2 .091)
09-10 Overall - 34 GP (5-28- 1 .162)| Conf Only - 22 GP (1-20- 1 .068)
08-09 Overall - 34 GP (2-29- 3 .103)| Conf Only - 22 GP (0-21- 1 .023)
07-08 Overall - 32 GP (3-27- 2 .125)| Conf Only - 22 GP (0-20- 2 .045)
 
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Is 12 wins and ties out of 34 games pretty good for a non-Ivy, non-scholarship school of only 2,100 students that's over $60,000 a year?

I'm sure you're looking for yes as an answer, but I'm going to have to go with no. A program that has shown little progress in its nearly 10 year history and only recruits borderline/bubble D1 players (doesn't even bother to contact the stronger players) and relies on extraordinary goalie performance to scrounge for ties and the occasional win (let's see how they do this year without Lundberg in the net). The current coach has demonstrated that she cannot put together even a .500 team or anything close to it. No player with meaningful D1 talent at this point is going there until a new head coach is in place and at least the slightest glimmer of hope exists that things will change. Given the attitude, there is really no point in Union playing D1 women's hockey as they clearly have no interest in being better than horrible. They should drop back to D3 - no shame in it and a better fit for a school with the mindset articulated by the AD.

BTW - they have a new assistant coach I hear - should be named shortly.
 
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Interesting choice - should we start calling UMD Harvard West? On the surface, it seems like hiring three Harvard folks into UMD is the wrong fit on a couple of levels (including the academic focus differential). I would have guessed she would have brought one from Harvard and reached out to find someone else not connected to Harvard to break the mold on the coaching staff and provide some diversity for both coaching input and recruiting. Both the assistants have ties to Minnesota. Seems like it might be an odd recruiting situation for them - question "So why did you go to Harvard and not UMD?", answer "Because Ivy League schools are better and you should go there to if you can" or "In retrospect, I would have gone to UMD now" or "UMD didn't want me"? I dunno - just seems kind of awkward...
 
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- question "So why did you go to Harvard and not UMD?", answer "Because Ivy League schools are better and you should go there to if you can" or "In retrospect, I would have gone to UMD now" or "UMD didn't want me"? I dunno - just seems kind of awkward...
Ummm...any other possible reasons?
 
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