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2018-19 Division III Games, Updates, News Thread

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MND3Dad said:
USCHO has the MIAC wrong.

Hamline will indeed be the dominant team. While they lose Bobrowski and Dodds, they return WAY more scoring power, they have the best recruiting class and I expect their goaltending to be better. If Hamline doesn't come out of the West this year, it'd be a major fail by Darwitz.
Gustavus is going to be really young. They do have a couple good recruits, but they lost a ton. Defensively they'll be superior, but I don't think they'll be anywhere as good as they have been.
St. Thomas might indeed be better this year but they will also be thinner.
I expect Augsburg to jump up. They should field three competitive lines and the team is experienced.

I'd venture:

Hamline (by a mile)
Augsburg
St. Thomas
Concordia
Bethel
Gustavus
St. Olaf
St. Kates
St. Mary's
St. Ben's
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I agree that Hamline is the preseason favorite, can see how Augsburg and St. Thomas being 2 and 3 could be plausible, but am having a hard time with GAC being behind Concordia and Bethel. Why do you think they will be able to leapfrog a perennial fave like GAC?
 
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Nope. Not affiliated with Hamline at all. Was a huge fan of Coach Darwitz as a player, not so much as a coach. And not because she doesn't know what she's doing, she clearly does.
 
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Concordia returns about 50 more goals than GAC, Bethel 15 more. By the end of the year GAC might be better than those teams, but they just don't have anything proven past that first line. I love GAC's top 4 defenders and goaltending, but they are SO young, that teams can just play shut down against L1 and make the kids beat them.

Concordia has a new coach, so I'm not 100% sure about them, but they return almost their whole team.

And maybe I'm just hoping that Coach Carroll gets some payback this season. Might be wishful thinking by me
 
Scott_TG said:
Some preseason scores from the past week:

Plattsburgh 5 - Canton 0
Morrisville 4 - Nazareth 1
Oswego 4 - London Devilettes 3
Nichols 8 - Rhode Island (Club) 0
Utica 2 - London Devilettes 6
UMB 7 - Becker 1
Liberty (ACHA) 7 - Neumann 2
Wisconsin - Superior 2 - St. Scholastica 1
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Norwich 5 - Bishop 0
 
Preseason ranking for the NEHC:

http://nehockeyconference.com/women/pres1819/201810/oct24wpoll.php

Seems to be clear break between the haveand have not teams.
 
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GTOWN said:
Preseason ranking for the NEHC:

http://nehockeyconference.com/women/pres1819/201810/oct24wpoll.php

Seems to be clear break between the haveand have not teams.
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Interesting that Suffolk has been ranked 5th of 9 despite not having played a regular season game. Says something about the players they've recruited (including the ones from other DIII programs).

Other than that, I haven't seen a preseason poll that surprised me.
 
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Scott_TG said:
Interesting that Suffolk has been ranked 5th of 9 despite not having played a regular season game. Says something about the players they've recruited (including the ones from other DIII programs).

Other than that, I haven't seen a preseason poll that surprised me.
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My daughter has played with, and against, many of the players going to Suffolk. I think they will be a competitive (more than a typical first-year program) team this year. The transfers from Canton certainly help that! Looking forward to see how Suffolk, and Nazareth, do this year. Nazareth with 24 skaters!
 
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Scott_TG said:
Interesting that Suffolk has been ranked 5th of 9 despite not having played a regular season game. Says something about the players they've recruited (including the ones from other DIII programs).

Other than that, I haven't seen a preseason poll that surprised me.
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Truth is you can throw a blanket over Plymouth, Castleton and UMB. I prefer to think Castleton comes out on top of that! :-)
 
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Some #LateNews as opposed the other hashtag we see elsewhere

Over the summer, Alvernia brought in 2015 Laura Hurd winner and 2013 DIII National Champion Ashley Ryan (Elmira '15) to be the assistant on Josh Brandwene's staff. Ryan still shares DIII records for assists in a game and assists in a season. Between her time at Elmira and this gig, Ryan spent two seasons with D1 Northeastern as the Operations Director. Great credentials for an assistant with a new program.
 
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Impressive goon squad run from Hamline in their game vs UW Eau Claire. 12 penalties for 32 minutes including high sticking, slashing, checking and cross checking. Yet they win the game short handed? Wow.
 
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GTOWN said:
Wow...just wow.
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So sorry that the truth hurts you so much. Facts are facts...there are way too many new programs out there that are simply terrible. [and I stand by the statement that a decent T1 U14 team would beat most of these hapless squads]. oh, and wow, just like wow, man.:p
 
CrossCheck said:
So sorry that the truth hurts you so much. Facts are facts...there are way too many new programs out there that are simply terrible. [and I stand by the statement that a decent T1 U14 team would beat most of these hapless squads]. oh, and wow, just like wow, man.:p
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Same type of moronic statement that Bill Mandigo used when he would tell recruits that his team could beat a lot of D1 teams. Just plain stupidity but not a surprise considering the source. Let me add this qualifier to things: No decent U14 team could beat a "fully / properly rostered D3 team." I consider 20-21 players with 2-3 goalies to fill that definition. Fewer than that is short for any college roster.
 
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