Gusties getting absolutely pummeled by Augsbur today. I haven’t seen a Gustie team this outmatched since at least 2016. The dynasty is dead I do believe
Mac was a fine coach, but it’s no secret in MN that she gave preference to a certain “type” of player. It ultimately held her back from hitting the top tier programs like GAC, RF, Adrian.
SNC defeats Trine 1-0 on a goal from Lexi Bonfe. Trine goalie Annie Kindseth made 60 saves, joining Potsdam goalie Parent and Castleton goalie Bakopanos as the third goalie with 60+ saves this week.
Speaking of 60+ saves, Tia Card of Hilbert made 68 in a 10-1 loss to Chatham. Neither team won a game coming into the game. So that makes 4.
That's nothing. Another Hilbert goalie, Brook Thompson, made 74 saves in a 15-0 loss to Buffalo State just before Thanksgiving in a game where Hilbert was outshot 89-5. That's insane!
The Hilbert website also shows that the second Chatham game was called with 4:23 left in the first period due to an injury. Chatham was leading 2-0 at the time. Does anyone know what happened there? Hopefully the injured player is ok and it wasn't anything life threatening.
Hilbert has an absurdly low skater amount so it may have just been that losing one of them in progress was enough to call it...
And what happened to Spearl Sputter, the man that made a very bad program even worse?? He only lasted one year at the worst D3 program in the country. Their roster shows only 3 Freshmen so he didn't really do much recruiting for the program. Did they give him the boot?
That's nothing. Another Hilbert goalie, Brook Thompson, made 74 saves in a 15-0 loss to Buffalo State just before Thanksgiving in a game where Hilbert was outshot 89-5. That's insane!
The Hilbert website also shows that the second Chatham game was called with 4:23 left in the first period due to an injury. Chatham was leading 2-0 at the time. Does anyone know what happened there? Hopefully the injured player is ok and it wasn't anything life threatening.
Maybe its early but Hilbert might be the first program not to improve after Utter leaves.
Maybe its early but Hilbert might be the first program not to improve after Utter leaves.
Cortland won the first SUNYAC conference championship and made their first natty. Wilkes is going to be in contention in this first inaugural season for the MAC
If you remember my post earlier about Hilbert having to cancel a two-game series at Potsdam because of a lack of enough healthy players, I stated that their roster only shows 15, with three of them being goalies. So, that's 12 skaters. When they are all healthy...
I just looked at the roster which I hadn't done since I posted that earlier note. They now list 14 players, still 3 goalies, so 11 skaters. You can't maintain that... (The team picture shows 15.)
I also didn't realize they've had three coaches in their three years (Utter was year 2). It's a mess.
I don't think I've asked this since the Daniel Webster or when King's or Wilkes had a tiny roster, why don't they move a goalie to skater? Just to have one more player to rotate?
Moving on from our modern Daniel Webster, I was looking at the composite schedule. Here's the biggest games during finals week and the first two weeks back after the holidays
Week of 12/9
#2 UWRF vs #5 GAC (12/10)
RV Endicott vs RV Norwich (12/10)
Hamilton at #9 Utica (12/10)
Bethel vs #11 UW-Eau Claire (12/11)
UW-Stevens Point vs #6 Augsburg (12/13 and 14)
Week of 12/30
UWSP vs RV Hamline (1/2)
Hamilton vs RV Elmira (1/3)
RV Endicott vs #1 Middlebury (1/3)
RV Norwich vs #3 Amherst (1/5)
#12 Nazareth vs #7 Plattsburgh (1/5)
Week of 1/6
Losers of Norwich/Amherst and Platts/Naz (1/6)
Winners of Norwich/Amherst and Platts/Naz (1/6)
RV Hamline vs #11 UW-Eau Claire (1/6)
RV Williams vs #9 Utica (1/7)
RV Endicott vs #14 Bowdoin (1/7)
RV St. Catherine's vs #2 UWRF (1/9)
RV Elmira vs #12 Nazareth (1/10)
#8 Oswego vs #7 Plattsburgh (1/10 and 11)
RV SNC vs RV Hamline (1/10)
#14 Bowdoin vs #13 Trinity (1/10)
RV SNC vs #6 Augsburg (1/11)
As I was looking at the composite I was wondering why Midd scheduled Nichols for 1/4 after Endicott. I get not scheduling Endicott again since they faced off at Card/Panther but there's a ton of schools they would have a better SOS if they put in Nichols place. Norwich (how is that not a matchup this year?), Canton, Potsdam, Oswego, WNEU, Plymouth State even debutantes Keene State would probably be better...does SOS not matter since UWRF is the predetermined host?
One could chide Adrian for scheduling Chatham but given the geographic proximity and Chatham looked ascendant at the end of their season there was some logic. I don't think anyone expected 1-8 from Chatham this season.
The Cardinals have arguably the toughest return to action. Nazareth then either Norwich or Amherst. Then two against Oswego in less than a week.
To be fair, it took Cortland a long time after Utter left to get to this level.
As for Hilbert, I wonder how much of this is a transitional void with Utter departing and naming an interim coach. How much recruiting was actually done during that period.
Hamilton looks like they are getting their **** together. They beat #9 Utica 1-0, outshooting them 30-8.
