2025-26 Division III Women's Hockey

[Scott_TG]

So the most interesting thing about Middlebury drubbing Suffolk 7-0 last night was that Coach Ostrom chose a game against Middlebury at Middlebury to have her freshman goalie make her first collegiate appearance and start. The junior starter and the sophomore goalie were both dressed, so it seems like an active choice to have a baptism by fire for Lucy Cantin.

 

[PrezdeJohnson09]

So the most interesting thing about Middlebury drubbing Suffolk 7-0 last night was that Coach Ostrom chose a game against Middlebury at Middlebury to have her freshman goalie make her first collegiate appearance and start. The junior starter and the sophomore goalie were both dressed, so it seems like an active choice to have a baptism by fire for Lucy Cantin.

Or could have just been a team rules violation and they dressed one or both of them in case the freshman got hurt?

Sometimes ya never know what goes into decisions. Sometimes the answer is actually quite simple...sometimes its not!

 

[tjoneslo]

So the most interesting thing about Middlebury drubbing Suffolk 7-0 last night was that Coach Ostrom chose a game against Middlebury at Middlebury to have her freshman goalie make her first collegiate appearance and start. The junior starter and the sophomore goalie were both dressed, so it seems like an active choice to have a baptism by fire for Lucy Cantin.

I do recall on several occasions having Coach Mandigo have a freshman goaltender start during the Panther-Cardinal classic games. So having your new player(s) start in a non-conference game / tournament to give them some idea of what they are going to be facing isn't new.

 

[Scott_TG]

I do recall on several occasions having Coach Mandigo have a freshman goaltender start during the Panther-Cardinal classic games. So having your new player(s) start in a non-conference game / tournament to give them some idea of what they are going to be facing isn't new.

Even when facing the Plattsburgh dynasty teams from 2013-19 I don't think Mandigo ever considered that their goalie would get carved up during a Panther-Cardinal Classic game in the way Cantin did yesterday, nor should he have. I don't think that's a fair comparison.