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All things Denver XXVI: From Boonetown to Motown

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vizoroo said:
Trotter is having a very good year.
1st in goals 25
2nd in assists 28
1st in points 53
2nd in plus/minus +21
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Looks like Trotter finds himself in the same situation as Connor James & Gabe Gauthier type players. Great AHL scorers but unable to move up to the NHL as third or fourth liners because they are unable to bang people around, be ferocious checkers, plus chip in a few goals.

James is playing in Germany this year.
 
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Interesting series for Miami this weekend against Lake Superior State. A win by the Lakers in either game might flip the Pairwise with the Pioneers if DU sweeps.
 
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Gwoz featured on USCHO Podcast props to Marc Cheverie, JCon, Fontaine, and Smith. And also a mention of DU's Hobey winner, Matt Carle.
 
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dggoddard said:
Interesting series for Miami this weekend against Lake Superior State. A win by the Lakers in either game might flip the Pairwise with the Pioneers if DU sweeps.
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Miami is lefthand column and DU is on the right:

.5874 RPI .5808 (Miami wins)
10-2-4 .7500 TUC .7059 11-4-2 (Miami wins)
4-0-1 .9000 COp .7500 6-2-0 (Miami wins)
0-0-0 0 H2H 0 0-0-0 (Not counted)

- RPI takes too long to calculate, but it seems that we are very close in that category. I could see us jumping ahead if we do well the rest of the year since we have a tougher schedule.

- TUC - if Lake St. sweeps (or takes 3 pts) we'll jump ahead. Miami doesn't play another current TUC the rest of the regular season. DU has Minn and CC. Obviously, we will need to do well in those series (and hope that Minn stays a TUC).

- COp - our sweep against UND was huge for this. Also, we beat UNO. Miami hasn't played them yet so it's not showing up in the comparison yet, but will in a couple of weeks. We need Ohio St. and UNO to do well when they play Miami.

I'm probably missing something in the analysis above, but I will definitely be keeping an eye on the Lake St./Miami games this weekend.

Go DU!
 
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Check out the College Hockey News--DU is Team of the Week and the BCHL features alumni Marc Cheverie in their newsletter. ( The link is in the right hand column.)
 
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Puck Swami said:
Here's an interesting tidbit:

Former DU Clarion Sports Editor Andy Clayton is now a sportswriter for the New York Daily News.

Andy's story today is on a 6 foot tall child football qb who verballed to USC as a 13 YEAR OLD! Could Hockey be far behind?

See the story and the you tube video of the kid.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/c...ck_from_delaware_verbally_commits_to_usc.html
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:eek:

Andy has done some college hockey articles for the NY Daily News and a lot of his work only appears in the on-line edition.
 
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Puck Swami said:
Andy's story today is on a 6 foot tall child football qb who verballed to USC as a 13 YEAR OLD! Could Hockey be far behind?
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This is going to be the end of the line for verbal commitments of young kids. The NCAA probably didn't care about hockey or maybe looked the other way because of major juniors. But there is no way that they can ignore this issue now.

I'd expect the NCAA to put the minimum at a student's 17th birthday.
 
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The NCAA can't do anything about this. If a 13 year old kid wants to verbally commit to a school, how is the NCAA supposed to stop him? Tell him he can't go to college? The coaches still aren't allowed to comment on the player until he signs a NLI and that can't happen until their senior(?) year.
 
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Dirty said:
The NCAA can't do anything about this. If a 13 year old kid wants to verbally commit to a school, how is the NCAA supposed to stop him? Tell him he can't go to college? The coaches still aren't allowed to comment on the player until he signs a NLI and that can't happen until their senior(?) year.
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Weren't you the guy who predicted that the Sioux would split with DU last weekend? :)

Obviously USC made the kid a scholarship offer, so they had contact with the kid's family and the agent/player advisor. Either way, there's 100+ BCS football schools that are going to be ****ed about this.
 
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dggoddard said:
Weren't you the guy who predicted that the Sioux would split with DU last weekend? :)

Obviously USC made the kid a scholarship offer, so they had contact with the kid's family and the agent/player advisor. Either way, there's 100+ BCS football schools that are going to be ****ed about this.
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Lane Kiffin did it last year at Tennessee with the younger brother of one of his players. This is all about media exposure.
But I didn't think they could make an offer or maybe 13 and 14 year olds don't count if they are not in high school.:confused:
 
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So it's the wife's birthday today with a celebration dinner tomorrow :mad: I'm in big trouble as far as following the games live! I think she's forgotten that our very first date was a DU/UND game where Dave Shields scored in overtime. Our first kiss for the love of God!! I don't know man, I don't know...:confused:

Pop!!! :cool:
 
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Dmann said:
So it's the wife's birthday today with a celebration dinner tomorrow :mad: I'm in big trouble as far as following the games live! I think she's forgotten that our very first date was a DU/UND game where Dave Shields scored in overtime. Our first kiss for the love of God!! I don't know man, I don't know...:confused:

Pop!!! :cool:
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Every spouse has a different tolerance level when it comes to hockey. I've been married for 16 years now, and there are always new trade-offs to be generated when it comes to hockey season. Mrs. Swami is very good compared to some spouses. She comes to about half the DU games with me, and has been known to make few hockey road trips every now and again, but there are limits as to how much hockey she can take, especially when there are 'competing events' that are important to her that she wants me to attend. Or when I occasionally break things or scare the dog after meltdowns, as happened during the great Mankato meltdown of 2003-2004.

In general, it's really important to bank as many off-season karma points as you can. Sometimes, also giving up a non-league game to go to her dinner party will serve you well when you need to take that trip to Madison or when the WCHA playoff goes to a third night in a row....

Good luck
 
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