Post on the RPI blog Without a Peer about Denver http://www.withoutapeer.com/2013/06/know-your-enemy-denver.html.
I have no connection with WaP besides for being a reader.
Jim Montgomery@DUCoachMonty28 Jun
Good luck to Pioneers @QShore27 @WillButcher4 @t_moore8 @NHL draft. Enjoy&learn from the experience and ur journey 2 NHL has just begun
Honorable Mention
Will Butcher — D — U.S. National Under-18 Team: Butcher is a high-level offensive defenseman, who distributes the puck well ...
Other Notables
Evan Cowley — G — Wichita Falls Wildcats: For the second straight year, the most intriguing American goalie prospect will be coming out of the North American league.
Q to Ottawa in 6th round #168Round 4 #92 Florida Panthers pick DU recruit Evan Cowley Goalie
Round 5 #123 Colorado selects incoming DU freshman Will Butcher Defense
Really happy for Q.Q to Ottawa in 6th round #168
Comes across as a great kid. Interesting that Gwozdecky & Co. originally recruited him, and it appears that Montgomery & Co. closed the deal.Cowley coming to DU this year. He as originally slated for 2014/15 but he met with Monty a few weeks ago and they moved him up to this season. Video of him after being drafted yesterday. Select the interview with Cowley at the link.
[video]http://video.panthers.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=93&id=261304&cmpid=embed-share-video[/video]
Cowley coming to DU this year. He as originally slated for 2014/15 but he met with Monty a few weeks ago and they moved him up to this season. Video of him after being drafted yesterday. Select the interview with Cowley at the link.
[video]http://video.panthers.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=93&id=261304&cmpid=embed-share-video[/video]
Just a little side note. Today would have been Jimbo's 70th birthday. I have been thinking about him alot today....wondering what his thoughts would be with all the changes surrounding the program...
How cool is it, that we have 2 Panthers goalies!!!
Me too. We all miss his insight and supreme decency.
...and both were taken 92nd overall in their respective drafts....the only DU goalie I can think of that was drafted higher was Bryan Schoen, who was taken 91st overall in '89 or '90...I believe these 3 goalies are the only true freshman goalies DU has had, at least in my time, with Chris Olson possibly having been one as well.
Yeah. To be honest, he was a WCHA guy through and through. I'm pretty sure he would have been quite conflicted about the whole NCHC move. Yet, obviously being the diehard DU supporter he was he would have accepted and embraced it by now.
Yeah I miss trading stories with him and the good banter. I think he would agree with me that the best incarnation of the WCHA was when it was a 10 team league in the 1970s with DU, CC, UND, MN, UMD, ND, MI, MSU, MTU and WI.
Yep, Minny beat Tech in '76 in the old barn. I was there along with your dad. That was the infamous Final Four with the fight between Minny and BU in their opening game. Very physical play in that Final Four. That Minny team had future NHL brawler Russ Anderson on it along with dynamic players Joe Micheletti, Tom Vannelli, Reed Larson, Bill Baker, Warren Miller, Don Madson and Tom Younghans, among others. And of course it was John MacInness versus Herb Brooks as the coaches. MTU was led by Mike Zuke, George Lyle, Stu Ostlund and Jim Mayer.I can guarantee he would agree with this. We talked a lot about this era, which I technically witnessed some of but I was waaaay to young to have much recollection. I know you would know which year, but one of his all-time favorite games ever came from this era, which was either the '75 or '76 NCAA Championship game at the old barn between Tech and Minny...seemed like it was an amazing (and amazingly rough) game.