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BU 2020-21 Season: The Road to … Nowhere?

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defkit said:
No doubt there are strange things going on. Bazin losing a couple really good players. Carvel losing a couple key players too...
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Is Carvel losing more than Zac Jones in terms of key players? Seems like everyone else was a senior and Carvel has said several times that UMass is not providing additional scholarship money for the 5th year guys.

That being said - it seems like BU IS providing that scholarship money but I'd like to see them maybe grab a portal guy or two? I'm concerned that Albie's results and lack of great player development are going to hurt the ability to get these guys in "free agency".

Edit - I just saw that Matt Brown is coming to BU. That does change things a bit but it makes me wonder what happened at BC - seemed like that was obviously his first choice.
 
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joen05 said:
Is Carvel losing more than Zac Jones in terms of key players? Seems like everyone else was a senior and Carvel has said several times that UMass is not providing additional scholarship money for the 5th year guys.

That being said - it seems like BU IS providing that scholarship money but I'd like to see them maybe grab a portal guy or two? I'm concerned that Albie's results and lack of great player development are going to hurt the ability to get these guys in "free agency".

Edit - I just saw that Matt Brown is coming to BU. That does change things a bit but it makes me wonder what happened at BC - seemed like that was obviously his first choice.
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Do you have a source on this?
 
Yes, I believe it was Mark Divver who said BC was the "frontrunner" for Brown but who the hell really knows what is going on behind the scenes. Hell, John Buccigross reported Cruikshank to BC and he had to be corrected by Cruikshank himself.
 
joen05 said:
That being said - it seems like BU IS providing that scholarship money but I'd like to see them maybe grab a portal guy or two? I'm concerned that Albie's results and lack of great player development are going to hurt the ability to get these guys in "free agency".
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I don't know who you guys have coming in for freshmen or what Quercia's scholarship was but I am definitely interested to see if any programs do take advantage of the extra scholarship opportunity. You can go over the 18 scholarship limit if you are doing so to accommodate your own 5th year players. But with the economic impact of the pandemic I wouldn't expect many (any?) schools to do this--not for hockey at least. I could certainly see Ohio State doing it for football, Kentucky for basketball etc...situations like that.
 
J.D. said:
I don't know who you guys have coming in for freshmen or what Quercia's scholarship was but I am definitely interested to see if any programs do take advantage of the extra scholarship opportunity. You can go over the 18 scholarship limit if you are doing so to accommodate your own 5th year players. But with the economic impact of the pandemic I wouldn't expect many (any?) schools to do this--not for hockey at least. I could certainly see Ohio State doing it for football, Kentucky for basketball etc...situations like that.
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Jeff Cox reported BC as the frontrunner. BU will definitely have scholarship/roster issues next year. As of right now, they have 19F, 10D, 3G in for next year. 3 more players than we had this year. Only four incoming freshmen have signed their NLI's, 3F and 1D. I believe Tristan Amonte has to come in next year because he will age out of junior hockey. Would not be surprised if they push Carrabes and Legault back. I like both of them, especially Carrabes because he's the top scorer on his team and will be a 4 year player. Would not be surprised if Legault goes somewhere else because do not see him wanting to play another year of juniors (even though he should). Players that played this year will have to earn playing next year. Not losing any forwards (to pro...so far), will probably be our deepest forward group in years. Kaufman will have trouble cracking the lineup IMO.

Incoming freshmen:
F: Boucher(signed), Greene(signed, 2022 draft elig), Wilmer(signed), Carrabes, Amonte
D: Schmidt(signed), Doyle(probably signed but cannot confirm), Legault
 
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I understand, it's only April, but I had some time on my hand to do get a look at next year. I just hope this team can be better than the last. I bet we'll see O'brien on wing this year after he played wing in the final game for some reason. Don't expect Jarman or stevens to really play this upcoming year. Albie has no excuse if this team cannot make a run.
 
hydrant said:
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I understand, it's only April, but I had some time on my hand to do get a look at next year. I just hope this team can be better than the last. I bet we'll see O'brien on wing this year after he played wing in the final game for some reason. Don't expect Jarman or stevens to really play this upcoming year. Albie has no excuse if this team cannot make a run.
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Agreed on Albie. He should have a good team with strong goaltending playing for him next season. I think that anything short of 25+ wins and a Frozen Four appearance will be a disappointment.

P.S. This is the poster f/k/a srsterrier. I never liked the previous username much and finally switched it. The new one is based on my first game at WBA. We showed up at the ticket window earlier that week with our sports passes, hoping to get good seats. The person at the window told us that they only had Sections 6 and 8 left. Not knowing that Section 8 was the student section or that most seats had a decent view anyway, we opted for Section 6 since it was closer to center ice … and just stayed there.
 
Section 6 said:
Agreed on Albie. He should have a good team with strong goaltending playing for him next season. I think that anything short of 25+ wins and a Frozen Four appearance will be a disappointment.

P.S. This is the poster f/k/a srsterrier. I never liked the previous username much and finally switched it. The new one is based on my first game at WBA. We showed up at the ticket window earlier that week with our sports passes, hoping to get good seats. The person at the window told us that they only had Sections 6 and 8 left. Not knowing that Section 8 was the student section or that most seats had a decent view anyway, we opted for Section 6 since it was closer to center ice … and just stayed there.
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Even though BU's forwards were not great last year, there is no excuse to why they shouldn't be. Our third/fourth lines should have a higher ceiling than ones in the past. The more successful BU teams in the past, and NCAA in general, have productive/effective fourth lines. In 18-19 and 19-20 it felt that we had rely on first and second line scoring and pray the third and fourth lines didn't let up a goal. Plus, you gotta hope players from this year improve to next season (not too many forwards under Albie have (from 2018-present), but many of them have left. Again, don't think all see there being six new spots for forward without other players potentially leaving. Lastly, saw Alaska is coming to Agganis for two games in the schedules thread.

OUT:
Wise
Deboer
Quercia
Witkowski

IN:
Brown (Transfer)
Phillips (INJ)
Ty Amonte (INJ)
Boucher
Jeremy Wilmer
Greene
Tristian Amonte
Carrabes
 
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Your formatting is scaring me. Is Wilmer Skoog leaving??? You have him listed under Out. Or at least that's what it looks like.

Or do we have an incoming student whose last name is Wilmer? That would be super weird.
 
Scarlet said:
Your formatting is scaring me. Is Wilmer Skoog leaving??? You have him listed under Out. Or at least that's what it looks like.

Or do we have an incoming student whose last name is Wilmer? That would be super weird.
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Yes lol. Jeremy Wilmer is an incoming freshman forward from the US program. Smaller than Dom Fensore. Sorry about that will edit.
 
Section 6 said:
Agreed on Albie. He should have a good team with strong goaltending playing for him next season. I think that anything short of 25+ wins and a Frozen Four appearance will be a disappointment.

P.S. This is the poster f/k/a srsterrier. I never liked the previous username much and finally switched it. The new one is based on my first game at WBA. We showed up at the ticket window earlier that week with our sports passes, hoping to get good seats. The person at the window told us that they only had Sections 6 and 8 left. Not knowing that Section 8 was the student section or that most seats had a decent view anyway, we opted for Section 6 since it was closer to center ice … and just stayed there.
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You must see the defense alot differently than I do. I think our D core is well below average.
 
Mike799 said:
You must see the defense alot differently than I do. I think our D core is well below average.
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I tend to agree on the D - I think they'll be serviceable but not high end. Goaltending is the only position that I think is plus-plus. Forwards - I just don't see much in the way of high end/high skill scoring threats. This team is going to have to grind out low-scoring wins. We'll see if they have enough grit to do it. I'd bet the under on 25 wins and a FF seems like a long shot.
 
Terrier86 said:
I tend to agree on the D - I think they'll be serviceable but not high end. Goaltending is the only position that I think is plus-plus. Forwards - I just don't see much in the way of high end/high skill scoring threats. This team is going to have to grind out low-scoring wins. We'll see if they have enough grit to do it. I'd bet the under on 25 wins and a FF seems like a long shot.
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That recipe worked for Umass didn’t it?
 
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