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Scott_TG said:
Princeton HC Jeff Kampersal named HC at Penn State per release from the school.

Princeton University is now on the clock I guess...
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Wow. Great opportunity to try something new and get paid handsomely for it. He's not quite as female as I had guessed but at least he's very experienced in the women's game. I would also consider him to be a successful coach so a pretty good pick by Penn State although I do still feel bad for Dean Jackson.

On another coaching note, won't Dartmouth need an interim head coach next year now that Laura Schuler has been named the coach for Team Canada for the 2018 Olympics?
 
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dd17 said:
Wow. Excellent coach. More resources for him now should produce a consistent contender.
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I don't know about excellent, but certainly very competent (had a good team last couple of years as a result of some under-recruited players he got proving out stronger than anticipated which is a credit to him). More importantly for Penn State after the Brandwene fiasco, he has impeccable ethics and credentials and a strong reputation for treating his players well (I've heard "stand up guy" applied to him a lot). This is clearly a result of his connection with the current Penn State men's coach Guy Gadowsky, who came to PS from Princeton as well. Their offices were a floor apart at Baker Rink and they were good friends by accounts I have heard. Will concede that this relieves the potentially bad appearance of the Dean Jackson situation.

Pretty shocked he left Princeton after being a player there and then the women's head coach for 21 years. Figured he was a lifer.
 
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HockeyEast33 said:
More importantly for Penn State after the Brandwene fiasco, he has impeccable ethics and credentials and a strong reputation for treating his players well (I've heard "stand up guy" applied to him a lot).
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That's exactly what Penn State needed. Best of luck to Dean Jackson at Cornell, but I'll take the experience of Jeff Kampersal any day.
 
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ZedLeppelin said:
That's exactly what Penn State needed. Best of luck to Dean Jackson at Cornell, but I'll take the experience of Jeff Kampersal any day.
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Game changer for Penn State. As someone said, great guy, impeccable ethics, excellent coach.
Maybe Princeton promotes Cara Morey.
 
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vicb said:
One of them has :) .
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Who? Halldorson was before Kampersal and no one in the last 10 years.....who am I forgetting?

Edit: Wait, I got it - Maci - duh. I was talking flourishing as a head coach but you are correct, he leveraged his one season at Princeton into a lateral move to Potsdam and a national championship.
 
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shelfit said:
On another coaching note, won't Dartmouth need an interim head coach next year now that Laura Schuler has been named the coach for Team Canada for the 2018 Olympics?
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Dartmouth had advertised for an "Interim Assistant Women’s Ice Hockey Coach" that was for 2017-18 only.
It is my understanding Chris Cobb will be the acting HC next year.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Very strange news: RPI has fired their women's ice hockey coach, John Burke. Announcement made on a Saturday, three months after season ends</p>— Sam Blum (@SamBlum3) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamBlum3/status/878673274502344704">June 24, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Ralph Baer said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Very strange news: RPI has fired their women's ice hockey coach, John Burke. Announcement made on a Saturday, three months after season ends</p>— Sam Blum (@SamBlum3) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamBlum3/status/878673274502344704">June 24, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Why is this strange news? Timing maybe, but PSU only recently filled their post.
 
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