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Colgate and Starr's last season

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sshablak said:
There's always the Utica Comets, colskate. They're always soldout but occasionally I can come up with an extra ticket.
NCAA's in Albany next weekend also, what's that, about an hour from you ?
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Thanks for the tips shabby. Will let you know if this old body can make it that far, LOL. I should be able to pony up the $10 for the LP final. (Albany = 1.5 hrs.) (Have been mesmerized by the Flyers the last couple of nights; think they could make some noise in the SC playoffs. And I don't even like them!)
 
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Tylor Spink signed an ECHL contract with the Toledo Walleye. Saw Johnston play with St Johns Friday night, he skated very well.
 
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sshablak said:
Tylor Spink signed an ECHL contract with the Toledo Walleye. Saw Johnston play with St Johns Friday night, he skated very well.
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Tylor signed that last week. Played 2 games had 1g 2a & was loaned to the Toronto Marlies. Played 1 game for them & was released from his ATO after the game. Wether he’s back with Toledo I don’t know. It never showed up on the ECHL transaction page.
 
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Had three points in two games in the ECHL, gets called up to the AHL for one game, then released ? Something not right there.
 
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sshablak said:
Had three points in two games in the ECHL, gets called up to the AHL for one game, then released ? Something not right there.
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Nothing fishy at all to be honest. He played four games in four days between ECHL Toledo and AHL Toronto; two for Toledo (Thursday/Friday) and two for Toronto (Saturday/Sunday). In both cases, he was on an Amateur Try-Out (ATO) contract. These can last any length of time from one game to a week to several weeks depending on the needs of the team. Professional teams can only carry so many players under contract at one time. He signed his initial ATO with Toledo and then was released from it so he could sign an ATO with Toronto. In the case of the Marlies, the team was extremely short handed and needed healthy bodies for the final two games of a 3-in-3 weekend.
 
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Eastern college hockey is the place to be. Nine of the 16 teams in the tourney are eastern colleges - 3 ECAC and 5 HE. Help me out here though: why are most of the HE and all of the ECAC teams in the top half of the bracket? I know it's due to travel considerations and $$$. But is this any way to run a tournament? You don't see this in the roundball tourney, where regional eliminations are held all over the country and require travel by almost every team. Isn't it time for the hockey poo-bahs to mix things up so that more eastern teams travel west and vice versa? It would be nice to see a North Dakota or a Denver in Albany instead of the same old same old eastern teams.
 
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with Notre Dame apparently going to the BIG TEN, anyone concerned about QU leaving for Hockey East? I don't know if QU would be looking into it, as the ECAC actually is in a really good place right now, but it brings everything up again.
 
red133883 said:
with Notre Dame apparently going to the BIG TEN, anyone concerned about QU leaving for Hockey East? I don't know if QU would be looking into it, as the ECAC actually is in a really good place right now, but it brings everything up again.
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I think they will be hockey east first choice but they stay put in ECAC. We have a great league how it is.
 
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The move hasn't done Vermont or Coach Sneddon any good as far as I can tell. After all this time, I cannot believe UVM and their fans are satisfied. For Quinnipiac, they appear to be becoming a big fish in a little pond, and I am not a fan. Their success would likely change if they changed conferences but so would their exposure.
 
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ColSkate65 said:
Eastern college hockey is the place to be. Nine of the 16 teams in the tourney are eastern colleges - 3 ECAC and 5 HE. Help me out here though: why are most of the HE and all of the ECAC teams in the top half of the bracket? I know it's due to travel considerations and $$$. But is this any way to run a tournament? You don't see this in the roundball tourney, where regional eliminations are held all over the country and require travel by almost every team. Isn't it time for the hockey poo-bahs to mix things up so that more eastern teams travel west and vice versa? It would be nice to see a North Dakota or a Denver in Albany instead of the same old same old eastern teams.
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All about the $$$ and attendance. I am with you in the fact that I really enjoy seeing the western teams come here but outside of NoDak fans much don't travel to the Regionals. 3 years ago in Manchester there were only a couple hundred Denver and Wisco fans if I had to guess. In 2012, I think I could have counted on both hands how many Duluth fans were in Worcester, expect similar results this year.
 
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ColSkate65 said:
Eastern college hockey is the place to be. Nine of the 16 teams in the tourney are eastern colleges - 3 ECAC and 5 HE. Help me out here though: why are most of the HE and all of the ECAC teams in the top half of the bracket? I know it's due to travel considerations and $$$. But is this any way to run a tournament? You don't see this in the roundball tourney, where regional eliminations are held all over the country and require travel by almost every team. Isn't it time for the hockey poo-bahs to mix things up so that more eastern teams travel west and vice versa? It would be nice to see a North Dakota or a Denver in Albany instead of the same old same old eastern teams.
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They're trying to avoid the all-WCHA Frozen Four (or non-union Mexican equivalent) that we saw in 2005 in (I'm told) Columbus (not Boston). Denver won its second title in a row that year. At that point, the Frozen Four was just a repeat of the Final Five WCHA tournament held a few weeks earlier. The only difference at that point was that DU slapped around UND in the national championship game instead of in the WCHA semi-finals, and reverse that order for CC getting beat.
 
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GR or anyone, with ten recruits coming in next year, I guess we're done recruiting for 16-17 ? I haven't seen a new recruit in over two months now.
 
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red133883 said:
with Notre Dame apparently going to the BIG TEN, anyone concerned about QU leaving for Hockey East? I don't know if QU would be looking into it, as the ECAC actually is in a really good place right now, but it brings everything up again.
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Concerned? I'm all for them jumping to HE; think it would be a great idea. They need to graduate to a "better" league ;) BC, BU and Northeastern are more their speed. We could then draft an AHA team, like RIT or Army to join us. Let's shuffle the deck and bring in some new blood. Kind of bored with QU hanging around :)
 
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Army fled our league and is faring just as poorly in the AHA! RIT reminds me a lot of RPI; larger school (like Qpac) and hockey is its only D-I sport (w/ Clarkson, SLU, Union). Why is it the Patriot League and ECAC get all of these non-football and affiliate members for heaven's sake!
 
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ColSkate65 said:
We could then draft an AHA team, like RIT or Army to join us
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TchrBill said:
Army fled our league and is faring just as poorly in the AHA! RIT reminds me a lot of RPI; larger school (like Qpac) and hockey is its only D-I sport (w/ Clarkson, SLU, Union).
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Off topic but WHY do posters keep abbreviating Atlantic Hockey as "AHA"? There's only one "A" in Atlantic Hockey!
 
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Rainman said:
Off topic but WHY do posters keep abbreviating Atlantic Hockey as "AHA"? There's only one "A" in Atlantic Hockey!
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I believe USCHO and CHN do it that way, right? Besides there are two "A"s in Atlantic. :)
 
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Rainman said:
Off topic but WHY do posters keep abbreviating Atlantic Hockey as "AHA"? There's only one "A" in Atlantic Hockey!
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When they were first created (after splitting from the "old" Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) they were name the Atlantic Hockey Association (AHA). I think they since changed it to Atlantic Hockey Conference, but posters haven't got the memo yet.
 
ColSkate65 said:
Concerned? I'm all for them jumping to HE; think it would be a great idea. They need to graduate to a "better" league ;) BC, BU and Northeastern are more their speed. We could then draft an AHA team, like RIT or Army to join us. Let's shuffle the deck and bring in some new blood. Kind of bored with QU hanging around :)
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Have to disagree. The more strong programs in our league the better. I hope QU stays in the ECAC but I can see them in HE.
 
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