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Harvard Crimson 2016-2017

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Maybe he should see if he can compete at the college level first. Cape cod whalers. Right on😂
 
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I don't know how else you'd mention it? Outside of counting down instead, saying two or three or four is the natural progression. This is a kid who turned down the USHL to be with his brother, I highly doubt he's going to leave Cambridge too soon unless someone offers him a starting NHL role.

Al, that's exactly my point. He sacrificed a lot to be with his brother and help out his parents. No question that commitment says a lot about him and that's why i was taken aback at how non committal he was towards the Harvard program. Again, it's his choice.
 
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Jace Foskey commits to Harvard. Defenseman out of Tri City of the USHL. Expected to come in 2018 alongside Bode Wilde and Jack Rathbone
 
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Jace Foskey commits to Harvard. Defenseman out of Tri City of the USHL. Expected to come in 2018 alongside Bode Wilde and Jack Rathbone

On the very down side for us.........it appears Kyle Hayton, our second team All American goalie is leaving SLU for Wisconsin. Leaving in his senior year. Still a lot of unknowns like will he finish his degree and transfer as a grad student or have to sit out a year. Either way it is a huge blow for us at SLU to lose a goalie of his caliber.
 
On the very down side for us.........it appears Kyle Hayton, our second team All American goalie is leaving SLU for Wisconsin. Leaving in his senior year. Still a lot of unknowns like will he finish his degree and transfer as a grad student or have to sit out a year. Either way it is a huge blow for us at SLU to lose a goalie of his caliber.

Why? Is this an indictment of the new coach? Not like the Badgers are a shoe in next year.
 
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Why? Is this an indictment of the new coach? Not like the Badgers are a shoe in next year.
The "why" is the $64,000 question!!! We've heard nothing for certain other than rumors. So if you are into listening the rumors they run the gamut from not liking the coach, the coach being aloof, coach not being "present". Morris sort of had/has a reputation of not having very much patience with goalies. Also heard a story that Kyle was injured and healing (or sick)....went to the coach before the game and asked to sit out..........coach ignored it and he got lit up like a Christmas tree.
Lot of scuttlebutt floating around but it's all that. We are also hearing he is overhauling the team and has told some players they are not welcome back. Sounds like a huge personality conflict to me and things are going to get way worse before they get better. It's Morris team now......he can do what he wants........but dollars to donuts Joe Marsh or even Greg Carvel would never pull off the stuff we "hear" is going on. Again........mostly rumors at this point except Haytons leaving is way past the rumor stage. It's happening.
 
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Nice article on Ryan Donato who is in the Bruins Development Camp along with Wiley Sherman. Found it interesting when the author of the article brought up how many development camps Ryan would go through before joining the Bruins if he stays four years at Harvard. Ryan didn't seem all that pleased with the number. Makes me think he'll be gone after next season.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/b...hl/xWIGc6FGBukl7mSNqQeuWN/story.html#comments
 
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Jace Foskey commits to Harvard. Defenseman out of Tri City of the USHL. Expected to come in 2018 alongside Bode Wilde and Jack Rathbone

You can never have enough D. Especially D-men who can skate and move the puck. A la Nashville.
 
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The "why" is the $64,000 question!!! We've heard nothing for certain other than rumors. So if you are into listening the rumors they run the gamut from not liking the coach, the coach being aloof, coach not being "present". Morris sort of had/has a reputation of not having very much patience with goalies. Also heard a story that Kyle was injured and healing (or sick)....went to the coach before the game and asked to sit out..........coach ignored it and he got lit up like a Christmas tree.
Lot of scuttlebutt floating around but it's all that. We are also hearing he is overhauling the team and has told some players they are not welcome back. Sounds like a huge personality conflict to me and things are going to get way worse before they get better. It's Morris team now......he can do what he wants........but dollars to donuts Joe Marsh or even Greg Carvel would never pull off the stuff we "hear" is going on. Again........mostly rumors at this point except Haytons leaving is way past the rumor stage. It's happening.

Hayton is terrific and there's no question that's a blow to the program. The players can't feel too good about it.

On Morris. Didn't he have some kind of run in with a player while he was at Clarkson? I recall reading something about his getting physical with a player that led to the player's dad confronting Morris and that it eventually led to him leaving Clarkson? Again, I'm not certain about this but given what you have described here, it seems to be in keeping with his modus operandi. Too bad.
 
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Nice article on Ryan Donato who is in the Bruins Development Camp along with Wiley Sherman. Found it interesting when the author of the article brought up how many development camps Ryan would go through before joining the Bruins if he stays four years at Harvard. Ryan didn't seem all that pleased with the number. Makes me think he'll be gone after next season.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/b...hl/xWIGc6FGBukl7mSNqQeuWN/story.html#comments

If his sophmore to junior trajectory is the same as his frosh to sophomore trajectory, he is definitely gone. I think we should expect it. I may have blinders on, but he has to be the likely front-runner for ECAC POY
 
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A well written piece on the whole situation by Adam Wodon:

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2003/08/06_morris.php

I came away with more questions than answers from this piece. Yes it was well written but the writer seemed to backtrack every time he put Morris under the microscope. And there is no doubt he has a problem handling goalies which plays into the Hayton situation. If I were SLU, I would be more concerned about the "issues" mentioned in the article. Morris can't afford to 'lose the room' this early in his tenure and he seems to be headed in that direction with the loss of Hayton.
 
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If his sophmore to junior trajectory is the same as his frosh to sophomore trajectory, he is definitely gone. I think we should expect it. I may have blinders on, but he has to be the likely front-runner for ECAC POY

Agree. Would hate to see him leave. This can't be easy for Teddy but after speaking with him at the alumni event after graduation, I got the sense he understood what's coming and he accepts it. Goes with the territory of being a D-1 coach.
 
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I came away with more questions than answers from this piece. Yes it was well written but the writer seemed to backtrack every time he put Morris under the microscope. And there is no doubt he has a problem handling goalies which plays into the Hayton situation. If I were SLU, I would be more concerned about the "issues" mentioned in the article. Morris can't afford to 'lose the room' this early in his tenure and he seems to be headed in that direction with the loss of Hayton.

Although I do not know the man at all (Morris) everyone I talk with seems to have a positive opinion of him "off the ice." However, for the last two years on all our threads (most SLU fans are now using Facebook "Saint Lawrence Hockey Fans.") there has been a wide divergence of opinion on his hiring. in fact there are SLU loyalists who used to post here on USCHO who have flat out given up posting and do not even follow the team with the vigor they used to, if at all. There were SLU Loyalists who were incensed over his hiring and rumors are the AD and the "search committee" were a sham.... and Morris was Durocher's guy right from the start. (Story is the players all wanted a young ECHL coach who interviewed) But that's all old news.

I don't want to be unfair.........but it seems people are in one of two camps: Love him or hate him. It also seems a true statement that he has a past record of not necessarily being a "goalies" coach. We've yet to learn any concrete specifics as to why Hayton left..........but I can tell you this. The kid loved Saint Lawrence. Something went awry and I hope we do at some point find out why. Rumors are just that .......but there are more and more rumors I am hearing from alums that indicate all is not well in Canton. Again.......I hope that is false and only time playing out will tell if this is a one off (which I dearly hope) or the tip of the iceberg.
 
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