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LSSU Hockey 2012-2013

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Lakerchum said:
If Jean left 2 yrs of school on the table for the ECHL/AHL me thinks he's not thinking things thru and is getting some bad info from someone. Where's Red Berenson when you need him....
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Who knows, perhaps the schooling aspect wasn't all that important to him but hopefully he was aware that an ECHL career will not exactly set you up for life.
 
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If I was adv ising Jean, I'd make sure that he has at least a commitment to play in the AHL or, preferably, a two-way contract. I would ask the Rangers to completely take the ECHL off the
table. Getting another year towards a degree at Lake State trumps the ECHL any wayyou look at it!!!
 
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Did anyone have a chance to make it to the '92 Alumni Game last night, or watch it online? We could only be there for about 20 min. of it, due to the boys having baseball. It brought back some good memories seeing guys like Astley, Moger, Valicevic, Kurt Miller, and Willner on the ice. Nice to see Jackson back behind a Laker bench, and Pooley was there, too. Looks like they were playing against another Laker team. Saw Adam Dunn, Nate Ward, and Dan Eaves for the 'blue' team. Madeley wasn't in net, but ran into him as we were leaving. Still a nice guy, and glad to see this team being honored.

Does anyone have any memories of this team or game they'd like to share? For me, I was enrolled at LSSU for the next year (92-93) but was at home watching the game, and couldn't beleive the school I chose was playing for a National Championship.
 
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I was just checking the heisenberg site and saw that we have a new recruit for the 2013 season his name is Mitch Nardi and he played in the BCHL last season. That must have been the kid we just had here on a visit. Nice to get a kid out of that league.
 
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lakers1 said:
I was just checking the heisenberg site and saw that we have a new recruit for the 2013 season his name is Mitch Nardi and he played in the BCHL last season. That must have been the kid we just had here on a visit. Nice to get a kid out of that league.
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He's listed as being from Hamilton ON so one of our current players may know him and have told the coaches about him. He played for Burlington in the OJHL two seasons ago prior to playing for Coquitlam in the BCHL this past season. We normally don't recruit the BCHL, which further makes me wonder if a current player or other person with an LSSU connection clued us in to him. Then again, maybe enough (gift) money has been coming in to the program to allow us the luxury of trying to establish a recruiting presence there and/or maybe the coaches decided it was something we finally needed to do since the BCHL is regarded as the top Canadian Junior A league. Heisenberg is identifying him as a 2014 recruit and he seems to have pretty good sources. Maybe there will be more info at the BCHL site in the next few days to confirm the time frame.

http://www.coquitlamexpress.ca/leag...&leagueID=12575&teamID=339735&playerID=822645
 
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RealLaker94 said:
Did anyone have a chance to make it to the '92 Alumni Game last night, or watch it online? We could only be there for about 20 min. of it, due to the boys having baseball. It brought back some good memories seeing guys like Astley, Moger, Valicevic, Kurt Miller, and Willner on the ice. Nice to see Jackson back behind a Laker bench, and Pooley was there, too. Looks like they were playing against another Laker team. Saw Adam Dunn, Nate Ward, and Dan Eaves for the 'blue' team. Madeley wasn't in net, but ran into him as we were leaving. Still a nice guy, and glad to see this team being honored.

Does anyone have any memories of this team or game they'd like to share? For me, I was enrolled at LSSU for the next year (92-93) but was at home watching the game, and couldn't beleive the school I chose was playing for a National Championship.
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Road trip non-stop from the Soo to Albany. Five guys. One two-door car. An arena 85% RED, with a sliver of Blue and Gold in the corner. Amazing atmosphere -- before football and basketball killed UW's fan passion. I recall the afterparty the hotel was running out of beer, and they had to roll out St. Patty's green beer from left-over kegs.

What an amazing run -- destroyed three large Big Ten schools to take the Title.

Marched through the streets of Albany after the game, flag waiving proudly. (Remember when Laker fan sections were a sea of Blue anchor flags?).

LONG painful drive back to the Soo the next day.

The ultimate college road-trip.
 
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Great story!!!! Sounds similar to our trip to St. Paul two years later, but at least we had a van. Not tickets, just bought them from Harvard fans (and their coach) as they were checking out of the hotel. I'm glad you were able to experience that. Not too many students get to witness their school winning a National Championship, and be able to party with the team afterward!
 
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We thought it would never end. 93 in Milwaukee -- another road trip, but with depressing results (in retrospect, of course, history shows that the 1993 Maine team was a monster and I have felt much better knowing that we were a Tellaire-goalpost away from taking that game to OT). 94, another god trip, although post-school the gathering of friends was more interesting as we came in from many different cities. Just thinking about the crazy beer-soaked 1992 road trip makes me excited for the upcoming Laker season, and reminds me of how wonderful and unique LSSU is in the world of colleges, and college sports. . . . . I just remember all the flags in the LSSU sections. I am glad to see the program pumping life back into itself with money and greater outreach.
 
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Lakerblue said:
We thought it would never end. 93 in Milwaukee -- another road trip, but with depressing results (in retrospect, of course, history shows that the 1993 Maine team was a monster and I have felt much better knowing that we were a Tellaire-goalpost away from taking that game to OT). 94, another god trip, although post-school the gathering of friends was more interesting as we came in from many different cities. Just thinking about the crazy beer-soaked 1992 road trip makes me excited for the upcoming Laker season, and reminds me of how wonderful and unique LSSU is in the world of colleges, and college sports. . . . . I just remember all the flags in the LSSU sections. I am glad to see the program pumping life back into itself with money and greater outreach.
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Actually it was not a goalpost by Sean Talllaire. It was in the net off the back cross bar. In and out so fast refs did not see it. I still have the ESPN tape of the game. If you watch it frame by frame you see Sean wait patiently as the D-man passes in front of him and then shoot.......... the puck approaches the crossbar and it disappears for 3-4 frames and then reappears. Where was it for those frames? It was definitely a goal and Sean Tallaire swears it was. Unfortunately, that was before the days of the overhead cameras. Would have tied the game with 40 seconds or so left. Doesn't mean we would have won but it would have been an interesting finish.
 
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MeridianStreet said:
Actually it was not a goalpost by Sean Talllaire. It was in the net off the back cross bar. In and out so fast refs did not see it. I still have the ESPN tape of the game. If you watch it frame by frame you see Sean wait patiently as the D-man passes in front of him and then shoot.......... the puck approaches the crossbar and it disappears for 3-4 frames and then reappears. Where was it for those frames? It was definitely a goal and Sean Tallaire swears it was. Unfortunately, that was before the days of the overhead cameras. Would have tied the game with 40 seconds or so left. Doesn't mean we would have won but it would have been an interesting finish.
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100% correct. From my seats in Milwaukee about 9,000 rows from the ice, it looked like a cross-bar, and it broke my heart. I now recall the replays which show it clearly in the net. Ah, what can you do, the refs were biased toward Maine! :)

Since you haev the game, or have viewed it recently, can you tell me when Maine switched goalies? It was Dunham, and they pulled him for Snow (I think, maybe, as I recall), and Snow was put in net because he was better at playing the puck. The Lakers were keeping Maine from getting their attack really moving because LSSU was getting good deep dump-ins, and forechecking like crazy. When Snow came into the net (or was it Dunham . . . ?) he was a good puck-playing goalie, and he was getting to the pucks in the corner and getting them out before LSSU could establish the forecheck. After that, Kariya and Company were able to hit Center Ice flying, and the Lakers were on their back foot the rest of the game . . .

UNTIL SEAN TALLAIRE TIED THE GAME.

Oh well . . . still hurts, now that I think about it.
 
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Lakerblue said:
100% correct. From my seats in Milwaukee about 9,000 rows from the ice, it looked like a cross-bar, and it broke my heart. I now recall the replays which show it clearly in the net. Ah, what can you do, the refs were biased toward Maine! :)

Since you haev the game, or have viewed it recently, can you tell me when Maine switched goalies? It was Dunham, and they pulled him for Snow (I think, maybe, as I recall), and Snow was put in net because he was better at playing the puck. The Lakers were keeping Maine from getting their attack really moving because LSSU was getting good deep dump-ins, and forechecking like crazy. When Snow came into the net (or was it Dunham . . . ?) he was a good puck-playing goalie, and he was getting to the pucks in the corner and getting them out before LSSU could establish the forecheck. After that, Kariya and Company were able to hit Center Ice flying, and the Lakers were on their back foot the rest of the game . . .

UNTIL SEAN TALLAIRE TIED THE GAME.

Oh well . . . still hurts, now that I think about it.
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I believe they put Snow in net at the start of the 3rd period.
 
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Truth Squad said:
I hope you people up there remember the hall of fame coach that built your college into a National Powerhouse, winning over 200 games, winning and responsible for 3 NCAA Championships, NCAA Coach Of The Year, CCHA Titles, All-American players and putting your little town on the map. That man is Frank Anzalone, who was on his way to turning around the program once again before he was unceremoniously replaced by a few infuential and ambitious people up there.

The Truth Is Out There
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Where is Frank coaching now? I didn't see where he landed after he was let go by the Quad City Ducks.
 
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Lakers2Glory said:
http://blog.masslive.com/umass-hock...e_a_risk_in_umass_hockey_coaching_search.html

MASSLive.com (similar to MLive) has a blog on UMass Hockey. There is an excerpt on how "out of touch" the UMass Administration is for even interviewing Frank Anzalone, who is "past his prime" and "hasn't stayed in one place for more than 4 years in this millennium". Im guessing that means he hasn't landed anywhere at this point.
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Somewhat bored. Was casually interested in Frank's departure story. Found this. Gasoline to fire? Probaably not -- nothing new here.


http://cdm9006.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p9006coll4/id/101081/rec/21
 
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DopeyBaker said:
Where is Frank coaching now? I didn't see where he landed after he was let go by the Quad City Ducks.
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Obviously he's such a great coach that he can't be bothered when NHL teams like the Sharks, Ducks, Capitals, and so forth ring him up inquiring to their vacancies. He must politely turn them away each time, insisting that he be able to work at molding future NHL superstars by coaching low level minor pro teams in cities that the state DOT even refuse to acknowledge on highway distance signs.
 
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