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LSSU Hockey 2012-2013

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So the boys are on the ice and getting ready. A few weeks until Ryerson comes in, and we get to knock the rust off. But its still almost a month (well, a little under a month) until the Tech series. Really looking forward to this season. If the goaltending holds up, and the young d-corps can gel quickly, and if we can get some opportunistic scoring, we can put something together.
 
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Truth Squad said:
1988 NCAA Coach of the Year, 1988 NCAA Champion, 1988 CCHA Coach of the Year, 1992 NCAA Champion with his players, 1993 New Jersey Coach of the Year 1999 Roanoke Valley Hockey Hall of Fame Inducee, 2000 Palmetto Cup Champions, 2001 LSSU Athletic HALL OF FAME Inductee.

Frank Anzalone, a Brooklyn, New York, native has been building and guiding successful teams at the professional, collegiate, junior and high school levels since 1980.

Anzalone is currently a lead scout with the Calgary Flames. He also was head coach of the Quad City Mallards for two season, before being recurited by the Flames. He was the Development Coach and college and professional scout in the Lightning organization. Prior to that, he spent the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons piloting the Johnstown Chiefs, then the Lightning's ECHL affiliate, to back-to-back playoff appearances. Anzalone had previously coached prospects in the Islanders, Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks, Calgary Flames and Ottawa Senators organizations.

In all, Anzalone has directed his teams to nine postseason berths over 12 seasons as a professional coach with the ECHL's Chiefs, Pee Dee Pride, Roanoke Express and Nashville Knights and the American Hockey League's Newmarket Saints and Lowell Lock Monsters. Anzalone has earned numerous accolades for his professional coaching work. Under his tutelage Roanoke made five consecutive ECHL Kelly Cup playoff appearances and he was later inducted into the Roanoke Valley Hockey Hall of Fame. Anzalone served as ECHL Southern Conference All-Star Coach in 2000 and his Pee Dee team won the 2000 Palmetto Cup as the top ECHL team in South Carolina. In the AHL, Anzalone's Lowell squad won the Atlantic Division title in its first year of existence.

Anzalone has also known great success in college hockey. He twice served as head coach at Lake Superior State University, spending a total of a dozen seasons behind the Lakers' bench and directing LSSU to the 1988 NCAA title. Anzalone won more games than any other coach in Lake Superior State history, going 232-225-59 as Laker boss. He was named both the NCAA and Central Collegiate Hockey Association Coach of the Year in 1987-88 and is a member of the Lake Superior State Athletic Hall of Fame. Long time NHL great Doug Weight is the most prominent among a host of players tutored by Anzalone at Lake State who went on to successful pro careers, crediting his success among other star players, to the mentorship of Frank Anzalone.

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Lead Scout for the Flames? Here is the Calgary Scouting Staff Page. Wouldn't a "lead scout" have his picture on there somewhere? His name maybe? The Palmetto Cup??? Gee he won a season series against a couple AA level rivals, a trophy for the best record in games among THREE TEAMS...woo hoo, next to the Stanley Cup, it doesn't get much better! Of course he got fired at Lowell, Newmarket, Nashville, Roanoke, PeeDee, & Johnstown. He didn't leave the Quad Cities when he was "recruited" by Calgary. The team announced they were going to fold. When they did find new owners, he wasn't invited back. His last five pro season have him right at .500, impressive. His last four college season yielded a total average of 8 wins a season and a major lawsuit. The last time he was a real winner was 99-00, THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, and in none of the nine seasons he coached, was he more than 4 games over .500. Make room in Toronto and Eveleth!!!

The TRUTH is right there...
 
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Lakers2Glory said:
Thats alot of ifs, but I hope you are right. They don't even need to gel right away, they need to be at full steam ahead mode come tourney time. That has been their downfall the last few years. They either peak too early or not at all.
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Absolutely. Lots of hope. Big turnover on the blue-line -- but an experienced goalie. Big turnover up front -- at least on the scorer's list. I am hoping to see perhaps a program-wide improvement continue this season. The last few years the team has slowly improved. Maybe the records don't show it. But if I am honest with myself, I see laker fans angry we didn't beat WMU in K'zoo last Spring. A year earlier, we were happy to beat OSU in the first round at home. I see a more interesting team on the ice. I see better passing. I see a more interesting offensive attack. I see better scoring chances for us -- and fewer scoring chances against us. I see good goaltending that, perhaps with experience and maturity and conditioning can be great goaltending. I see a responsible team off the ice. I see a stronger team on the ice. I see better skaters the past two years. i don't see a 3-4 line filled with glorified D-III kids. I see the program building on that foundation with some solid recruits and some great leadership.

So yes -- lots of hope. More hope than hype. Lots of questions. But perhaps there is a good foundation from the past few years.
 
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Nice testimonial RapidsCity to your bitty buddy, Crazy Frank!!!!! Are you on the payroll? My impression is that Frank has established a reputation for passing through the drive-through of coaching & scouting hockey, oftentimes blowing up the bridges after passing over them. Yes, along the way he had some success, like at Lake State, but he also has earned a reputation of being a callous, abusive,
and aloof guy with a definite Napoleon complex. It's nice to have him in our rear view mirror!!!
 
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2glory, The revised schedule that gets it done in a single phase, still done by first WCHA game, which was the revised target.

Things change along the way. Adding on to a bldg is more complex than building new from the ground up.
Having had so little construction on the campus it can be hard to understand the complexities of a big project.
The revisions are all designed to get it right vs right now.
PS
The Norris Center is a busy bldg with many other departments besides athletics impacted by construction. Temporary moves, parking, classes and athletic and other commitments make the process a bit like herding cats. Even in the summer months there are many considerations. We will lock up a big part of the parking lot for construction staging, areas will be inaccessible. All of the headaches with a major home Reno x1000. SO..spending time on a schedule that works for most and a process that is sequential yet budget friendly is a major part of the project. I don't recommend it as a side job. Always interesting though : ) Sometimes at a crawl, sometimes with a couple steps back to revisit an issue, and even occasionally at a decent pace..ya just keep plugging away.
Then there are contracts, revisions of contracts, a touch of about four levels of bureaucracy, funds management, "other" issues, risk management, insurance, materials, all while keeping an eye on the budget. Does your hair hurt yet ?The devil is in the details, haste makes waste and any other clichés you want to add. So our apologies if we don't measure up to idle speculation as to where we should be at a given point in time.. In comparison Mr Coates summarized things well, wouldn't you say?
 
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3dognight said:
The revised schedule that gets it done in a single phase, still done by first WCHA game, which was the revised target.

Things change along the way. Adding on to a bldg is more complex than building new from the ground up.
Having had so little construction on the campus it can be hard to understand the complexities of a big project.
The revisions are all designed to get it right vs right now.
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Thanks for the update, 3dognight.
 
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DopeyBaker said:
Anzalone:
01-02: 8-27-2 (.243)
02-03: 6-28-4 (.211)
03-04: 9-20-7 (.347)
04-05: 9-22-7 (.329)
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Franks worse enemy has always been himself, but in all honesty,Frank took over a team in his second go around that was not going to win at the Division 1 level. That doesn't mean had he had a better team the results would have been different being the fact that Frank can be his own downfall .
 
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It doesn't matter. Helicopter Daddy will continue to apologize for a well past-his-prime coach that hasn't been successful for over 20 years, all because he just happened to bring in his D-III talent level son.

And then delete his post less than 24 hours later, because he is unwilling to stand behind what he wrote.

Maybe I should apply for that Admin job posted here, because I could make this whole fiasco go away very quickly...
 
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FRICKER said:
Nice testimonial RapidsCity to your bitty buddy, Crazy Frank!!!!! Are you on the payroll? My impression is that Frank has established a reputation for passing through the drive-through of coaching & scouting hockey, oftentimes blowing up the bridges after passing over them. Yes, along the way he had some success, like at Lake State, but he also has earned a reputation of being a callous, abusive,
and aloof guy with a definite Napoleon complex. It's nice to have him in our rear view mirror!!!
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I'm thinking the post was loaded with sarcasm. Do you really think someone is being lauded for winning the Palmetto Cup?
 
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So, has anyone been out to the captain's practices yet? If so, how do the guys look?
 
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Hammer said:
Will this post get deleted, too?

Your son is in his mid-20s. It's time to move on with life.
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Deleted! Remember...don't drink and post. I causes you to expel large amounts of vitriol upon knowledgeable hockey fans who don't consider 4th liners "star players."
 
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Truth Serum said:
If maintining the status quo for 8 years with finishes in the bottom half of the standings, 0 NCAA appearances, crowds less and less every season, league suspensions, and players and parents being ridiculed all in defense of an agenda well then I think your definition of knowlegable up there is a bit off in youperland.
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It's YOOPERLAND. And knowledgeable hockey fans know that averaging 15 wins per year is nearly twice as many as the 8 averaged during the previous coaches tenure. You poor triple personality troll. How long before you or your alter ego deletes the latest drivel you honor us with.
 
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Truth Serum said:
You only talk about the second tenure of Frank Anzalone, one where he inherited a decimated team that would have taken 5 to 6 years to rebuild.
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So it WAS Bill Selmon that brought the 1st NCAA championship to the SOO and was resposible for the next 2!
 
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It is amazing what my biggest fan Truth Squad/Serum is doing for reviving my great name. However, he's forgetting some of my greatest accomplishments. Including leading my 26 ships to a Dutch victory over Spain in the Battle of Gibraltar and single handily fashioning the air filter than saved the Apollo 13 astronauts.
 
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