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LSSU Lakers 2014 off-season thread (part 2)

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Laker Dude said:
It will be here before we know it now. The time between the 4th and October always seems to go by quickly.
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Yes it will, but hopefully not too quickly after the loooooong brutal winter we had. I have a feeling it's going to be another bad one.

Any Laker fans here been to Robert Morris before? I'm thinking about making the trip down there with a friend for the first time in October. What's the best hotels and restaurants in the area? Where's the best place to sit in the arena?
 
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LSSULaker889294 said:
Yes it will, but hopefully not too quickly after the loooooong brutal winter we had. I have a feeling it's going to be another bad one.

Any Laker fans here been to Robert Morris before? I'm thinking about making the trip down there with a friend for the first time in October. What's the best hotels and restaurants in the area? Where's the best place to sit in the arena?
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I've been to Pittsburgh and to the Consol Energy Center, but not to the arena where Robert Morris plays. Robert Morris is on the West side of Pittsburgh fairly close to the airport so there should be a lot of hotel choices in that area. Their arena is not too far from campus, on an island in the Ohio River (7600 Grand Ave, Pittsburgh, if you want to Google Map it).
 
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LSSULaker889294 said:
Yes it will, but hopefully not too quickly after the loooooong brutal winter we had. I have a feeling it's going to be another bad one.

Any Laker fans here been to Robert Morris before? I'm thinking about making the trip down there with a friend for the first time in October. What's the best hotels and restaurants in the area? Where's the best place to sit in the arena?
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When the Lakers played there a few years ago, we stayed by the airport. There is only about 700 seats along one side of the ice, so you wont have much choice in seating. The benches are across the ice from the seating.

Primanti Brothers is one popular restaurant/bar in the Pittsburgh area.
 
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I saw Alex Globke's name on the rosters for both the Red Wings and Bruins summer development camps. Anyone know of any other Lakers attending NHL summer camps? (The published rosters aren't always very complete.)
 
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Zach Loesch is at the Capitals Summer Development Camp.
 
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I spoke with someone at the ticket office and she said that season tickets are on sale now. They are $162 which unfortunately probably means with the lower price is that there will be only 14 homes games this season.
 
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I just bought the season tickets and there is indeed only 14 home games. :( I'm not sure why there hasn't been a press release yet on the schedule or about season tickets being on sale.
 
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Home game breakdown:

October - 4 games
November - 4 games
December - 0 games
January - 2 games
February - 2 games
March - 2 games

The biggest schedule drawback is probably the 7-week break of no home games between November 29 and January 16.
 
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This is the worst home schedule in a long time, maybe ever. Hopefully in the 2015-16 season, we can get at least two non-conference series at home as well as a home exhibition game.
 
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CKrouth said:
Unfortunately, neither do I. Such is life in the hockey fast lane.
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It seems like I heard on one of the hockey shows, or it may have been during one of the games, that Globke still needed to work on becoming a stronger skater. If so, that could keep him around at least a couple of more years. He had the benefit of playing this last season on a line with Radke and Campbell. This coming season will give us a good idea of just how good he is since he won't have that luxury anymore. It will be interesting to see what kind of line combinations Damon comes up with. I remember Roque saying Globke was a natural center and that is where he could wind up playing this coming season, although I don't know if Damon will have the same outlook.
 
Bill said:
It seems like I heard on one of the hockey shows, or it may have been during one of the games, that Globke still needed to work on becoming a stronger skater. If so, that could keep him around at least a couple of more years. He had the benefit of playing this last season on a line with Radke and Campbell. This coming season will give us a good idea of just how good he is since he won't have that luxury anymore. It will be interesting to see what kind of line combinations Damon comes up with. I remember Roque saying Globke was a natural center and that is where he could wind up playing this coming season, although I don't know if Damon will have the same outlook.
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That's a pretty fair assessment with Globke. Nice player. Great touch around the bet, but could use another 10 lbs and improved core strength to succeed at the next level. He has tons of potential.
 
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Haven't checked the site in a few weeks,so just catching up here. and, I see another Sault native is heading further away from the Soo than closer to it, as Joey Shawhan takes an assistant coach job with Michigan Tech. This, unfortunately, is also a remnant of the Frank Anzalone Era.

Frank's downfall was never his coaching abilities or hockey knowledge; it was that he had the PR acumen of a North Korean political handler. More than once he likened Lake State to a "glorified high school" (and that's while he was still here). But worst of all was the culture he created at LSSU that believed this: If you take a local product you will poison the culture of Laker Hockey.

Frank believed local kids,first and foremost, drank too much. Here's news, Frank: many young kids drink too much, especially in college. And, somehow he developed the thought local kids didn't have the work ethic needed for Laker Hockey.

So, through the years many potential quality players at the D1 level were looked over, and sent packing to other schools. How many players were over-looked from that group of local players who came up through the ranks together and won two national championships before they were 15? Surely a core group of players with that pedigree at least deserved a look; but Frank would not allow it. Sadly, that mindset followed those who followed Frank as coach,to differing degrees.

And now the latest of another potential quality local product continues to move further from the Soo, as the winningest coach in NAHL history packs his bags for Houghton.

Sadly, Frank Anzalone's biggest legacy may be his "Local Means Poison" mantra, one that still is alive and well at LSSU.
 
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We have a new recruit for the 2015-16 season (per College Hockey Inc). Bryan Basilico, a big forward out of the Detroit area, who played for Trail of the BCHL this past season. He was drafted by the new Bloomington team of the USHL this Spring and may wind up playing there this coming season.

Here's the roster info on him from this past season at Trail:

http://www.trailsmokeeaters.com/lea...ID=15094&playerID=1084079&teamID=408658&pos=F
 
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