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LSSU Lakers 2015-16: The 50th season

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After a huge sweep in Alaska, and their continued surge up the standings, I cannot wait to hear what LSSU Lakers head coach Damon Whitten has to say tonight on the Laker Hockey Show, with Bill Crawford on ESPN Radio 1400 at 6 p.m. from Antlers Restaurant in Sault Michigan. http://stream.1400espn.net/ If you can't tune in, you can hear the podcast at http://lakers.sovcomm.net/
 
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Maybe this weekend we can talk Tech into playing up there.
 
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Congratulations to Torrel for being named WCHA Rookie of the Week! It sure is nice having him back in the lineup.
 
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Paula Weston wrote a good article on the case for having freshmen brought in at 20 and no older. She pretty much sees no need for that and sees it as an attempt by the Big Ten league to give themselves another advantage in recruiting.
 
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Did you notice that when Michigan played their 3ed string goalie this past weekend, he's a 21 yr old Freshman?
 
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I cannot wait to hear the Hockey North Show tonight, with Randy Russon, on ESPN Radio 1400 at 5 p.m. http://stream.1400espn.net for more on the LSSU Lakers and their HUGE win sweep in Alaska, and their surge up the standings in the WCHA, along with all the hockey information in the North at www.hockeynewsnorth.com and www.saultthisweek.com

Tonite Randy's guests include two from the good ship Laker. Freshman sensation and defenceman Owen Headrick and LSSU Lakers coach Damon Whitten.

Owen Headrick, a native of Garden River, Ontario is tearing up the WCHA, leading all freshman d-men in points. The smooth skating Headrick, who is the youngest player on the Lakers, quarterbacks the power play which is getting better and better, under his leadership. Speaking of that, in his second year, Damon Whitten has turned around a team, which was decimated and depleted under the previous 8 seasons under the previous coach.

Methinks you will want to tune in for that.

Ringy dingy!
 
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LSSULaker889294 said:
False statement. The podcast isn't posted. Oh well :(

Anyone listen to this week's Laker Hockey Show? Did Damon give any injury update on Drapluck and any recruiting updates?

I am hoping we get at least three points this weekend.
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Drapluk may not be back until after the holidays. As far as recruiting goes, they have had several young kids in for visits over the past month. These would be kids for at least 2-3 seasons out. Damon said he thought a couple of them might be close to committing.
 
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Bill said:
Drapluk may not be back until after the holidays. As far as recruiting goes, they have had several young kids in for visits over the past month. These would be kids for at least 2-3 seasons out. Damon said he thought a couple of them might be close to committing.
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Thank you Bill for the information. I appreciate it.
 
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Can't wait for this weekend and the good ship Laker taking on Michigan Tech. Randy Russon has a preview of this weekend's series at www.saultthisweek.com. You can also see more of Randy's articles at www.hockeynewsnorth.com. You won't find better coverage anywhere. You can hear both games on the official home of Laker hockey www.yesfm.net with legendary broadcaster Bill Crawford.

They have won their last three outings — including a two-game, weekend road sweep of the Alaska Nanooks — and the Lake Superior State Lakers show serious signs of a very-solid squad under the steady hand of second-year head coach Damon Whitten.

The surging Lakers have moved into a tie for sixth place with the Alaska Anchorage Seawolves in the 10-team Western Collegiate Hockey Association with 10 points from a record of 4-3-3. Over the past three weekends the Lakers are 4-1-1, including a 3-0-1 mark on the road.

The Lakers have an overall record of 6-9-3 through 18 games this season.

To be sure, Lake Superior State has an opportunity to move further up in the WCHA standings this weekend when they play host to Upper Peninsula rival Michigan Tech Huskies on Friday (7:37) and Saturday (7:07) at Taffy Abel Arena.

The sixth-place Lakers are just one point behind fifth-place Northern Michigan with two games in hand on the Wildcats and are three points back of fourth-place Ferris State with four games in hand on the Bulldogs. In fact, the Lakers trail third-place Michigan Tech — this weekend’s visitors — by only five points and have two games in hand on the Huskies.

What is impressive about the Lakers performance under the coaching of Whitten is that it’s the younger Lake Superior State players who are the statistical leaders.

For example, of the Lakers top eight scorers, five are freshmen, one is a sophomore and the other two are juniors.

Sophomore forward J.T. Henke leads the Lakers in scoring with 6 goals, 5 assists, 11 points followed by freshman forward Mitch Hults at 4-5-9, freshman forward Gage Torrel at 3-5-8, junior forward Gus Correale at 3-5-8, freshman forward Anthony Nellis at 2-6-8, freshman defenceman Owen Headrick at 3-4-7, junior forward Alex Globke at 4-2-6 and freshman forward Diego Cuglietta at 2-4-6.

Headrick, who played the past two seasons with the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, leads all WCHA freshmen in scoring. With a 1997 birth date, Headrick, who hails from Garden River First Nation, is the youngest player on the Lakers.

The Lakers have also been getting good goaltending from sophomore Gordon Defiel and freshman Nick Kossoff.

Defiel has a 4-6-3 record to go with a 2.57 goals against average and .922 save percentage. Kossoff has a 2-3-0 record with a 1.97 goals against average, .926 save percentage and two shutouts.
 
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Sounds as if Drapluk is going to be off a bit longer into January .
 
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Tech was the first Div 1 hockey school to play the Lakers back in the early days of the Lakers program. And that was in Tech's powerhouse days with John MacInnes as their coach. The Lakers were still playing NAIA hockey back then.
 
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Out of 50 years of hockey, Tech and Lake Superior have only spent 6 years in the same league.
 
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Tech was the first Div 1 hockey school to play the Lakers back in the early days of the Lakers program. And that was in Tech's powerhouse days with John MacInnes as their coach. The Lakers were still playing NAIA hockey back then.
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We actually managed to win and tie a few games against the Huskies back when we were a NAIA powerhouse. We played and beat a few other DI schools back in the NAIA days as well.
 
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LakerBaker said:
Headrick, who played the past two seasons with the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, leads all WCHA freshmen in scoring. With a 1997 birth date, Headrick, who hails from Garden River First Nation, is the youngest player on the Lakers.
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wrong. if you did a cut 'n' paste on this, your source is incorrect.
the current WCHA freshman scoring leader is Corey Mackin.
unga-bunga.
 
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I'm happy with the tie. A win tomorrow will make it a very good weekend against a very good Michigan Tech team.
 
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