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LSSU Lakers 2016 off-season thread

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Laker Dude said:
Looks like the Lakers will play at Michigan Thanksgiving weekend.
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They are and it confirms the Lakers backed out of Notre Dame's Shillelagh tournament. It will be the first time since 2010 that the Lakers will not play at home Thanksgiving weekend.
 
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Dont know if this was posted yet, but Luke Morgan was not listed as one of the returners for Cedar Rapids next season.

Looks like he is headed for LSSU. He was listed as a tweener.......16 or 17.

High energy forward and extremely speedy. He was great on the Cedar Rapids 1st line PK unit.
 
herbst20 said:
Dont know if this was posted yet, but Luke Morgan was not listed as one of the returners for Cedar Rapids next season.

Looks like he is headed for LSSU. He was listed as a tweener.......16 or 17.

High energy forward and extremely speedy. He was great on the Cedar Rapids 1st line PK unit.
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Got to see him play this year. Solid player. Another year of junior would be very beneficial, but in order to get a kid like this, sometimes you've got to take him a year early. Nice pick up for LSSU.
 
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herbst20 said:
Dont know if this was posted yet, but Luke Morgan was not listed as one of the returners for Cedar Rapids next season.

Looks like he is headed for LSSU. He was listed as a tweener.......16 or 17.

High energy forward and extremely speedy. He was great on the Cedar Rapids 1st line PK unit.
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Yes, he's heading for the Lakers this Fall. His goal has been to start playing college hockey this coming season. He's a very bright kid academically and I think he was getting some interest from Ivy league schools after he initially committed to the Lakers. I think the Laker coaches would have been happy to see him play another season with Cedar Rapids but they didn't want to risk losing him to an Ivy school so he will be with the Lakers this Fall. They feel he is ready to play at this level.
 
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davyd83 said:
Got to see him play this year. Solid player. Another year of junior would be very beneficial, but in order to get a kid like this, sometimes you've got to take him a year early. Nice pick up for LSSU.
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Yep. Somewhat similar situation with Lakers D-man Owen Headrick. Ideally the Laker coaches would have liked to see him play another season of Juniors (probably in the USHL or BCHL), but he wanted to come in this past season so rather than lose him to Erie of the OHL (he was an Erie draft pick), they did bring him in. Even then, Erie was reportedly after him pretty bad after the holidays.
 
Bill said:
Yep. Somewhat similar situation with Lakers D-man Owen Headrick. Ideally the Laker coaches would have liked to see him play another season of Juniors (probably in the USHL or BCHL), but he wanted to come in this past season so rather than lose him to Erie of the OHL (he was an Erie draft pick), they did bring him in. Even then, Erie was reportedly after him pretty bad after the holidays.
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If their reasons are for academics, then coming early is the best thing. If it's hockey, another year of maturing as a player would be good. You'd no doubt get a better freshman and a better senior that way. Wishing nothing but the best to both of these guys!
 
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jnacc said:
Its nice to finally be in a conference that is ahead of the curve on at least one issue...all of college hockey should follow this model.
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I love this move. The Horizon League used to do this in basketball. I saw some fantastic games in a packed house here in Valparaiso. But I guess after a few trips to Valpo, the rest of the league voted to move the tournament to Joe Louis Arena starting this year. Attendance at the final was about 4,300, which isn't really that bad considering none of the Detroit-area teams were playing. That's a little less than what we had for championship games here, but 4,300 people in the Joe does not make for much of an atmosphere.
 
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LSSULaker889294 said:
2016-17 schedule is finally here: http://lssulakers.com/sports/m-hockey/2016-17/schedule

Kind of a bummer that there is just one home non-conference series. Also very interesting to see the Lakers and Wildcats play two home and home series two weekends in a row.
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I'm not crazy about the back to back series with Northern, but I guess that's probably the only way the two could come together on their schedules for the upcoming season. A bit surprising we don't see an early exhibition game against a Canadian school but maybe they are still trying to arrange one.
 
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Bill said:
A bit surprising we don't see an early exhibition game against a Canadian school but maybe they are still trying to arrange one.
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I hope it happens. I would like to see a blue/gold game on Friday, October 7 and then have an exhibition game against a Canadian team the next day.
 
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Bill said:
I'm not crazy about the back to back series with Northern, but I guess that's probably the only way the two could come together on their schedules for the upcoming season. A bit surprising we don't see an early exhibition game against a Canadian school but maybe they are still trying to arrange one.
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The two series with Northern may help keep the cost down for the schools but it is not good for the traveling fans. I'm disappointed with Jeff Jackson and Notre Dame all the trips we have went on down there and no returning the favor.

I hope we at least get one Canadian tune up game as well as you guy's.

I am thinking the Lakers could be around .500 this year and even better in 17-18.
 
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PerkyforPrez said:
The two series with Northern may help keep the cost down for the schools but it is not good for the traveling fans. I'm disappointed with Jeff Jackson and Notre Dame all the trips we have went on down there and no returning the favor.

I hope we at least get one Canadian tune up game as well as you guy's.

I am thinking the Lakers could be around .500 this year and even better in 17-18.
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A lot of scheduling is done 3-4 years out. It's possible that between Notre Dame and the Lakers, they just haven't been able to find accommodating dates yet. I'd give Jackson another season (2 at most) to see if the Irish will visit the Lakers before I get too disappointed. It could even be that they've agreed to play next season.

I hope we get up to around the .500 mark (or better) this season although overall it will still be a fairly young team, especially at forward. Probably only 1 Senior and a couple of Juniors as upperclassmen at that position.
 
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It's too bad that your games here are in October. It might still be hot.

GFM
 
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Looking at the schedule image it shows October 1 and October 7-8 as TBD. So it looks like they are still in the process of getting a Canadian School to play on one of those weekends.

http://static.psbin.com/t/d/jbuzwblsi4jwwv/Schedule_ReleaseFinaloption2.jpg

November is definitely looking like the toughest part of the schedule. Another schedule oddity I found is after the November 4-5 series at home against Mankato, the Lakers don't play at home for 4 weeks (December 2-3 against BGSU) and then once again don't play at home for another 5 weeks (January 6 against NMU). So that is just two home series in a 9 week span which I'm sure Damon isn't too happy about.

Does anybody know if Nebraska Omaha will make a return trip to Abel Arena in 2017-18?
 
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LSSULaker889294 said:
Looking at the schedule image it shows October 1 and October 7-8 as TBD. So it looks like they are still in the process of getting a Canadian School to play on one of those weekends.

http://static.psbin.com/t/d/jbuzwblsi4jwwv/Schedule_ReleaseFinaloption2.jpg

November is definitely looking like the toughest part of the schedule. Another schedule oddity I found is after the November 4-5 series at home against Mankato, the Lakers don't play at home for 4 weeks (December 2-3 against BGSU) and then once again don't play at home for another 5 weeks (January 6 against NMU). So that is just two home series in a 9 week span which I'm sure Damon isn't too happy about.

Does anybody know if Nebraska Omaha will make a return trip to Abel Arena in 2017-18?
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They may still be trying to line up a NC series for Oct 7-8.
 
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The double w NMU was a result of schedule shuffling due to the playoff change.
 
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