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LSSU Lakers 2021 off-season thread

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LSSULaker889294

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Let's hope this off-season thread lasts only into early October and not into mid November like it did last year.

Lakers will be losing quite a bit. Next season will be pretty tough to match this past season's success.
 
It will be interesting to see how many of the seniors sign pro contracts, or underclassmen for that matter although I hope we don't lose any of those to the pros.

Nice to see Mankato get the monkey off their back and advance to the Frozen Four.
 
Mike McMahon is reporting that Will Riedell may be going to the University of Vermont next season as a grad transfer.
 
UMass wins the NCAA championship. This is the 5th time the Lakers lost to the eventual champion in the NCAA tournament. Also lost to RPI (1985), Harvard (1989), Maine (1993) and Boston University (1995).

Calder ended up finishing 5th in the NCAA in goal scoring which marks the 3rd year in a row a Laker finished in the top 5 in the NCAA in total goals. Cuglietta had the most 2 years ago and Humitz finished 4th a year ago.
 
Bill said:
Pete Veillette has entered the transfer portal. He's getting his degree from LSSU this Spring and this will give him the opportunity to go somewhere else as a grad transfer and work on a Masters.
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I know it's for the best for him and his future and totally understandable, but it's going to be tough to see him in another uniform. He was such a big part of Laker Hockey's resurgence. I wish him well.
 
LSSULaker889294 said:
UMass wins the NCAA championship. This is the 5th time the Lakers lost to the eventual champion in the NCAA tournament. Also lost to RPI (1985), Harvard (1989), Maine (1993) and Boston University (1995).

Calder ended up finishing 5th in the NCAA in goal scoring which marks the 3rd year in a row a Laker finished in the top 5 in the NCAA in total goals. Cuglietta had the most 2 years ago and Humitz finished 4th a year ago.
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I definitely undersold UMass. They have something great going on there for sure. That's a really interesting stat. It means that 8 times of the 11 the Lakers have been in the tournament, they have either won it all or faced the team that won it all.

With your other stat, Whitten has a lot to sell to players now. Come to Lake State, be top 5 in scoring, get a chance to win conference titles, and play in the NCAA tourney. For a lot of the time, he was selling hope and banners from long ago. Now he's got some nice recent accomplishments, and hopefully the Lakers can continue to make their climb back into being a more regular contender.
 
lakersparty said:
With your other stat, Whitten has a lot to sell to players now. Come to Lake State, be top 5 in scoring, get a chance to win conference titles, and play in the NCAA tourney. For a lot of the time, he was selling hope and banners from long ago. Now he's got some nice recent accomplishments, and hopefully the Lakers can continue to make their climb back into being a more regular contender.
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Lakers also have the 11th most wins in college hockey the past three years which was mentioned on the last Laker Hockey Show.
 
WayUpNorth22 said:
Any idea what the non-conference schedule will look like next year? Assuming we are close to normal by the time the season starts.
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Too early to tell. I think the coaches convention is in early May this year, and is a virtual one. They usually come up with some non-conference scheduling agreements there. There may also be some agreements already in place that haven't been publicized yet. It could be that they will try and go with the same non-conference schedule that was supposed to occur this past season, but that may not work for some schools in some instances. We'll see.
 
lakersparty said:
I know it's for the best for him and his future and totally understandable, but it's going to be tough to see him in another uniform. He was such a big part of Laker Hockey's resurgence. I wish him well.
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I think Timo Bakos is a replacement for Pete.
 
Some updates from the transfer portal. Will Riedell is now going to Ohio State instead of Vermont. Lukas Kaelble and Alex Ambrosio have entered the portal. All are grad transfer situations.
 
Union is scheduled to play the Lakers in the Soo on Oct 22-23. We were supposed to play at Union early last season. This must be the second half of the 2 for 2. I imagine the Lakers will try to schedule a pair of games at Union for the 2022-23 season.
 
Bill said:
Union is scheduled to play the Lakers in the Soo on Oct 22-23. We were supposed to play at Union early last season. This must be the second half of the 2 for 2. I imagine the Lakers will try to schedule a pair of games at Union for the 2022-23 season.
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Unions travel partner is RPI. Shame those two don't get together and pick up another team from the UP. Then again who knows what's really going on with RPI athletics
 
giwan said:
Unions travel partner is RPI. Shame those two don't get together and pick up another team from the UP. Then again who knows what's really going on with RPI athletics
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Yes, that would be nice. Quite a few years ago, the Lakers traveled to northern New York and played Clarkson and St Lawrence on consecutive nights. I don't remember if another UP team traveled there at the same time and played the same 2 schools.
 
Bill said:
Yes, that would be nice. Quite a few years ago, the Lakers traveled to northern New York and played Clarkson and St Lawrence on consecutive nights. I don't remember if another UP team traveled there at the same time and played the same 2 schools.
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There was talk on the last Michigan Tech radio show of the Lakers and Michigan tech playing a game each at Clarkson and St. Lawrence next fall.
 
Ashton Calder has reportedly entered the transfer portal. A bit of a surprise. Perhaps he's seeing if any high profile teams are interested, thus giving him more looks from the pro scouts, and if not maybe he'll return to the Lakers. I hope he does return.

Also, it looks like Lukas Kaelble is going to Clarkson as a grad transfer.
 
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