Maine Recruits: When Ashes Fall, Legends Rise

[blackbears9]

Two new recruits, Ludvig Lafton a 6'2 defenseman from Norway drafted in the 6th round by Utah. He's a PPG player in the USHL this year. Reese Tracy is the other, I don't know as much about him.

Ludvig Lafton - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Ludvig Lafton, 2006-01-11 Bærum, NOR Norway. Most recently in the USHL with Dubuque Fighting Saints. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

Reese Tracy - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Reese Tracy, 2009-01-09 USA. Most recently in the NEPACK 16U with Woodbridge Wolfpack 16U AAA. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

 

[blackbears9]

Without NIL money it's going to be hard to get elite players

Poirier is an elite college hockey player. Holt is an elite college hockey player. Coming into this year Boija was an elite college hockey player. Peterson looks like he could develop into an elite hockey player. Crying about NIL is such a lazy and uninformed take. Western Michigan won a national championship without spending a dollar of NIL money last year. That's also ignoring the fact that the Black Bear Collective is getting money to players, and Barr has said rev share money is coming. Maine will never get elite NHL talent, but Maine has as many HE championships as BC or BU since Barr was hired.

 

[McGoverners]

Two new recruits, Ludvig Lafton a 6'2 defenseman from Norway drafted in the 6th round by Utah. He's a PPG player in the USHL this year. Reese Tracy is the other, I don't know as much about him.

Ludvig Lafton - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Ludvig Lafton, 2006-01-11 Bærum, NOR Norway. Most recently in the USHL with Dubuque Fighting Saints. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

Reese Tracy - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Reese Tracy, 2009-01-09 USA. Most recently in the NEPACK 16U with Woodbridge Wolfpack 16U AAA. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

Ludvig seems like a great get. 6'2" almost 200 should be useful on the blue line.

Tracy is interesting in that he's still in AAA as opposed to Jrs. I'm interested in if Maine has any say in his next step (USHL or QMJHL)

 

[amkirby10]

Two new recruits, Ludvig Lafton a 6'2 defenseman from Norway drafted in the 6th round by Utah. He's a PPG player in the USHL this year. Reese Tracy is the other, I don't know as much about him.

Ludvig Lafton - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Ludvig Lafton, 2006-01-11 Bærum, NOR Norway. Most recently in the USHL with Dubuque Fighting Saints. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

Reese Tracy - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Reese Tracy, 2009-01-09 USA. Most recently in the NEPACK 16U with Woodbridge Wolfpack 16U AAA. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

Lafton looks like a great get. 6'2, so he has some of the size we've been asking for (granted, he isn't a forward, but still). 23 assists in 28 games is pretty good too, and it appears he's consistently playing on Dubuque's top D pairing. And Dubuque is a good team too, they're third in the eastern conference in the USHL and have a 23-9-2 record, so its not like he's a guy playing at the top of a bad team because there's no one else. He also just barely turned 20 y/o a few days ago, so its also not like he's dominating as a very old player. That looks like a really solid pickup to me.

 

[blackbears9]

Ludvig seems like a great get. 6'2" almost 200 should be useful on the blue line.

Tracy is interesting in that he's still in AAA as opposed to Jrs. I'm interested in if Maine has any say in his next step (USHL or QMJHL)

I saw someone on Twitter say he got cut from his Q team because he was really soft on the puck, and at 5'9 148 that's pretty believable. He's still rated 4 stars so there must be some talent there though.

 

[cinnamoroll]

Tracy is interesting in that he's still in AAA as opposed to Jrs. I'm interested in if Maine has any say in his next step (USHL or QMJHL)

I saw someone on Twitter say he got cut from his Q team because he was really soft on the puck, and at 5'9 148 that's pretty believable. He's still rated 4 stars so there must be some talent there though.

He's from Florida which is OHL recruiting territory, Sudbury Wolves drafted him in the 8th round. If he matures and fills out he should get a shot at a roster spot next year

 

[BlackBearHockeyFan]

Poirier is an elite college hockey player. Holt is an elite college hockey player. Coming into this year Boija was an elite college hockey player. Peterson looks like he could develop into an elite hockey player. Crying about NIL is such a lazy and uninformed take. Western Michigan won a national championship without spending a dollar of NIL money last year. That's also ignoring the fact that the Black Bear Collective is getting money to players, and Barr has said rev share money is coming. Maine will never get elite NHL talent, but Maine has as many HE championships as BC or BU since Barr was hired.

Maine can get elite NHL Talent Bradly Nadeau came here.

 

[umhockey91]

Maine finally showing up on the recruiting radar of some top younger players....

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[dabears91]

Bandits Captain Dante Siciliano Signs With Maine Black Bears

www.brooksbandits.net

Dante Siciliano has signed his LOI. Admittedly, have not seen him play. But he’s 6’2, left shot, captaining a great Brooks program, and his coach raves about his character. Seems like a great fit on and off the ice.

 

[Ineverquit]

Maine Hockey Recruits

docs.google.com

Next update will probably be in the middle or end of March right when the regular season ends.

 

[tylerzx2002]

Noticed a few of the recent commits are missing Neutral Zone ratings. Anyone have those?

 

[Sparkee]

Noticed a few of the recent commits are missing Neutral Zone ratings. Anyone have those?

Ludvig Lafton - 4
Mason Fleece - 4.25
Will Schlechtweg - 3.75
Reese Tracy - 4

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It appears as though O’Connor is pulling in higher grade recruits which is good. These 4 recent ones are averaging to a 4 which is a fantastic level to shoot for. The perennial powerhouses are around a 4 point average or even slightly higher for their entire team. So getting to a 4 for an entire team would be quite an accomplishment. Keep in mind these grades are based on info from people that have scouted for a lot of years, and they usually have seen these players several times. So I put a fair amount of faith in these ratings from Neutral Zone.

 

[Sparkee]

Maine Hockey Recruits

docs.google.com

Next update will probably be in the middle or end of March right when the regular season ends.

I just wanted to let you know that the stats you list on Vecvanags imply he is stellar.

However, his stats at highest competition WJC-20 are terrible. The next best league is QMJHL which is where he didn’t stick as the 3rd goalie after starting at top of rotation at the beginning of the season and he had a 0.850 save percentage. He now has good stats at BCHL level, which is on decline as a league and it is due to major junior allowed to play in NCAA. So for these reasons I don’t expect Vecvanags to make it to Maine. Rousseau had much better performance in that QMJHL league and he is solid but not spectacular yet for Maine. Bringing in Vecvanags for Maine would be throwing him to the wolves and the coaching staff would have a headache on what to do with him. He is likely a 3rd string NCAA goalie at best.

I mention this not to ridicule you, but to maybe include his other stats to tell the whole story. I think you could have a section which is the likely not making the cut section. There are several on your list I don’t see making it to Maine.

 

[Ineverquit]

I just wanted to let you know that the stats you list on Vecvanags imply he is stellar.

However, his stats at highest competition WJC-20 are terrible. The next best league is QMJHL which is where he didn’t stick as the 3rd goalie after starting at top of rotation at the beginning of the season and he had a 0.850 save percentage. He now has good stats at BCHL level, which is on decline as a league and it is due to major junior allowed to play in NCAA. So for these reasons I don’t expect Vecvanags to make it to Maine. Rousseau had much better performance in that QMJHL league and he is solid but not spectacular yet for Maine. Bringing in Vecvanags for Maine would be throwing him to the wolves and the coaching staff would have a headache on what to do with him. He is likely a 3rd string NCAA goalie at best.

I mention this not to ridicule you, but to maybe include his other stats to tell the whole story. I think you could have a section which is the likely not making the cut section. There are several on your list I don’t see making it to Maine.

I agree with everything you said. I already write stats for recruits who change leagues or teams in the "notes" section for the season.

 

[blackbears9]

Joseph Covelluzzi has been playing with the USNTDP. I'm pretty sure this is the first player since JD Greenway to get games with the USNTDP, I don't remember who the last player before Greenway was.