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<> Michigan Tech Huskies 2023-24: Is the MacNaughton coming home? <>

As long as he still gives postgame interviews, I don't think it's a huge deal giving up a local radio show. Maybe the athletic department can train one of the assistants to do a shorter, less frequent and/or freeform version of the show that doesn't give Suzanne nightmares. :-p
 
model94 said:
CHN has Tech ranked #7 overall in their preseason prediction. Huh.
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That's about right if you ask me. Could be a little lower but not a lot.

BTW, tickets in Duluth that have a face value of 30 dollars sell for 48+ on Ticketmaster. or 34 at the rink. You can't pay 30 bucks and get in.
 
Looking over the returning roster + the freshmen and playing around with possible forward lines, I see quite a few guys outside my preseason Top 6 who have mainly played LW. Who has faceoff skills and could convert to center (or maybe played it at some point in juniors)? I recall they tried Bronte at C when he first transferred in, but he's landed at RW ever since. Nardella filled the L4 centerman role for most of last year, but he graduated.

Speculative Forward Lines:

L1: Mosley - L. Pietila - K. Kukkonen
L2: Works - Koskipirtti - Gordon
L3: Rasmussen - Caderoth - ?
L4: ? - ? - Bronte?

Potential/Likely Regulars (ranked by likelihood IMO):

Bartle (Joe loves his skilled power forwards)
Raiman (reported to have great skating ability, but likely needs time to adjust to NA rink size/style of game)
Stauber (earned more ice time as the season went on last year; likely has a higher ceiling than Bronte)
Marcinkevics (his ceiling is higher than Bronte's and possibly Stauber's, but a lot of his points at LIU were against bottom-feeders and other startup programs; for now he lands here)
Bronte (not the most skilled player, but brings a hard hat and generally tries to do what he's told)


Extras:

Nordstrom
Pedersen
Richartz
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
As long as he still gives postgame interviews, I don't think it's a huge deal giving up a local radio show. Maybe the athletic department can train one of the assistants to do a shorter, less frequent and/or freeform version of the show that doesn't give Suzanne nightmares. :-p
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I disagree I think fans enjoyed the show. Did it really cause headaches for Suzanne?

it's important to keep connections, especially ones that are wider in scope
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Looking over the returning roster + the freshmen and playing around with possible forward lines, I see quite a few guys outside my preseason Top 6 who have mainly played LW. Who has faceoff skills and could convert to center (or maybe played it at some point in juniors)? I recall they tried Bronte at C when he first transferred in, but he's landed at RW ever since. Nardella filled the L4 centerman role for most of last year, but he graduated.

Speculative Forward Lines:

L1: Mosley - L. Pietila - K. Kukkonen
L2: Works - Koskipirtti - Gordon
L3: Rasmussen - Caderoth - ?
L4: ? - ? - Bronte?

Potential/Likely Regulars (ranked by likelihood IMO):

Bartle (Joe loves his skilled power forwards)
Raiman (reported to have great skating ability, but likely needs time to adjust to NA rink size/style of game)
Stauber (earned more ice time as the season went on last year; likely has a higher ceiling than Bronte)
Marcinkevics (his ceiling is higher than Bronte's and possibly Stauber's, but a lot of his points at LIU were against bottom-feeders and other startup programs; for now he lands here)
Bronte (not the most skilled player, but brings a hard hat and generally tries to do what he's told)


Extras:

Nordstrom
Pedersen
Richartz
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I'm going with your first and second but Raiman as rw on the third and might get the second by Christmas. And 4th Stauber, Bartle, Bronte.
Joe hinted the system would change which would be very welcome by me for sure. Bronte's speed means a lot and he's responsible. I think Stauber is on the bubble. I'm not sure Rassmussen is deserving of that spot either.

Also, I went to the MTU vs SVSU soccer game. you all ought to go to these games, they are excellent.The few fans there are were very knowledgeable, especially about college-specific rules such as substitutions. The refs however are terrible. We got fouled in the box twice and no call and fouled just outside the box twice where SVSU was given the ball. The ref was overweight and could not run down close enough to see anything. He made these calls from 40 yds away.
 
well you must have some really swag gear that he can swipe and sell.. Hoodies galore outlet. He will do well however team chemistry will fall now, he had a good year last year and then BG gets swept in the playoffs. It's about team
 
Well, I hope this works out. He certainly injects some scoring touch into the lineup and I'd like to think that I trust Joe to assess & judge a player's character. Time will tell, I suppose.
 
Well, I attended the game last night in Duluth along with about 400 other Husky fans.
My impressions: 1. We have a ton of speed. It will hurt some teams. We were really unable to use it much last night due to Duluth's style of play, but on occasion we did. it's impressive. Duluth, according to the fan next to me, is a lot better this year than last.
2. We didn't compete much for the puck.( much being a gross understatement) We let them muscle us off it way too often and when we weren't doing that we passed it to their point men so they could get another shot on net. Literally. There was a lot of line juggling. A whole lot.
3. I have a coaching suggestion. When we go on the pp, let's just have them run 2 minutes off the clock and give the other team the puck in their end. it's a waste of time watching our guys standing around passing it between point men over and over. Just run two minutes off and give them the puck back.!
4. our 3x3 was good. our 4x3 horrible.
5. The freshmen. Max K is the real deal. , Lucas R has work to do. Several of our D men got lost and didn't know what to do when but I can see where they will all be excellent and a big improvement from last year,.... in the future. Right now, not that great. The transfer players are good but it will take time to get them to where they are reliable. there were a number of bad mistakes last night which should have cost us.
6. Bronte has taken a step forward. So has Kukk, So has Mosley. Richardz got limited playing time but I liked his play when he was in.
7. Several times we passed it, after a lot of work, to an open player in good position to shoot. And several times that open player took so long to release his shot Moses would have got old and died in that amount of time. Literally. Job would have quit and gone home. Get the puck off your Stick. for G sake. Let's not post a bulletin on the wall, in 5 minutes y'all come because we are going to shoot it.
 
BTW, Amsoil Arena has the worst pizza I've ever had anywhere. I gave away one piece to some poor young Tech fan from Calumet who was buying it and didn't have a credit card. ( they don't take cash) and when I finally tasted it I would have thrown it out except it was 5 bucks per slice and
I had two more slices. Absolutely horrible.
 
Looks to me that, even though we are getting more comfortable and turnovers are down, we will lose two next weekend. I hate to say it. i do think it will be close but hard to pick us after the last few games.
 
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