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Michigan Tech Off-season Revised - Onward and Upward

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Shirtless Guy said:
We've whittled the list way down but I'm not sure we're comfortable talking about thing that way. have been completely unable to get anyone to say anyone is the next coach.
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That last part is what I find impressive. A deal has been struck and no one knows. Heck Buccigross had the Mel P. news hours before it was reported anywhere else. Havne't seen anythign that anyone knows, Tech Hockey Guide, Schlossman, no one has come out staying who it is.
 
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mtu_huskies said:
That last part is what I find impressive. A deal has been struck and no one knows. Heck Buccigross had the Mel P. news hours before it was reported anywhere else. Havne't seen anythign that anyone knows, Tech Hockey Guide, Schlossman, no one has come out staying who it is.
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I've chatted with schlossman, we're all in the same boat. I think you can all take a guess why they've been able to keep it a secret, but I can't publish anything based solely on that.
 
Huskiefan906 said:
Still a 3 man race, the big question is what the ranking was for offers out of the interviews and whether the first choice accepted.
I think based on the timing, we will be happy.
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Turn down likely a 250-300,000 job is surprising, but means pro aspirations are still there most likely for RR or he is content and could not commit long term.

2A Ellsworth
2B Shawhan

I do not think we can lose with either. Do not be let down.
The big question is youth or experience wins out.

I wonder now if both are on the staff and if experience is chosen, like Muckalt at Michigan, we also have our coach in waiting.

Cam brings recruiting, Shawhan most likely the best person to keep it going if we can recruit from the bench management.

So in trying to wonder which way they wil go, I think it is now quite possible they have selected their next two coaches.

The best for now with the needed piece for Coach Shawhan, and the job Cam aspires to waiting years down the road.
 
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giwan said:
Didn't see this earlier, brought up one thing I did not see mentioned previously
http://www.mininggazette.com/sports/local-sports/2017/05/looking-back-before-moving-forward/
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Nice article. While we're waiting, here's an article from the Flim Flon 'theReminder' newspaper about our former coach. He talks about recruits Alex Smith and Greyson Reitmeier:
Reitmeier, last year’s SJHL scoring leader and player of the year, will join Tech next season. The prospect of facing the 6-ft 4-in power forward isn’t a fun one, even for Pearson. “I was thinking… ‘Eeee…can I get him here?’” he said, before adding with a wry chuckle, “I have to be careful, don’t want to burn too many bridges back there.”
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I never heard before that he worked in the zinc mining industry during the summers...
 
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Huh... I don't know about that not wanting to burn bridges part. It looks like Jack Becker (per his twitter account) is now headed to Michigan.

I was hoping for Rolston. So I'll have to take a wait and see approach to who gets it. See how next season goes before I get too high or low about the hire.

Heard Shawhan was scouting the Muskegon Lumberjacks camp over the weekend. A couple of Tech commits were there, Blake Pietila and Evan Orr.
 
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I'm quite happy with this pick. Some will see him as the conservative hire, and he is, but he's been a substantial part of our success the last 3 years, and he definitely knows how to recruit and develop players.
 
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I'll admit, I was hoping for a bigger name, but I think Shawhan is a good choice and has obviously been around the program and gotten acquanted with it over the past 3 years so I have faith in him. Wonder who his assistants will be, wouldn't mind him keeping Shuchuk on.
 
bose301s said:
I'll admit, I was hoping for a bigger name, but I think Shawhan is a good choice and has obviously been around the program and gotten acquanted with it over the past 3 years so I have faith in him. Wonder who his assistants will be, wouldn't mind him keeping Shuchuk on.
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I too think this is a good choice, but go for the gusto and get Ellsworth for D and goaltending and retain Gary Shuchuk for the Forwards. This group can get to the frozen four soon.....
 
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Huskiefan906 said:
I too think this is a good choice, but go for the gusto and get Ellsworth for D and goaltending and retain Gary Shuchuk for the Forwards. This group can get to the frozen four soon.....
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Shawhan was a goalie coach at NMU and I think when Mel brought him in that was part of the goal, to get him to work with the goalies. Not saying I don't want Ellsworth because I absolutely do, but Shawhan is a good goalie coach himself.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I'm quite happy with this pick. Some will see him as the conservative hire, and he is, but he's been a substantial part of our success the last 3 years, and he definitely knows how to recruit and develop players.
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I think it's a great pick for the sake of continuity and allows the team to hit the ice at full speed in the fall. I concur that Ellsworth would be a powerful addition to the staff for recruiting. :D
 
bose301s said:
Shawhan was a goalie coach at NMU and I think when Mel brought him in that was part of the goal, to get him to work with the goalies. Not saying I don't want Ellsworth because I absolutely do, but Shawhan is a good goalie coach himself.
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Yes, but he has other duties now.....
 
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Meh. I get the need for continuity and Shawhan is definitely qualified, but after Pearson and the other names being bandied about this is pretty underwhelming. Getting Ellsworth on staff would make me feel better though.
 
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I see Ellsworth as a given, we need recruiting strength.

Just makes sense connecting the dots.
 
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TECHFAN said:
Meh. I get the need for continuity and Shawhan is definitely qualified, but after Pearson and the other names being bandied about this is pretty underwhelming. Getting Ellsworth on staff would make me feel better though.
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This was pretty much exactly how I felt as well, I guess we'll see.
geezer said:
Interesting also that he played 14 years of college hockey...impressive
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I noticed that as well, lol.
 
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