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Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
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Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
Mad Dog Madigan strikes again!!!
USHR says this is very similar to what happened with Kevin Roy.
Mad Dog Madigan strikes again!!!
USHR says this is very similar to what happened with Kevin Roy.
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How is he as a player,anyone have some stats or commentary?
How is he as a player,anyone have some stats or commentary?
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Over-ager leading his team in scoring. But over a point per game is pretty **** good in the USHL. Played last year in the Maritimes league. Not many Americans go up there to play. No idea on whether he's viewed as a top six or bottom six guy. Hopefully he's just a late bloomer.
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According to USHR, Szmatula committed to Sacred Heart in May, and decommitted last month. He was the MVP and scoring leader of the Maritime Junior Hockey League last season. Back in September USHR described Szmatula as a diamond in the rough for Sacred Heart. They also expected other programs to start sniffing around.
SkinsFan09
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Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
'92 Forward Michael Szmatula commits to Northeastern for 2013. Currently 4th in the USHL in scoring. Our recruiting class next year is absolutely loaded.
Ross Olsson, Zach Aston-Reese, John Stevens, Nathan Ferrerio and now Szmatula. A lot of talent there.
'92 Forward Michael Szmatula commits to Northeastern for 2013. Currently 4th in the USHL in scoring. Our recruiting class next year is absolutely loaded.
Ross Olsson, Zach Aston-Reese, John Stevens, Nathan Ferrerio and now Szmatula. A lot of talent there.
ChargerPowerPlay
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Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
Any thoughts on this weekend's series against the UAH Chargers? As a Charger fan my personal take is that Saturday's match will be closer than tonight's. In all series this season the Chargers have improved on Saturdays. Now that may be a changing a 0-10 Friday smackdown to 2-8 on Saturday but an improvement all the same.
I did read the official preview (http://gonu.com/news/2012/11/8/MHKY_1108120927.aspx). This is a first time meeting. I hope UAH survives, not the matches but the D1 Hockey landscape, so that there can be a second (and subsequent) meeting in the future.
Skate on.
cpp
Any thoughts on this weekend's series against the UAH Chargers? As a Charger fan my personal take is that Saturday's match will be closer than tonight's. In all series this season the Chargers have improved on Saturdays. Now that may be a changing a 0-10 Friday smackdown to 2-8 on Saturday but an improvement all the same.
I did read the official preview (http://gonu.com/news/2012/11/8/MHKY_1108120927.aspx). This is a first time meeting. I hope UAH survives, not the matches but the D1 Hockey landscape, so that there can be a second (and subsequent) meeting in the future.
Skate on.
cpp
SkinsFan09
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Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
Rumor that we picked up D Matt Benning also. He visited with Szmatula.
Rumor that we picked up D Matt Benning also. He visited with Szmatula.
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http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articles/80877/benning-quennville-take-ajhl-experience-to-ushl/
Speaking of Benning.
http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articles/80877/benning-quennville-take-ajhl-experience-to-ushl/
Huskies of NU
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I'm looking forward to seeing a new team in the barn this weekend, as I've never seen UAH play. Hoping to see improved discipline and all around solid play from the Huskies for a full 60 minutes both nights. Hope you can make it out for the games or at least take advantage of the free HD streaming of the games online.
The games are Saturday and Sunday nights though, just FYI. (A lot of people have Monday off as an observation of Veterans' Day)
I'm looking forward to seeing a new team in the barn this weekend, as I've never seen UAH play. Hoping to see improved discipline and all around solid play from the Huskies for a full 60 minutes both nights. Hope you can make it out for the games or at least take advantage of the free HD streaming of the games online.
The games are Saturday and Sunday nights though, just FYI. (A lot of people have Monday off as an observation of Veterans' Day)
SkinsFan09
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Husky Hockey News @HuskyHockeyNews
Defenseman Matt Benning (Dubuque) has committed to NU. Bruins 6th rd draft pick this year. Visited last week with Szmatula. '94 DOB
Husky Hockey News @HuskyHockeyNews
Defenseman Matt Benning (Dubuque) has committed to NU. Bruins 6th rd draft pick this year. Visited last week with Szmatula. '94 DOB
Huskies of NU
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Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
It's definitely an encouraging sign to see some younger recruits lined up for the next couple classes as opposed to the 20+ year-olds who have been the majority of our past few recruiting classes. Cronin's recruits were trending younger too before he left. To me (someone without any big internal connections to the recruiting scene, so this is purely speculation) it says that we're either winning recruiting battles over very talented recruits with other schools, or we're just taking more chances on younger players and hoping they pan out. I would love to read what Ryecheers or Roma have to say on these recruits and if any other schools were in on them before we landed them.
Szmatula is now one of the two older (20+) players we have slated to come in next season, the others will all be 18 or 19 when they arrive on St. Botolph St. next fall.
Hopefully we see a good goalie recruit added soon. As of right now, the goalies next year are Witt and Roy. Losing Gillies really hurts there.
It's definitely an encouraging sign to see some younger recruits lined up for the next couple classes as opposed to the 20+ year-olds who have been the majority of our past few recruiting classes. Cronin's recruits were trending younger too before he left. To me (someone without any big internal connections to the recruiting scene, so this is purely speculation) it says that we're either winning recruiting battles over very talented recruits with other schools, or we're just taking more chances on younger players and hoping they pan out. I would love to read what Ryecheers or Roma have to say on these recruits and if any other schools were in on them before we landed them.
Szmatula is now one of the two older (20+) players we have slated to come in next season, the others will all be 18 or 19 when they arrive on St. Botolph St. next fall.
Hopefully we see a good goalie recruit added soon. As of right now, the goalies next year are Witt and Roy. Losing Gillies really hurts there.
Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
These jerseys are very cool. Kudos to Northeastern for producing them.
These jerseys are very cool. Kudos to Northeastern for producing them.
ChargerPowerPlay
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Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
Sweet! At least this particular Friday night during the college hockey season will not result in a Chargers loss. I need to celebrate!
Skate on.
cpp
Sweet! At least this particular Friday night during the college hockey season will not result in a Chargers loss. I need to celebrate!
Skate on.
cpp
RossiRules
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Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
Well, I watched tonight in a very empty old barn and to tell you the truth, what was once concern is now grave concern. Forget about the fact that we were playing the worst DIV 1 hockey team in the nation and perhaps the worst I have ever seen. I would think that a top prep school team like Shattuck St. Mary’s or even Avon Old Farms would likely give them a fairly good game, but, let’s face it this program is on life support , it has a new coach and most of the better players form recent years gone bye have left for greener pastures. To that extent I support the concept of at least one DIV 1 program South of the Mason-Dixon line. To their credit UAB, has a strong goalie and the Chargers never gave up in a contest in which they were out shot 50 to 20. Although, if the object in hockey was to shoot point blank shots into the opposing goalies pads, Northeastern would be ranked # 1 in the nation and would have 3 lines of NHL draft picks.
We won 3 nothing, and were really never tested in a shut out for our jolly green giant, Chris Rawlings, who stopped 20 low quality shots, most of which were taken from behind the blue line. To a layman, this contest may have seemed like a nice win, however to a hockey connoisseur, it was a showcase of the teams glaring deficiencies, lack of offensive punch, hapless Power Play and woeful transition game. Often , in a non conference trap game like tonights, teams play to the level of the competition and that was not really the case here, as our Huskies skated circles around UAH. However, they looked hapless, with little or no offensive promise and are yet again a certain bottom feeder of this league and will likely have to battle hard for a spot in the HE tournament. I am also not convinced yet the JM has any clue what he is doing as by this tenure in his career at least Cronin had set up a boxing rink and heavy bag in the basement at Matthews, to give us some insights into his insanity. I gave back my tix for tomorrow night as watching a scrum on ice really just isn’t my bag.
Well, I watched tonight in a very empty old barn and to tell you the truth, what was once concern is now grave concern. Forget about the fact that we were playing the worst DIV 1 hockey team in the nation and perhaps the worst I have ever seen. I would think that a top prep school team like Shattuck St. Mary’s or even Avon Old Farms would likely give them a fairly good game, but, let’s face it this program is on life support , it has a new coach and most of the better players form recent years gone bye have left for greener pastures. To that extent I support the concept of at least one DIV 1 program South of the Mason-Dixon line. To their credit UAB, has a strong goalie and the Chargers never gave up in a contest in which they were out shot 50 to 20. Although, if the object in hockey was to shoot point blank shots into the opposing goalies pads, Northeastern would be ranked # 1 in the nation and would have 3 lines of NHL draft picks.
We won 3 nothing, and were really never tested in a shut out for our jolly green giant, Chris Rawlings, who stopped 20 low quality shots, most of which were taken from behind the blue line. To a layman, this contest may have seemed like a nice win, however to a hockey connoisseur, it was a showcase of the teams glaring deficiencies, lack of offensive punch, hapless Power Play and woeful transition game. Often , in a non conference trap game like tonights, teams play to the level of the competition and that was not really the case here, as our Huskies skated circles around UAH. However, they looked hapless, with little or no offensive promise and are yet again a certain bottom feeder of this league and will likely have to battle hard for a spot in the HE tournament. I am also not convinced yet the JM has any clue what he is doing as by this tenure in his career at least Cronin had set up a boxing rink and heavy bag in the basement at Matthews, to give us some insights into his insanity. I gave back my tix for tomorrow night as watching a scrum on ice really just isn’t my bag.
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RossiRules
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Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
I revise my 15 wins to 8 HE wins
I revise my 15 wins to 8 HE wins
RossiRules
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OMG YOU ARE SO RIGHT! This team is not going to win 10 HE games. I figure now even Bentley will be difficult
OMG YOU ARE SO RIGHT! This team is not going to win 10 HE games. I figure now even Bentley will be difficult
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Rossi.. 'some' decent points.. but you are overly pessimistic. One too many beers..
I think the one glaring deficiency is team chemistry - i give you that.
We have to start playing with chemistry. JM, no question, is trying to figure that one out. Hopefully lines click sooner rather than later. The one concern i personally have is team discipline. (it let us down in the UNH & Merrimack gms). We have to clamp down on the soft/ retaliation type penalties.
Regading tonight, give credit to Alabama.. they hung in. Their goalie made some amazing saves & they never quit.
The one postive from tonight (from the wknd actually).. the jerseys & socks.. very very good job by NU Athletics!
G'luck to us Sunday, hopefully back to even record & looking forward not backwards by this time tomorrow. Go Huskies
Rossi.. 'some' decent points.. but you are overly pessimistic. One too many beers..
I think the one glaring deficiency is team chemistry - i give you that.
We have to start playing with chemistry. JM, no question, is trying to figure that one out. Hopefully lines click sooner rather than later. The one concern i personally have is team discipline. (it let us down in the UNH & Merrimack gms). We have to clamp down on the soft/ retaliation type penalties.
Regading tonight, give credit to Alabama.. they hung in. Their goalie made some amazing saves & they never quit.
The one postive from tonight (from the wknd actually).. the jerseys & socks.. very very good job by NU Athletics!
G'luck to us Sunday, hopefully back to even record & looking forward not backwards by this time tomorrow. Go Huskies
RossiRules
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Oh yes 6 Harpoon's down..I hope you are correct!
Rossi.. 'some' decent points.. but you are overly pessimistic. One too many beers..
I think the one glaring deficiency is team chemistry - i give you that.
We have to start playing with chemistry. JM, no question, is trying to figure that one out. Hopefully lines click sooner rather than later. The one concern i personally have is team discipline. (it let us down in the UNH & Merrimack gms). We have to clamp down on the soft/ retaliation type penalties.
Regading tonight, give credit to Alabama.. they hung in. Their goalie made some amazing saves & they never quit.
The one postive from tonight (from the wknd actually).. the jerseys & socks.. very very good job by NU Athletics!
G'luck to us Sunday, hopefully back to even record & looking forward not backwards by this time tomorrow. Go Huskies
Oh yes 6 Harpoon's down..I hope you are correct!
Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
Would last nights effort win a game, or even a period in a Hockey East game? No. I will assume it had to do with the team they were up against. I am debating going in to watch another scrimmage again tonight when I can do it from the comfort of my home with some good football games on the tv at the same time.
Still waiting on the junior and the seniors to do something this year. Way to much talent up front to not hit 5 goals and get me my free fries last night. I am beginning to wonder if during practice, they keep the goalies out of the net and just let the forwards shoot into empty ones, because every shot is square into the chest of the opposing goalie. In fact, outside of Pimm's goal last night, both of Karlsson's look like they went off the goalie, hard for me to tell, the shots were on the other side of the ice, but shots I thought their goalie could have gotten, though not dissing the kid, he was easily the best player on the ice last night, and if we had him, we maybe undefeated on the season still.
Credit to Rawlings, not asked to do much, but he did what he does best, save what he sees. Unless the other team has a sniper, or our defense blocks his view, he plays fine. I am interested to see if they come back with him tonight, or go back to Mountain to keep him fresh in case they want him/need him next week.
I wonder why these games were even put on the schedule? Where we supposed to have a bye week like UML had last week, and then since UAH was going to drop the program but then did not, we decided to schedule them? Its going to hurt us next week when we have to play teams that can at least match up physically with us, if not skill wise too.
We got lucky this week that their were some good results for us in the league. Last week while really hurts, did not kill us due to what happened elsewhere. Maximum points are going to be needed next week though, and coming off a week like this, hopefully they can bring back some kind of intensity level which was supposed to a JM speciality not seen so far for a full game this year.
Would last nights effort win a game, or even a period in a Hockey East game? No. I will assume it had to do with the team they were up against. I am debating going in to watch another scrimmage again tonight when I can do it from the comfort of my home with some good football games on the tv at the same time.
Still waiting on the junior and the seniors to do something this year. Way to much talent up front to not hit 5 goals and get me my free fries last night. I am beginning to wonder if during practice, they keep the goalies out of the net and just let the forwards shoot into empty ones, because every shot is square into the chest of the opposing goalie. In fact, outside of Pimm's goal last night, both of Karlsson's look like they went off the goalie, hard for me to tell, the shots were on the other side of the ice, but shots I thought their goalie could have gotten, though not dissing the kid, he was easily the best player on the ice last night, and if we had him, we maybe undefeated on the season still.
Credit to Rawlings, not asked to do much, but he did what he does best, save what he sees. Unless the other team has a sniper, or our defense blocks his view, he plays fine. I am interested to see if they come back with him tonight, or go back to Mountain to keep him fresh in case they want him/need him next week.
I wonder why these games were even put on the schedule? Where we supposed to have a bye week like UML had last week, and then since UAH was going to drop the program but then did not, we decided to schedule them? Its going to hurt us next week when we have to play teams that can at least match up physically with us, if not skill wise too.
We got lucky this week that their were some good results for us in the league. Last week while really hurts, did not kill us due to what happened elsewhere. Maximum points are going to be needed next week though, and coming off a week like this, hopefully they can bring back some kind of intensity level which was supposed to a JM speciality not seen so far for a full game this year.
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