Re: Oswego 2011 Playoff and Offseason Thread: Hips and Nips or We Don't Win!
Mather, Boots, Singleton, Chris Brown, Kyle Badham, Corey Domenico and Chris Muise all spent time killing penalties this past season and I think Titanic might have as well. Eli Kim-Swallow will probably be a penalty killer when he plays which might be all the time or on occasion. Bremner was a DI defenseman before converting to forward at Oswego and we know the running joke about transfers at Oswego.
As for scoring the Mather, Boots and Titanic line should be solid if it stays together and Moodie, Rodrigues and Whitelaw have the potential to dominate if the can get a little more consistent. Other than that you have guys like Leimbrock who is knocking on the door of being a great player if he can start converting on his chances. Brown, Muise and Ayotte have some serious potential as well if they can work into the lineup a little more often and with only a couple of guys listed on the recruits side of things you don't really know what any newcomers will bring to the table. Adrian has a couple of good guys there but they had Skelly and all those guys four years ago and Oswego, Plattsburgh etc. that are heavy on OJHL kids did just fine. It's been said a million times it's not about getting the best players it's about finding the right ones and for a couple of years Eddie has had a team full of great players that lacked what it took to get the job done when it counted so if we get "stuck" with some "lesser talent" that is a little hungrier then I am fine with that.
I think the biggest loss for Oswego is Joe Hall. He was always positive even in the face of sitting almost every night and he would do things others weren't willing to do, no questions asked. He also was a good enough player to force guys to work hard to make sure they stayed ahead of him on the depth charts. Don't forget he was a big time scorer at Wellington, put up solid Freshman numbers and then got steamrolled by the influx of new freshman and transfers. He is the kind of guy where you look up the word teammate and his picture is next to it.
