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Providence - 2009-10 What is in the glass?

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I think I am going to use my last season ticket seat this Friday night. That might mean the attendance will be 1145.

This is it for me until PC wins home ice in Hockey East. To Hokydad (where has he been?) and Southie (he who seems to have left the planet), I always said it was better to have fans who were critical than fans who do not care. I have become one of those who no longer care.
 
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The Freds said:
I think I am going to use my last season ticket seat this Friday night. That might mean the attendance will be 1145.

This is it for me until PC wins home ice in Hockey East. To Hokydad (where has he been?) and Southie (he who seems to have left the planet), I always said it was better to have fans who were critical than fans who do not care. I have become one of those who no longer care.
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My dad and I will be using our last season tickets this Friday night. We will be back when they change the coach. It's not getting better next year or as long as Army is behind the bench. At this point I'd rather travel around to the different Hockey East rinks and catch random games.
 
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The cry "Wait 'til next year" has been going on for 4 years at PC so we yell again .... WHAT......well number 100 will be next year unless he resigns, we can hope....
 
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Sorry to interrupt the funeral procession here, but I interrupt to give y'all PC'ers some good news.

Heisenberg is reporting that the Friars have landed Damian Cross - RW 5'11 185 from Pembroke of the C)JHL.

I've seen him play and he is a legit sniper -- he leads the league in scoring...by 27 goals.
His current line is: 61-53-85 138

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rZN-GJH1Q0NQeXIJG47g-ug
 
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Finally -- the media weighs in. He's dead on target, I love the line about what Army has done since getting his contract extension...and also all the optimism of that first season, which very quickly eroded by the time even that year finished (Gadja being benched!).

Both on the court and on ice, there’s a chill of discontent
by Jim Donaldson, Journal sports writer

The basketball team can’t — or won’t — play defense.

The hockey team can’t score.

Other than that, it’s been a wonderful winter at Providence College, where Keno Davis’ basketball team is 15th of 16 in the Big East, and Tim Army’s hockey team is 10th of 10 in Hockey East.

Davis, at least, has the excuse that it’s only his second season on the job. He doesn’t yet have “his guys.”

Army, on the other hand, is in his fifth season as coach at his alma mater. Two years ago — and URI Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn might want to consider this while pondering whether to extend the contract of basketball coach Jim Baron — Army was awarded a contract extension by Bob Driscoll, PC’s director of athletics.

Since then, the Friars have not finished ahead of a single team in Hockey East.

Last year, PC was tied with Merrimack at the bottom of the standings. This year, they’re buried in the basement by themselves, nine points behind ninth-place Massachusetts. The Friars have won just 5 of 25 conference games and have scored only 67 goals — 19 fewer than anybody else in the league.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

Army arrived in 2005 amidst understandable optimism and what did not seem unreasonable expectations — especially after he got off to a flying start with the players he inherited from former coach Paul Pooley.

He seemed to be the perfect man for the job.

A star player at Providence, Army was instrumental in helping the Friars twice get to the Frozen Four. In 1985, his senior season, PC won the Hockey East tournament title and, getting out-of-this-world goaltending from Chris Terreri, reached the NCAA championship game before losing to RPI, 2-1.

Army also had a distinguished coaching background. A longtime NHL assistant to Ron Wilson — the PC All-American who, in his second stint as U.S. Olympic coach, just came oh-so-close to winning a gold medal — Army came to PC from Portland, where he’d been a head coach in the AHL.

He had an immediate impact on the Friars, who, disgruntled and discouraged under Pooley, responded positively to Army’s less-restrictive, more wide-open style of play.

With PC tied for first in Hockey East with Boston College at 8-2-1 in December, 2005, I went to Schneider Arena to talk with what I subsequently called, in the next day’s column, “the happiest hockey team in America.”

“Everybody likes coming to the rink,” team captain Tony Zancanaro said.

That certainly wasn’t the case last year, when a departing senior was highly critical of the coach at a team function after the season.

The theory, when Army took over, had been that the Friars would play an aggressive, attacking game that would attract skilled players to Providence.

“It’s not only fun for the players,” high-scoring Tony Gadja said in the middle of Army’s first season, “it’s fun for the fans. They’re going to see shots fired on net. They’re going to see goals go up on the scoreboard.”

But it hasn’t worked out that way.

Either Army hasn’t been able to recruit players who can be effective in that system, or he hasn’t done a good enough job of developing the players he has brought in. And now he’s scrapped the all-guns-blazing style he’d hoped to play in favor of a much more conservative approach that, as PC’s record shows, isn’t producing many victories.

While it’s asking a lot to expect PC to become a perennial Hockey East power the likes of BC, Boston University and New Hampshire, is it too much to ask that the Friars regularly finish ahead of the likes of UMass, Merrimack, and Lowell?


http://www.projo.com/pc/content/sp_bkc_jim_donaldson_03_03-03-10_T6HL0SH_v14.3b3eb56.html
 
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In hindsight, it seems Gajda's benching was the beginning of the end.

Thanks Jim Donaldson. Jim, you can expect to hear from Hokydad.
 
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Wow, The projo knows there is hockey at PC?
 
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i agree jim tells all , i go to most of the games , not sure who to blame but there needs to be some heads to role .
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
Sorry to interrupt the funeral procession here, but I interrupt to give y'all PC'ers some good news.

Heisenberg is reporting that the Friars have landed Damian Cross - RW 5'11 185 from Pembroke of the C)JHL.

I've seen him play and he is a legit sniper -- he leads the league in scoring...by 27 goals.
His current line is: 61-53-85 138

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rZN-GJH1Q0NQeXIJG47g-ug
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I see they also got commitment from a kid from Phillips Exeter same day; last name of Hart
 
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For anyone who knows......what does PC actually give Army to recruit with, how many full scholarships, half scholarships and any other perks.....of the scholarships where are they being used now.......and how much are they paying him for his poor job performance
 
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satyking said:
For anyone who knows......what does PC actually give Army to recruit with, how many full scholarships, half scholarships and any other perks.....of the scholarships where are they being used now.......and how much are they paying him for his poor job performance
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CAV is the guy to answer the first question in detail. Pretty sure they are fully funded but the $'s are spread around, so you don't have 18 full boaters. It's a science understanding how the $'s are handled. Cav could teach a course on it. Everytime I talk to him about this my head spins trying to keep up.

I believe Tim is paid around $250K a year right now.

Little blurb on the kid Hart: Phillips Exeter 6'1", 195 lb. postgrad RD Kevin Hart has committed to Providence College for this coming fall. Hart is an 8/6/91 birthdate
 
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ill take the job for a cool 125k,and lloks like good talent comming in , has one more year to write the ship maybe.
 
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satyking said:
For anyone who knows......what does PC actually give Army to recruit with, how many full scholarships, half scholarships and any other perks.....of the scholarships where are they being used now.......and how much are they paying him for his poor job performance
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I think a better question is what kind of recruiting budget does he have. They don't seem to be recruiting much outside of New England. Is this a philosophical thing or is it because they don't have the budget to travel out west or up to Canada?
 
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