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Providence College Summer 2011: The Hockey Guy Adventures
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This does not effect PC at all...If you want to start looking at who is going to be effected by the changes, you have to start with the conferences first. Obviously the league that is going to be hurt the most is the WCHA and then CCHA. Then you have to look at the Big Ten...with Penn St. coming about will this encourage other schools in the Big Ten who don't have D-1 Hockey Programs to consider making a push for it? I really do think over the next 5-10 yrs you going to see major change in the landscape of college hockey and I think the league you have to look at next who is going to have issues is the Atlantic. I am sure the CCHA and WCHA will be knocking at schools like Air Force to join their league. I really do feel Hockey East is very stable it would be unrealistic for any of the schools want to leave....if anything Merrimack and UMass Lowell are the two schools who could face tough times. The next big piece of the puzzle that needs to be answered is what Notre Dame is going to do. As of right now Hockey East has made them an offer so we have to see what they decide. If Notre Dame does jump on board then you have to start to think if any other schools will be joining, possibly UConn (but not very likely since they do not have scholarships).
It is going to be very interesting to wait and see how this all turns out but I am confident that PC will be ok in the end.
This does not effect PC at all...If you want to start looking at who is going to be effected by the changes, you have to start with the conferences first. Obviously the league that is going to be hurt the most is the WCHA and then CCHA. Then you have to look at the Big Ten...with Penn St. coming about will this encourage other schools in the Big Ten who don't have D-1 Hockey Programs to consider making a push for it? I really do think over the next 5-10 yrs you going to see major change in the landscape of college hockey and I think the league you have to look at next who is going to have issues is the Atlantic. I am sure the CCHA and WCHA will be knocking at schools like Air Force to join their league. I really do feel Hockey East is very stable it would be unrealistic for any of the schools want to leave....if anything Merrimack and UMass Lowell are the two schools who could face tough times. The next big piece of the puzzle that needs to be answered is what Notre Dame is going to do. As of right now Hockey East has made them an offer so we have to see what they decide. If Notre Dame does jump on board then you have to start to think if any other schools will be joining, possibly UConn (but not very likely since they do not have scholarships).
It is going to be very interesting to wait and see how this all turns out but I am confident that PC will be ok in the end.
Re: Providence College Summer 2011: The Hockey Guy Adventures
Well it appears we have our goalie for 12-13--Julien LaPlante. My understanding is he freed up from Union when he became ineligible to play this coming year. He has to sit out next year which we can afford to let happen with 2 senior goalies and then there is a formula. Again my understanding is he only played 1 game which made him ineligible so it might be 1 game into the 12-13 season.
Well it appears we have our goalie for 12-13--Julien LaPlante. My understanding is he freed up from Union when he became ineligible to play this coming year. He has to sit out next year which we can afford to let happen with 2 senior goalies and then there is a formula. Again my understanding is he only played 1 game which made him ineligible so it might be 1 game into the 12-13 season.
Thanks for the heads up Cav. Renewed my season tickets online this afternoon. Can't wait for the start of the season. I think it may be quite rough in certain aspects but the program is on a new track and the outcome should be very promising a few years down the road. I'm glad that we have a goal after the Beast graduates. Go Fairs.
theprofromdover
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We just figured it was your usual Dominican style.
We just figured it was your usual Dominican style.
FiveHole12
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I thought it was hokydad incognito.
Re: Providence College Summer 2011: The Hockey Guy Adventures
No one seems to have posted it from today's PROJO
MacKinnon is staying local
http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/collegesports/2011/07/former-friar-hockey-standout-kyle-m.html
Also from yesterday about the players in Development camps. I assume Alex Velischek was left out since he was not a current Friar since he departed and is just coming back
http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/collegesports/2011/07/five-providence-college-hockey-play.html
guess its nice to have Dad own a team though
No one seems to have posted it from today's PROJO
MacKinnon is staying local
http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/collegesports/2011/07/former-friar-hockey-standout-kyle-m.html
Also from yesterday about the players in Development camps. I assume Alex Velischek was left out since he was not a current Friar since he departed and is just coming back
http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/collegesports/2011/07/five-providence-college-hockey-play.html
guess its nice to have Dad own a team though
Re: Providence College Summer 2011: The Hockey Guy Adventures
I remember when I was smarter than my phone......oh the good ole days
I remember when I was smarter than my phone......oh the good ole days
Re: Providence College Summer 2011: The Hockey Guy Adventures
Generally speaking you better love next year's team because they plus LaPlante, Norris and Gorman (your '12 recruits) are what we have for '11-12. By my count we have no more scholarships to give out for '12....what Leaman does from here on out is going to have to be the same magic he used to pull players in wihtout scholarships for Union.
LaPlante replace Beaudry and rather then have 3 goalies at once on scholarship surely he will replace Gates with a walk on backup
We have 9 D this year, graduate 2 and have none lined up to come in. I suspect we will get one as a walk on
Up front we lose Bergland and Maloney as scholarship guys and replace them with Gorman and Norris. Balysky is a walk on so it would be natural to replace him with another walk on.
I'd also argue what you see next year is what these guys are capable of. We are going to have but 4 players under 20. counting Laplante 4 of our recruits for this year will be 21 no later then mid season and Cross will be a 22 year old medical red shirt freshman. Think about this despite being a senior Matt Bergland is about right in the middle age wise.
This team is going to try to win games Pooley style 2-1 3-2 and since they truly are not built to play defense you wonder how much they can improve on their defensive game. Last year we had veteran 2 way forwards, this year we lack that. To instill that in the inexperienced forwards might cost you offensively. We probably are bit bigger on the blue line with Velischek's return and Wyszomirski but none of the forwards whether they were Leaman's or Army's recruits offer much size. Farrer, MacKinnon and Kremyr were big and O'Connor and Germain were still bigger then the incoming freshman. Remember also Beaudry played more minutes last year, faced fewer shots but his goals against went up by almost 1/2 a goal a game and his save percent to just above 90%. Basically by know he has to get better and adjusst he's played so much other teams now his weaknesses now.
Offensively beside a monster comeback by Bergland we need 4 players to be key. Cross to prove he is not a Chris Eppich clone, and 3 freshmen to do what freshman have not done around here much lately score (Luke, Brown and Acciari) and even doing that it might just pull them to last year's level. We still have no legitimate offensive threat from the blueline (I said it before except for New the goalie on the wome's team had more assists then any of our returning dmen had last year) and without that it is hard to make the power play click. I also think your most proven line most likely would be Schller, Rooney and Balysky and most likely you will have to continually match them up against the other teams top line as a checking line
While I think we will steal some games and maybe a team or two might underachieve during the course of the year we will the be the underdog in every league game we play in next year. I guess I'd hope to see the defensemen improve and finally see some on ice growth from these players which we have not seen in 10 years at least. For our sake I do hope our plan B's work out better then in recent past (Grabbing LaPlante when he became available, finding some older freshmen to fill gaps, getting Velischek back, and having things break right so Brown reopened his recruitment and us having money, his prep linemate and the coaches who orgiinally recurited him). Using these Plan B players to build a foundation was something Timmy was unable to do. If it does work maybe when it comes time to use the 4 or 5 schoalrships to get the Class of '13 in place (2 already used for dmen) we can finally upgrade our offense.
Generally speaking you better love next year's team because they plus LaPlante, Norris and Gorman (your '12 recruits) are what we have for '11-12. By my count we have no more scholarships to give out for '12....what Leaman does from here on out is going to have to be the same magic he used to pull players in wihtout scholarships for Union.
LaPlante replace Beaudry and rather then have 3 goalies at once on scholarship surely he will replace Gates with a walk on backup
We have 9 D this year, graduate 2 and have none lined up to come in. I suspect we will get one as a walk on
Up front we lose Bergland and Maloney as scholarship guys and replace them with Gorman and Norris. Balysky is a walk on so it would be natural to replace him with another walk on.
I'd also argue what you see next year is what these guys are capable of. We are going to have but 4 players under 20. counting Laplante 4 of our recruits for this year will be 21 no later then mid season and Cross will be a 22 year old medical red shirt freshman. Think about this despite being a senior Matt Bergland is about right in the middle age wise.
This team is going to try to win games Pooley style 2-1 3-2 and since they truly are not built to play defense you wonder how much they can improve on their defensive game. Last year we had veteran 2 way forwards, this year we lack that. To instill that in the inexperienced forwards might cost you offensively. We probably are bit bigger on the blue line with Velischek's return and Wyszomirski but none of the forwards whether they were Leaman's or Army's recruits offer much size. Farrer, MacKinnon and Kremyr were big and O'Connor and Germain were still bigger then the incoming freshman. Remember also Beaudry played more minutes last year, faced fewer shots but his goals against went up by almost 1/2 a goal a game and his save percent to just above 90%. Basically by know he has to get better and adjusst he's played so much other teams now his weaknesses now.
Offensively beside a monster comeback by Bergland we need 4 players to be key. Cross to prove he is not a Chris Eppich clone, and 3 freshmen to do what freshman have not done around here much lately score (Luke, Brown and Acciari) and even doing that it might just pull them to last year's level. We still have no legitimate offensive threat from the blueline (I said it before except for New the goalie on the wome's team had more assists then any of our returning dmen had last year) and without that it is hard to make the power play click. I also think your most proven line most likely would be Schller, Rooney and Balysky and most likely you will have to continually match them up against the other teams top line as a checking line
While I think we will steal some games and maybe a team or two might underachieve during the course of the year we will the be the underdog in every league game we play in next year. I guess I'd hope to see the defensemen improve and finally see some on ice growth from these players which we have not seen in 10 years at least. For our sake I do hope our plan B's work out better then in recent past (Grabbing LaPlante when he became available, finding some older freshmen to fill gaps, getting Velischek back, and having things break right so Brown reopened his recruitment and us having money, his prep linemate and the coaches who orgiinally recurited him). Using these Plan B players to build a foundation was something Timmy was unable to do. If it does work maybe when it comes time to use the 4 or 5 schoalrships to get the Class of '13 in place (2 already used for dmen) we can finally upgrade our offense.
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Re: Providence College Summer 2011: The Hockey Guy Adventures
Cav any bit of improvement will be super, we can't expect a major change but can hope for a closer woven team eager to learn and to get the job done and I expect it will take a few years to get back on track.....the big thing is the program is on the same track and going in the same direction showing improvement every step of the way......remember they are kids not pros
Cav any bit of improvement will be super, we can't expect a major change but can hope for a closer woven team eager to learn and to get the job done and I expect it will take a few years to get back on track.....the big thing is the program is on the same track and going in the same direction showing improvement every step of the way......remember they are kids not pros
BostonFriar
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Re: Providence College Summer 2011: The Hockey Guy Adventures
2 regulars from lst year are not with the team and there are 4 ships with players who have not played - and may not play now.
Coach has his work cut out for him.
2 regulars from lst year are not with the team and there are 4 ships with players who have not played - and may not play now.
Coach has his work cut out for him.
friarsfan87
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They might end up being pretty good.
Up front they have a solid top 9+/- with Schaller, Balisky, Rooney, Bergland, Cross, Luke, Aciari, Brown, Mauerman and Demopoulis Will be surprised if they dont add 1 or 2 more F's before season starts and if so that much better. New HC has gone with older kids so they will be more apt to adjust and produce quicker than 18 year old hs kids. Beaudry will be fine and D is solid with 5/6 returning and a couple new solid additions. Could see PC jumping up to 6-7th. Bergland in particular will be back and good without the insane manipulation and politics from last year in place. You dont go from 27 pts as a freshman and 23 as a sophmore to 9 as a junior without manipulation, which is what happened.
They might end up being pretty good.
Up front they have a solid top 9+/- with Schaller, Balisky, Rooney, Bergland, Cross, Luke, Aciari, Brown, Mauerman and Demopoulis Will be surprised if they dont add 1 or 2 more F's before season starts and if so that much better. New HC has gone with older kids so they will be more apt to adjust and produce quicker than 18 year old hs kids. Beaudry will be fine and D is solid with 5/6 returning and a couple new solid additions. Could see PC jumping up to 6-7th. Bergland in particular will be back and good without the insane manipulation and politics from last year in place. You dont go from 27 pts as a freshman and 23 as a sophmore to 9 as a junior without manipulation, which is what happened.
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BostonFriar
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Re: Providence College Summer 2011: The Hockey Guy Adventures
We could get to 7th if UMass, Lowell and NU slide but that would not make us a solid or good team playoff wise.
There is no money left at this point - period - so it would be a real find to get another player.
A few players should step up but it is expecting quite a bit for everyone to step up. We lost (I believe) our top 5 scorers from a very low scoring team.
I would be very happy to see the team somehow break out but we should not get that optimistic IMO. Long way to fall if we stay at the bottom of HE.
We could get to 7th if UMass, Lowell and NU slide but that would not make us a solid or good team playoff wise.
There is no money left at this point - period - so it would be a real find to get another player.
A few players should step up but it is expecting quite a bit for everyone to step up. We lost (I believe) our top 5 scorers from a very low scoring team.
I would be very happy to see the team somehow break out but we should not get that optimistic IMO. Long way to fall if we stay at the bottom of HE.
