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RPI Recruit Thread 2013-14 (Part III)

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FlagDUDE08 said:
Perhaps they offered the scholarship on the off-chance that Kasdorf may have left. :eek:
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That could be the case. Also there is the chance that Kasdorf hasn't recovered sufficiently from surgery, although we have heard that he has been practicing.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Troy Record article about RPI's draftees http://www.troyrecord.com/sports/20140628/rpi-recruits-selected-in-nhl-draft. Dillon has a scholarship for the upcoming season? I didn't know that. :)
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Isn't including Dillon in the press release just an indication that he signed an LOI? In every other Division I sport that I am aware of coaches cannot say anything beyond confirming "Yes, I'm recruiting that guy" until they receive an LOI. Presumably hockey is the same. Of course, he could still chose to go the major juniors route instead of heading to Troy in 2015.
 
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rpi82 said:
Isn't including Dillon in the press release just an indication that he signed an LOI? In every other Division I sport that I am aware of coaches cannot say anything beyond confirming "Yes, I'm recruiting that guy" until they receive an LOI. Presumably hockey is the same. Of course, he could still chose to go the major juniors route instead of heading to Troy in 2015.
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....a slippery-slope regarding recruits. I noticed SA sent out a congratulatory Tweet to Praps but not Dillon (not that he may not have personally called).
 
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turk181 said:
....a slippery-slope regarding recruits. I noticed SA sent out a congratulatory Tweet to Praps but not Dillon (not that he may not have personally called).
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Very correct. It was the Athletic Department that first mentioned it (post 816) not SA.
 
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This has fallen off the first page already.

See posts 802 and 803 for last year's info. The teams listed below will continue to be updated.

Code: 
 # Name                Ps commitm. Team (League)                   Year  DOB      Ht    Wt  Hometown           
27 Todd Burgess        RW 04/14/14 Fairbanks Ice Dogs (NAHL)       15/16 04/03/96 6'02" 195 Phoenix, AZ
19 Austin Cho          LD 02/24/14 St. Andrews College (CISAA|MPHL)2016  05/19/97 6'00" 175 Mississauga, ON
16 Carlos Fornaris      C 02/13/13 Cedar Rapids Roughriders (USHL) 2015  02/17/95 5'08" 157 Miami, FL
12 Jacob Hayhurst       C 02/13/14 Toronto Lakeshore Patriots(OJHL)2016  01/20/97 5'08" 160 Mississauga, ON
22 Charlie Manley *    LD 12/19/11 Austin Bruins (NAHL)            2015  07/16/96 5'09" 175 Orchard Park, NY
 8 Meirs Moore *       LD 05/20/13 Fargo Force (USHL)              2015  12/04/94 5'08" 187 Duluth, MN
23 Alex Rodriguez      RW 03/12/14                                 2015  12/15/95 5'11" 175 Miami, FL
15 Evan Tironese       LW 05/01/12 Alberni Valley Bulldogs (BCHL)  2015  08/02/95 5'08" 160 Qualicum Beach, BC
31 Alec Dillon          G 09/22/13 Victoria Grizzlies (BCHL)       2015  05/05/96 6'05" 170 Victoria, BC


Women
76 Jaimie Grigsby       F 04/15/14 Whitby Wolves (PWHL)            2015  04/18/97 5'09" 140 Whitby, ON
 6 Josefine Hansen    D/F 12/19/13 Shattuck-St Mary's Prep         2015  01/24/97 5'02" 119 Princeton Junction, NJ
44 Ana Orzechowski      D 01/10/14 Little Caesars U19 (HPHL)       2015  12/24/96 5'06' xxx Tonawanda, NY
18 Makenna Thomas       F 04/15/14 Chicago Young Americans         2015  07/12/97 5'06" 145 Hartland, WI
37 Lovisa Selander      G 04/15/14 SDE Hockey                      2015  03/14/96 5'10" 126 Sollentuna?, Sweden

* In the RPI directory
# Known to have signed Letter of Intent
The years the men's recruits are listed as committed for are not necessarily accurate.
The dates on which some of the women are listed as committing on may be considerably after the actual dates.
 
Re: RPI Recruit Thread 2013-14 (Part III)

turk181 said:
I had heard from someone this past winter that he was retiring sometime this year.......doesn’t make it fact though.
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Fast Eddie has retired but will still be covering RPI hockey. Makes me wonder what else he did. Definately knot editting. ;)
 
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Article about Alec Dillon and childhood friend Dysin Mayo of Edmonton (WHL) both being drafted in the fifth round http://www.timescolonist.com/sports/nhl-draft-a-cool-experience-for-childhood-friends-1.1186162.

Dillon has a U.S. collegiate NCAA athletic scholarship offer to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute beginning in 2015-16. Dillon’s WHL rights are held by the Oil Kings, leaving open the possibility of the old Island friends playing together in Edmonton.

“We’re hoping to get Alec out [to play in the WHL for the Oil Kings],” said Mayo.
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SA and company may have to work to keep Dillon.
 
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Hockey's Future draft review for LA http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articl...t-los-angeles-kings-draft-review/#more-110503.


Alec Dillon, G, Victoria Grizzlies (BCHL)
5th round, 150th overall
Height: 6-5 Weight: 170

Big Alec Dillon was the second and final future collegiate player the Kings selected in the 2014 draft. He will play one more year for the Victoria Grizzlies in the BCHL before heading to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in NCAA.
For a fifth-round pick, Dillon is one of those low-risk high-reward style pick-ups. He is massive goaltender standing at 6’5”. Since he is all arms and legs, Dillon covers the net extremely well, and when he plays his positioning correctly, he is a challenging figure to beat. He is a very raw talent, but with that sort of physical make up, he is an intriguing goaltender to develop. His athleticism has been a bit of a concern, but he will only get more comfortable with more experience and more physical development. Kings have done well with Martin Jones, who had a similar scouting report on him.

The Victoria native is heading to the NCAA in a few years and has a fairly long development path. That works out perfectly fine for the Los Angeles Kings, who have a pretty stacked pipeline of goaltenders already with Jones, Jean-Francois Berube, and Patrik Bartosak.
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Good to see that they are not predicting that he will head to Edmonton, but that might be lack of research.
 
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And about MP http://www.lfpress.com/2014/07/02/l...dish-d-man-julius-bergman-in-chl-import-draft

Mark Hunter said he is no closer to signing 18-year-old defender Michael Prapavessis, the Dallas Stars fourth rounder who is Knights property but committed to RPI this fall. The same goes for Leafs fourth-round pick J.J. Piccinich, the right winger from New Jersey aimed at Boston University this fall.

“Right now, their minds are still to go to college,” Hunter said, “but things do change.”
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AspyDad said:
Prap and Dillon will wear the Cherry and White in Troy. No worries Dr. Baer. That is all.
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....from everything I’ve been told by people out of Lincoln, the Prapavessis family is huge on education. Praps will be here....how long, who knows. I’ld guess 3years. FWIW, the Edmonton Oil Kings lost their HC today. He took the vacant Texas Stars (AHL) job today.
 
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AspyDad said:
Prap and Dillon will wear the Cherry and White in Troy. No worries Dr. Baer. That is all.
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I do think MP will be in RPI this fall. As turk wrote we can't be sure how long he will stay.

You may have inside info on Dillon. I don't, but anything could still happen.

I have never written that either was not going to Troy, but I remain concerned. WaP also seems concerned.
 
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Hey kids - I'm looking to fill A 2ND foursome for the golf outing and am one body short. If anyone is interested, drop me a line....no pressure golf with our crowd, just enough skill to keep it interesting and the rest of us play the "ringers" tee shot !
 
Ralph Baer said:
Very correct. It was the Athletic Department that first mentioned it (post 816) not SA.
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I doubt the NCAA makes a distinction between what the coaches are allowed to comment on and what can be included in press releases from the Athletic Department (what a loophole that would be!). My guess is that either Dillon has signed an LOI (permitting public comments about him) or the rules for hockey are different than other sports (possible given the dramatically different recruiting environment). In either case, I'm sure our coaches and AD are aware of the relevant limitations and complying appropriately.
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
Hey kids - I'm looking to fill A 2ND foursome for the golf outing and am one body short. If anyone is interested, drop me a line....no pressure golf with our crowd, just enough skill to keep it interesting and the rest of us play the "ringers" tee shot !
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Wrong thread. p
 
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