"The Lake Show" - LSSU Laker Hockey

[sm2pk]

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This year plays out the same as every year and until they can beat this monster,may be another long season.....OFFENSE

 

[AnchorsAway]

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This year plays out the same as every year and until they can beat this monster,may be another long season.....OFFENSE

I agree but I'm apt to think that if people can live up to their potential (a huge IF, i'll admit that.) then offensively the Lakers might be able to hold their own. If the returning players can improve their scoring output slightly and the freshman contribute the Lakers may be in decent offensive shape. If we can roughly these amount of goals from each player...

Schofield- 18
Acton-14
Nehring-12
Cassiani-12
Monardo-10
Campbell-10
Power-8
Lain-6
Mcparland-6
Radke-5
Barczuk-4
Jean-4
Stonehouse-3
Trotman-3
Cowie-2
Haines-2
Bruneteau-1
Sternberg-1
Hobbins-1
Perrault-1


...that adds up to 123 goals total, the Lakers have 34 games on their schedule (not counting next weeks exhibition) so that would be an average of about 3.6 goals per game..if production like this came to fruition and the Lakers had a goal total similar to these then barring a total collapse in the defense/goaltending department I would have to believe the Lakers would indeed finish up the regular season with a winning record...I don't believe these projections are asking too much from any player in particular although it is hard to guesstimate how the freshmen will be, but by the same token if this team is to have a good season it will need solid production from the new players...It will be interesting to revisit these projections as the season moves along to see how close they actually are to the actual numbers the Lakers put up...

 

[sm2pk]

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I agree but I'm apt to think that if people can live up to their potential (a huge IF, i'll admit that.) then offensively the Lakers might be able to hold their own.


Anchors,it has been a big IF for the last 13 years and still waiting for a powerplay and an offense that can win games week in and week out. The incoming class has to be better than last years and next years has to be better than this years or the same dance continues.

 

[Mogerfan]

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Mogerfan i will match you again this year on your pledge. The brick campaine is really not that bad of a deal the 8 x 8 brick that me and my wife are getting is not all that costly.
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Thanks for joining me. Hopefully it will cost us more than the $20 it did in the playoffs last year. Thanks for the brick info also, I'll look into that.

I'll be interested to see how Monardo develops this year. In the few games I saw last year, he pulled out some sweet moves that made opposing D look really bad. I didn't see enough games to get a feel for what the rest of his game is like, but he sure seemed to have the hands of an elite scorer.

 

[AnchorsAway]

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Thanks for joining me. Hopefully it will cost us more than the $20 it did in the playoffs last year. Thanks for the brick info also, I'll look into that.

I'll be interested to see how Monardo develops this year. In the few games I saw last year, he pulled out some sweet moves that made opposing D look really bad. I didn't see enough games to get a feel for what the rest of his game is like, but he sure seemed to have the hands of an elite scorer.

You are spot on in your scouting of Monardo, I went to every home game last year and he certainly has some killer hands, he scored the winning shootout victory against Notre Dame and along with Schofield should be a permanent fixture in our shootout lineup. He does a decent job of hustling back to help out in the defensive zone although in the offensive zone he could improve in his off the puck movement.

 

[3dognight]

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CCHA TV schedule announced....Lakers at Mich on Comcast cable is the only appearance.

Thanks CCHA for the exposure (sad). I talked with Anastos last year and he really has no input (sad again). LOTs of MSU,UM,ND, Miami. FSD states those are the games they can sell advertising for.......no market and lots of additional costs to come North.

One effect of potential BTN conference will be no CCHA television (ugh). But it will hardly affect the Lakers, eh?

 

[AnchorsAway]

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I agree but I'm apt to think that if people can live up to their potential (a huge IF, i'll admit that.) then offensively the Lakers might be able to hold their own.


Anchors,it has been a big IF for the last 13 years and still waiting for a powerplay and an offense that can win games week in and week out. The incoming class has to be better than last years and next years has to be better than this years or the same dance continues.

I agree that the only way we will get better is to get progressively better recruiting classes, it seems to be a hit and miss scenario in our year-by year recruiting...

the class that graduated last year was a productive group with 2 top defenseman in Kaunisto and Gysbers, productive scorers in Macvoy and Perkovich along with a solid grinder in Scrymgeour and a back-up goalie in Inglis. This years seniors produced a top scorer in Schofield along with nice secondary scorers in Acton and Nehring and a pair of solid if unspectacular D-men in Stonehouse and Cowie along with a 3 year starting goaltender in BMW.

The junior class didn't provide us with much other than a workhorse in Cassiani and a sparkplug in Barczuk (if he can stay away from dumb penalties) so that class is certainly sub par..

last years class produced a stud in Trotman along with promising players in Monardo, Power and possibly McParland. With so many new freshman it is crucial for the coming years in the program that we picked up at least 5 or 6 productive players out of the 10 or so that are freshman. We have picked up Trotman and Campbell in successive years who are probably the 2 most highly touted recruits the Lakers have had in a few years so that could be looked on as a sign of success... As Bill and I have talked about in the past it is clear that the Lakers just don't simply have the budget to recruit top leagues like the USHL with great volume, we just have to find diamonds in the rough or get after star players early in the process (like we did with Campbell) There are really only 2 scenarios that would cause the Lakers to grab a higher profile in the recuiting landscape and one is an extreme longshot:

- The first possibility is that the Lakers overachieve in a season or 2 (god willing) and not only make the NCAAs but make some noise in the tournament similar to the scenarios with Bemidji State and RIT, recruits pay attention to that kind of thing and want to be part of an upcoming program

-The longshot possibility (and i stress the term longshot) is that in the couple of years the Lakers were to get rid of Roque and convince either Doug Weight, Brian Rolston or Ron Rolston to take over the coaching duties. Rolston and even moreso, Weight have been among the top American born NHL players over the last decade in a half, a period in which recruits that will be available over the next handful of years, grew up watching. The use of their star power and the knowledge that they know what it takes to make the NHL would be very alluring to even the most blue-chip recruits. As for Ron Rolston, he coaches in the US national program and if he were to take the job I would asume he would be able to get a handful of the U.S. national team players he had been coaching to come with him... after a foundation like that is laid it would be very possible to establish somewhat of a pipeline from that program, with the allure to recruits being that they would get to play with other national program alumni and in all probability the increased success of the program that the initial group of national team players would probably prrovide the program with.

 

[sm2pk]

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I think the best hope for Laker hockey lies in the Norris Center project. What day is the coaches and media day for the CCHA in Detroit this week ?

 

[3dognight]

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Anchors....I think it is important to develop the program to stack up well against other CCHA facilities, and services rather than look for a HC Savior.

You need year round scholies and training, strength & conditioning, facilities, improved salaries. Then you need to start a trail of successful alums, get a program where GMs see progress every year and want to send their draft choices to LSSU. These are the things LSSU needs to correct, a difficult process...MUCH more than looking for a Ron Mason or Rolston to save the day........They are not working for what LSSU can pay. I am not sure today's recruits know much about Doug Weight, and not sure if he knows much about college coaching.

Lots of things can and will be put in place to make top recruits look at LSSU. They want to get to the next level....period. It takes more than a "name" to get them there. It is a PROGRAM building need...no quick fix, no matter who holds the whistle.

That is why the project required a 10 year commitment. I am hoping for ever improving players and records along the way. Coaches say the project has already gotten players to notice LSSU and give it some thought. Having Steve work with the goalies creates a "buzz" with young goalies...he works with 800+ a year in his camps and private lessons. Nice first baby steps......

As we move into the season I will go into "lurker" mode, dropping by when we have project related news. Good Luck to the Lakers....and I hope we have an entertaining season.

 

[LSSULaker889294]

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I heard somewhere that this is the last year of the Superior Cup. Is this true? If it is, such a shame.

Hope Saturday's game gets at least 2,000 people and the Superior Cup games close around 2,400-2,500 people. If the Sault is a true "Hockeytown", the residents have to come and support this team.

 

[LSSULaker889294]

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Lakers picked to finish 9th according to the CCHA media and coaches polls. I agree with them. I hope the Lakers prove them and me wrong.

 

[sm2pk]

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picked 9th in both polls..the freshmen best be very good coming in

 

[Laker Dude]

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I heard somewhere that this is the last year of the Superior Cup. Is this true? If it is, such a shame.

According to the NMU and MTU threads a couple of months ago this is the last year of the Superior Cup.

 

[AnchorsAway]

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Preaseason polls are one of the most useless things in sports today, until they start awarding goals based on how high you were in the preseason rankings they will continue to mean nothing....Does anyone know why the Superior Cup is being ended? I'll be sad to see it go...

 

[sm2pk]

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the pre-season polls on the lakers have been pretty consistent over the years.

 

[nmu_27]

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http://twitter.com/CCHAhockey

Audio from the coaches conference call.

 

[AnchorsAway]

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the pre-season polls on the lakers have been pretty consistent over the years.

I was referring to preseason polls in general, for example last year's poll had Notre Dame 1st, Ohio State 4th Michigan State 8th and Ferris 9th...all I'm saying is that a group of people (no matter how smart they are) making predictions about how a group of teams that havent played a game in months will finish over the course of a season by looking at a couple of factors on paper is never anything that I will be betting on...Preseason polls are good for nothing more than fodder for message boards like this

 

[SmartAxe]

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I heard somewhere that this is the last year of the Superior Cup. Is this true? If it is, such a shame.

I believe it has a lot to do with the fact that Tech & Northern already play each other twice a year. With the Superior Showcase series, that made 3 times a year. The games count in the total allowed by NCAA regs and I believe Northern was crowing about not being able to play a different non-conf game that might help their chances at years end, where this only hurts them when it comes to national considerations for the tourney.

 

[SmartAxe]

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..As we move into the season I will go into "lurker" mode, dropping by when we have project related news...

Too bad... I mean, we've already got Neil Diamond, with a 3dog night thrown in the mix, it was like we had an all out 70's revival going on right here in the Laker thread.. Heck, Don Muio was going to grow back his long hair back and be sporting bellbottoms & polyester butterfly collars on game nights.

 

[Neil Diamond]

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Coach Roque was on the morning show on Oldies 93 this morning, and he said he has not heard about the Superior Cup ending. In fact, he said they already have plans in place to travel next year to play in it (can't remember if he said it would be at Tech or Minn-Duluth). But he also said you just never know anymore in college hockey, with Penn State coming in everything changes.

He said BMW was ready for the season, and is looking for him to have a great last year at LSSU. He said Brian is aware of what the team needs from him, and he must also be a mentor to the new goalies. He also said the players are itching to play Saturday, as they've been scrimmaging each other for over three weeks, and that is getting old.

Didn't get to hear the entire interview, just a few minutes.