Jack Hanson
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Congratulations Michael Hrabel, HEA Player of the Year!
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UMASS-NEWMASS 2025-2026
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This was unimaginable at the beginning of the year. Congrats to Hrabel!
UMass’ Michael Hrabal Crowned Hockey East Player Of The Year - University of Massachusetts Athletics
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts hockey junior goaltender Michael Hrabal has been voted as the 2025-26 Hockey East Player of the Year, the league...
Jack Hanson
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Tough loss. The Minutemen had enough opportunities, Merrimack was very careless with the puck at times. But some of UMA’s weaknesses really hurt them. The Powerplay was impotent, they were once again terrible in the faceoff dot.
Oh well, congratulations to Merrimack and their lone superfan Rence!
Hrabal is going, I hope he finishes the rest of the semester first.
Musa was never drafted, so I assume he can pick his choice of minor league towns to toil in. Or maybe he stays. Fingers crossed.
We need a couple of guys who can put the puck in the net. And win faceoffs.
Looking at the very first post of the thread I see that k-man predicted the season alot better than I did.
Go HEA let’s get two all the way to the FF!
Oh well, congratulations to Merrimack and their lone superfan Rence!
Hrabal is going, I hope he finishes the rest of the semester first.
Musa was never drafted, so I assume he can pick his choice of minor league towns to toil in. Or maybe he stays. Fingers crossed.
We need a couple of guys who can put the puck in the net. And win faceoffs.
Looking at the very first post of the thread I see that k-man predicted the season alot better than I did.
Go HEA let’s get two all the way to the FF!
Terrific win for Merrimack but you are 100% correct about them being careless with the puck. Nearly gave me a heart attack when the MC defenseman held the puck behind his own net winding down the 1st and all of a sudden passses it directly up the boards to a UMass player. Yikes!!
Both goalies were excellent and Lundgren saved 'Mack's ass at least a couple of times. Glad it was a goood clean goal for the game winner.
Heading back into the Garden tonight. Hope the 3rd time being in the Final is the charm.
Jack Hanson
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Congratulations Merrimack Warriors and their Last of the Mohicans fan Renceb! It’s a heckuva story.
Not a difficult prediction. Every year, for most schools, this is how the season will go. Lots of new players that have to be introduced into a new system. The best players leave to the NHL, some transfer and seniors graduate. I will predict the same thing next year for UMASS since there will be a new goalie and a bunch of new faces. I hope they get some goal scorers.
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Jack Hanson
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I’ll second those congratulations. I have been in Florida for 3 weeks and missed the tournament completely. I see HEA performed poorly. Ah well.
I see 7 forwards and 1 goalie are in portal. Those 7 forwards accounted for a whooping 11 goals last season, so this doesn’t sound too bad. I’ll miss Bo Cosman the most. I don’t know what Wilde and Mehlenberger are thinking, but good luck with your third teams.
The best thing I’m catching up on is the return of Musa snd Larry Keenan. I think I’ll worry about the incoming class later this summer when commitments are real. I don’t expect much intake from the portal and given the poor returns there, probably for the best.
Alright then, see you in the Fall K-man, Renceb, and … anyone else who actually reads my drivel.
Out!
I see 7 forwards and 1 goalie are in portal. Those 7 forwards accounted for a whooping 11 goals last season, so this doesn’t sound too bad. I’ll miss Bo Cosman the most. I don’t know what Wilde and Mehlenberger are thinking, but good luck with your third teams.
The best thing I’m catching up on is the return of Musa snd Larry Keenan. I think I’ll worry about the incoming class later this summer when commitments are real. I don’t expect much intake from the portal and given the poor returns there, probably for the best.
Alright then, see you in the Fall K-man, Renceb, and … anyone else who actually reads my drivel.
Out!
cinnamoroll
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UMass with a pretty good portal get- almost more of a commitment.
06 F Gavin Cornforth started the season with BC and had no points in 18 games. He was buried down the lineup and just hadn't adjusted as well as hoped. He took advantage of the CHL rule change to not go back to his old USHL team but join the Moncton Wildcats, the reigning QMJHL champions. In 29 games he put up 12-18-30. So far in the playoffs, he is a goal per game, including a hat trick in Game 1 of their 1st round sweep of Saint John.
Moncton is one of the franchises that is top tier in how they treat players. they've retained a lot of talent and lured high end players as a result. The program is run by the son/father GM/coach duo of Taylor and Gardiner MacDougall, who had great success with the University of New Brunswick USports team for many years. Gardiner also coached Canada to Gold at the 2023 WJC. He's having an awesome time there by all accounts, some of the other commits he's playing with are BC commit Teddy Mutryn, Michigan State commit Tommy Bleyl, Harvard commit G Rudy Guimond, among many others...
on Cornforth's decision to leave: I don't think he was quite ready for college and he left around the time Hemming came. there were a few big fish BC was chasing (one being Moncton captain Caleb Desnoyers) that ended up not working out so he might've been a stopgap guy. BC did a similar thing with Letourneau after they didn't prepare for Smith turning pro, and everyone knows how that freshman season worked out. Letourneau stuck it out because he had the more obvious potential but Cornforth doesn't have the same leverage. i had guessed Merrimack as a landing spot earlier because Gavin's dad Mark played there, but they retained most of their players.
if you have FloHockey, Moncton/Val d'Or game 3 is Tuesday 7 ET. while Moncton is a bilingual city, their broadcasts are primarily in English- just make sure you chose the Away feed when they play a francophone team. very good chance the final is between Moncton and Chicoutimi, which would mean Cornforth v Massé.
06 F Gavin Cornforth started the season with BC and had no points in 18 games. He was buried down the lineup and just hadn't adjusted as well as hoped. He took advantage of the CHL rule change to not go back to his old USHL team but join the Moncton Wildcats, the reigning QMJHL champions. In 29 games he put up 12-18-30. So far in the playoffs, he is a goal per game, including a hat trick in Game 1 of their 1st round sweep of Saint John.
Moncton is one of the franchises that is top tier in how they treat players. they've retained a lot of talent and lured high end players as a result. The program is run by the son/father GM/coach duo of Taylor and Gardiner MacDougall, who had great success with the University of New Brunswick USports team for many years. Gardiner also coached Canada to Gold at the 2023 WJC. He's having an awesome time there by all accounts, some of the other commits he's playing with are BC commit Teddy Mutryn, Michigan State commit Tommy Bleyl, Harvard commit G Rudy Guimond, among many others...
on Cornforth's decision to leave: I don't think he was quite ready for college and he left around the time Hemming came. there were a few big fish BC was chasing (one being Moncton captain Caleb Desnoyers) that ended up not working out so he might've been a stopgap guy. BC did a similar thing with Letourneau after they didn't prepare for Smith turning pro, and everyone knows how that freshman season worked out. Letourneau stuck it out because he had the more obvious potential but Cornforth doesn't have the same leverage. i had guessed Merrimack as a landing spot earlier because Gavin's dad Mark played there, but they retained most of their players.
if you have FloHockey, Moncton/Val d'Or game 3 is Tuesday 7 ET. while Moncton is a bilingual city, their broadcasts are primarily in English- just make sure you chose the Away feed when they play a francophone team. very good chance the final is between Moncton and Chicoutimi, which would mean Cornforth v Massé.
Cinnamoroll
Thanks for the info on Cornforth. I saw the commit and looked for info on him but came up with little. I hope he is what you say. Carvel will push him hard and he may be the diamond in the rough UMASS needs.