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UMASS-NEWMASS Offseason/Recruits

Good luck to Lindberg. In my opinion he was definitely the best goalie in Hockey East last season, and I can’t imagine there was anyone in the nation better. The nomination process for the Richter Award is stupid and may have cost him the award.

NHL draft rules are more complicated than I thought. I never knew a team’s rights to a player expire earlier if they were drafted after 20 and withdraw from college. I don’t recall anyone from Hockey East using this option to force free agency early. Has it happened before? Good for Lindberg using the rules to his advantage to get paid. Was selfishly hoping he would come back to UMass and become a free agent after his senior year, but this is the better situation for him. He’s already won a title and dominated Hockey East and the NCAAs. Not really anything left to prove at this level.

Murray coming back makes a lot of sense now. Figure Carvel knew Lindberg’s plans and worked it out with Murray to comeback. I know they have a goalie recruit coming in this season, but I’d bet Murray is the number one guy. He’s proven at UMass he has what it takes: number one guy in regular season when the team won the Hockey East RS title, program leader in wins and shut outs, top three all time in Save Percentage and GAA, huge 2001-AFC-Championship-Drew-Bledsoe-esque win in the Frozen Four after not playing for three months. The list goes on. I have 0 concern about the starting goaltending next year. Hopefully he goes on a run like Lindberg did this season and gets a nice pay day himself from the pros as a result.
 
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jjmc85 said:
Good luck to Lindberg. In my opinion he was definitely the best goalie in Hockey East last season, and I can’t imagine there was anyone in the nation better. The nomination process for the Richter Award is stupid and may have cost him the award.
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7 goalies in Hockey East alone played more minutes than Lindberg last year. It's really not that difficult to understand.
 
jjmc85 said:
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What’s your point? None of the seven of them were as good as Lindberg last season.
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What is my point? That Lindberg is a great goalie but he was never going to be a Richter contender because he simply didn't play enough.
 
I disagree, especially in a covid year. Turns out the people who make nominations disagree too, considering how Lindberg played more than at least three on the watchlist who were nominated, and that’s just in Hockey East. I guess 600 minutes at UML or BU is more impressive than 900 minutes at UMass?
 
I don't give a rat's ass about the watch list. Don't even know how that is compiled. Just giving the logical reasoning as to why Lindberg wasn't a serious Richter candidate. That doesn't even mean he's not a better goalie than some of the guys who made the top 10 etc
 
J.D. said:
I don't give a rat's *** about the watch list. Don't even know how that is compiled. Just giving the logical reasoning as to why Lindberg wasn't a serious Richter candidate. That doesn't even mean he's not a better goalie than some of the guys who made the top 10 etc
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Ah. Well, if you knew about the watchlist and how it is compiled, the due date for submitting nominees to the watch list, and the fact you need to be on the watchlist to be eligible for the award, perhaps you’d agree with me that the process is stupid and cost Lindberg. Because Lindberg was hurt early he wasn’t on the watchlist. Because he wasn’t on the watch list he wasn’t eligible. The process is stupid and it cost him. I think he should have won the award. There’s no way in hell he wasn’t a top 10 goalie in the country last season.
 
jjmc85 said:
Ah. Well, if you knew about the watchlist and how it is compiled, the due date for submitting nominees to the watch list, and the fact you need to be on the watchlist to be eligible for the award, perhaps you’d agree with me that the process is stupid and cost Lindberg. Because Lindberg was hurt early he wasn’t on the watchlist. Because he wasn’t on the watch list he wasn’t eligible. The process is stupid and it cost him. I think he should have won the award. There’s no way in hell he wasn’t a top 10 goalie in the country last season.
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You guys just won a National Championship ... yet you're fixated on an individual award?

There's a lot of programs who would gladly bear this cross for you, mon ami ...
 
Then he wasn't on the watchlist because he didn't play enough. There's no conspiracy here or even negligence. It's rather simple. And if you really want to play this game, have Trivigno give back the Walter Brown to a deserving candidate.
 
Chuck Murray said:
You guys just won a National Championship ... yet you're fixated on an individual award?

There's a lot of programs who would gladly bear this cross for you, mon ami ...
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The conversation is about Lindberg turning pro. It’s pertinent to mention he was the best goalie last year in College Hockey.

J.D. said:
Then he wasn't on the watchlist because he didn't play enough. There's no conspiracy here or even negligence. It's rather simple. And if you really want to play this game, have Trivigno give back the Walter Brown to a deserving candidate.
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I never said there was a conspiracy. To quote my original post on the topic “The nomination process for the Richter Award is stupid and may have cost him the award.” That’s my point. The nomination process is stupid and may have cost him the award.

I also never said anything about the Walter Brown Award or Trivigno in this context. That’s a red herring.
 
kahunak said:
Carvel's contract extended with a rolling five-year contract-sounds like it is a big step up compensation-wise. He seems happy in Amherst and will be at UMASS for a long time. The future looks promising at UMASS!

https://umassathletics.com/news/202...9DH3oeNGfTqQ2meC98Y_WnAPWO3w69H4c8aThgbP_mYDE
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More good news for the UMASS faithful-looks like Coach Carvel intends to stay for the long run.

Greg Carvel @CoachCarvelUM
I’m fifty years old. Have never lived in the same place for more than seven years since the day I left my parents home at the age of seventeen. I think it is safe for me to start using the word “home” again.
 
No matter how bad UMass is in football and hoops, they should build a statue of Ryan Bamford for going from Micheletto to Carvel and then being able to keep him.
 
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