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UML 2019/2020: Underclassmen Reign

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UMass Amherst's Mitchell Chaffee signs with Minnesota, forgoing his last year of eligibility.
 
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Derek Osik is reported to have entered the transfer portal. This isn't a surprise he's only played on 3 games over the past two seasons. Best of luck to him.

I've seen a lot of tweets regaring players entering the transfer portal, especially grad transfers with 1 year left. Norm rarely goes after transfer students, but a grad transfer with experience could really help.

Aside from Derek and the goaltenders, the rest of the team played 13 games or more this year. That's a lot of depth and experience. Usually there are more players that have only played a handful of games.

UMLFan, you are making me think more about next season's team. I think you may be right.
 
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Middle Street said:
Derek Osik is reported to have entered the transfer portal. This isn't a surprise he's only played on 3 games over the past two seasons. Best of luck to him.

I've seen a lot of tweets regaring players entering the transfer portal, especially grad transfers with 1 year left. Norm rarely goes after transfer students, but a grad transfer with experience could really help.

Aside from Derek and the goaltenders, the rest of the team played 13 games or more this year. That's a lot of depth and experience. Usually there are more players that have only played a handful of games.

UMLFan, you are making me think more about next season's team. I think you may be right.
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I'm still worried about the offensive side. But our defensive corp should be right near that top of Hockey East, which will help any goaltender behind them.

Taking this from the recruiting thread, here's the current look at the 20/21 roster (assuming Kerner for 21, and assuming Sawchuk returns to hockey):

Defense (11):
Senior: Anthony Baxter
Juniors: Seth Barton, Chase Blackmun, Cale List, Jonathan McDonald, Dominic Procopio, Nolan Sawchuk
Sophomores: Marek Korencik, Jordan Schulting
Freshmen: Brehdan Engum, Ben Meehan

Forwards (18):
Seniors: Charlie Levesque, Chris Schutz*, Connor Sodergren
Juniors: Lucas Condotta, Samuel Knoblauch, Austin O’Rourke, Reid Stefanson
Sophomores: Carl Berglund, Matthew Brown, Brian Chambers, Zach Kaiser, Andre Lee, Blake Wells
Freshmen: Matt Allen, Andranik Armstrong, Jack Bayless, Owen Cole, Jackson Sterrett

Goalies (3):
Seniors:
Junior: Eric Green
Sophomore: Logan Neaton
Freshman: Henry Welsch

* == Redshirt

This leaves us at 32 on the roster, with the class breakdown for 2020/2021 being:
Seniors: 4
Juniors: 11
Sophomores: 9
Freshmen: 7

That defense looks legit, arguably one of the top ones in Hockey East (and still only one senior next year).

To me there are three key question marks for next season:
1) Goal: Does Neaton step up or is it Goalie by committee?
2) Brown/Berglund/Lee: Can they avoid the sophomore slump?
3) Can the remaining offensive players produce consistently?
 
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https://www.lowellsun.com/2020/03/22/simulations-suggest-river-hawks-had-success-coming/

They are covering the Sim thread in the Lowell Sun and the Season Tix email. They even covered Lee's Wrap Around Goal!!! Yay Lee!!

Hope all of you virtually driving down are being safe. Our flight was uneventful and we are now waiting. I have a new, super secret way to smuggle in my cowbell so all is right in the virtual world.

MORE COWBELL!!!
 
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Lowell announces their team awards:
MVP: Tyler Wall
Billy Riley Unsung Hero Award: Colin O'Neill
Gus Coutu Award (given to the player who best exemplifies the spirit of the hockey program): Colin O'Neill
Rookie of the Year: Carl Berglund
Best Defensive Player Award: Jon McDonald
Most Improved Player: Austin O'Rourke
Coaches' Perseverance Award: Nolan Sawchuk
G. Harvey Chandler Award (Team's Leading scorer): Matt Brown
Marc Connelly Award (given to a non-player who makes a positive significant impact on the program): Chase Fuchs
 
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UMLFan said:
Lowell announces their team awards:
MVP: Tyler Wall
Billy Riley Unsung Hero Award: Colin O'Neill
Gus Coutu Award (given to the player who best exemplifies the spirit of the hockey program): Colin O'Neill
Rookie of the Year: Carl Berglund
Best Defensive Player Award: Jon McDonald
Most Improved Player: Austin O'Rourke
Coaches' Perseverance Award: Nolan Sawchuk
G. Harvey Chandler Award (Team's Leading scorer): Matt Brown
Marc Connelly Award (given to a non-player who makes a positive significant impact on the program): Chase Fuchs
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I love Sawchuck! Devastated that he missed the rest of the year :( Hope he is doing better. We need more like him. He has so much heart!
 
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Tyler Madden (NU) and Trevor Zegras (BU) have signed professional contracts, and will give up remaining eligilibity.
 
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John Leonard has also left UMass a year early, signing with San Jose.
 
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UMLFan said:
Lowell announces their team awards:
MVP: Tyler Wall
Billy Riley Unsung Hero Award: Colin O'Neill
Gus Coutu Award (given to the player who best exemplifies the spirit of the hockey program): Colin O'Neill
Rookie of the Year: Carl Berglund
Best Defensive Player Award: Jon McDonald
Most Improved Player: Austin O'Rourke
Coaches' Perseverance Award: Nolan Sawchuk
G. Harvey Chandler Award (Team's Leading scorer): Matt Brown
Marc Connelly Award (given to a non-player who makes a positive significant impact on the program): Chase Fuchs
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Lowell Sun article.
https://www.lowellsun.com/2020/03/31/wall-oneil-headline-uml-award-winners/
 
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Another week has begun. Hope everyone's being as safe as possible.

Knew it would happen eventually, but a good friend's mother passed away yesterday from this.
 
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UMLFan said:
Another week has begun. Hope everyone's being as safe as possible.

Knew it would happen eventually, but a good friend's mother passed away yesterday from this.
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:( sorry to hear Monty
 
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Both of these guys have been instrumental in recruiting at their current schools.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UVM’s next head coach will be either Northeastern associate head coach Jerry Keefe or UMass associate head coach Ben Barr. Both would be home run hires for UVM AD Jeff Schulman.</p>— Jeff Cox (@JeffCoxSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffCoxSports/status/1247899158284886023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
UMLFan said:
Both of these guys have been instrumental in recruiting at their current schools.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UVM’s next head coach will be either Northeastern associate head coach Jerry Keefe or UMass associate head coach Ben Barr. Both would be home run hires for UVM AD Jeff Schulman.</p>— Jeff Cox (@JeffCoxSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffCoxSports/status/1247899158284886023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Are you happy with recruiting at your school
 
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Since we have nothing better to do these days: Better top line for Lowell in the past 20 years:

Godoy-Walter-Martin

or

Smith-Gambardella-Edwardh

I don't think there was another line combination that really compared, but add your own option if you'd like.
 
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bottomdweller said:
Since we have nothing better to do these days: Better top line for Lowell in the past 20 years:

Godoy-Walter-Martin

or

Smith-Gambardella-Edwardh

I don't think there was another line combination that really compared, but add your own option if you'd like.
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The latter. Those three had a combined 142 points their last year together. Think of that ... the 18/19 season (the last one that actually finished), it took our top 7 scorers to surpass that total.

In their best year, Godoy/Walter/Martin combined for 110.

On top of the numbers, none of those three were as pure a sniper as Smith. I loved Martin, but I think Gamby might have been the best leader this team has had in the last 20 or so years. And only Walter could compete with Edwardh digging for those dirty goals. On the defensive side, Gamby/Edwardh were fantastic (Smith got better over his time here).
 
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