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UNH Recruits: 2012-2018

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C-H-C said:
"UNH Recruits Update: Week 28"
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C-H-C I updated you on my son's former teammate last spring Mason Jobst, here is more from this past season he is an 18 year old 94. Come next season some team is going to scoop this kid up I have a feeling it won't be UNH but I wish it was. This January he was called up to Muskegon Lumberjacks and played till the end of the season. He didn't get much in terms of points on a team that wasn't very good but this is what they wrote about him on the team website:

"Short Stature but Large Impact: Mason Jobst knows that height is not an asset he possesses. However, the 5-foot-7 center makes his hometown of Speedway, Ind., proud with his dynamism on the ice. Jobst quickly endeared himself to Lumberjacks fans after joining the team from its Affiliate List in January, providing a valuable combination of speedy skating and tireless work ethic.

Mason centered Muskegon's "energy line" with Max Shuart and Joe Cox on his wings, giving the club a measure of consistency in the second half of a tumultuous season. While Jobst would've loved to score more (he told me himself), his 10 points in 32 outings was a respectable total for his first extended action at the junior level.

To boot, Jobst, Shuart and Cox all figure to return for their second seasons in the Port City, giving the Jacks a backbone of hard-working forwards to build upon during the upcoming draft and tryout process. Take nothing away from Shuart (Michigan) and Cox (Michigan State), but Jobst was the hub of that high-motor trio."
 
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Hockeydad, so what's the latest on Michael Vechione, will he be getting any offers for next year?
 
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SteveS. said:
C-H-C I updated you on my son's former teammate last spring Mason Jobst, here is more from this past season he is an 18 year old 94. Come next season some team is going to scoop this kid up I have a feeling it won't be UNH but I wish it was. This January he was called up to Muskegon Lumberjacks and played till the end of the season. He didn't get much in terms of points on a team that wasn't very good but this is what they wrote about him on the team website:

"Short Stature but Large Impact: Mason Jobst knows that height is not an asset he possesses. However, the 5-foot-7 center makes his hometown of Speedway, Ind., proud with his dynamism on the ice. Jobst quickly endeared himself to Lumberjacks fans after joining the team from its Affiliate List in January, providing a valuable combination of speedy skating and tireless work ethic.

Mason centered Muskegon's "energy line" with Max Shuart and Joe Cox on his wings, giving the club a measure of consistency in the second half of a tumultuous season. While Jobst would've loved to score more (he told me himself), his 10 points in 32 outings was a respectable total for his first extended action at the junior level.

To boot, Jobst, Shuart and Cox all figure to return for their second seasons in the Port City, giving the Jacks a backbone of hard-working forwards to build upon during the upcoming draft and tryout process. Take nothing away from Shuart (Michigan) and Cox (Michigan State), but Jobst was the hub of that high-motor trio."
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Yes Steve - ever since you described Mason Jobst over a year ago, I've kept an eye out for his name. His offensive stats for the half-season in Muskegon are pretty darn good - especially for a senior in high school. The write-up from their website provides more details on how he contributes. Sounds like he responded well to the opportunity to play in the USHL. Should be fun to see how he develops playing with the Lumberjacks from summer camp and into the regular season.
 
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Your projection of Tyler Kelleher as a 2014 recruit is a littler concerning. I know how you get there, I read the disclaimer.

Hopefully you and the UNH staff aren't of like mind. Kid is the leading scorer both goals and points on the U-17 team, his -11 is a big concern but his shooting percentage is the 3rd leading and the best of anybody with more than 1/2 the games and/or 30 shots.
The other concern is 5'6" 147, small! He is already 17 and will be 18 before the end of the 2012-2013 season.

Looks to me like somebody to have on campus Sept 2013. Unless he grows he probably isn't a pro flight risk but get him in before he decides I don't want to play for this coaching staff anymore and heads elsewhere.

Yup - I am getting gun shy on recruits and this coaching staff.
 
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JB said:
Your projection of Tyler Kelleher as a 2014 recruit is a littler concerning. I know how you get there, I read the disclaimer.

Hopefully you and the UNH staff aren't of like mind. Kid is the leading scorer both goals and points on the U-17 team, his -11 is a big concern but his shooting percentage is the 3rd leading and the best of anybody with more than 1/2 the games and/or 30 shots.
The other concern is 5'6" 147, small! He is already 17 and will be 18 before the end of the 2012-2013 season.

Looks to me like somebody to have on campus Sept 2013. Unless he grows he probably isn't a pro flight risk but get him in before he decides I don't want to play for this coaching staff anymore and heads elsewhere.

Yup - I am getting gun shy on recruits and this coaching staff.
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Not to worry, he will get rejected by UNH admissions anyway.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
Not to worry, he will get rejected by UNH admissions anyway.
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I know your tongue is firmly stuffed in your check but that concern crossed my mind. Admissions get a hair across their butt and Kelleher end up at BC, BU maybe even Harvard.
 
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JB said:
Your projection of Tyler Kelleher as a 2014 recruit is a littler concerning. I know how you get there, I read the disclaimer.

Hopefully you and the UNH staff aren't of like mind. Kid is the leading scorer both goals and points on the U-17 team, his -11 is a big concern but his shooting percentage is the 3rd leading and the best of anybody with more than 1/2 the games and/or 30 shots.
The other concern is 5'6" 147, small! He is already 17 and will be 18 before the end of the 2012-2013 season.

Looks to me like somebody to have on campus Sept 2013. Unless he grows he probably isn't a pro flight risk but get him in before he decides I don't want to play for this coaching staff anymore and heads elsewhere.

Yup - I am getting gun shy on recruits and this coaching staff.
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The primary practical hurdle standing in the way of Tyler Kelleher coming to UNH in the fall of 2013 is his grade level. Last year, he was a freshman at Deerfield Academy. This year, he entered one of the Ann Arbor High Schools as a sophomore. To come to UNH for the 2013-14 season, Kelleher would need to graduate from high school a year ahead of his current schedule. That's certainly a possibility.

I don't underestimate Kelleher's drive to be an NHL player some day. I think he's determined to follow the path of Tyler Ennis and Nathan Gerbe - both undersized, dynamic forwards who were drafted by the Sabres. One concern is that a Canadian Major Junior team might try to entice him to give up his plan of attending UNH.
 
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C-H-C said:
The primary practical hurdle standing in the way of Tyler Kelleher coming to UNH in the fall of 2013 is his grade level. Last year, he was a freshman at Deerfield Academy. This year, he entered one of the Ann Arbor High Schools as a sophomore. To come to UNH for the 2013-14 season, Kelleher would need to graduate from high school a year ahead of his current schedule. That's certainly a possibility.
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Good to hear about the schooling as the hold up. I was looking at the age and assumed a grade, poor form on my part. Was he just a late starter or was he one of those kids that repeated freshman year in the switch from public high school to Deerfield? Anybody know?

I am pretty high on Kelleher as a college player. His numbers look great, he is playing at a high Junior level and frankly he is really small. That combination says to me there is a high probability of a 4 year guy who has a chance to be extremely productive. You just hope his compete level is that of a Saviano with a higher scoring skill level.
 
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JB said:
Good to hear about the schooling as the hold up. I was looking at the age and assumed a grade, poor form on my part. Was he just a late starter or was he one of those kids that repeated freshman year in the switch from public high school to Deerfield? Anybody know?

I am pretty high on Kelleher as a college player. His numbers look great, he is playing at a high Junior level and frankly he is really small. That combination says to me there is a high probability of a 4 year guy who has a chance to be extremely productive. You just hope his compete level is that of a Saviano with a higher scoring skill level.
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In the 2009-10 season, Tyler Kelleher lead Longmeadow (MA) High School to the state finals as a freshman. In Fall 2010, Kelleher enrolled at Deerfield Academy as a freshman. Latest information has Kelleher planning to come to UNH in the fall of 2013.

I saw Kelleher play once while he was at Deerfield and watched him a couple times on line this season with Team USA. He is a high-energy center who is fast and tenacious and has outstanding puck-handling ability.
 
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JB said:
Your projection of Tyler Kelleher as a 2014 recruit is a littler concerning. I know how you get there, I read the disclaimer.

Hopefully you and the UNH staff aren't of like mind. Kid is the leading scorer both goals and points on the U-17 team, his -11 is a big concern but his shooting percentage is the 3rd leading and the best of anybody with more than 1/2 the games and/or 30 shots.
The other concern is 5'6" 147, small! He is already 17 and will be 18 before the end of the 2012-2013 season.

Looks to me like somebody to have on campus Sept 2013. Unless he grows he probably isn't a pro flight risk but get him in before he decides I don't want to play for this coaching staff anymore and heads elsewhere.

Yup - I am getting gun shy on recruits and this coaching staff.
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This staff can and will be all over him until he matriculates, unlike JL they couldn't, and with no love(contact) he jumped.
 
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According to Coach Hauge (on twitter) of the Tri-City Storm, Mike Vecchione will return next year for his second season in the USHL.
 
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I just read in the Saturday Detroit News that David a (Peters son) has committed to Michigan State. He was recruited from the CHL's Chilliwack Chiefs, onve a fertile recruiting spot for both Scott Borek & Brian McCloskey at first, Brown, and later UNH. Was UNH in the picture for Bondra? They should have a good shot versus the Spartans. Anyone know???
 
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FRICKER said:
I just read in the Saturday Detroit News that David a (Peters son) has committed to Michigan State. He was recruited from the CHL's Chilliwack Chiefs, onve a fertile recruiting spot for both Scott Borek & Brian McCloskey at first, Brown, and later UNH. Was UNH in the picture for Bondra? They should have a good shot versus the Spartans. Anyone know???
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Sounds like Michigan State had the inside track on Bondra's son for two reasons:

"Chilliwack has been a bit of a pipeline for MSU sending Shawn Horcoff, Brad Hodgins, Brian Maloney, Jeremy Jackson, Kevin Estrada, Derek Grant, and Harvey Smyl to East Lansing.
For those hockey fans, the last name Bondra should sound familiar, as David is the son of former NHL'er Peter Bondra. He spent 17 seasons in the NHL, including 14 with the Washington Capitals where current MSU assistant Kelly Miller was his teammate up through the 1999 season." (TheMunnMinute).

Bondra's son is committed to MSU for next fall. UNH already has five forwards coming for 2012-13.

Chilliwack is in the British Columbia Hockey League. UNH's two most recent recruits - Dylan Chanter and Cam Marks - are from British Columbia.
 
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C-H-C said:
According to Coach Hauge (on twitter) of the Tri-City Storm, Mike Vecchione will return next year for his second season in the USHL.
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I don't get it? The UNH staff asks Vecchione to play another year in the USHL and he de-commits as he thinks he's plenty ready to enter school in 2012. Hokydad, chimes in, stating that UNH made a BIG mistake in letting this very talented kid get away and that he was definitely ready to play D-1 in 2012. He also insists that many big time programs (far superior to UNH) are all over this kid, practically begging him to sign on the dotted line as he's THAT good. Vecchione goes on to have a subpar to average at best year in the USHL, but Hokydad still insists he has offers up the ying yang, from again, far superior schools to UNH. Now we find out that Vecchione, just like UNH had originally asked him to, is on his way back for another year in the USHL. Call me crazy, but if he's "that" good, is already 19, with a year in the USHL already under his belt, then why does nobody want him now?

Now Hokydad, I have stuck up for you on repeated occasions and generally respect your opinion, but man oh man, you sure dropped the ball on this one...
 
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I don't get it? The UNH staff asks Vecchione to play another year in the USHL and he de-commits as he thinks he's plenty ready to enter school in 2012. Hokydad, chimes in, stating that UNH made a BIG mistake in letting this very talented kid get away and that he was definitely ready to play D-1 in 2012. He also insists that many big time programs (far superior to UNH) are all over this kid, practically begging him to sign on the dotted line as he's THAT good. Vecchione goes on to have a subpar to average at best year in the USHL, but Hokydad still insists he has offers up the ying yang, from again, far superior schools to UNH. Now we find out that Vecchione, just like UNH had originally asked him to, is on his way back for another year in the USHL. Call me crazy, but if he's "that" good, is already 19, with a year in the USHL already under his belt, then why does nobody want him now?

Now Hokydad, I have stuck up for you on repeated occasions and generally respect your opinion, but man oh man, you sure dropped the ball on this one...
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Carlton....get a life..***.
 
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Get bent. He came on here for weeks criticizing Umile and the UNH staff for their stupid decision to have him play a 2nd year in the USHL, saying how great of a player he was and that many top programs were all over the kid, and then guess what, nobody wants him this year and he's headed back to the USHL. It would be one thing if over the course of the season he'd admitted that just maybe Vecchione wasn't adjusting as quickly as he thought he would, but he!!, just last week or so, again, he was saying that he had almost TOO many schools to chose from, with many being FAR superior to UNH. So just dying to see what his excuse is now.
 
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