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UVM 2014-2015: Let's Play 10 Games in Massachusetts this Season

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CollegeHockeyRinkReport said:
Paliotta signs with Blackhawks

http://www.sbncollegehockey.com/hoc...n-michael-paliotta-nhl-contract-kevin-sneddon
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Congratulations to Mr. Paliotta. He certainly upped his game in the playoffs. Not sure I see him as an NHL player but I hope it works out for him.
Luuko's tryout is with the ECHL affiliate of Philly, so the thread states. Good luck to him too as I see him as a marginal ECHL player with no AHL or NHL upside.
Excited about next year.....Shaw's continuing development, some new forwards with size, Abramson hopefully being a bigger, badder and maybe even better version of Paliotta.
Go Cats Go!
 
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Interesting Hoffman news.......

Wild close to signing University of Vermont goalie Brody Hoffman
Posted by: Michael Russo under Wild news Updated: March 29, 2015 - 9:27 PM 2 commentsprint
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The Wild is close to signing 24-year-old University of Vermont junior goaltender Brody Hoffman to an entry-level contract, sources say.
The deal, which will be one year long due to his age, is not yet finalized.
The contract will start next season and he will likely not report to Iowa this season on an amateur tryout. University of New Hampshire forward Grayson Downing signed an ATO along with his entry-level deal last Tuesday.
Hoffman, who stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 205 pounds, went 13-6-2 in 22 games this past season. He ranked 18th in the NCAA with a 2.06 goals-against average and tied for 29th with a .922 save percentage. He was 34-33-9 in three years there with a 2.45 goals-against average and .914 save percentage.
The native of Wilkie, Saskatchewan, was recently the NCAA First Star of the Week in part for helping the Catamounts upset Boston College in the first round of the Hockey East playoffs.
The Wild is trying to influx more goalie prospects into the organization.
Darcy Kuemper can not play minor-league games without going through waivers.
Iowa goalie Johan Gustafsson, 23, who once backstopped Sweden to a gold medal at the world junior championships, is a restricted free agent this summer and has yet to play an NHL game. He is 8-20-1 this season with a 3.41 goals-against average and .895 save percentage. Last year as a first-year North American pro, he went 12-20-4 with a 2.98 goals-against average and .903 save percentage.
Fellow Iowa veteran goalie John Curry is an unrestricted free agent this summer.
Draft picks Stephen Michalek, Alexandre Belanger and Kaapo Kahkonen are currently unsigned.
 
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Martin St. Louis Fan said:
Interesting Hoffman news.......

Wild close to signing University of Vermont goalie Brody Hoffman
Posted by: Michael Russo under Wild news Updated: March 29, 2015 - 9:27 PM 2 commentsprint
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The Wild is close to signing 24-year-old University of Vermont junior goaltender Brody Hoffman to an entry-level contract, sources say.
The deal, which will be one year long due to his age, is not yet finalized.
The contract will start next season and he will likely not report to Iowa this season on an amateur tryout. University of New Hampshire forward Grayson Downing signed an ATO along with his entry-level deal last Tuesday.
Hoffman, who stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 205 pounds, went 13-6-2 in 22 games this past season. He ranked 18th in the NCAA with a 2.06 goals-against average and tied for 29th with a .922 save percentage. He was 34-33-9 in three years there with a 2.45 goals-against average and .914 save percentage.
The native of Wilkie, Saskatchewan, was recently the NCAA First Star of the Week in part for helping the Catamounts upset Boston College in the first round of the Hockey East playoffs.
The Wild is trying to influx more goalie prospects into the organization.
Darcy Kuemper can not play minor-league games without going through waivers.
Iowa goalie Johan Gustafsson, 23, who once backstopped Sweden to a gold medal at the world junior championships, is a restricted free agent this summer and has yet to play an NHL game. He is 8-20-1 this season with a 3.41 goals-against average and .895 save percentage. Last year as a first-year North American pro, he went 12-20-4 with a 2.98 goals-against average and .903 save percentage.
Fellow Iowa veteran goalie John Curry is an unrestricted free agent this summer.
Draft picks Stephen Michalek, Alexandre Belanger and Kaapo Kahkonen are currently unsigned.
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Not going to say i told you so but I told you so this was in the works the moment that suspension happened.
Great news for Brody however and as the article states the Wild have no goalies so he has shot with their AHL team next year he will be missed here he was big part of NCAA and playoff runs past two years people forget that.
 
pokecheckguy said:
Not going to say i told you so but I told you so this was in the works the moment that suspension happened.
Great news for Brody however and as the article states the Wild have no goalies so he has shot with their AHL team next year he will be missed here he was big part of NCAA and playoff runs past two years people forget that.
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I really don't think the suspension had anything to do with this. Even if he was solidly entrenched as the #1 goalie going into next season, he'd be a fool not to look into his pro options. At the end of the day, these guys want to play professional hockey. I wish him all the best if he does go.
 
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Okay, done deal--Hoff is gone! Best of luck to him in his pro career! Now we need a blue-chip goalie recruit for next year's class.
 
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UVM Cat in Texas said:
Okay, done deal--Hoff is gone! Best of luck to him in his pro career! Now we need a blue-chip goalie recruit for next year's class.
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I thought we had one!
A little concerned about his size though. Santaguida is a smurf and I like 6' 2" and up goalies. The prospect is short.
 
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I will say I am very surprised by this. Hoff's a good goalie but I've seen better that did not leave early. Heck Fallon was a better goalie and where is he playing now?

While I do wish Hoff the best of luck I just don't think goaltenders leaving early is the best move. Here's hoping...

That said, with the extra goalie coming in I would say this was in the works a long time prior to the suspension... regardless it looks like we have a true #1 goaltender heading into next season. As for size... it's an absurd criteria to judge a goalie. Judge them on how often they keep the puck out of the net, if they are 4ft with a .999% save % does it really matter? Of course not. Santa has had impressive numbers even though he's on the small size... doesn't matter. With more playing time I expect him to be better next year.
 
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Does there seem to be some unusual optimism about the recruiting class? On paper they seem decent but Sneddon saying this is the best class his new assistant coaches have brought in....? I wonder if there is a high profile transfer or something. I know the season is barely over and I thought it was a great season. We did the best we could have. Without some serious luck we weren't going to beat BU or PC. UML, maybe. If anything was seriously depressing about the season it was watching the way we played against BU and they still won. I guess a runner up would have to be playing like that against BU and then dropping the level of play to manage to lose to a number of teams I feel we were better than in the 2nd half. The Penn State game sticks out in my mind.

I overheard an interesting conversation about recruiting at schools that don't provide sports scholarships, Yale and Union, the last two NCAA champs for example. Apparently schools are perfectly allowed to grant "need based" scholarships. not academic merit based. When playing junior hockey the prospects are essentially (and apparently legally) living independently and have nothing... Zip zero. And therefore they have a high "need". I'm skeptical this equates to a full scholarship BUT I'm willing to bet this is how some of the schools that don't provide athletic scholarships are able to recruit better than one might expect. Thoughts? Are athletic scholarship really that critical in college hockey any more? I'm curious to see how the whole legality of paying college athletes pans out. BC and Norte Dame would be allowed to pay their hockey players if I understand correctly.
 
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The need based scholarship has been around for a while and is for everyone not just athletes. Harvard provides free tuition for anyone whose family makes 60,000 or less and then its a percentage after that. The notion that these schools don't provide scholarships is really a semantics issue. Do they provide athletic scholarships? Nope. Do their student athletes pay for tuition? Not unless their family is wealthy.

So from a recruiting standpoint... yeah who wouldn't want to go to Harvard, play hockey and get a free ride? That said I'm not sure how some of the non-Ivy schools do it...
 
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A new recruit.

Over The Boards @OTBPuckWatch · 98 D Carter Long (@Selects_Academy U16) commits to UVM. Towering, athletic D with a nice ceiling, can rush puck, improved over the season.
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jcarter7669 said:
The need based scholarship has been around for a while and is for everyone not just athletes. Harvard provides free tuition for anyone whose family makes 60,000 or less and then its a percentage after that. The notion that these schools don't provide scholarships is really a semantics issue. Do they provide athletic scholarships? Nope. Do their student athletes pay for tuition? Not unless their family is wealthy.

So from a recruiting standpoint... yeah who wouldn't want to go to Harvard, play hockey and get a free ride? That said I'm not sure how some of the non-Ivy schools do it...
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I guess it's mostly just you and me dude. Any guesses on the next captain? I'm going with Shaw. Crazy good year and clearly has leadership abilities. Def interested to see who it ends up being. Maybe Tuk...? There is less of a stand out this year for sure in my mind.
 
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Paliotta made his NHL Debut last night recording an assist on Sharps goal.
 
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Teams winning the national championship like Yale, Union, and Providence give me hope that it may one day be our turn. Seriously, just a few years ago, I remember Jon the PC fan lamenting about how badly his team sucked.
 
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jcarter7669 said:
Paliotta made his NHL Debut last night recording an assist on Sharps goal.
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"Paliotta was fine (Saturday night)," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "Good first game for him. He did some good things. Offensively, he had presence on the point."
 
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In addition to signing with the BlackHawks, Mike Paliotta won second team All America honors in the East. Congratulations.
 
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jcarter7669 said:
Paliotta made his NHL Debut last night recording an assist on Sharps goal.
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First Avs goal he looked like a rookie defenseman playing in his first NHL game. Played pretty solid after that. Connected on some nice break out passes. I didn't see his assist.

Took the Colorado announcers a period to get his name right :)
 
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Another recruit:

Over The Boards @OTBPuckWatch
96 F Kale Kane (Salisbury) commits to Vermont. Two-time prep champ is an athletic, offensive threat with a real edge. Tough to play against.
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