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Your program's Mount Rushmore

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mnstate0fhockey said:
FS23 - You know what might be fun. After everyone's Mount Rushmore are done, maybe do some sort of round robin and windle the people down until we have a College Hockey's Mount Rushmore. It would be interesting to see whom college hockey fans think are the most influential people in college hockey history.
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I have thought about this, but I don't think I would do something like this. I intended to have this thread be a fun discussion. I think having a "College Hockey Mount Rushmore" would turn nasty. That being said, if I were to do something along these lines, I would take the top vote getter from each program and whittle it down from there. I would probably take all the "Western" teams, and pick 2 and do the same for the "Eastern" teams.
 
Fighting Sioux 23 said:
I have thought about this, but I don't think I would do something like this. I intended to have this thread be a fun discussion. I think having a "College Hockey Mount Rushmore" would turn nasty. That being said, if I were to do something along these lines, I would take the top vote getter from each program and whittle it down from there. I would probably take all the "Western" teams, and pick 2 and do the same for the "Eastern" teams.
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I don't think it would have to be nasty, it's just for fun. But I see your point :)
 
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state of hockey said:
A Minnesota "Mount Rushmore" without Mayasich is just plain crazy, IMHO.
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Totally agree.
But a lot of college hockey fans that post here are probably too young to remember, or know much of anything prior to 2000.
The latest does not always mean the greatest. Just as all of the 'good old days' weren't always so great, either.
So much depend on the time and perspective that people have.
 
Harry Cleverly said:
Totally agree.
But a lot of college hockey fans that post here are probably too young to remember, or know much of anything prior to 2000.
The latest does not always mean the greatest. Just as all of the 'good old days' weren't always so great, either.
So much depend on the time and perspective that people have.
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Any Gopher fan that doesn't know who John Mayasich is needs to check their fan card at the door. In fact, I motion to forego the voting on that and just put him on the monument :)
 
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Happy said:
some people would probably get mad if an overage Canadian was put on Mount Rushmore.
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And some might get upset if even one person from somewhere other than Minnesota were put on Mount Rushmore.
 
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UCONN: Todd Krygier
John Chapman-founded the program in 1960.
Warde Manuel ushed the Huskies into Hockey East
Brian Krygier
 
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FS23,
If nominations aren't closed yet, I would like to add Bob Brinkworth and Garry Kearns to RPI's list so that all current honorees in RPI's Ring of Honor are included. (Oates, Juneau, Harkness, and Chiarelli are already there.)
 
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Ralph Baer said:
FS23,
If nominations aren't closed yet, I would like to add Bob Brinkworth and Garry Kearns to RPI's list so that all current honorees in RPI's Ring of Honor are included. (Oates, Juneau, Harkness, and Chiarelli are already there.)
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Nominations are only closed for the teams that polls are available for (and even then, you can always vote for "other"). I will add these nominations to RPI's list.
 
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Additional nominees for Union:

Steve Baker
Adam Presizniuk
Kelly Zajac
Mario Valery Trabucco
 
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I'm half-tempted to nominate Shirley Jackson for RPI, not because I think she belongs there, but merely to see if it would make FlagDude's head explode ;) :p
 
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mnstate0fhockey said:
FS23 - You know what might be fun. After everyone's Mount Rushmore are done, maybe do some sort of round robin and windle the people down until we have a College Hockey's Mount Rushmore. It would be interesting to see whom college hockey fans think are the most influential people in college hockey history.
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Pretty sure it's "who."
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
To put it up for debate with my fellow SLU fans, since my experience as a fan is shorter than theirs, just curious if Burke Murphy or Paul DiFrancesco (sp?) would/could replace any of those nominated? I tend to agree with TimU that Gusto and Dietrich are iffy choices, could have been great but didn't stay long enough IMO. What are your thoughts?
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Agree entirely.....their careers at SLU were way too short and they did not make any inroads in professional sports after their careers at SLU. Loved watching them when they were there but not a large enough body of work compared to other SLU greats.
 
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critsports said:
Agree entirely.....their careers at SLU were way too short and they did not make any inroads in professional sports after their careers at SLU. Loved watching them when they were there but not a large enough body of work compared to other SLU greats.
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I don't know anything about them, but wanted to comment on one of your points. I don't agree with the idea that if a player played pro, or how well they did as a pro should be a consideration when talking about who were the best college players, or who were the most important people for a school/team. They are different leagues and have different styles. I like college hockey better than NHL so I don't like the implication inherent in the argument that college hockey is a feeder system for the pros so how well they play in the pros is an indication of how good they were in college.

For MN, Grant Bischoff was a great college player, a leader and scored lots of points. He was well liked and is important in the history on MN hockey for what he contributed. Through a series of a couple bad events/luck, he missed his chance for the NHL. That does not diminish his contribution to the Gopher program. And even for players who go on to the pros, other than announcers mentioning a few times where a player played in college, most people watching don't know, and if they aren't college fans, don't care. So I don't think it is a huge contribution to the program, at least as much as so many argue in these types of threads. (Yes, you can argue it might help recruit a player or two once in awhile, but most of them are already aware of which schools produce NHL'ers.) It's a college hockey thread!
 
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Koho said:
I don't know anything about them, but wanted to comment on one of your points. I don't agree with the idea that if a player played pro, or how well they did as a pro should be a consideration when talking about who were the best college players, or who were the most important people for a school/team. They are different leagues and have different styles. I like college hockey better than NHL so I don't like the implication inherent in the argument that college hockey is a feeder system for the pros so how well they play in the pros is an indication of how good they were in college.

For MN, Grant Bischoff was a great college player, a leader and scored lots of points. He was well liked and is important in the history on MN hockey for what he contributed. Through a series of a couple bad events/luck, he missed his chance for the NHL. That does not diminish his contribution to the Gopher program. And even for players who go on to the pros, other than announcers mentioning a few times where a player played in college, most people watching don't know, and if they aren't college fans, don't care. So I don't think it is a huge contribution to the program, at least as much as so many argue in these types of threads. (Yes, you can argue it might help recruit a player or two once in awhile, but most of them are already aware of which schools produce NHL'ers.) It's a college hockey thread!
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Well stated and I agree.

I think Doug Woog should be on the Gopher Hockey 'Mount Rushmore' and he never played in the NHL. He is one of the important "faces" of Gopher Hockey, after playing for them coaching them and now broadcasting, Gopher Hockey is in the Woogers blood.
 
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Some more for Harvard:
Allen Bourbeau
Ted Donato
Don Sweeny
Peter Ciavaglia
Jack Hughes
Steve Martins
Noah Welch
Gene Kinasewich
Dave Johnston
 
SanTropez said:
Well stated and I agree.

I think Doug Woog should be on the Gopher Hockey 'Mount Rushmore' and he never played in the NHL. He is one of the important "faces" of Gopher Hockey, after playing for them coaching them and now broadcasting, Gopher Hockey is in the Woogers blood.
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You could put Glen Sonmor in that boat too.
 
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