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So the fact that last season happened (to some degree, anyway) at all is still somewhat remarkable. UMass won. ON TO THE CURRENT YEAR!! The most important story is that the CCHA has been revived. It's basically the former WCHA but without the Alaskas and Alabama-Huntsville. They also add St. Thomas to the mix, coached by Teemu Pokemon's favorite human being Rico Blasi.  CCHA Minnesota State is still very much the team to beat. Mike Hastings has built a monster here, they get Hobey Baker finalist Dryden McKay back in goal, and are are unsurprisingly the favorites to take the conference this year. Bemidji State has a lot of depth returning from last year and made a huge upset of Wisconsin in the tournament. The Fightin' Nerds have one of the best goalie duos you could ask for and will be another tough out for anyone. BG lost like 10 guys to the transfer portal fukkn  . The Tommies are here! They'll be punching bags for a while but hey, they made the jump from DIII to DI. NCHC This is a murderer's row at the top. St. Cloud, Minn-Duluth, and NoDak are all the powerhouses you expect, and Western Mich should be a dark horse  under new head coach Pat Ferschweiler. Miami still has a ways to go under Bergeron's rebuild. ECAC Only 4 teams played last year with all the Ivy League teams suspending operations due to COVID. I'd imagine Q'Pac is still the team to beat here, and Clarkson seems to be doing better as of late. Beyond that I got nothing. B1G Stop me if you've heard this one before: Michigan enters the season with loads of talent and as such, loads of expectations. Surely that can't somehow go poorly, right? But yeah this is still Minnesota's conference until determined otherwise. Hockey East UMass could be in a very good spot to repeat for the championship, one they won in the face of a lot of cancellations and stoppages. BC picked up a ton of grads and transfers. What the rest of this conference looks like will be anyone's guess. Hamline Pipers, bithc! Independents Long Island University, welcome to the party! You join Arizona State and Alaska (the spacebear one not the anchorage one) as teams trying desperately to find a conference and scheduling anyone you can! Start posting about college hockey!! It's terrible and we all hate it as much as it hates us!! Here's some stupid poo poo to laugh at! gently caress the big ten!   
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Go college hockey edit: also bring back Bobby Mo Fifty Three fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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UMASS is infuriating after that game on Sunday. Hopefully that isn't a preview of the rest of the season. Not College Hockey per se, but I always want an excuse to post the college hockey players of tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEWpRjhtHko
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^ Most of those players will be in college hockey in just a year or two, so close enough for me.DJExile posted:B1G Extremely accurate. The Big10 (no terrible rebranding included) will largely be determined by which of Michigan or Minnesota chokes first. They also didn't make it so I can watch Gopher hockey consistently anyway to the point where I forget when I'd actually be able to watch them.
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Forgot about this gif, I love it so much 
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The OP is AHC erasure. When AIC beats St. Cloud or whoever in the frozen four tourney again, I'll repost this. A bit worried about UMass's season start, but as I posted in the old thread I'm excited to see them play AIC next week. I get to watch Also, it's a bit odd that all three of my Alma Maters are/have been recently good at hockey (UMass/AIC undergrad, Minnesota law). But I guess that can happen if you live in Massachusetts and Minnesota almost all your life.
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I go back and forth on AIC because gently caress To the Atlantic but yeah them showing up to knock off cloud in the tournament is always a riot
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On Wisconsin
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So the fightin nerds are beating the dogshit out of Wisconsin and assuming to take a weekend sweep Just like we all predicted?
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DJExile posted:So the fightin nerds are beating the dogshit out of Wisconsin and assuming to take a weekend sweep nope but I love it. Go huskies.
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I'm too tired to think of a dumb theme yet so TONIGHT'S GAMES YAY God's Chosen Conference Tommies vs. LSSU Hockey East Northeastern vs. BC on NESN+ Non-Con Minn St. vs Providence Michigan vs. Minn Duluth Cloud vs. Minnesota UConn vs. Ohio State Colorado College vs. Union Merrimack vs. Colgate Canisius vs. RPI Denver. vs Air Force ND vs. Fightin Nerds Miami vs. SPARTY, NOOO Alaska vs. Neb-Omaha UMass vs. AIC UNH vs. Arizona State NoDak vs. Bemidji Sacred Heart vs. BU Exhibition US U-18 vs. Northern Mich Ottawa vs. Dartmouth Also Wisconsin beat army last night 4-1!
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I can't wait for the UMass @ AIC game to end scoreless... they both would walk away without a win so far. UMass is more understandable, losing twice to Mankato could happen to every other college hockey team. AIC losing to BC away is also understandable. But I'm worried about AIC dropping a game at home to Providence... and getting tonked 5-1 in that game.
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habeasdorkus posted:I can't wait for the UMass @ AIC game to end scoreless... they both would walk away without a win so far. AIC's gonna be fine. This month's a tough schedule for them, Army weekend aside, but they should absolutely sleepwalk through the conference. Also how the poo poo do they only have 2 games in all of December 
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UMass up 4-0 through 1, but AIC at least looked competitive in the second half of the first period.
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habeasdorkus posted:UMass up 4-0 through 1, but AIC at least looked competitive in the second half of the first period. From what its sounded like, UMass is in a real good spot to potentially repeat. They didn't lose much from last year.
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DJExile posted:From what its sounded like, UMass is in a real good spot to potentially repeat. They didn't lose much from last year. AIC finished with 10 more shots on goal, but can't do much when you're goalie's save percentage is in the 70s. Would have been a much more fun game if the first ten minutes had been the last minutes. Still a very good time.
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The Gophers won today in bizarre fashion as fhe Husky defenseman appears to have held and hooked himself to the ice: https://mobile.twitter.com/JDylanBurke/status/1449535789788848128 (How do you miss that?!)
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Paracaidas posted:The Gophers won today in bizarre fashion as fhe Husky defenseman appears to have held and hooked himself to the ice: 
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Yeah, that may be, but I’ll still take the W against SCSU. There have been plenty that have gone both ways over the years, so take it when they give it.
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Paracaidas posted:The Gophers won today in bizarre fashion as fhe Husky defenseman appears to have held and hooked himself to the ice: Dude shouldn't be allowed to ref for the rest of the year. That was ridiculous.
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Stick it in the Louvre, or MoMA, or wherever you get your art https://twitter.com/umichhockey/status/1449529894724120577?s=21
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Wow, that is an AWFUL no call.
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DJExile posted:From what its sounded like, UMass is in a real good spot to potentially repeat. They didn't lose much from last year. Lindberg in himself was a pretty big loss in net. Hopefully Murray can show us why he was the starter before Lindberg took it from him. We got another Makar on the team though, and that's always a good thing.
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College Hockey News posted:COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The NCHC issued a statement today, acknowledging that a penalty, or penalties, should have been called on the play leading up to Minnesota's game-winning overtime goal against St. Cloud State on Saturday.
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Embellishment, lol. just be honest coach. bad call and you won. it happens.
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I haven't watched a replay, but I'm certain St. Cloud was in the wrong. 
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habeasdorkus posted:I haven't watched a replay, but I'm certain St. Cloud was in the wrong. For throwing stuff on the ice, absolutely. They should really know better where to throw out their garbage. The ref makes a motion for a dive on the play too, so he clearly made a call about what he saw. These calls happen all the time too, it’s just rare they happen and then they score and the game is over.
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The gopher player pulled up after like "ahhhhh gently caress". In a long season it will not really matter though.
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Motzko saying "yeah it should have been embellishment too" is just a delightful bit of gamesmanship and I love it
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drat was looking at Umass's roster and they continue to recruit really well (lots of drafted dudes). I wonder how long they can keep that up being in loving Western Mass (admittedly Amherst is a solid place to live if you have money and a great party town). I guess until Pros or a really big school floors Carvel, but he does seem pretty happy at Umass so far and they've shown a willingness to invest in him and the program.
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T-Bone posted:drat was looking at Umass's roster and they continue to recruit really well (lots of drafted dudes). I wonder how long they can keep that up being in loving Western Mass (admittedly Amherst is a solid place to live if you have money and a great party town). I guess until Pros or a really big school floors Carvel, but he does seem pretty happy at Umass so far and they've shown a willingness to invest in him and the program. College seems to be a level where a number of coaches seem to find far more stability than at other levels. York and Jackson have been at BC and ND respectively for like 20 years, Hastings has built himself a great situation in Minn State, and Bob Daniels is about to celebrate 30 drat years at Ferris State. They're obviously not making NHL level money, and do have to deal with recruiting, but there is a whole drat lot to be said for having a stable gig. I could be way wrong on this but I feel like most coaching jobs at or above the NCAA level are far more trigger-happy on firing them.
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Western MA is a perfectly fine place to live. UMass is a big enough school that you get the full university experience, and while the local towns aren't that big you're only 3-4 hours from NYC and 90 minutes from Boston. Plus, if you like nature at all the Berkshires are damned nice.
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I went to high school in Amherst and grew up in Springfield so yeah I understand the logistics/reality of living in Western Mass, it's not terrible but it's still Western Mass. Hockey players and coaches are boring people but I can't imagine wanting to live there if I had the money and opportunity to go to a reasonably non lovely big city (of which there are many in the NHL). Carvel was in the NHL for 10 years and then came back to college, so maybe he prefers it. He sure seems like the perfect college candidate to get a NHL coaching job though, given his NHL experience and collegiate success. I know Buffalo reached out to him in their search. T-Bone fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Oct 20, 2021 |
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True. I'm hoping that Carvel starting at St. Lawrence before coming to UMass is an indication that he'd prefer to coach college, based on his years as an assistant for the Sens and Ducks you'd think he could have gotten hired as a head coach at the AHL level.
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