ECAC Early Departures/Year Off Returnees/Transfers

It's that time again. In working up the Predictions, I need a list of the non-seniors from last year who are not returning to ECAC rosters.

Also: anyone who took a season off and is thus not on last year's roster but is returning, or anyone transferuing in from another D-1 team, are of interest.

So far I have examples of all three types from Cornell:

EARLY DEPARTS:
McKee, Cornell
Pokulok, Cornell

PRODIGAL SONS:
Davenport, Cornell

D-I TRANSFERS:
Fontas, Cornell

Any others from other teams?

Quinnipiac has two D-I transfers from New Hampshire who are eligible for 2006-07 after sitting out last year, Travis and Doherty. Neither one contributed much as freshmen or sophomores for the Wildcats, but both were drafted.

Clarkson has a D-I transfer from Air Force, Merkowsky, but I don't think he's eligible for 2006-07.

RPI Prodigal Son: Kirk MacDonald is expected to be back after a year off as a medical redshirt.

BROWN Early Departure: Adam D'Alba quit the team, I believe.

Hillel Hoffmann
Clarkson has a D-I transfer from Air Force, Merkowsky, but I don't think he's eligible for 2006-07.

USCHO is reporting that he's eligible as of September 2006.

St. Lawrence is apparently getting a transfer from St. John's named Casey Parenteau who also will be eligible as of September 2006.

Will

Hillel Hoffmann
Clarkson has a D-I transfer from Air Force, Merkowsky, but I don't think he's eligible for 2006-07.

USCHO is reporting that he's eligible as of September 2006.

Is he eligible because he's transferring from a service academy?

Liz '05

Will

Hillel Hoffmann
Clarkson has a D-I transfer from Air Force, Merkowsky, but I don't think he's eligible for 2006-07.

USCHO is reporting that he's eligible as of September 2006.

Is he eligible because he's transferring from a service academy?

I don't know. I'm merely regurgitating what USCHO tells me.

Isn't it all moot because he decided to attend Clarkson but not play hockey? At least this was reported on the Clatkson Forum a while back. He was removed from Heisenberg's list.

Merkowsky has decided to concentrate all his efforts on being a student....he is giving up on hockey all together.

Will

Liz '05

Is he eligible because he's transferring from a service academy?

I don't know. I'm merely regurgitating what USCHO tells me.

I ask because I think I remember other incidents in other sports of service academy people transferring and playing immediately, and was hoping someone else would look it up for me

Yale football...Rashad someone...I'll figure it out.

Edit: Rashad Bartholomew, Yale '01. "Because Yale is in Division I-AA and Air Force plays I-A football, he was able to transfer without having to sit out for a season." [www.yaleherald.com]

I guess it's more a DI-A to DI-AA thing than a service to non-service thing. Other input welcome if anyone else is curious enough to research this (now moot) point!

Liz,
He did sit out the past year. While sitting out, he enjoyed campus life and decided not to pursue hockey anymore. He did not receive a "military" exception, so to speak.
He is elible to play this year if wants to and makes the team.
Cheers,
Drew

Thanks Drew. That he'd already been at Clarkson for a year is a detail that escaped me

Liz '05

Will

Liz '05

Is he eligible because he's transferring from a service academy?

I don't know. I'm merely regurgitating what USCHO tells me.

I ask because I think I remember other incidents in other sports of service academy people transferring and playing immediately, and was hoping someone else would look it up for me

Yale football...Rashad someone...I'll figure it out.

Edit: Rashad Bartholomew, Yale '01. "Because Yale is in Division I-AA and Air Force plays I-A football, he was able to transfer without having to sit out for a season." [www.yaleherald.com]

I guess it's more a DI-A to DI-AA thing than a service to non-service thing. Other input welcome if anyone else is curious enough to research this (now moot) point!

That guy was really good. (By Ivy League football standards, anyway.)

ursaminor
RPI Prodigal Son: Kirk MacDonald is expected to be back after a year off as a medical redshirt.

If I recall correctly, MacDonald had cancer or something similarly serious, didn't he? It's great to hear that he's coming back from that.

jmh30

ursaminor
RPI Prodigal Son: Kirk MacDonald is expected to be back after a year off as a medical redshirt.

If I recall correctly, MacDonald had cancer or something similarly serious, didn't he? It's great to hear that he's coming back from that.

Yes. He had testicular cancer. Although all reports say that he is fit to play, my fingers are still crossed.

ursaminor

jmh30

ursaminor
RPI Prodigal Son: Kirk MacDonald is expected to be back after a year off as a medical redshirt.

If I recall correctly, MacDonald had cancer or something similarly serious, didn't he? It's great to hear that he's coming back from that.

Yes. He had testicular cancer. Although all reports say that he is fit to play, my fingers are still crossed.

The "good news" is that testicular cancer has an amazingly high cure and recovery rate. (Recovery to me meaning regaining strength and stamina.) This article from the [www.nytimes.com] science section discusses the mystery.

(You need to register, but I assume all Cornellians read the Times regularly.)

Unfortunately back on topic, we need to add someone to the list:

[www.canadiens.com]

Well, shit.

Shit, I jinxed it. My dad and I just talked about it this morning. Bleh.

Kyle

So it is true. I didn't believe it when I read this Hockey's Future thread yesterday morning. [hfboards.com]

duffs4
Unfortunately back on topic, we need to add someone to the list:

[www.canadiens.com]

Stupid hockey factory jock mill.

ugarte

duffs4
Unfortunately back on topic, we need to add someone to the list:

[www.canadiens.com]

Stupid hockey factory jock mill.

Now you know how the other half lives.

Name two tall, strong, mobile trees that no longer reside in Ithaca. All to play in the AHL. Blah. And I had forgiven him for that Minnesota gaffe. Seriously, he will be missed. Bitz is the only tree left!! We can all blather all we want about the new recruits, but it would have been a special team with McKee, Bitz and Pokulok in the lineup next year.

Aw, mother@#$%er.

Stop the bleeding!!

Sure hope our offense is great.

As Rob Schneider said...

"Oh no! We suck again!"

Oat
As Rob Schneider said...

"Oh no! We suck again!"

I wouldn't say that. But with inexperienced goaltending and a blueline corp short it's two best players, I suspect we will gie up a bunch of goals early in the season.

We might start seeing some of those late-70s 10-9 games again...

ebilmes
We might start seeing some of those late-70s 10-9 games again...

If we could score 9 or more goals in any single game, I'd be thrilled

Come on, let's look at it as a challenge. I want a chance to see a horribly depleted Big Red still run the ECAC.

duffs4
Unfortunately back on topic, we need to add someone to the list:

[www.canadiens.com]

Now I need a new favorite player on the Cornell Hockey team. Say it ain't so! Come back home, O'Byrne!

Tough break for the Big Red!! After that game-ending play in Minnesota, I was really down on you. However, your play last year made a believer of me. Good luck, Ryan!! Thanks for the memories.

French Rage
Come on, let's look at it as a challenge. I want a chance to see a horribly depleted Big Red still run the ECAC.

I want to see a national championship - I can count a frozen four appearance as a moral victory but anything less and I'm losing hair.

So what will the defensive pairings look like? Glover has to be considered the top remaining defensemen and he is a senior. I would guess Seminoff followed by Salmela or Krantz. It's hard to tell since Glover and Krantz were hurt last year. We have Krueger and Nash coming in. We'll be in trouble if there are any injuries. I can see Bitz playing defense if we get hit with the injury bug.

Brian
So what will the defensive pairings look like? Glover has to be considered the top remaining defensemen and he is a senior. I would guess Seminoff followed by Salmela or Krantz. It's hard to tell since Glover and Krantz were hurt last year. We have Krueger and Nash coming in. We'll be in trouble if there are any injuries. I can see Bitz playing defense if we get hit with the injury bug.

Davenport played some last year as a frosh. Looks like seven D-men going into the season, which doesn't leave much room for injury.

Al DeFlorio

Brian
So what will the defensive pairings look like? Glover has to be considered the top remaining defensemen and he is a senior. I would guess Seminoff followed by Salmela or Krantz. It's hard to tell since Glover and Krantz were hurt last year. We have Krueger and Nash coming in. We'll be in trouble if there are any injuries. I can see Bitz playing defense if we get hit with the injury bug.

Davenport played some last year as a frosh. Looks like seven D-men going into the season, which doesn't leave much room for injury.

Good catch, I forgot about Davenport since we didn't see him much at the end of the season.

DeltaOne81

ebilmes
We might start seeing some of those late-70s 10-9 games again...

If we could score 9 or more goals in any single game, I'd be thrilled

I'll take a 9 goal weekend.

duffs4
Unfortunately back on topic, we need to add someone to the list:

[www.canadiens.com]

Talk about burying the lead. Isn't news like this deserving of its own thread entitled "Oh SH*T, OB is gone!"?

I was out in a cornfield all day on Wednesday (and many of the past 28 days) and was too tired to scroll through 21+ messages last night (my eyes just wouldn't stay open).

Major Bummer.

Well, good luck Ryan, we will definitely miss you.

Where are the trade deadlines and waiver wires when you need them?

RatushnyFan
We can all blather all we want about the new recruits, but it would have been a special team with McKee, Bitz and Pokulok in the lineup next year.

With a Regional in Rochester, that team (especially with O'B) would have been a strong Frozen Four contender. Now, replacing Moulson seems so innocent.

PS, please...may the gods be kind to you.

From the new roster, Davenport does indeed return to the team as a sophomore. However, I suppose he could still be down to 2 years of eligibility remaining.