TBRW Awards 2024

[upprdeck]

We need the Alpha..

[ugarte]

A dominant PP QB, I guess.

My kingdom for a Kaldis! (putting up numbers in the KHL, btw)

[Trotsky]

A dominant PP QB, I guess.

My kingdom for a Kaldis! (putting up numbers in the KHL, btw)

I was thinking Malinski, but Kaldis, Mark McRae, and Dan Ratushny also came to mind.

Robertson is somewhere in that Joakim Ryan / Doug Murray liminal world of aggressive defensemen who need somebody behind them holding down the blueline so they can be, measuredly, irresponsible.  We need that guy who somehow can do both at once, in high heels, backwards.  Malinski was for my money the best I ever saw.

[Scersk '97]

DeSantis had an amazing second half.  I also really appreciated Devlin, Penney, and Psenicka down the stretch.  I think Psenicka was playing as well as he did in the first half of his freshman year when he looked like an unstoppable force of nature.

We have guys who find the net, guys who can see the ice, and guys who can create chances.  I'm not sure what the missing Chemical X is to bring it all together.  A dominant PP QB, I guess.

My want started to be filled later in this season: scoring the greasy goals instead of only the pretty ones; scoring the ones where there's a pile of bodies in the crease and someone has the combination of killer instinct and patience not to try to hammer it through but to make the tiny tap or backhand flick, sometimes to a teammate, in the right direction to get the job done; a Sancimino kind of goal.

I don't know what to call it. We're so much better when we stop shooting and rather just put the puck in the back of the net.

And I'll say right now that a whole lot of next season depends on Psenicka being second-half Psenicka from the start.

[Scersk '97]

A dominant PP QB, I guess.

My kingdom for a Kaldis! (putting up numbers in the KHL, btw)

I was thinking Malinski, but Kaldis, Mark McRae, and Dan Ratushny also came to mind.

Robertson is somewhere in that Joakim Ryan / Doug Murray liminal world of aggressive defensemen who need somebody behind them holding down the blueline so they can be, measuredly, irresponsible.  We need that guy who somehow can do both at once, in high heels, backwards.  Malinski was for my money the best I ever saw.

I contend we need an "off guard," a shooting D. Someone with "the shot." We haven't had a Mark McRae or Charlie Cook in a long time.

[Trotsky]

Even though we were outshot in, I think, every one of the last 4 games, I felt like we got the lion's share of the really good, close chances in all of them, and were the better team in all of them.  I was fine with not rolling up perimeter shot totals.

I just loved the way this team played this season, and especially in March.  They found a great balance between creativity and responsibility, set the tone, worked hard, and boy it paid off.  I believe every player finished the season truly believing in themselves and the program, the coaching, and The System.  Talking to the Castagna, Bancroft, and O'Leary families at Lake Placid I came away with how much they respect the university and the coaches, and how comfortable they are in having their fine young men be a part of our tradition.  It was exactly the type of "business up front, family in the back" ethos you want in our players.  Not maudlin -- on the contrary, hard-headed and practical, but also committed, and giving back more than they take.

What's not to love?

[Trotsky]

A dominant PP QB, I guess.

My kingdom for a Kaldis! (putting up numbers in the KHL, btw)

I was thinking Malinski, but Kaldis, Mark McRae, and Dan Ratushny also came to mind.

Robertson is somewhere in that Joakim Ryan / Doug Murray liminal world of aggressive defensemen who need somebody behind them holding down the blueline so they can be, measuredly, irresponsible.  We need that guy who somehow can do both at once, in high heels, backwards.  Malinski was for my money the best I ever saw.

I contend we need an "off guard," a shooting D. Someone with "the shot." We haven't had a Mark McRae or Carlie Cook in a long time.

Stanley actually has a heavy shot.  He isn't typically in the right place yet, but once he gains whatever that is -- insight, extra step -- he may be that guy.

[ice]

I think there was confusion about the Gage Award, given all the Kempf nominations.  It is given to a player who flies under the radar, receives few accolades, and/or plays a particular role well.    Kempf is as some of you noted the primary stay at home D on a team built out from goal -- the opposite of a supporting player.

My choices for Gage were Devlin and Stanley and honestly it could have gone to either; some back channel conversation pushed me to Hoyt.

STOP THE STEAL

lol