Penn State head coach

Started by Ronald '09, April 24, 2011, 03:32:27 PM

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Ronald '09

April 24, 2011, 03:32:27 PM
According to Bob McKenzie, PSU has hired Guy Gadowsky as their head hockey coach.

http://twitter.com/#!/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/62235893024559104

scoop85

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April 24, 2011, 03:37:25 PM
Quote from: Ronald '09According to Bob McKenzie, PSU has hired Guy Gadowsky as their head hockey coach.

http://twitter.com/#!/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/62235893024559104

I just saw Brian Sullivan's tweet on this as well.  I thought PSU would poach someone from one of the "Big 3" conferences, but Gadowsky is a good coach and was able to rebuild a moribund Princeton program.

Trotsky

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April 24, 2011, 03:41:55 PM
The winners of 3 of the last 4 ECAC COTY are now out of the league.

Jeff Hopkins '82

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April 24, 2011, 05:30:30 PM
Emrick just announced on the NBC NHL game.

css228

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April 24, 2011, 07:50:41 PM
Sweet... not only did they not take Schafer, they also didn't take Jones

css228

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April 24, 2011, 07:59:22 PM
I'd also like to point out that our odds next year just got better in a month. Here's how. First Yale basically graduates its team, and Polaceck and York leave RPI. Then Union's coach goes to Providence, and Princeton's coach hits the trail to be the head coach of PSU's new program. Clarkson also fired its coach. So basically the only teams at the top half of the ECAC with any stability were Dartmouth and CU. Anyone else like our odds?

Trotsky

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April 24, 2011, 08:19:43 PM
Quote from: css228I'd also like to point out that our odds next year just got better in a month. Here's how. First Yale basically graduates its team, and Polaceck and York leave RPI. Then Union's coach goes to Providence, and Princeton's coach hits the trail to be the head coach of PSU's new program. Clarkson also fired its coach. So basically the only teams at the top half of the ECAC with any stability were Dartmouth and CU. Anyone else like our odds?
Kinkaid also left Union early.  It was a good month (despite Garman leaving).

css228

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April 24, 2011, 09:33:29 PM
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: css228I'd also like to point out that our odds next year just got better in a month. Here's how. First Yale basically graduates its team, and Polaceck and York leave RPI. Then Union's coach goes to Providence, and Princeton's coach hits the trail to be the head coach of PSU's new program. Clarkson also fired its coach. So basically the only teams at the top half of the ECAC with any stability were Dartmouth and CU. Anyone else like our odds?
Kinkaid also left Union early.  It was a good month (despite Garman leaving).
Forgot Kinkaid. And though Garman leaving hurts Iles isn't a bad backup plan. He just can absolutely not get hurt.

KeithK

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April 25, 2011, 12:36:27 AM
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: css228I'd also like to point out that our odds next year just got better in a month. Here's how. First Yale basically graduates its team, and Polaceck and York leave RPI. Then Union's coach goes to Providence, and Princeton's coach hits the trail to be the head coach of PSU's new program. Clarkson also fired its coach. So basically the only teams at the top half of the ECAC with any stability were Dartmouth and CU. Anyone else like our odds?
Kinkaid also left Union early.  It was a good month (despite Garman leaving).
Good for our league standing but bad for the league. Which makes it a bad month for us too.

Trotsky

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April 25, 2011, 07:35:44 AM
Quote from: KeithKGood for our league standing but bad for the league. Which makes it a bad month for us too.
Until we join the Big Ten...   ;)

Jim Hyla

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April 25, 2011, 08:00:36 AM
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: KeithKI'd also like to point out that our odds next year just got better in a month. Here's how. First Yale basically graduates its team, and Polaceck and York leave RPI. Then Union's coach goes to Providence, and Princeton's coach hits the trail to be the head coach of PSU's new program. Clarkson also fired its coach. So basically the only teams at the top half of the ECAC with any stability were Dartmouth and CU. Anyone else like our odds?
Kinkaid also left Union early.  It was a good month (despite Garman leaving).
Good for our league standing but bad for the league. Which makes it a bad month for us too.[/quote]Until we join the Big Ten...   ;)[/quote]Preview button, preview button...:-}
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billhoward

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April 25, 2011, 11:29:14 AM
Quote from: KeithKGood for our league standing but bad for the league. Which makes it a bad month for us too.
Exactly. We want respectable ECAC and Ivy League teams that can do damage in the NCAAs (other than to themselves). Yale shoulda won it all, at least on paper. And they still have their coach, who is good. I wonder if Princeton will want to think about building Hobey Baker II sometime in the next decade. A nice 3,500-seat architectural gem that would give the Tigers an extra 1,500 empty seats. [Thread drift: Thinking of big stadiums and bigger egos, UMass in football plans to play home games at Foxboro, 95 miles from campus.]

Chris '03

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April 25, 2011, 12:34:19 PM
Quote from: billhoward[Thread drift: Thinking of big stadiums and bigger egos, UMass in football plans to play home games at Foxboro, 95 miles from campus.]

They had to build a new stadium or play elsewhere to accommodate the move to D-IA (the MAC, really?)
"Mark Mazzoleni looks like a guy whose dog just died out there..."

ursusminor

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April 25, 2011, 01:07:40 PM
Quote from: css228I'd also like to point out that our odds next year just got better in a month. Here's how. First Yale basically graduates its team, and Polaceck and York leave RPI. Then Union's coach goes to Providence, and Princeton's coach hits the trail to be the head coach of PSU's new program. Clarkson also fired its coach. So basically the only teams at the top half of the ECAC with any stability were Dartmouth and CU. Anyone else like our odds?
Interesting logic, but I guess that this is the time of the year for fans of all teams to be optimistic. (me too :-D )

Let me just comment about RPI. No one has left who wasn't expected to leave (at least not yet). It was clear to everyone following the program that York was more likely to leave than not. I would be very surprised if his replacement isn't already known to Coach Appert.

Polacek, of course, was a senior. Considering that when D'Amigo and Pirri left last summer, their scholarships were not filled with new recruits (note that the 'Tute's last recruit last year is listed as 5/1/10 on Heisenberg's list), Polacek and his classmates will be more than replaced. Indeed it appears that RPI's incoming class is its best since 1982. Granted that some of the recruits may not fit in until the second half of the season, and I won't really be confident that the long-awaited Jacob Laliberté will show up until he actually plays a game, but I am quite happy as to what the team looks like for next season.
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