CU Hockey-Preseason

[Jim Hyla]

Still preseason for us, soon though B-]. Polls show us as also receiving votes (20^th) in USA Today/USA Hockey Mag and 19^th in USCHO. The women are second in USCHO

[Jim Hyla]

Interesting article on ECAC coaching changes.

[billhoward]

Interesting article on ECAC coaching changes.

Ithaca Journal's Dan Guttenplan makes a good point, "The ECAC will always be a stepping stone on the career path of opportunistic coaches," and dings some of the opportunism and lack of "appreciation" by departing coaches, noting that when Nate Leaman left Union for Providence, "steering a former Union commit, goalie Julien Laplante, to his new landing spot in Providence. After all, the Friars already had a three-year starter, Alex Beaudry, prepared to return for his senior season." That seems harsh when the writer doesn't note the obvious, that Providence will need a goalie in a year, and maybe the goalie was committing to Leaman as much as Union.

Good insight that Clarkson "was only prepared to fire [coach George Roll] Roll if [Cornell asst Casey] Jones, a former Clarkson assistant, was available."

[pfibiger]

Interesting article on ECAC coaching changes.

Ithaca Journal's Dan Guttenplan makes a good point, "The ECAC will always be a stepping stone on the career path of opportunistic coaches," and dings some of the opportunism and lack of "appreciation" by departing coaches, noting that when Nate Leaman left Union for Providence, "steering a former Union commit, goalie Julien Laplante, to his new landing spot in Providence. After all, the Friars already had a three-year starter, Alex Beaudry, prepared to return for his senior season." That seems harsh when the writer doesn't note the obvious, that Providence will need a goalie in a year, and maybe the goalie was committing to Leaman as much as Union.

Good insight that Clarkson "was only prepared to fire [coach George Roll] Roll if [Cornell asst Casey] Jones, a former Clarkson assistant, was available."

So first, is this guy really with the Ithaca Journal? That article was on the New England Hockey Journal.

Second, my understanding is that Laplante played 20 minutes of a game in the WHL and had to sit out a year, and Union's new coach say "sorry kid, see you later" and so he went to Providence. I don't think he was poached in quite the way Guttenplan suggests. See: http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/schott/2011/jul/19/ex-union-goalie-recruit-laplante-lands-at-providen/

Third, while I'm thrilled that Casey Jones got the job at Clarkson, he most certainly wasn't the first person offered the job (Craig Conroy was, for one)..so saying that Clarkson was only prepared to fire Roll if Jones was available seems to not hold any water.

[Jim Hyla]

So I got my season tickets in the mail today. As has been mentioned they are in a booklet form. At least 3 out of 4 of my seats are that way. The fourth seat is a typical long folded string of individual game tickets. Maybe the dog ate my fourth book?

[Jim Hyla]

Men 20^th in USCHO poll, and 20^th, also receiving votes in USAToday/Hockey. Women 3^rd in USCHO, drop from 2^nd and still 2^nd in USAToday/Hockey. Wisc is unanimous No. 1 in both.

[Jim Hyla]

Some quotes from USCHO weekly ECAC column.

Union coach sounds like Schafer?

That priority on protection is exactly what the rookie head coach likes to see, and he isn't shy about stating that defense is Job One.

"It's always going to be a staple here that we'll take care of the D zone first, and then we'll move on to the next zone," he said.

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/2011/10/19/remade-union-holding-its-own-early-in-title-defense-season/#ixzz1bFZve3Zn

and at least everyone else agrees about our unis.

• Cornell has smartly returned to its traditional look, instead of the weird Boston University/Detroit Red Wings template that it inexplicably stumbled into last year.

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/2011/10/19/remade-union-holding-its-own-early-in-title-defense-season/#ixzz1bFa8O8Te

[RichH]

Also:

Quinnipiac has renamed the hockey half of its dual-arena TD Bank Sports Center the "High Point Solutions Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center" ... and I'm going to stop right there.

Oh, goddammi...no. Just.. To Conference Notre Dame with you already.

[CowbellGuy]

The road reds still aren't exactly right. They're the same as last year's where the white stripe at the bottom extends all the way down (instead of another red stripe below it). The whites are fully back to the way they were, though (including white below the bottom red stripe).

[Trotsky]

The schedule at the athletics site does not have any links for video for this weekend's exhibition games (but then again it doesn't have any links for Mercyhurst either).

In the meantime, there is this to remind us of the beauty of Schafer hockey.

[Ben]

The schedule at the athletics site does not have any links for video for this weekend's exhibition games (but then again it doesn't have any links for Mercyhurst either).

If you log in to RedCast you'll see them listed as upcoming events.

[Jim Hyla]

So, CHN predicts us to finish second.

[billhoward]

Also:

Quinnipiac has renamed the hockey half of its dual-arena TD Bank Sports Center the "High Point Solutions Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center" ... and I'm going to stop right there.

Oh, goddammi...no. Just.. To Conference Notre Dame with you already.

Cornell now starts its press releases like this: "Shamon Farber-McCarthy, the Nelson and Happy Rockefeller Family Memorial Hydrofracking Trust, L.L.C., Coach of Men's Club Gymnastics, has announced the team's winter schedule ... "

[jkahn]

The road reds still aren't exactly right. They're the same as last year's where the white stripe at the bottom extends all the way down (instead of another red stripe below it). The whites are fully back to the way they were, though (including white below the bottom red stripe).

Although the current uniforms were supposedly modeled after those of the glory days, and those didn't have that bottom stripe.

[RichH]

The road reds still aren't exactly right. They're the same as last year's where the white stripe at the bottom extends all the way down (instead of another red stripe below it). The whites are fully back to the way they were, though (including white below the bottom red stripe).

Although the current uniforms were supposedly modeled after those of the glory days, and those didn't have that bottom stripe.

Those also didn't have serifs.

Not making a point, just showing my font/uniform nerdiness.