New recruit

[Trotsky]

Rauter looks like he needs another year.  Sade probably needs a year in a better junior league.  Buckles and McCarron, wow.  Hopefully ready to go next year.  Hudson is 20, it's now or never.

According to this set of tweets, the answer is "never." Hudson is no longer committed to Cornell:

https://twitter.com/ChicagoSteel/status/290496299437002752

Apparently he is going to SLU http://twitter.com/Canuckscout/status/294152715909611520.

RIT, Cornell, SLU...  He is gradually moving east.  Maybe he's on his way to RPI?

Did the Cornell bus also stop in Canton on the way to Troy? :-P

I said "gradually."  

With a name luck Hudson, RPI would make more sense. Cornell gets the players named Cayuga. ;-)

 Or oh no, he seems to be heading to Orono.

Ohno went to Allston Community College.

[flyersgolf]

Does anyone know what what Cicero North's Eric Hamilton recruitment status is?  He stats are incredible like Anthony Angello's.  Could not find recruiting info on this kid.  Thanks.

[Swampy]

Does anyone know what what Cicero North's Eric Hamilton recruitment status is?  He stats are incredible like Anthony Angello's.  Could not find recruiting info on this kid.  Thanks.

Chris Heisenberg doesn't even list him among northeastern players. This seems to imply (1) Hamilton is really flying under the radar, (2) high-school hockey in Syracuse isn't very high level and Hamilton's stats don't mean much, or (3) he's going to the OHL.

[RatushnyFan]

Chris Heisenberg doesn't even list him among northeastern players. This seems to imply (1) Hamilton is really flying under the radar, (2) high-school hockey in Syracuse isn't very high level and Hamilton's stats don't mean much, or (3) he's going to the OHL.

Re. (2), remember Matt Connors?  Lighting it up in upstate NY high school hockey doesn't guarantee success (and having seen a lot of youth hockey in Buffalo and Syracuse, I would argue that for the most part hockey in Buffalo is higher level than Syracuse).  With few exceptions (e.g. MN high school hockey), you need to exceed in junior hockey to make it in D-1 hockey.

[tretiak]

http://www.bceagles.com/sports/m-hockey/mtt/bc-m-hockey-mtt.html

BC is tied for third in pairwise with 9 prep hockey players on the roster. Junior puts more focus on hockey, but it's not the only path to D1 or even the NHL.

[RatushnyFan]

Agreed but playing four years of high school hockey without any junior hockey is rarely a successful route to D1, particularly in NY state.

[Trotsky]

http://www.bceagles.com/sports/m-hockey/mtt/bc-m-hockey-mtt.html

BC is tied for third in pairwise with 9 prep hockey players on the roster. Junior puts more focus on hockey, but it's not the only path to D1 or even the NHL.

If Boston prep hockey is anything like it was back in the 70's and 80's, it's a different breed of cat.  Catholic Memorial used to have teams that could have competed in the NCAA.

[cbuckser]

If Boston prep hockey is anything like it was back in the 70's and 80's, it's a different breed of cat.  Catholic Memorial used to have teams that could have competed in the NCAA.

Many of the players did soon thereafter--mostly for BC and BU.

The jump from prep school to D1 is made a lot less rarely today than it was 20, 30, or 40 years ago.

[tretiak]

That's because the growth of hockey across the US has led to diversity of playing options and increasing age of D1 hockey players. New England prep hockey is a distant second to MN in terms skill, but it still produces a significant number of D1 and NHL players. Hockey East and some Ivies recruit heavily from local prep schools as well as some of the Ivies. Yale also has 9 prep players on their roster. Finding a prep player outside of Hockey East/ECAC like Boo Nieves (Kent -> Michigan) is extremely rare.

The reason NY high school hockey isn't great is because the best players leave for the OHL (Dustin Brown, Patrick Kane) or for New England (Andy Iles).

[cbuckser]

That's because the growth of hockey across the US has led to diversity of playing options and increasing age of D1 hockey players. New England prep hockey is a distant second to MN in terms skill, but it still produces a significant number of D1 and NHL players. Hockey East and some Ivies recruit heavily from local prep schools as well as some of the Ivies. Yale also has 9 prep players on their roster. Finding a prep player outside of Hockey East/ECAC like Boo Nieves (Kent -> Michigan) is extremely rare.

The reason NY high school hockey isn't great is because the best players leave for the OHL (Dustin Brown, Patrick Kane) or for New England (Andy Iles).

How much of this phenomenon do you think is a product of the USHL becoming a first-rate developmental league for college-bound players?

[flyersgolf]

2013 top ranked 15 NCAA eligible recruits non yet committed.

From College Hockey Recruit Exchange.  We need LW's.




83   LW   Zachary   Sanford   Islanders   EJHL
85   LW   Tyler   Hill   Hotchkiss School   HIGH-CT
86   C   Avery   Peterson   Grand Rapids   HIGH-MN
115   LW   Zach   Glienke   Eagan   HIGH-MN
133   C   Nick   Hutchinson   Avon Old Farms   HIGH-CT
137   D   Carson   Soucy   Spruce Grove   AJHL
142   D   Rinat   Valiev   Indiana   USHL
163   LW   Miles   Wood   Nobles   HIGH-MA
168   D   Christopher   Forney   Thief River Falls   HIGH-MN
178   D   Connor   Light   Andover   HIGH-MA
196   D   Alec   Rauhauser   Bismarck   HIGH-ND
214   LW   Chad   Otterman   New Jersey Hitmen   EJHL
9   G   Evan   Cowley   Wichita Falls   NAHL
30   G   Sean   Romeo   Youngstown   USHL
35   G   Shane   Starrett   South Kent School   HIGH-CT

[Trotsky]

Rinat Valiev is not a LW, but he is from Nizhnekamsk, Russia.  Since we're the United Nations, that would add another country.

(Wikipedia Nizhnekamsk.  What if you put Elizabeth, New Jersey in the middle of Siberia?)

[jtn27]

Rinat Valiev is not a LW, but he is from Nizhnekamsk, Russia.  Since we're the United Nations, that would add another country.

(Wikipedia Nizhnekamsk.  What if you put Elizabeth, New Jersey in the middle of Siberia?)

Lately, our offense seems to be just as powerful as the United Nations.

[Al DeFlorio]

Rinat Valiev is not a LW, but he is from Nizhnekamsk, Russia.  Since we're the United Nations, that would add another country.

(Wikipedia Nizhnekamsk.  What if you put Elizabeth, New Jersey in the middle of Siberia?)

Lately, our offense seems to be just as powerful as the United Nations.

1.5 goals per game in 2013::help::

[Trotsky]

Rinat Valiev is not a LW, but he is from Nizhnekamsk, Russia.  Since we're the United Nations, that would add another country.

(Wikipedia Nizhnekamsk.  What if you put Elizabeth, New Jersey in the middle of Siberia?)

Lately, our offense seems to be just as powerful as the United Nations.

We probably shouldn't pair Kellogg and Briand on defense.