Recruits 2018 (and beyond)

[scoop85]

Time for a new recruiting thread.

Forward Chase Brakel from Portage of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League has committed to Cornell for next season.

[Trotsky]

Brakel can score: 76-91-167 in 154 career MJHL games.

The Portage Terriers' webpage is brought to you by Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries.

[scoop85]

Haiskenan played for Portage before going to the USHL, and Sean Collins played in the MJHL

[Trotsky]

Ithaca is urban by comparison.

[billhoward]

Portage la Prairie is an hour west of Winnipeg. Trans-Canadian Hwy runs through. Not that remote. Not that big, either, about half Ithaca's population.

[osorojo]

Ithaca produced Dustin Brown. No reason why Portage can't produce at least a fine college hockey player, even if Portage is smaller than Ithaca. How many D-1 hockey players came out of New York City or Hong Kong last year?

[CU2007]

Ithaca produced Dustin Brown. No reason why Portage can't produce at least a fine college hockey player, even if Portage is smaller than Ithaca. How many D-1 hockey players came out of New York City or Hong Kong last year?

I don't think anyone was implying a small, Canadian town couldn't produce a good hockey player - merely an off-the-cuff observation.

[Roy 82]

Having followed the Islanders during their glory years, I know that Moose Jaw, roughly the population of Ithaca, has produced many fine NHL players. I always got a kick out of the town name and imagined that it was a town of bear-skin shelters located above the arctic circle (it is actually not that far from Regina and connected by highways and rail lines).

Of course, there is probably a 10:1 population correction factor for the Canada:US hockey playing population.
Fun Fact: demonym is Moose Javian

[Trotsky]

Having followed the Islanders during their glory years, I know that Moose Jaw, roughly the population of Ithaca, has produced many fine NHL players. I always got a kick out of the town name and imagined that it was a town of bear-skin shelters located above the arctic circle (it is actually not that far from Regina and connected by highways and rail lines).

Of course, there is probably a 10:1 population correction factor for the Canada:US hockey playing population.
Fun Fact: demonym is Moose Javian

Clark Gillies FTW, though of course everybody also knows it from the fashion show in Slap Shot.

And the birthplace of Art Linkletter.

[redice]

Then there's Joe Dragon.....  I don't recall the name of his hometown...  I just remember hearing that it was 1000 miles north of Edmonton...I'm betting that it too was a pretty small town..

[Beeeej]

Then there's Joe Dragon.....  I don't recall the name of his hometown...  I just remember hearing that it was 1000 miles north of Edmonton...I'm betting that it too was a pretty small town..

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Edmonton,+AB,+Canada/Fort+Smith,+NT,+Canada/@57.0751974,-119.2779454,6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x53a0224580deff23:0x411fa00c4af6155d!2m2!1d-113.4909267!2d53.544389!1m5!1m1!1s0x53c9893c7d2cb6d7:0xdf19fb3f12b771b0!2m2!1d-111.8849379!2d60.00552!3e0

[Trotsky]

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

60th parallel north.  Same as Saint Petersburg, Uppsala, and for you Risk fans, Kamchatka.

Mining.  Seems lovely.

[redice]

Then there's Joe Dragon.....  I don't recall the name of his hometown...  I just remember hearing that it was 1000 miles north of Edmonton...I'm betting that it too was a pretty small town..

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Edmonton,+AB,+Canada/Fort+Smith,+NT,+Canada/@57.0751974,-119.2779454,6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x53a0224580deff23:0x411fa00c4af6155d!2m2!1d-113.4909267!2d53.544389!1m5!1m1!1s0x53c9893c7d2cb6d7:0xdf19fb3f12b771b0!2m2!1d-111.8849379!2d60.00552!3e0

I also recall them saying on the radio that Joe couldn't go home for Christmas because he didn't have time to make it home & back in the allotted time...  Now, THAT's a long trip!!

[Trotsky]

also recall them saying on the radio that Joe couldn't go home for Christmas because he didn't have time to make it home & back in the allotted time...  Now, THAT's a long trip!!

Sled dogs need rest.

My favorite Joe Dragon story was his frat putting a personal in the Sun reading, "No, Joe.  Dragon Day wasn't started for you."

[George64]

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

60th parallel north.  Same as Saint Petersburg, Uppsala, and for you Risk fans, Kamchatka.

Mining.  Seems lovely.

And now he's even farther north -- Yellowknife, NWT.  Ithaca in winter must have felt downright balmy for him.