Incoming Recruits

[Trotsky]

Howe's Elite Prospects page.

6/4/01
Barrie, ON
6' 2"
181
Victoria Grizzlies (BCHL)

[scoop85]

A little more info about Howe. He plays for the same team that produced Galajda. Despite the less than stellar stats, he seems like a solid prospect.

Interesting to say the least.  From the article there are extenuating circumstances for his crappy numbers.

I'm going to trust our staff in selecting goalies.

Howe previously played for Upper Canada College (which I believe is actually a prep school), where Colin Greening came from. So some additional Cornell pedigree there.

[jkahn]

A little more info about Howe. He plays for the same team that produced Galajda. Despite the less than stellar stats, he seems like a solid prospect.

Interesting to say the least.  From the article there are extenuating circumstances for his crappy numbers.

I'm going to trust our staff in selecting goalies.

Howe previously played for Upper Canada College (which I believe is actually a prep school), where Colin Greening came from. So some additional Cornell pedigree there.

Bruce Pattison,'69 also came to Cornell from Upper Canada College.

[Trotsky]

Barrie sounds familiar.  I'll do a query tonight; wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of our guys came from there.

[marty]

Barrie sounds familiar.  I'll do a query tonight; wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of our guys came from there.

I think Mike Quinn and Gary Meager may have been from Barrie. Neither played a great number of varsity games.  The bar was high to advance from the freshman team in the spring of 1971 to THE team in the fall.

I imagine NCAA recruiters had to BS all the prospective freshman that they would make it.

Author!

[Trotsky]

Author!

Most of the players are veterans of the Canadian Junior B league (only Goodkind and Straight are Americans)' where offensive checking is legal.

Huh?  When did offensive checking become legal in the NC$$? Or was this just a Frosh team rule?

[Trotsky]

Carrying over from Tom's post on the Yale thread, I love seeing Malinski on the pp as a freshman.  He looks absolutely comfortable out there -- part of the phenomenal freshman class.  As a veteran observer of the program told me last weekend: "we replaced three solid senior defensemen with freshmen and I don't notice the difference."

SSS comments on the frosh:

Malone: perfectly cromulent with a flash now and then
Tupker 14:  insufficient data for a meaningful answer
Tupker 21:  already battling Motley for the 19th skater role
Stienburg: very sharp and skilled, could be a star
Berard: I didn't notice him much but hey no big mistakes

Muzyka: insufficient data for a meaningful answer
Dirven: invisible; that's a good thing for a freshman D
Mitchell: Always seems to be in the right place
Malinski: back-to-back ECAC ROTW!

[ugarte]

Carrying over from Tom's post on the Yale thread, I love seeing Malinski on the pp as a freshman.  He looks absolutely comfortable out there -- part of the phenomenal freshman class.  As a veteran observer of the program told me last weekend: "we replaced three solid senior defensemen with freshmen and I don't notice the difference."

SSS comments on the frosh:

Malone: perfectly cromulent with a flash now and then
Tupker 14:  insufficient data for a meaningful answer
Tupker 21:  already battling Motley for the 19th skater role
Stienburg: very sharp and skilled, could be a star
Berard: I didn't notice him much but hey no big mistakes

Muzyka: insufficient data for a meaningful answer
Dirven: invisible; that's a good thing for a freshman D
Mitchell: Always seems to be in the right place
Malinski: back-to-back ECAC ROTW!

Dirven likes to muck along the wall so I like Dirven.

[Trotsky]

Dirven likes to muck along the wall so I like Dirven.

It was disorienting to see us flying and Yale trying to goon it up and slow us down.

[ugarte]

Dirven likes to muck along the wall so I like Dirven.

It was disorienting to see us flying and Yale trying to goon it up and slow us down.

I don't even mean it in a Bobby Shore old-time-hockey way, I just mean when I see him, it's mostly because he's working for possession.

[Trotsky]

Dirven likes to muck along the wall so I like Dirven.

It was disorienting to see us flying and Yale trying to goon it up and slow us down.

I don't even mean it in a Bobby Shore old-time-hockey way, I just mean when I see him, it's mostly because he's working for possession.

I understood that.  They are the guys who won't leave the boards or the corner as long as the opponent has possession.  I love those guys, too.  IIRC Greening was great at it, so it isn't mutually exclusive of talent.  Mullin is great at it.  It's really hard work.

Mike lives for that shit, so if Dirven's doing it he's going to log quality time.

[jkahn]

Author!

Most of the players are veterans of the Canadian Junior B league (only Goodkind and Straight are Americans)' where offensive checking is legal.

Huh?  When did offensive checking become legal in the NC$$? Or was this just a Frosh team rule?

Not just a frosh rule, there was no body checking in the offensive zone in NCAA hockey when I was in school.  Nevertheless, Ned's teams were awesome, aggressive forechecking teams, but it was like a full court press - no body hits but we were totally on top of the other team's attempts to get the puck out of their D zone.  In a conversation I had one time with Giles Threadgold, the best ref in my era, he stated that John Hughes was the best forechecker he had ever seen in college hockey.

[Trotsky]

So you could tie up the stick but not F=ma a guy?  Like women's hockey now?

[Al DeFlorio]

So you could tie up the stick but not F=ma a guy?  Like women's hockey now?

Yes.  You could draw a penalty for "checking in the offensive zone."

[Trotsky]

So you could tie up the stick but not F=ma a guy?  Like women's hockey now?

Yes.  You could draw a penalty for "checking in the offensive zone."

What was the rationale for just the O zone?  Less chance of injury backchecking than forechecking?