An early look at 2019-2020

[osorojo]

Personnel alone are not a reliable indicator of success. In evidence of this look at the remarkable transformation the Brown hockey team underwent halfway through last season. Strategy, conditioning and even corny old team spirit are significant variables.

[nshapiro]

Probably Macdonald College of McGill University, though it would be unusual for a unit of a larger school to have its own sports teams - at least it would today.

Looks like you're right -- they didn't join McGill until 1972 so they were a separate entity at that time.


They must have had a fantastic mascot.

With a C, Trotsky.  With a C.  ::dribble::

I am picturing white hoods with a kilt

[Trotsky]

Probably Macdonald College of McGill University, though it would be unusual for a unit of a larger school to have its own sports teams - at least it would today.

Looks like you're right -- they didn't join McGill until 1972 so they were a separate entity at that time.


They must have had a fantastic mascot.

With a C, Trotsky.  With a C.  ::dribble::

I am picturing white hoods with a kilt

Somebody's taking this a little too far...

[ugarte]

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[Beeeej]

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N.B. the public sale went live at noon, so while it won't likely sell out quickly, some sections will now go quickly.

[billhoward]

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If you have a BU connection, especially a brother/sister/child who's a BU student, BU offers tickets in the $15 range. Anything to get TGerrier butts in the seats.

[CU2007]

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N.B. the public sale went live at noon, so while it won't likely sell out quickly, some sections will now go quickly.

Based on the seating map on ticketmaster and what seemed to be available on bigredtix, seems like an awful lot of tickets (thousands) are sold already. That can't be the case, right?

[billhoward]

presale for red hot hockey at MSG - presale code is PRECORNELL unless you want to sit with terriers https://click.email.ticketmaster.com/?qs=beeac837b9e6278e096f6adaea38da41d6cbb4756d9f1468413fb2d91963780aefe9333c9061f3b4dab80e8c45739a242e2ac611b39243a4

N.B. the public sale went live at noon, so while it won't likely sell out quickly, some sections will now go quickly.

Based on the seating map on ticketmaster and what seemed to be available on bigredtix, seems like an awful lot of tickets (thousands) are sold already. That can't be the case, right?

Reserved blocks that may not yet be sold. MSG season ticket holders may get set-aside allocations to buy.

[Jim Hyla]

I took another look today and I don't know when they went up for sale, but there are still decent/good seats in "Chase Cardmember Preferred Seating".

[jeff '84]

Prospect Story on ESPN+ — nice shoutout for Morgan Barron

New York Rangers

A prospects: Vitaly Kravtsov and K'Andre Miller
B prospects: Igor Shesterkin, Adam Fox, Nils Lundkvist, Joey Keane and Morgan Barron

The Rangers are about to get the one thing I've thought this prospect pool lacked, which is a game-changing player. Kravtsov has that upside, but whether it's Hughes or Kaapo Kakko at No. 2, New York is getting a franchise-altering player. That's a huge difference-maker for a team in the midst of a rebuild.

Miller took big strides in his first collegiate season and is poised to be one of the better blueliners in college hockey next season. Meanwhile, Shesterkin is making his long-awaited trip to North America and likely spends all or most of 2019-20 in the AHL. On top of that, the Rangers added a high-upside playmaking defensive prospect in Fox.

The Rangers also have a number of good options in their AHL system and a few others that have yet to sign with the club. One such player is Barron, who had a spectacular season for Cornell and is looking more like an NHL prospect for the future. The Blueshirts have done a nice job of adding players beneath the NHL level, but should start seeing returns over the next two seasons.

Breakout prospect: Morgan Barron

[scoop85]

One chapter closes another begins.  

Sorry to see the departure of a terrific senior class, and we'll be especially hit on the back line. But we seem to have another nice group of recruits, and of course our goaltending corps will be back.

At this point I'm assuming Barron will be back.  If so at forward we'll have the following:

Barron-Locke-Donaldson
Mullin-Betts-Bauld
Motley-Murphy-Malott
Andreev-Bramwell-Regush

The forward recruits are Ben Berard, the Tukper twins, and Jack Malone. They've all put up good numbers in Juniors, but my guess is Berard and Malone are bigger offensive threats.  This looks like the deepest and best forward corps we've had in some time.

In my initial post-season analysis I didn't have Stienberg in the mix, as I thought he would be coming in 2020.  He'll certainly add to what looks like a log-jam at forward.  But if we get slammed by injuries again, at least we should have plenty of quality players to fill-in.

[Swampy]

One chapter closes another begins.  

Sorry to see the departure of a terrific senior class, and we'll be especially hit on the back line. But we seem to have another nice group of recruits, and of course our goaltending corps will be back.

At this point I'm assuming Barron will be back.  If so at forward we'll have the following:

Barron-Locke-Donaldson
Mullin-Betts-Bauld
Motley-Murphy-Malott
Andreev-Bramwell-Regush

The forward recruits are Ben Berard, the Tukper twins, and Jack Malone. They've all put up good numbers in Juniors, but my guess is Berard and Malone are bigger offensive threats.  This looks like the deepest and best forward corps we've had in some time.

In my initial post-season analysis I didn't have Stienberg in the mix, as I thought he would be coming in 2020.  He'll certainly add to what looks like a log-jam at forward.  But if we get slammed by injuries again, at least we should have plenty of quality players to fill-in.

Judging by Stienberg's draft position (63), he's ready for the NC$$. Here's an interesting take on him at the Av's fan site.

[scoop85]

One chapter closes another begins.  

Sorry to see the departure of a terrific senior class, and we'll be especially hit on the back line. But we seem to have another nice group of recruits, and of course our goaltending corps will be back.

At this point I'm assuming Barron will be back.  If so at forward we'll have the following:

Barron-Locke-Donaldson
Mullin-Betts-Bauld
Motley-Murphy-Malott
Andreev-Bramwell-Regush

The forward recruits are Ben Berard, the Tukper twins, and Jack Malone. They've all put up good numbers in Juniors, but my guess is Berard and Malone are bigger offensive threats.  This looks like the deepest and best forward corps we've had in some time.

In my initial post-season analysis I didn't have Stienberg in the mix, as I thought he would be coming in 2020.  He'll certainly add to what looks like a log-jam at forward.  But if we get slammed by injuries again, at least we should have plenty of quality players to fill-in.

Judging by Stienberg's draft position (63), he's ready for the NC$$. Here's an interesting take on him at the Av's fan site.

I assume Stienberg will play more than he won't but remember that Cairns was also drafted in the 3rd round and over his 1st two years he hasn't been a regular on defense.

[Trotsky]

I assume Stienberg will play more than he won't but remember that Cairns was also drafted in the 3rd round and over his 1st two years he hasn't been a regular on defense.

Our highest all-time draftee was Sasha Pokulok.

Sometimes it doesn't work out.

[scoop85]

I assume Stienberg will play more than he won't but remember that Cairns was also drafted in the 3rd round and over his 1st two years he hasn't been a regular on defense.

Our highest all-time draftee was Sasha Pokulok.

Sometimes it doesn't work out.

IIRC, Pokulok suffered from concussion problems that derailed his career.