The Future

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Jesus fuck, check this kid's eligibility.

For God's sake, someone just check his ass into the boards.

[Give My Regards]

Jesus fuck, check this kid's eligibility.

Probably can't shoot worth a damn, though.

[David Harding]

Goalie Ian Shane caught my eye since he is listed as being with the Chicago Steel, who play a few miles from my home and who just won the USHL playoffs after finishing the regular season at the top of the league.  I was disappointed to see that that he hadn't played since the beginning of the year.  Eventually I found him joining the Bismarck Bobcats of the NAHL.    The timing makes me wonder whether he had aged out of the USHL.  The NAHL is a notch down in competitiveness from the USHL, but they give you an extra year of eligibility.

[ugarte]

Jesus fuck, check this kid's eligibility.

Probably can't shoot worth a damn, though.

and he shies away from contact

[FLHockeyMom]

Goalie Ian Shane caught my eye since he is listed as being with the Chicago Steel, who play a few miles from my home and who just won the USHL playoffs after finishing the regular season at the top of the league.  I was disappointed to see that that he hadn't played since the beginning of the year.  Eventually I found him joining the Bismarck Bobcats of the NAHL.    The timing makes me wonder whether he had aged out of the USHL.  The NAHL is a notch down in competitiveness from the USHL, but they give you an extra year of eligibility.

You are correct that the NAHL is a step below the USHL in terms of competitiveness.  However, the NAHL does not award an extra year of juniors eligibility.  It's just that the USHL has a strict limit on overagers, whereas the NAHL does not thus resulting in the NAHL being a much more mature league.  Unfortunately for Shane, an overager, he's being supplanted in net by an '04 during the Bobcats' run in the NAHL playoffs, which doesn't particularly bode well for him.

[David Harding]

Goalie Ian Shane caught my eye since he is listed as being with the Chicago Steel, who play a few miles from my home and who just won the USHL playoffs after finishing the regular season at the top of the league.  I was disappointed to see that that he hadn't played since the beginning of the year.  Eventually I found him joining the Bismarck Bobcats of the NAHL.    The timing makes me wonder whether he had aged out of the USHL.  The NAHL is a notch down in competitiveness from the USHL, but they give you an extra year of eligibility.

You are correct that the NAHL is a step below the USHL in terms of competitiveness.  However, the NAHL does not award an extra year of juniors eligibility.  It's just that the USHL has a strict limit on overagers, whereas the NAHL does not thus resulting in the NAHL being a much more mature league.  Unfortunately for Shane, an overager, he's being supplanted in net by an '04 during the Bobcats' run in the NAHL playoffs, which doesn't particularly bode well for him.

Right.  My writing was sloppy.  "Eligibility" is a loaded word that I used too loosely to mean being allowed to play.