Walsh and Castagna nominated for Hobey Baker

[Beeeej]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

I don't have the patience to look up this year's exact rules, but in the past it's been something like, "Each of the 63 head coaches get a vote and the aggregate of the fan vote counts as the 64th vote," which means this kind of upvoting is an awful lot of effort for not a lot of payoff. The main payoff is for the NCAA and college hockey in general, which gets more buzz, clicks, and eyeballs.

[RichH]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

It counts for a tiny amount of data mining for the NC$$

[ugarte]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

IIRC the collective fan vote counts for one vote or something like that?

[adamw]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

It counts for a tiny amount of data mining for the NC$$

pedantic correction - data mining for the Hobey Committee, which has no connection with the NCAA on this.

And as BeeeEj said, it counts very little - and that's only towards determining the final 10. Among the final 10, it has no bearing.

So basically - nope. You are all just dupes for click farming.

[Chris H82]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

It counts for a tiny amount of data mining for the NC$$

pedantic correction - data mining for the Hobey Committee, which has no connection with the NCAA on this.

And as BeeeEj said, it counts very little - and that's only towards determining the final 10. Among the final 10, it has no bearing.

So basically - nope. You are all just dupes for click farming.

So, not even worth doing the text vote?  There are other criteria being used to determine the top 10 besides the fan vote?

[Trotsky]

The only winning move is not to play.

[adamw]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

It counts for a tiny amount of data mining for the NC$$

pedantic correction - data mining for the Hobey Committee, which has no connection with the NCAA on this.

And as BeeeEj said, it counts very little - and that's only towards determining the final 10. Among the final 10, it has no bearing.

So basically - nope. You are all just dupes for click farming.

So, not even worth doing the text vote?  There are other criteria being used to determine the top 10 besides the fan vote?

The Top 10 is basically entirely determined by a vote of all head coaches.

[Beeeej]

And as BeeeEj said, it counts very little - and that's only towards determining the final 10. Among the final 10, it has no bearing.

The fourth E is silent.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

And as BeeeEj said, it counts very little - and that's only towards determining the final 10. Among the final 10, it has no bearing.

The fourth E is silent.

It may look like "Luxury Yacht" but it's pronounced "throat warbler mangrove".

[Trotsky]

And as BeeeEj said, it counts very little - and that's only towards determining the final 10. Among the final 10, it has no bearing.

The fourth E is silent.

It may look like "Luxury Yacht" but it's pronounced "throat warbler mangrove".

You're a very silly man, and I'm not going to interview you any more.

[stereax]

No idea where to put this, but sounds like Casty might be going to Calgary in the Weegar trade.

[stereax]

No idea where to put this, but sounds like Casty might be going to Calgary in the Weegar trade.

Sounds like Maatta, Castagna, and 3 (3!) 2026 2nds.

Also, if this is how any of the Castagnas find out about this, I am so truly deeply sorry.

[chimpfood]

Presumably increases the likelihood of him leaving after this season?

[VIEWfromK]

Presumably increases the likelihood of him leaving after this season?

Or he can play his senior season and become a free agent (unless the rules changed in the new cba)

[stereax]

Presumably increases the likelihood of him leaving after this season?

I mean, it depends. Calgary's in a DEEP rebuild. I can see it going one of two ways:

1) Calgary tells him "if you sign after the Cornell season is over, we'll give you a few NHL games this year and give you a good chance of making it out of camp next year" - increases likelihood he signs, by a lot.
2) Calgary is more ambivalent and/or tells him straight up that he'll probably spend next year in the A - decreases likelihood. (I suspect he'd rather be the big fish in a college sea, especially in a development year. I'm not too sure what he'd get out of the A. That being said, Castagna is still pretty young. Could easily do next year here, the year after in the A, and then after that hopefully graduate to the NHL, still while he's 23-24ish.)

We'll have to see. I'm pretty sure this throws a big wrench in the plans anyway - I suspect Casty's plans revolved strongly around Utah and his communications with them, and now getting flipped to another team can put all that stuff on its head.