Mike Stachurski

[Bengy]

Who is this guy who is listed as a sophomore on defense and last played junior in finland, can someone bring me up to date ??

[cbuckser]

I can only answer half the question.  Stachurski was recruited for the class of 2007, and was on the roster for most of the first semester last season.  He left the team sometime around early December 2003.

He is from Winnipeg and was an exchange student in Finland, where he played for the Espoo Jr. Blues.

Like you, I was very surprised to see him listed on the preseason roster.  Does anyone know how this came about?

[walker \"texas\" ranger]

mike stachurski quit the team before last season after some problems on the team.

[Avash]

I don't think Stachurski is on the preseason roster:
http://www.uscho.com/rosters/index.php?season=20042005&team=28&gender=m

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Avash '05 Wrote:

 I don't think Stachurski is on the preseason roster:
http://www.uscho.com/rosters/index.php?season=20042005&team=28&gender=m[/q]
He's no longer listed on the 2004-5 roster at cornellbigred.com either, but he was there when this thread was started.  I suspect someone carried over his name from last year's opening roster in error.

[Eric 04]

I heard from one of the players that when Mike Stachurski came to Ithaca he was very arrogant and high up on himself. He told one of the players that he would definitelly be drafted after his freshman year and that Cornell was just a stepping stone for him into the NHL. Because of his arrogance, lack of team play, lack of skills, and dirty hits on other players in practice others on the team began to hate him. Supposedly Hornby (as well as Schafer) were very irritated by his (Stachurski's) physical play and dirty hits on others leading to scuffles between him and Hornby. Eventually Hornby's physical play against Stachurski led him to quit the team.  

[Bengy]

aha

[CU Fan]

Sounds like Hornby to me. :-D

[walker \"texas\" ranger]

hornby broke stachurski's nose in one of the fights that ultimatly led to him quiting the team. ::laugh::

[Bengy]

That guy was defenitely not schafer-like nor lynah-like

[Facetimer]

You guys are so dumb.  It amazes me how you guys know everything about Schafer and his program.  It makes me sick, like this little fellow:

::yark::

Call me a troll if you must, but I don't think Schafer would tolerate fighting on his own team.  If Hornby broke his nose, and Schafer let it happen, Schafer isn't protecting the very same student athletes he sought to protect (rumor has it, his players also swear during games and practices).  Further, if he can't get his team to get along, he is a bad coach.  There is something to be said about team chemistry, which I think we can all agree was lacking this past season.

I will say this, however.  Most players use collegiate hockey as a stepping stone to the pros.  Even our own Mike Schafer in the "AHCA Ask the Coach" section on uscho.com said he wants to coach in the pros.  

http://www.ahcahockey.com/ask/20032004/121703.html

Talk about arrogance.  Conversely, I give Mike Stachurski credit for being so adamant about his professional goals and having the drive to make it to the highest level.  We can all take a page from Stachurski's book.  If players like Ryan O'Byrne and Greg Hornby had half the drive as Mike Stachurski, Cornell would be the team to beat year in and year out.

[CU Fan]

Who are you to call into question the drive of Hornby and O'Byrne? And, if Stachurski was so determined to make it to the NHL, why would he quit a top D1 program just because someone was picking on him?

[BCrespi]

Please...How can you question Hornby's drive?  If there's anything that kid had, it was drive.  O'Byrne looks like he could benefit from a little intensity infusion, but come on.  How can you applaud a locker room cancer for putting his selfish goals over the team's.  Personal goals are great, but they come second when you're in a top-flight program.

[ugarte]

[Q]Facetimer Wrote:
Call me a troll if you must, but I don't think Schafer would tolerate fighting on his own team.  If Hornby broke his nose, and Schafer let it happen, Schafer isn't protecting the very same student athletes he sought to protect (rumor has it, his players also swear during games and practices).[/q]
Who said he tolerated it? Not expelling everyone who fights is a long way from "tolerating" something.  I don't even accept as fact that Hornby broke Stachurski's nose. (No offense, walker, but this is the first I think anyone here has heard the story.)

[q]Further, if he can't get his team to get along, he is a bad coach.[/q]
That's right! Every time there is a personality conflict on a team it is the coach's fault. That makes it so easy to evaluate.  Thanks for the thoughtful analysis. I know that a neutral observer would think that you have an axe to grind with Schafer, but this kind of reasoning makes it clear that you are just being impartial.

[q]There is something to be said about team chemistry, which I think we can all agree was lacking this past season.[/q]
Don't speak for me.  The team performed about as I expected with a frosh in goal.  They actually performed better than I expected given all of the defections.  I would have liked better results after I realized that McKee was pretty damn good for a freshman, but I wasn't displeased with the season.  And I certainly won't blame something as amorphous as "chemistry" when things like "injuries" and "major roster overhaul" are better reasons.

[q]Even our own Mike Schafer in the "AHCA Ask the Coach" section on uscho.com said he wants to coach in the pros.  ... Talk about arrogance.[/q]
Or honesty.  I don't see what is so arrogant about wanting to reach the very top of your chosen profession. He was answering a question.  A question that was asked, incidentally, because his record of success warrants asking him if he is looking to move up.  As much as I love Big Red hockey, the NHL is obviously a move up.

Either you irrationally despise Schafer despite his record of success (both on the ice and in the recruiting wars) or you childishly like to bait the fans here.  Either way, you are a bore.  A tedious, repetitive bore.  Please find another hobby.

[Jerseygirl]

Oh my God, it's Page Six North.  I couldn't get the board to be this gossipy if I tried.  Bengy, whoever you are, congratulations, you have a bright career ahead of you. And please don't think I am being snappy; I see you are writing from Canada, so that automatically means I like you. No, really, I think my friends are sort of quietly counting the days until I move to Toronto.
OK kids, as you were...