Recruits...

[pfibiger]

Another recruit update. The NY Bobcats are slow to get scores up, so the last update didn't reflect last week's scores, and this week's doesn't include their games Sat & Sun.

Joe Scali's Alberni Valley Bulldogs played Colin Greening's league-leading Nanaimo Clippers and beat them 7-4. Colin Greening scored a goal, Joe Scali had a goal and two assists and was the #2 star of the game.

Anthony Romano   AJHL      12   18   12   30
Anthony Romano   Total*      18   30   22   52
Justin Milo   USHL      13   3   6   9
Brendon Nash   BCHL      16   2   11   13 
Colin Greening   BCHL      24   11   17   28   
Blake Gallagher   SJHL      18   15   3   18
Joe Scali   BCHL      24   14   10   24

*NY Bobcats site reports stats for all games played, including non-AJHL games.

[LRT]

[Q]pfibiger Wrote:

 Another recruit update. The NY Bobcats are slow to get scores up, so the last update didn't reflect last week's scores, and this week's doesn't include their games Sat & Sun.

Joe Scali's Alberni Valley Bulldogs played Colin Greening's league-leading Nanaimo Clippers and beat them 7-4. Colin Greening scored a goal, Joe Scali had a goal and two assists and was the #2 star of the game.

Anthony Romano   AJHL      12   18   12   30
Anthony Romano   Total*      18   30   22   52
Justin Milo   USHL      13   3   6   9
Brendon Nash   BCHL      16   2   11   13
Colin Greening   BCHL      24   11   17   28   
Blake Gallagher   SJHL      18   15   3   18
Joe Scali                   BCHL                        24   14   10   24

*NY Bobcats site reports stats for all games played, including non-AJHL games.[/q]



Cornell hockey fans will benefit next season with more BCHL kids from the Island Division. Nanaimo Clippers are having another great year but this season, the Alberni Valley Bulldogs are the #2 team in the league and nipping at their heels.

Joe Scali is a huge part of the Bulldogs success because he is tenacious and relentless. Always known as an excellent playmaker and forechecker, this season Joe has found the scoring touch - including his goal against Nanaimo, which was an absolute beauty.

You'll see what I mean next season.....And look for two of Scali's teammates to be playing against him next year: Devin Timberlake at Brown and Andrew Estey at Union....

Go Bulldogs!

[redhair34]

[Q]pfibiger Wrote:

 [Q2]ithacat Wrote:

 Tony Romano has been invited to try out for the US team in this year's Viking Cup. Here's the link to the blurb, though it doesn't say much more than Tony's been invited along with 3 other AJHL players.
[/Q]
Justin Milo was also invited to the same tryout camp. 24 forwards were invited (as well as 12 defensemen  and 6 goaltenders), and the roster will be reduced to 22 (so I assume 13 forwards, 7 defensemen, 2 goaltenders). Justin and Tony only need to be in the top half of the best 24 pre-college forwards in the US to make the team[/q]

Both Milo and Romano made the team

http://www.usahockey.com/usa_hockey/news/main/home/news_vcroster_111605/

[pfibiger]

Brendon Nash and Blake Gallagher were both invited to play in the CAJHL prospects game. It's a game made up of 2 teams fo the best NHL-draft eligible players in Canadian Jr. A hockey.

We talked about Gallagher and Romano being listed on the NHL "players to watch" list, and Brendon Nash has since been added as a BCHL "B" prospect (3rd round or later).

[2tkCornell]

I was just looking at some other teams recruits for next season, and Quinnipiac has seemed to snag a gem in Brandon Wong from the Merritt Centennials of the BCHL.  So far in 26 games he has 24 goals, 25 assists for 49 points.  (You would think that Cornell could compete for someone like him, especially if Quinnipiac got him)

Here are some other marquee names from the BCHL that are going to teams other than Cornell.

Matt Butcher (F) - Chilliwack Chiefs - 23GP-12G-26A-38P - Northern Michigan
Geoff Irwin (F) - Burnaby Express - 22GP-16G-20A-36P - Minnesota State
Cam MacIntyre (F) - Cowichan Valley Capitals - 24GP-17G-18A-35P - Princeton
Andrew Estey (F) - Alberni Valley Bulldogs - 26GP-15G-20A-35P - Union
Chris Eppich (F) - Chilliwack Chiefs - 24GP-14G-20A-34P - Princeton
Josh Lunden (F) - Chilliwack Chiefts - 21GP-16G-14A-30P - Alaska Anchorage
Kyle Turris (F) - Burnaby Express - 22GP-15G-15A-30P - Wisconsin

Erik Felde (D) - Vernon Vipers - 20GP-8G-17A-25P - Alaska Anchorage
T.J. Miller (D) - Penticton Vees - 25GP-10G-13A-23P - Northern Michigan

[calgARI '07]

[Q]2tkCornell Wrote:

 I was just looking at some other teams recruits for next season, and Quinnipiac has seemed to snag a gem in Brandon Wong from the Merritt Centennials of the BCHL.  So far in 26 games he has 24 goals, 25 assists for 49 points.  (You would think that Cornell could compete for someone like him, especially if Quinnipiac got him)

Here are some other marquee names from the BCHL that are going to teams other than Cornell.

Matt Butcher (F) - Chilliwack Chiefs - 23GP-12G-26A-38P - Northern Michigan
Geoff Irwin (F) - Burnaby Express - 22GP-16G-20A-36P - Minnesota State
Cam MacIntyre (F) - Cowichan Valley Capitals - 24GP-17G-18A-35P - Princeton
Andrew Estey (F) - Alberni Valley Bulldogs - 26GP-15G-20A-35P - Union
Chris Eppich (F) - Chilliwack Chiefs - 24GP-14G-20A-34P - Princeton
Josh Lunden (F) - Chilliwack Chiefts - 21GP-16G-14A-30P - Alaska Anchorage
Kyle Turris (F) - Burnaby Express - 22GP-15G-15A-30P - Wisconsin

Erik Felde (D) - Vernon Vipers - 20GP-8G-17A-25P - Alaska Anchorage
T.J. Miller (D) - Penticton Vees - 25GP-10G-13A-23P - Northern Michigan

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In case you haven't notcied, Cornell very well may have the best forward recruiting class in college hockey for next year.  They aren't going to get every player from BCHL and statistics do not tell the entire story.  In the case of Wong, I heard he barely got through the clearing house.  

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[Q]2tkCornell Wrote:

 I was just looking at some other teams recruits for next season, and Quinnipiac has seemed to snag a gem in Brandon Wong from the Merritt Centennials of the BCHL.  So far in 26 games he has 24 goals, 25 assists for 49 points.  (You would think that Cornell could compete for someone like him, especially if Quinnipiac got him)

Here are some other marquee names from the BCHL that are going to teams other than Cornell.

Matt Butcher (F) - Chilliwack Chiefs - 23GP-12G-26A-38P - Northern Michigan
Geoff Irwin (F) - Burnaby Express - 22GP-16G-20A-36P - Minnesota State
Cam MacIntyre (F) - Cowichan Valley Capitals - 24GP-17G-18A-35P - Princeton
Andrew Estey (F) - Alberni Valley Bulldogs - 26GP-15G-20A-35P - Union
Chris Eppich (F) - Chilliwack Chiefs - 24GP-14G-20A-34P - Princeton
Josh Lunden (F) - Chilliwack Chiefts - 21GP-16G-14A-30P - Alaska Anchorage
Kyle Turris (F) - Burnaby Express - 22GP-15G-15A-30P - Wisconsin

Erik Felde (D) - Vernon Vipers - 20GP-8G-17A-25P - Alaska Anchorage
T.J. Miller (D) - Penticton Vees - 25GP-10G-13A-23P - Northern Michigan

[/q]

 Wow.  Okay first of all, the Ivy League has academic requirements and is not able to give athletic scholarships.  Those two points right there dramatically reduce the number of recruits we can pursue.  Second, Schafer looks for certain types of players for the Cornell mold.  He needs guys who work their tails off, who will forecheck, who will grind it out and who don't mind reining in their scoring.  I don't know if any of those players above fit the Schafer mold.  We win and lose recruiting battles like everyone else. Third, our recruiting class next year is fabulous on paper.  It is arguably the best recruiting class Cornell has had (at least in the last ten years).  Next year's entering class will be among the best in the nation; if our 06-07 recruits won't satisfy you I don't know what will.  

[2tkCornell]

Not saying that Cornell should recruit them, I was just showing what was out there.  Although, do you guys think we should be recruiting some more defenseman.  We only have one right now.

Has Chad Morin officially committed to Harvard because Heisenberg's site doesn't list it.

My friend got a chance to see Joe Scali play in British Columbia, and he said that Scali is relentless - he scored a shorthanded goal in that game that was all due to aggressive forechecking and anticipation.  Hopefully, he can duplicate that at Cornell.

[LRT]

Man, Cornell has a team to assemble next season that will be the frickin' envy of the college ranks. FYI, Scali has scored again tonight, as his Alberni Valley BUlldogs lead the Penticton Vees 3-0 after two periods in Penticton. Bulldogs won last night, 5-2 in Trail against the Smoke Eaters.

Scali IS relentless. UNBELIEVABLE forechecker. Cornell scored picking up Smokin' Joe...

[calgARI '07]

Even with losing Moulson and Abbott, that left side is going to be an extremely aggressive group with Mugford, Barlow, and Scali.  

[Trotsky]

Time and again I have heard people who are in a position to know assert that 75% of the top NCAA prospects each season have absolutely NO chance of admission to any Ivy.  Add that the Ivies then have to fight for the remaining 25% with scholarship constraints and a far more demanding academic load, and it's really a shock that a blue chipper EVER comes in.

[Josh '99]

[Q]calgARI '07 Wrote:
Even with losing Moulson and Abbott, that left side is going to be an extremely aggressive group with Mugford, Barlow, and Scali.  [/q]Aggressive is nice, but using that to explain comparing incoming recruits and freshmen who've played 8 games to guys with Frozen Four experience and two ECAC championships under their belts probably doesn't give enough credit to the experienced guys.  My personal take, anyway.

[Andy'07]

No one next year at left wing will be as good as moulson, in spite of their recruiting ranking or freshmen year experience.  happy?

[bothman]

Did Morin commit to Harvard?

[sen '08]

No official word yet but his mother was almost positive he would commit to sucks:-(