The Sicatoka

You have to know some level of tampering was happening just about everywhere. - Former NTDP guys going to Nightengale at MSU - MSU-M guys "landing" at Wisconsin - Alex Young projecting to ASU (from Colgate, and ASU just hired a Colgate assistant)

Re: current conference obligations. I only see ASU coming in if Miami departs. Should that happen it might drive WMU back to Miami and BGSU. In that scenario, an amicable swap (WMU / StT) between conferences would be a plausible outcome. Each takes the other's conference schedule.

One team had a winning record against BOS this year: Florida 2-2 regular season 4-3 post season 6-5 overall

Bigger upset: - last team to make field taking down best regular season in history or - second year team in first playoff series takes down defending Cup champions

And pretty clear. Watched the SportNet clip and could stop it. COL62 was full across the blue before the puck got to the blue.

Tommies in MSP are like Cobbers in FM: they are quietly everywhere and with more money and influence than you realize.

And @iluvdebbies …

Say Miami and WMU announce departure, who do you backfill with? ASU is easy; I’d take DI Summit StT over MSU-M to get MSP toehold. I’ll worry about StT going to BEast in a decade or more.

This is reality. The single sport conference seat at the table goes away. B1G and ECAC became only hockey legislation sponsors. Not good to my eyes.

When 63 missed the late breakaway in game five I had a feeling someone would get them. Did not expect someone to meow …

Am I that, or just living John 8:32 and saying the quiet parts out loud.

Pretty solid story on ... "Jet". https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2023/04/09_The-Play,-and-The-Work.php

McMahon has words on Alex Young in the portal. Anyone a subscriber and want to give a recap (no copy/paste). https://www.collegehockeyinsider.com/p/296-colgates-young-enters-the-transfer?sd=pf

Or ... Sabres dulled Canadiens deported Penguins ... Batman'd

If Miami sincerely wants out, and if there was a drop-in ready replacement for them, I'd let them out, but they pay a reduced exit fee, enough to cover the league's transition expenses. However, I fear that puts WMU on an island. They'd likely be the next shoe to drop. A straight trade (StT/WMU) would keep balances and alignments and get a Summit member with the other Summit/NCHC members.

I've said in the 2023-24 season thread I believe the team needs to restore focus on power skating and edge work. In that same spirit I'm refocusing on my power snarking and edgy work.

You covering that this season? You need to retroactively rattle off the teams that didn't make the 16.

BOS: big TBL fans last night. But somewhere VGK is smiling ... and resting ...

Seconded.

Looks like he went 174-163 (0.516) this season. 31-24 (0.564) in '22 and 37-33 (0.529) in '21. https://colgateathletics.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/roster/alex-young/13131

Ready for a belly-laugh? Koch: Long-term goal is to become an operations research analyst Armacost: ... award-winning educator and researcher in the field of Operations Research, ... You can't make stuff like that up!

That makes it sound like the military views it as "going to grad school" and the military commitment is still there. Would UND have an easier path luring Koch, and getting the paperwork through, with that slab of government concrete 13 miles west of campus and a former Dean of Faculty at USAFA as UND president? < knock on door > Uncle Andy: Come in. Bubs: Um, boss, do you still have connections in the Springs or the A-ring? Uncle Andy: < sits back in chair > ... Why ... Bubs: There's this kid, Koch, in the portal at Air Force, senior, right hand defense. He'd be a one-year rental. Looking at grad school ... Uncle Andy: You sure. Bubs: I'm here asking. Uncle Andy: Let me make a call, make sure it checks out. I'll get back to you. (Thanks to whoever put new batteries in my bug in Armacost's office. ) The article: https://gazette.com/sports/air-force-sports/air-force-senior-defenseman-brandon-koch-enters-transfer-portal/article_e90a1c44-c8f3-11ed-82e1-e7c5fd6695c6.html

Great question! I thought after second year at a service academy you were "in" for the military commitment time, period.

My strong suspicion is if a guy enters the portal at this time he has a landing spot already. Hope for the right one. The immediate entries are marketing themselves. The later entries are "sold" and just doing the paperwork.