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    Reloading Thread

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    Yeah....ok....

    So...Jpar and J-P couldn't get 'er done for you.

    Except that hmmm....wait a sec...

    J-P just became the FIRST Sioux goalie to make the Hobie Top Ten list. Oh...and wait....he had the BEST NUMBERS IN NET of ANY GOALIE in the NCAA going into the FF.

    Hmmm....

    Jon Casey was a Hobey finalist in '84

    Bracketology

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    Let's assume the top four are ...

    CCHA winner tonight

    CCHA loser tonight

    North Dakota

    New Hampshire

    UND winning today saved the committee a ton of issues:

    #1 overall goes to Madison

    #2 overall is a western team and should go to the other west regional (so sayeth history and precedent)

    #3 overall no longer has a western site available -- east they go (and they love making UND travel)

    #4 overall is eastern with an open eastern site

    They split up the top two seeds by putting one in the east and one in the west.

    Greg Lamoureux

    in Men's Hockey

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    Roger lamoureux was one of the most popular players that UND has ever had. My dad still raves about him and tells me how popular Roger was with the fans. I think he had 61 points one season.

    UND's best all time line?

    in Men's Hockey

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    I hate rain on everybody's parade but there is no comparison between the players of today and the players from 20 or 30 years ago. The DOT line is hands down more talented than any of the previously mentioned lines. Players are stronger, faster, shoot harder, better coached, better conditioned, etc, etc, etc. The old boys scored a lot of goals because the goaltending was basically terrible compared to today's goalies and there was really no organized defence to speak of. Some of the aforementioned players would have a very difficult time even cracking a modern WCHA lineup. And if you don't believe me, than ask one of these old guys. I'm sure they would tell you the same thing.

    These types of statements get very tiresome. Athletes do have more avenues to high-tech training today than they did in past years, but does that necessarily make them better? Some people like to point to how track times are much better today than in years past. Conditioning may be part of it, but most experts will tell you that the biggest reasons for better track times are better running surfaces and better shoes. What baseball player has hit the most HRs that traveled over 450 feet? Some steroid-inflated tree from the current era? No. A player that retired over 70 years ago. Babe Ruth hit 245 of those massive shots -- more than twice as much as anyone else in baseball history.

    Go ahead and ask some of those "old guys" and I'm pretty sure that they would tell you that Tony Hrkac would have little trouble dominating college hockey today. He would have been a great NHL player if he had drank a little less. I'm also pretty sure that "old-time" players like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemeuix would have little trouble dominating today. Today's goaltenders are not some evolved group of super freaks compared to those "old" goaltenders, but they do have a lot more padding to help block shots. And there was organized defense back then. There are even rumors that players knew how to read and write back then.

    Here is an answer to an earlier question -- the BC Connection was from the 1978-79 season. Kevin Maxwell was the center, Cary Eades was the RW, and Mark Taylor was the LW (he moved to C the following year).

    The DOT line has been pretty exciting, and I can think of about five other lines that would be near the top, but the Hrkac Circus tops the list.

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