November 10, 2025 • 28 mins
Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly), Derek Schooley (@derekschooley), and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) review games of the weekend and news of the past week.
The discussion opens with Michigan State’s victories over Penn State. The conversation moves to the NCHC, where Denver, Minnesota Duluth, and North Dakota secured sweeps, sparking a discussion about the dominance of NCHC teams this season. Specific attention is given to Minnesota Duluth's remarkable turnaround and in the ECAC, Dartmouth's impressive start. The episode concludes with a tribute to Jack Parker's Hockey Hall of Fame induction and Derek Schooley’s 700th game coaching Robert Morris.
This episode is sponsored by the NCAA Men's Frozen Four, April 9 and 11 in Las Vegas. Tickets: https://ncaa.com/mfrozenfour
Find all of our podcasts at USCHO.com/podcasts
The discussion opens with Michigan State’s victories over Penn State. The conversation moves to the NCHC, where Denver, Minnesota Duluth, and North Dakota secured sweeps, sparking a discussion about the dominance of NCHC teams this season. Specific attention is given to Minnesota Duluth's remarkable turnaround and in the ECAC, Dartmouth's impressive start. The episode concludes with a tribute to Jack Parker's Hockey Hall of Fame induction and Derek Schooley’s 700th game coaching Robert Morris.
This episode is sponsored by the NCAA Men's Frozen Four, April 9 and 11 in Las Vegas. Tickets: https://ncaa.com/mfrozenfour
Find all of our podcasts at USCHO.com/podcasts
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Usccho dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome to us Echo Weekend Review from Monday, November tenth,
twenty twenty five. This podcast is sponsored by the NCAA
Men's Frozen four April ninth and eleventh in Las Vegas.
Visit NCAA dot com slash m Frozen four for your tickets.
I'm at Trevsker alongside Jim Connolly and Derek Schooley. Great
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weekend of hockey and some sweeps for a change instead
of a lot of splits. But let's look at number one,
Michigan State. And we don't have the poll out yet
while we're recording, but I'm going to guess that they're
going to be close to, if not completely unanimous, number one.
They defeated Penn State two to one in overtime and
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then smacked them five to nothing. Trey Augustine gave up
just a single goal for the Spartans. They've won seventh straight,
tied for first in Division one right now since they
lost to U n H on opening night.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
This is a statement weekend in my opinion for Michigan State.
It's a tough, tough game on Friday night that they
had to survive and get the winning overtime, and you know,
credit to being able to pull out that game at home,
but then to bounce back and shut out a really
good offense in Penn State and limit the offense. Really
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they did not get the usual ridiculous number.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Of shots that a Penn State team does.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So I feel like Michigan State just went out and
told everybody, Hey, we're a good team. We're a really
good team, and oh we're playing a very good team
and we just I don't want to say question because
the overtime game on Friday, but.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
They had a great atmosphere with every time Gavin mckinna
touched the puck, they blewed what a every time he
left the ice, they cheered, Uh, obviously a little animosity
that he picked Pen stayed over Michigan State, and uh
that that just shows the excitement of college hockey and
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uh really neat atmosphere. I tuned in to see a
little bit of it around our games, and that it
just shows you the hype of of college hockey hasn't
died down. To have that kind of game and to
have Michigan State on top, they're they're they're definitely gonna
be the number one team.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
In the Lamb this week, and maybe a harbinger of
things to come in college hockey as this big star
spend a year or two with some college teams. I'm
sure certain that's going to attract a lot of attention.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
They just showed that.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Uh, you know, obviously they're they're showing uh Porter Maton
over Gavin mcckenna. They're showing signs of nil money. Uh,
they're It's just a neat little rivalry used to it's
something that to bring a lot of attention to the game,
and NHL Network covered that.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You can see highlights all over the place.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yes, you're right, something to bring more attention to our game,
which is is much needed.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And college hockey fans are very well researched these days too. Well,
let's go to the NC three series sweeps number nine
Denver on the road at number four Western Michigan, winning
three to one in six to three. This tells us
a little bit about both teams. At Denver we were
questioning a little bit a week or two ago, and
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now Western Michigan. That's got to raise some doubts.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
With my quotes on the other day and a quick
hitter on the kind of highlights about questioning Western Michigan,
and I got a couple alumni sent that to me
via text, question our alma mater on their defense and
obviously the six goals, and we had some questions about
Denver too, and I didn't I say, yeah, we always
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questioned Denver. And then they wrap off about eight to
ten at eleven games in a row, undefeated, and here
we go. Denver goes and wins two on the road
and Western gives up six again. They're gonna have to
get right in hurry. Both these Western's gonna have to
be right in hurry. And we'll see if Denver goes
on another heater like they normally do this time of year.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean, I don't want to take big statements this
time of year. I really don't, but I'm going to
right now as we look at this and we're gonna
talk about Minnesota, We're gonna talk about North.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Dakota all sweeping this weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Those three teams, if one of those teams are let's
just put it this way, if the national champion does
not come out of the NCC this year, I will
be shocked. I know we've talked a lot about the
Big ten We know that Hockey East always has some
strong teams.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I still look at the NCCHC.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
These teams are going to be so battle tested when
they get to the NCAA tournament. They are going to
have beat one another up the NCCHEA NCCHC team that
gets into the NCAA two, but they're gonna have a
chance to win a national championship.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
This this conference right now, the hockey that is being
played in the NCHC is just so impressive.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You mentioned Minnesota Duluth sweepover Saint Cloud State for nothing
and three to two in overtime. Minnesota Duluth was ranked
number seven coming into the weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
They're going to be.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Number three in today's poll and they weren't even in
the poll at the beginning of the season. What a
turnaround for Scott Sandal and squad.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, we'll get into them a little bit more of
the second half today, but this weekend series is just
another one. You know, you do it, you can do
it in non conference play, but once you bring it
back to conference play and you start pulling off six
point weekends, and this one ends up being a five
point weekend because you lost a point for the overtime win.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
But I just look at this Minnesota Duluth team.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Everything that they've gone out of the gate here is
so I mean, it's it's maybe we should have had
higher expectations for them, but the last two seasons didn't
give us that reason.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I love what they'd.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Say, you don't want to make major statements, Jimmy, but
you did. I'm gonna say, this is the biggest story
of the year. Oh yeah, I'm going to make a
major statement. Since we're in a major statement. Who saw
this coming? Nobody did? Ten and two at this point,
Nebraska Oma coming home, but then they've got four tough
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road games going to Colorad College in Western Michigan basically
to end there. Then they got Arizona State, then their
first half of the year. That that's we'll see really
where they are the next eight games after that.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But if if this team got to the break with
fifteen wins, would.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You be surprised? Yes? Would I mean? I mean, right now?
Would I right now? Would I be surprised? No?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, at the beginning of the year, absolutely absolutely, you'd
be surprised. I mean, people in the Luth work, were
they not calling for Scott Sedln's head.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
They shouldn't have been, No way should they ever be.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Calling for Scott, Sanlin said, But people were, which is
crazy to even think of that with what Scott He's
done at the Live, but they were, And now it's like, yeah,
look look what a good he said, not only a
great person, but he's a great coach. And now would
he be would you be surprised at fifteen ons?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Not even? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know, a couple of coaches have also talked to
me about him being one of the smartest coaches too.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I would believe that, you know, I've just listened to him,
you know, in some of his philosophies. You know, he
said something a number of years ago, This is going
back way before the portal came around, and he was
just talking about players that leave programs early, and he said,
there's only two reasons.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
To really leave a program early.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
One is because you're ready for the next level, and
he's like, in those players, you just gotta let go.
And the other one is could you hate the coach?
You know, I think he was trying to make the point.
We didn't they didn't have a lot of players transferring
and they were winning national championships, and I just think
he wasn't trying to pump himself up as much as
saying with all the movement that was sometimes.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Coaches just don't get along with their players.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I think that, you know, we go into you know,
what makes Scott Sandelin a great coach, I think it's
because he can relate to it.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Was a really funny guy. We had him.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We were at Mike Schaeffer and I were on the
rolls or the championships committee in Buffalo, and you never
liked teams crossing each other, but they were the number
one seed. They had the Sabers locker room and one
of shaefs and my jobs were to make sure that
when the teams crossed, we let one team go. And
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he was always you guys are the highest paid crossing
guards in the history of of crossing guards and most
wins in the history of crossing guards, and he was
always He's got a great sense of humor, just a
great guy and I'm glad to see him having success
right now.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And just a side note before we get to the
other sweep on the weekend, I think a story for
us to look at, or a topic down the road,
maybe in a year or two even is a retrospective
on who was helped and who was hurt in going
into the transfer portal, because not everybody finds out that
the grass is greener. Sometimes it's full of weeds and
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they get lost in them. Well, let's look at number
eight North Dakota coming into the weekend. They swept at
Omaha seven to two and four to one, and I
think one of the big stories with North Dakota is
other than an exception up in at Clarks and in
New York State's North Country, is they've really been putting
together some offense.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I mean, when you're scoring eleven goals in NCHC play
in the weekend, that's that's pretty good. In giving up
all League three, I think it's just it's the golds
are cruential right now for North Dakota. They look as
strong as as you could imagine. It's why I've just
really bold on the NCAAC this weekend because I look
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at some of the teams that are on the back
end of these sweeps Western Michigan, Saint Claus State, Omaha.
I look at all three of those teams and think
they're really good. So now you've got three teams that
in Denver to lout in North Dakota that pulls up,
pull off those suites.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'm really I just I guess it's made me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
A little bit bullish on this NCAC conference right now.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We're really surprised about that North Dakota. I mean, North
Dakota take a little down year last year, doesn't make
the tournament. I mean, and now they're they're back up there.
I mean yeah, whether whether you thought it that we
should add a coaching change there or not. With Brad
Leavin and Dane coming in, you knew that they weren't
going to be down for for that long and and
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here they are, uh, you know, basically getting back to
the top of the NCC. And like you said, this
league is is tough. This is a gauntlet. You're running
a gauntlet. And uh, you know, I heard it the
other day and we're talking about a Division three league
in her office, about a Division three league, and we're
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talking about some teams and Division three hockey. We're like,
this is basically the NCCHC at Division three and that's
the best Division three league. And I mean, this isn't
This is a challenging league. Every night, there's no off
nights in this league, the sec of college hockey, and
you got the Big ten. The Big ten's the Big ten,
and here you got this is it?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Well, let's take a look at Hockey East. A couple
of teams made their way back to five hundred with
weekend sweeps and kind of righted the ship after raising
some eyebrows earlier on number twelve, BU over Merrimack three
two and overtime at hot at home in five to
four on the road, and then BC sweep over Vermont
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two to one and five nothing. How important was it
for these two programs to get these sweeps this weekend?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Jim critical, I wasn't all that can in the long
term about either of these teams.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They both are good. We know that there's talent there.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I think BC may have taken a small step back
in terms of talent from last year, but that was
just shows how stronomic team they were.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Me you has the talent, they're just not playing defense
right now.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
So and they get the two wins against Merrimack, but
I'm still a little concerned. They had leads three nothing
lead and then a five to two lead against Merrimack
and it ends up being a five to four game
that you know, they got the overtime win on Friday.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That's a good win. You needed to get that at home.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But right now I'm still a little bit concerned for
bu BC. They go up and they do what they
had to do in Vermont. It's a good Vermont team.
They squeak out a win on Friday night. Saturday, it
becomes a little bit more handy. Maybe it feels like
an easier win. I guarantee it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But these two teams, they'll they'll be Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I'm waiting for either of these teams to show me
that they're going to be great.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Be You probably has the the roster to be great. DC.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Maybe they've got some injuries right now. We'll talk about
that on Wednesday. But you know, I think that right
now either of these teams are playing good enough hockey,
but they've got to just find that consist get back.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
To five hundred.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We talked on our Wednesday about these teams being at
the bottom of their overall records, and they're both back
to five hundred now and.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Be You died for first.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
But obviously Northeastern has games a handlebll Main right behind them.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Boston.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
It's so tight when as far as the points go.
But they got they got what they needed to get
and that's that's points, and they got trying to get right.
And this is this is the time where you need
to stick around in the race. You can, you can,
you can really put yourself behind the eight ball by
losing a lot of points. At this time of year,
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you need to stick around and make sure you get
right and get on a streak. And they're stick around
and getting getting right, which is which is what you
need to do at this time of year.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Northeastern had a couple of non conference games against stone
Hill two nothing and four to two, a stone Hill
team that is probably overlooked and underrated by people. They've
put together David Barrard just put together a competitive team there.
But the Huskies now seven to one and zero. Loton Zacher,
that's all we can talk about. Loton Zacher. He has
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been fantastic. The transfer goals header from Brown. He's he's
changed this Northeastern team. They're playing more confident. They have
some really good players from the us HL.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I look at that as a good pipeline of offense.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
For this team. But on the other side Lowton Zacher.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I mean he got shutouts against Denver, against Boston College,
against stone Hill three out of four games he ended
up with shutouts and then gave up two on Saturday
night and a four to two win.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I mean, this is a good North Eastern team.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
They're going to be more tested now as they get
deeper into league play. I still think that this might
be I love the stories that we told from the NCC.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Certainly there's good stories there.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
But I think that this is one of those field
good stories of college hockey this year, Northeastern coming back
after what was a tough season.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I was touching with Qwayne Wilson yesterday and because it
was his birthday, and obviously we're talking about we played
LU and we're talking about how the Independence have become
very very good and Stonehill's a great representation. They've only
won one game, but I think if you go by
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expected goals, I was reading that there's somewhere where they
could be like good goals. They could be like five
and five or six and four, something crazy like that,
but they're really only like one in nine or one
in ten, but they could be really close to five
hundred and for this Northeastern team to sweep them right now,
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that those are big wins, and it it would come
down to goaltending.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I think Frank's Territory said it.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I'm quoting all of my old coaches and friends right now.
Times hockey is they don't call it. They shouldn't call
it hockey, they should call it, call it goalie, called
the game goalie. And that's what what Zacher's doing right now.
They're calling the game goalie.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And I think you can correlate that almost completely. Teams
that have goalies doing very well are also the teams
that are doing well in this early season. And there's
a lot of goalies. The top ten is like around
nine to forty and above safe percentage right now in
D one.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
That's you know what, it's crazy finding and is not
many people are using a one two rotation anymore. I
think a lot of teams are just using one. They're
going with one and they're sticking with one, and they're
playing with one. And I think that that comes down
to when you're you're not playing, you're playing thirty four
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games and the schedule's starting to get a little bit
more divided up right now here. Sometimes you're playing there's
not many week as many weekday games, and the schedules
are divided, and right now there's so much time off
that two games are a weekend. It's not that hard.
So a lot of guys are playing on one goalie.
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You see it with Michigan they're playing one goalie. You
see it at Northeastern, they're playing one goalie. A lot
of these teams. Notre Dame's playing one goalie. They're not
going back to I mean Long Island played US, We're
playing one goalie.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Long Island's played one goalie. Rit is playing one goalie.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Everybody's playing one goalie right now, and it's there. They're
coming from the days of junior hockey where they're playing
fifty sixty games.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Thirty four is nothing nowadays. One goalie.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And maybe you get some of the experimental situations where
if you look at the team that's played eleven games,
maybe it's nine for their starter and then two for
a backup. Just I guess coaches just trying to say, hey,
what do we have? But I agree with these schools.
I've seen a lot more situations where you know, the
goaltender that's going to be coming out every night Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
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We're back with us Echo Weekend Review. Let's take another
more in depth look at Minnesota Duluth last year. Just
thirteen wins on the season ten two and oh right now,
and as we said, fifteen wins at the break is
not out of the real of possibility. The line of
Max Plant, Zamplant and Jason Jason Shagabay might be the
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most dominant line in college hockey twenty two goals and
thirty six assists fifty eight points in the first twelve games.
They've got half the goals scored this season for the team,
and goaltender Adam guy On is ten to and oh
one point seven oho goals against a nine to twenty
five save percentage, much better than last year seven to
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twelve and one three point three three goals against an
eight eighty eight eighty five save percentage.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I mean that just you've rattled off the numbers right
there all to find what this team is great goaltending
and they have an absolutely dominant line.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
They have the best learned in the country right now.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Everything we've talked about, you know, Boston College and some
of their lines that they had over the last two years.
This line of planned, planed Shaga Bay is dominant and
as long as they stay healthy, they're going to accumulate
a lot of points and a lot of goals. For
this Minnesota Dalut team, they need more. Of course, you
have to have some depth. You want to have good
second and third line scoring. You want to get some
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contributions from your defense. But when you have this single
line that's already put up twenty two goals this season,
they're dominant. And now the word that Guyane is playing
in net to see him actually throwing the numbers up
that support how good.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
He can be.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I think, now, if you're a Dluthe fan, you know
that you have all the components. Staying healthy, staying consistent
is what's really going to drive.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
But what really strikes me is their plus fifty overall
as a team, plus sixteen I mean and plus minus.
I mean, so you're looking at guys that are plus sixteen,
plus sixteen.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You've got those are those are up?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You're talking in twelve games plus sixteen get Ty Hanson
defense from plus thirteen and plus minus is an full stat,
but it's still a stat that people look at.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
They go, Wow, that's a lot of goals to be generating.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
When you got twenty two points in twelve games and
you're plus sixteen, you're not giving.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Up a lot.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
So they got forty four goals in twelve games, yea
opposition twenty two. They're plus twenty two in goals. Right now,
that's a lot of goals, and I mean, that's that's
a big time discrepancy. Thirteen power play goals five They're
doing it in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Right now, it tells me you were talking before about
fans getting restless. There until two seasons is not enough
time to get restless. Sometimes it takes a couple of
years to get that in place, the team that you want,
and maybe to overcome injuries and things like that.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So yeah, no doubt, no doubt there ed And too
many times I won't get into specific teams, but too
many times fans have called for a coach's head, maybe
get the athletic department to go along with it, and
then they say that the grass isn't greater. It's almost
like we were talking about with the portal earlier. You know,
sometimes you'll leave your school and you know it's not
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a better situation where you go. Sometimes you get a
new coach in and it doesn't Anybody that was calling
for Scott Sandalan's head was not a sensible fan.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It's not simple.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I mean, we heard people in North Dakota, Hey, we
haven't won a national championship in four years. It's time
time for a change. It's I mean, that's high expectations
and also some impatience. Dartmouth they're off to a four
and oh start. They had two league games this weekend
for one over Colgate on Friday to one over Cornell
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on Saturday last weekend, a sweep of stone Hill before that.
But they have the top goals against average and third
best goals per game scoring average one point two five
and four point two five respectively. Obviously a very small
sample size, but it kind of means we should keep
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an eye on the big Green.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We've been waiting for this, right you know, Reid Casperine
gets the job during COVID kind of becomes this coach
in waiting as he's waiting for his team to actually
play hockey. Finally gets back on the ice, and then
you have, you know, kind of rebuilding your program after
you didn't play for a year.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Now they're back.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It wasn't maybe as quick as you thought, but I
think this is the Darkness rebuild that we thought was
going to be possible, maybe got slowed down by COVID.
I'm not surprised because we know how good of a
coach Reed Casan was when he was on Rampecnall's staff.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
He expects to win.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I think that this is what we're going to see
from this document team. They're a dangerous team. They'll get
the support up in Hanover. You know, in this ECAC League,
could they make a run win the league championship.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I think I'm going to go out on the limp
since we're going big here. They could be maybe one
or two loss the team at Christmas. There's not many
losses on their schedule here that I'm looking here. Maybe
through the rest of the first half, big big test
at the Ledger Benk Classic.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
They got Arizona State that looked.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Like for two in there, but they've got army New
Hampshire which can be hard, Yale, Brown Merrimack.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I mean they could.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
They could do some pretty good damage here right down
the stretch, and they can make a run the top
four for sure in the A.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
This is a team that has been farting with the
uprush long of this league, and it would not surprise
me to be right there as we go down the stretch.
Red has done a really good job. Red's a good coach,
good guy, and he could be right there.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
At the end.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
By the way he mentioned Yale, props to them with
their first win over Quinnipiac since twenty eighteen on Friday night.
But some congratulations to former Boston University coach Jack Parker.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Coach would BEU for forty seasons national titles in nineteen
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seventy eight, ninety five, and two thousand and nine, eight
hundred and ninety seven wins, second all time behind Jerry York.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
What are the legends and it's so good to see
him go into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Jerry Yorke a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You know that's they were kind of a one two punch,
you know, especially once Jerry came back to Hockey E's
and had you know, twenty plus seasons at BC.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I loved that rivalry.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You know, I didn't get to know Jack that well
in terms of hockey as coaches, but everything he did
was so respectable. I think that was the number one
thing that you had to talk about was just you
had a level of respect for Jack.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
So congratulations Coach Parker. Great to see him in the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Hockey's Hall of Fame is getting a lot more college
influence as the years go by.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Or very classy man metam when we played Anchorage or
played them up and Anchorage in the Nissan Jeep Classic
back in about two thousand and seven. Very good, very
good man, very great for college hockey.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And congratulations and by the way, a milestone for Derek.
You coached your seven hundredth game behind the Robert Morris
bench on Friday.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Night Sturday night. Yeah, Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh see, the league got it wrong then Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
But hopefully we can of the seven oh one with
you on Friday.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, look forward to that or annual, it seems. Tripped
to moon Township to Clearview Ice Arena, and looking forward
to seeing Derek in a couple of games between r
T and the Colonials.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Thank you, though, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
That's always fun, all right.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I oe a lot to a lot of that, and
coaches and everybody out there help.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Me get there.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, and you'd probably be more like you'd be creeping
up on eight hundred right now if somebody hadn't made
a wrong decision along the way. But in any case,
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weekend of hockey and some sweeps for a change instead
of a lot of splits. But let's look at number one,
Michigan State. And we don't have the poll out yet
while we're recording, but I'm going to guess that they're
going to be close to, if not completely unanimous, number one.
They defeated Penn State two to one in overtime and
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then smacked them five to nothing. Trey Augustine gave up
just a single goal for the Spartans. They've won seventh straight,
tied for first in Division one right now since they
lost to U n H on opening night.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
This is a statement weekend in my opinion for Michigan State.
It's a tough, tough game on Friday night that they
had to survive and get the winning overtime, and you know,
credit to being able to pull out that game at home,
but then to bounce back and shut out a really
good offense in Penn State and limit the offense. Really
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they did not get the usual ridiculous number.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Of shots that a Penn State team does.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So I feel like Michigan State just went out and
told everybody, Hey, we're a good team. We're a really
good team, and oh we're playing a very good team
and we just I don't want to say question because
the overtime game on Friday, but.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
They had a great atmosphere with every time Gavin mckinna
touched the puck, they blewed what a every time he
left the ice, they cheered, Uh, obviously a little animosity
that he picked Pen stayed over Michigan State, and uh
that that just shows the excitement of college hockey and
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uh really neat atmosphere. I tuned in to see a
little bit of it around our games, and that it
just shows you the hype of of college hockey hasn't
died down. To have that kind of game and to
have Michigan State on top, they're they're they're definitely gonna
be the number one team.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
In the Lamb this week, and maybe a harbinger of
things to come in college hockey as this big star
spend a year or two with some college teams. I'm
sure certain that's going to attract a lot of attention.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
They just showed that.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Uh, you know, obviously they're they're showing uh Porter Maton
over Gavin mcckenna. They're showing signs of nil money. Uh,
they're It's just a neat little rivalry used to it's
something that to bring a lot of attention to the game,
and NHL Network covered that.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You can see highlights all over the place.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yes, you're right, something to bring more attention to our game,
which is is much needed.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And college hockey fans are very well researched these days too. Well,
let's go to the NC three series sweeps number nine
Denver on the road at number four Western Michigan, winning
three to one in six to three. This tells us
a little bit about both teams. At Denver we were
questioning a little bit a week or two ago, and
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now Western Michigan. That's got to raise some doubts.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
With my quotes on the other day and a quick
hitter on the kind of highlights about questioning Western Michigan,
and I got a couple alumni sent that to me
via text, question our alma mater on their defense and
obviously the six goals, and we had some questions about
Denver too, and I didn't I say, yeah, we always
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questioned Denver. And then they wrap off about eight to
ten at eleven games in a row, undefeated, and here
we go. Denver goes and wins two on the road
and Western gives up six again. They're gonna have to
get right in hurry. Both these Western's gonna have to
be right in hurry. And we'll see if Denver goes
on another heater like they normally do this time of year.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean, I don't want to take big statements this
time of year. I really don't, but I'm going to
right now as we look at this and we're gonna
talk about Minnesota, We're gonna talk about North.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Dakota all sweeping this weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Those three teams, if one of those teams are let's
just put it this way, if the national champion does
not come out of the NCC this year, I will
be shocked. I know we've talked a lot about the
Big ten We know that Hockey East always has some
strong teams.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I still look at the NCCHC.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
These teams are going to be so battle tested when
they get to the NCAA tournament. They are going to
have beat one another up the NCCHEA NCCHC team that
gets into the NCAA two, but they're gonna have a
chance to win a national championship.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
This this conference right now, the hockey that is being
played in the NCHC is just so impressive.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You mentioned Minnesota Duluth sweepover Saint Cloud State for nothing
and three to two in overtime. Minnesota Duluth was ranked
number seven coming into the weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
They're going to be.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Number three in today's poll and they weren't even in
the poll at the beginning of the season. What a
turnaround for Scott Sandal and squad.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, we'll get into them a little bit more of
the second half today, but this weekend series is just
another one. You know, you do it, you can do
it in non conference play, but once you bring it
back to conference play and you start pulling off six
point weekends, and this one ends up being a five
point weekend because you lost a point for the overtime win.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
But I just look at this Minnesota Duluth team.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Everything that they've gone out of the gate here is
so I mean, it's it's maybe we should have had
higher expectations for them, but the last two seasons didn't
give us that reason.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I love what they'd.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Say, you don't want to make major statements, Jimmy, but
you did. I'm gonna say, this is the biggest story
of the year. Oh yeah, I'm going to make a
major statement. Since we're in a major statement. Who saw
this coming? Nobody did? Ten and two at this point,
Nebraska Oma coming home, but then they've got four tough
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road games going to Colorad College in Western Michigan basically
to end there. Then they got Arizona State, then their
first half of the year. That that's we'll see really
where they are the next eight games after that.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But if if this team got to the break with
fifteen wins, would.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You be surprised? Yes? Would I mean? I mean, right now?
Would I right now? Would I be surprised? No?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, at the beginning of the year, absolutely absolutely, you'd
be surprised. I mean, people in the Luth work, were
they not calling for Scott Sedln's head.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
They shouldn't have been, No way should they ever be.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Calling for Scott, Sanlin said, But people were, which is
crazy to even think of that with what Scott He's
done at the Live, but they were, And now it's like, yeah,
look look what a good he said, not only a
great person, but he's a great coach. And now would
he be would you be surprised at fifteen ons?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Not even? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know, a couple of coaches have also talked to
me about him being one of the smartest coaches too.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I would believe that, you know, I've just listened to him,
you know, in some of his philosophies. You know, he
said something a number of years ago, This is going
back way before the portal came around, and he was
just talking about players that leave programs early, and he said,
there's only two reasons.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
To really leave a program early.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
One is because you're ready for the next level, and
he's like, in those players, you just gotta let go.
And the other one is could you hate the coach?
You know, I think he was trying to make the point.
We didn't they didn't have a lot of players transferring
and they were winning national championships, and I just think
he wasn't trying to pump himself up as much as
saying with all the movement that was sometimes.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Coaches just don't get along with their players.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I think that, you know, we go into you know,
what makes Scott Sandelin a great coach, I think it's
because he can relate to it.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Was a really funny guy. We had him.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We were at Mike Schaeffer and I were on the
rolls or the championships committee in Buffalo, and you never
liked teams crossing each other, but they were the number
one seed. They had the Sabers locker room and one
of shaefs and my jobs were to make sure that
when the teams crossed, we let one team go. And
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he was always you guys are the highest paid crossing
guards in the history of of crossing guards and most
wins in the history of crossing guards, and he was
always He's got a great sense of humor, just a
great guy and I'm glad to see him having success
right now.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And just a side note before we get to the
other sweep on the weekend, I think a story for
us to look at, or a topic down the road,
maybe in a year or two even is a retrospective
on who was helped and who was hurt in going
into the transfer portal, because not everybody finds out that
the grass is greener. Sometimes it's full of weeds and
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they get lost in them. Well, let's look at number
eight North Dakota coming into the weekend. They swept at
Omaha seven to two and four to one, and I
think one of the big stories with North Dakota is
other than an exception up in at Clarks and in
New York State's North Country, is they've really been putting
together some offense.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I mean, when you're scoring eleven goals in NCHC play
in the weekend, that's that's pretty good. In giving up
all League three, I think it's just it's the golds
are cruential right now for North Dakota. They look as
strong as as you could imagine. It's why I've just
really bold on the NCAAC this weekend because I look
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at some of the teams that are on the back
end of these sweeps Western Michigan, Saint Claus State, Omaha.
I look at all three of those teams and think
they're really good. So now you've got three teams that
in Denver to lout in North Dakota that pulls up,
pull off those suites.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'm really I just I guess it's made me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
A little bit bullish on this NCAC conference right now.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We're really surprised about that North Dakota. I mean, North
Dakota take a little down year last year, doesn't make
the tournament. I mean, and now they're they're back up there.
I mean yeah, whether whether you thought it that we
should add a coaching change there or not. With Brad
Leavin and Dane coming in, you knew that they weren't
going to be down for for that long and and
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here they are, uh, you know, basically getting back to
the top of the NCC. And like you said, this
league is is tough. This is a gauntlet. You're running
a gauntlet. And uh, you know, I heard it the
other day and we're talking about a Division three league
in her office, about a Division three league, and we're
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talking about some teams and Division three hockey. We're like,
this is basically the NCCHC at Division three and that's
the best Division three league. And I mean, this isn't
This is a challenging league. Every night, there's no off
nights in this league, the sec of college hockey, and
you got the Big ten. The Big ten's the Big ten,
and here you got this is it?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Well, let's take a look at Hockey East. A couple
of teams made their way back to five hundred with
weekend sweeps and kind of righted the ship after raising
some eyebrows earlier on number twelve, BU over Merrimack three
two and overtime at hot at home in five to
four on the road, and then BC sweep over Vermont
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two to one and five nothing. How important was it
for these two programs to get these sweeps this weekend?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Jim critical, I wasn't all that can in the long
term about either of these teams.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They both are good. We know that there's talent there.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I think BC may have taken a small step back
in terms of talent from last year, but that was
just shows how stronomic team they were.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Me you has the talent, they're just not playing defense
right now.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
So and they get the two wins against Merrimack, but
I'm still a little concerned. They had leads three nothing
lead and then a five to two lead against Merrimack
and it ends up being a five to four game
that you know, they got the overtime win on Friday.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That's a good win. You needed to get that at home.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But right now I'm still a little bit concerned for
bu BC. They go up and they do what they
had to do in Vermont. It's a good Vermont team.
They squeak out a win on Friday night. Saturday, it
becomes a little bit more handy. Maybe it feels like
an easier win. I guarantee it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But these two teams, they'll they'll be Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I'm waiting for either of these teams to show me
that they're going to be great.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Be You probably has the the roster to be great. DC.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Maybe they've got some injuries right now. We'll talk about
that on Wednesday. But you know, I think that right
now either of these teams are playing good enough hockey,
but they've got to just find that consist get back.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
To five hundred.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We talked on our Wednesday about these teams being at
the bottom of their overall records, and they're both back
to five hundred now and.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Be You died for first.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
But obviously Northeastern has games a handlebll Main right behind them.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Boston.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
It's so tight when as far as the points go.
But they got they got what they needed to get
and that's that's points, and they got trying to get right.
And this is this is the time where you need
to stick around in the race. You can, you can,
you can really put yourself behind the eight ball by
losing a lot of points. At this time of year,
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you need to stick around and make sure you get
right and get on a streak. And they're stick around
and getting getting right, which is which is what you
need to do at this time of year.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Northeastern had a couple of non conference games against stone
Hill two nothing and four to two, a stone Hill
team that is probably overlooked and underrated by people. They've
put together David Barrard just put together a competitive team there.
But the Huskies now seven to one and zero. Loton Zacher,
that's all we can talk about. Loton Zacher. He has
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been fantastic. The transfer goals header from Brown. He's he's
changed this Northeastern team. They're playing more confident. They have
some really good players from the us HL.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I look at that as a good pipeline of offense.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
For this team. But on the other side Lowton Zacher.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I mean he got shutouts against Denver, against Boston College,
against stone Hill three out of four games he ended
up with shutouts and then gave up two on Saturday
night and a four to two win.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I mean, this is a good North Eastern team.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
They're going to be more tested now as they get
deeper into league play. I still think that this might
be I love the stories that we told from the NCC.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Certainly there's good stories there.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
But I think that this is one of those field
good stories of college hockey this year, Northeastern coming back
after what was a tough season.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I was touching with Qwayne Wilson yesterday and because it
was his birthday, and obviously we're talking about we played
LU and we're talking about how the Independence have become
very very good and Stonehill's a great representation. They've only
won one game, but I think if you go by
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expected goals, I was reading that there's somewhere where they
could be like good goals. They could be like five
and five or six and four, something crazy like that,
but they're really only like one in nine or one
in ten, but they could be really close to five
hundred and for this Northeastern team to sweep them right now,
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that those are big wins, and it it would come
down to goaltending.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I think Frank's Territory said it.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I'm quoting all of my old coaches and friends right now.
Times hockey is they don't call it. They shouldn't call
it hockey, they should call it, call it goalie, called
the game goalie. And that's what what Zacher's doing right now.
They're calling the game goalie.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And I think you can correlate that almost completely. Teams
that have goalies doing very well are also the teams
that are doing well in this early season. And there's
a lot of goalies. The top ten is like around
nine to forty and above safe percentage right now in
D one.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
That's you know what, it's crazy finding and is not
many people are using a one two rotation anymore. I
think a lot of teams are just using one. They're
going with one and they're sticking with one, and they're
playing with one. And I think that that comes down
to when you're you're not playing, you're playing thirty four
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games and the schedule's starting to get a little bit
more divided up right now here. Sometimes you're playing there's
not many week as many weekday games, and the schedules
are divided, and right now there's so much time off
that two games are a weekend. It's not that hard.
So a lot of guys are playing on one goalie.
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You see it with Michigan they're playing one goalie. You
see it at Northeastern, they're playing one goalie. A lot
of these teams. Notre Dame's playing one goalie. They're not
going back to I mean Long Island played US, We're
playing one goalie.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Long Island's played one goalie. Rit is playing one goalie.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Everybody's playing one goalie right now, and it's there. They're
coming from the days of junior hockey where they're playing
fifty sixty games.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Thirty four is nothing nowadays. One goalie.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And maybe you get some of the experimental situations where
if you look at the team that's played eleven games,
maybe it's nine for their starter and then two for
a backup. Just I guess coaches just trying to say, hey,
what do we have? But I agree with these schools.
I've seen a lot more situations where you know, the
goaltender that's going to be coming out every night Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
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We're back with us Echo Weekend Review. Let's take another
more in depth look at Minnesota Duluth last year. Just
thirteen wins on the season ten two and oh right now,
and as we said, fifteen wins at the break is
not out of the real of possibility. The line of
Max Plant, Zamplant and Jason Jason Shagabay might be the
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most dominant line in college hockey twenty two goals and
thirty six assists fifty eight points in the first twelve games.
They've got half the goals scored this season for the team,
and goaltender Adam guy On is ten to and oh
one point seven oho goals against a nine to twenty
five save percentage, much better than last year seven to
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twelve and one three point three three goals against an
eight eighty eight eighty five save percentage.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I mean that just you've rattled off the numbers right
there all to find what this team is great goaltending
and they have an absolutely dominant line.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
They have the best learned in the country right now.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Everything we've talked about, you know, Boston College and some
of their lines that they had over the last two years.
This line of planned, planed Shaga Bay is dominant and
as long as they stay healthy, they're going to accumulate
a lot of points and a lot of goals. For
this Minnesota Dalut team, they need more. Of course, you
have to have some depth. You want to have good
second and third line scoring. You want to get some
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contributions from your defense. But when you have this single
line that's already put up twenty two goals this season,
they're dominant. And now the word that Guyane is playing
in net to see him actually throwing the numbers up
that support how good.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
He can be.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I think, now, if you're a Dluthe fan, you know
that you have all the components. Staying healthy, staying consistent
is what's really going to drive.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
But what really strikes me is their plus fifty overall
as a team, plus sixteen I mean and plus minus.
I mean, so you're looking at guys that are plus sixteen,
plus sixteen.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You've got those are those are up?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You're talking in twelve games plus sixteen get Ty Hanson
defense from plus thirteen and plus minus is an full stat,
but it's still a stat that people look at.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
They go, Wow, that's a lot of goals to be generating.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
When you got twenty two points in twelve games and
you're plus sixteen, you're not giving.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Up a lot.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
So they got forty four goals in twelve games, yea
opposition twenty two. They're plus twenty two in goals. Right now,
that's a lot of goals, and I mean, that's that's
a big time discrepancy. Thirteen power play goals five They're
doing it in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Right now, it tells me you were talking before about
fans getting restless. There until two seasons is not enough
time to get restless. Sometimes it takes a couple of
years to get that in place, the team that you want,
and maybe to overcome injuries and things like that.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So yeah, no doubt, no doubt there ed And too
many times I won't get into specific teams, but too
many times fans have called for a coach's head, maybe
get the athletic department to go along with it, and
then they say that the grass isn't greater. It's almost
like we were talking about with the portal earlier. You know,
sometimes you'll leave your school and you know it's not
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a better situation where you go. Sometimes you get a
new coach in and it doesn't Anybody that was calling
for Scott Sandalan's head was not a sensible fan.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It's not simple.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I mean, we heard people in North Dakota, Hey, we
haven't won a national championship in four years. It's time
time for a change. It's I mean, that's high expectations
and also some impatience. Dartmouth they're off to a four
and oh start. They had two league games this weekend
for one over Colgate on Friday to one over Cornell
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on Saturday last weekend, a sweep of stone Hill before that.
But they have the top goals against average and third
best goals per game scoring average one point two five
and four point two five respectively. Obviously a very small
sample size, but it kind of means we should keep
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an eye on the big Green.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We've been waiting for this, right you know, Reid Casperine
gets the job during COVID kind of becomes this coach
in waiting as he's waiting for his team to actually
play hockey. Finally gets back on the ice, and then
you have, you know, kind of rebuilding your program after
you didn't play for a year.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Now they're back.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It wasn't maybe as quick as you thought, but I
think this is the Darkness rebuild that we thought was
going to be possible, maybe got slowed down by COVID.
I'm not surprised because we know how good of a
coach Reed Casan was when he was on Rampecnall's staff.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
He expects to win.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I think that this is what we're going to see
from this document team. They're a dangerous team. They'll get
the support up in Hanover. You know, in this ECAC League,
could they make a run win the league championship.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I think I'm going to go out on the limp
since we're going big here. They could be maybe one
or two loss the team at Christmas. There's not many
losses on their schedule here that I'm looking here. Maybe
through the rest of the first half, big big test
at the Ledger Benk Classic.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
They got Arizona State that looked.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Like for two in there, but they've got army New
Hampshire which can be hard, Yale, Brown Merrimack.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I mean they could.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
They could do some pretty good damage here right down
the stretch, and they can make a run the top
four for sure in the A.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
This is a team that has been farting with the
uprush long of this league, and it would not surprise
me to be right there as we go down the stretch.
Red has done a really good job. Red's a good coach,
good guy, and he could be right there.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
At the end.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
By the way he mentioned Yale, props to them with
their first win over Quinnipiac since twenty eighteen on Friday night.
But some congratulations to former Boston University coach Jack Parker.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Coach would BEU for forty seasons national titles in nineteen
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seventy eight, ninety five, and two thousand and nine, eight
hundred and ninety seven wins, second all time behind Jerry York.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
What are the legends and it's so good to see
him go into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Jerry Yorke a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You know that's they were kind of a one two punch,
you know, especially once Jerry came back to Hockey E's
and had you know, twenty plus seasons at BC.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I loved that rivalry.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You know, I didn't get to know Jack that well
in terms of hockey as coaches, but everything he did
was so respectable. I think that was the number one
thing that you had to talk about was just you
had a level of respect for Jack.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
So congratulations Coach Parker. Great to see him in the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Hockey's Hall of Fame is getting a lot more college
influence as the years go by.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Or very classy man metam when we played Anchorage or
played them up and Anchorage in the Nissan Jeep Classic
back in about two thousand and seven. Very good, very
good man, very great for college hockey.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And congratulations and by the way, a milestone for Derek.
You coached your seven hundredth game behind the Robert Morris
bench on Friday.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Night Sturday night. Yeah, Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh see, the league got it wrong then Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
But hopefully we can of the seven oh one with
you on Friday.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, look forward to that or annual, it seems. Tripped
to moon Township to Clearview Ice Arena, and looking forward
to seeing Derek in a couple of games between r
T and the Colonials.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Thank you, though, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
That's always fun, all right.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I oe a lot to a lot of that, and
coaches and everybody out there help.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Me get there.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, and you'd probably be more like you'd be creeping
up on eight hundred right now if somebody hadn't made
a wrong decision along the way. But in any case,
that's going to do it for this edition of Weekend Review.
First of all, we're on YouTube now, so go to
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