best team in years to come
Moderators: Mitch Hawker, east hockey, karl(east)
-
- Posts: 42
- Joined: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:09 pm
best team in years to come
who will be the best WCHA team in around the next 6 years?
-
- Posts: 5140
- Joined: Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:28 am
- Location: Minnesota
-
- Posts: 931
- Joined: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:31 pm
-
- Posts: 923
- Joined: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:58 am
- Location: East Metro
The youth program with the skills emphases has help tremendous in supplying the collages with great talent. Yes some have better than great, but it all is good for the game.
Stay the course and it can only get better due to the level of completion coming thru the rank and files.
Once D-1 applies the NHL rule on the grabbing and let the kids fly! Now a recruiting war begins. Sorry Alaska you’re a little outside the circle of close travel.
The difference will be, do you take a kid that will only give you two years of playing time or ones that will be there the full four years. Player development program with the advanced draft pick or build from with in?
Stay the course and it can only get better due to the level of completion coming thru the rank and files.
Once D-1 applies the NHL rule on the grabbing and let the kids fly! Now a recruiting war begins. Sorry Alaska you’re a little outside the circle of close travel.
The difference will be, do you take a kid that will only give you two years of playing time or ones that will be there the full four years. Player development program with the advanced draft pick or build from with in?
-
- Posts: 1548
- Joined: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:14 am
- Contact:
The teams that have depth and recover from player losses quickly are the ones that consistently contend. Two WCHA programs do that far better than the rest.... Minnesota and UND.
Some of the other schools mentioned here will have shorter periods of time where they could contend but they generally only last a year or two because they don't reload as well.
Some of the other schools mentioned here will have shorter periods of time where they could contend but they generally only last a year or two because they don't reload as well.
-
- Posts: 415
- Joined: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:39 pm
- Location: Eau Claire, WI
National title in 2006 and we come back with the #1 recruiting class? Your right we do go one and done cuz we just cant reload. Watch out buddy here we come!Gopher Blog wrote: Some of the other schools mentioned here will have shorter periods of time where they could contend but they generally only last a year or two because they don't reload as well.
-
- Posts: 1548
- Joined: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:14 am
- Contact:
Yeah, UW/Eaves managed to "reload" very well after the title.... missing the NCAAs completely last year. Not exactly the definition of "reloading" my friend.wisconsinprephockey wrote:National title in 2006 and we come back with the #1 recruiting class? Your right we do go one and done cuz we just cant reload. Watch out buddy here we come!
-
- Posts: 415
- Joined: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:39 pm
- Location: Eau Claire, WI
Im sorry what did you say? I must have missed while reading about our ridiculous recruiting classGopher Blog wrote:Yeah, UW/Eaves managed to "reload" very well after the title.... missing the NCAAs completely last year. Not exactly the definition of "reloading" my friend.wisconsinprephockey wrote:National title in 2006 and we come back with the #1 recruiting class? Your right we do go one and done cuz we just cant reload. Watch out buddy here we come!
-
- Posts: 1548
- Joined: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:14 am
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 5339
- Joined: Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:48 pm
-
- Posts: 415
- Joined: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:39 pm
- Location: Eau Claire, WI
-
- Posts: 1548
- Joined: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:14 am
- Contact:
Big Dance = Making the NCAA tourneywisconsinprephockey wrote:I believe we are underrated and could finish second in the conference, to young to take it all the way to the big dance tho...
We'll see if the new guys can get them there this year. If they live up to your lofty expectations (2nd place), they should. But it is pretty tough to put them that high in the league at this early stage. Not with what some other teams in the league have in comparison (especially for veterans).