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Did you ever think it could be the Brookings coach.Nuts&Bolts wrote:By the looks of it Brookings should release the entire team. I wonder if the kid asked to be released to get out of a bad situation or if he was cut. Hopefully he finds a path that can work for him.
Did see Sauer play and he did nothing. Made a wrong decision, parents sometimes are not objective... parents are usually objective and poor evaluators.
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It may look like a poor choice "after the fact" but I give the kid a lot of credit for trying. You'll never make it if you don't try. Its not like he is giving up his last year of High School at a "powerhouse" program anyway.
There are other places to play for this year (NA3HL, MJ) and I'm sure he can catch on with one of them for the season. Then keep training and working out and show up at camp next year and make a team. As they say...if at first you don't succeed...try and try again.
There are other places to play for this year (NA3HL, MJ) and I'm sure he can catch on with one of them for the season. Then keep training and working out and show up at camp next year and make a team. As they say...if at first you don't succeed...try and try again.
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I wish him the best of luck. Maybe he thought signing a WHL contract was the best way to develop himself into an NHL player. Maybe it still will be. However, hindsight shows that he probably "overbet the pot". He still has his "chip and a chair" though.oldschoolpuckster wrote:It may look like a poor choice "after the fact" but I give the kid a lot of credit for trying. You'll never make it if you don't try. Its not like he is giving up his last year of High School at a "powerhouse" program anyway.
There are other places to play for this year (NA3HL, MJ) and I'm sure he can catch on with one of them for the season. Then keep training and working out and show up at camp next year and make a team. As they say...if at first you don't succeed...try and try again.
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Actually, he's given up his last two years of hs. He would have been a junior this year.oldschoolpuckster wrote:It may look like a poor choice "after the fact" but I give the kid a lot of credit for trying. You'll never make it if you don't try. Its not like he is giving up his last year of High School at a "powerhouse" program anyway.
There are other places to play for this year (NA3HL, MJ) and I'm sure he can catch on with one of them for the season. Then keep training and working out and show up at camp next year and make a team. As they say...if at first you don't succeed...try and try again.
Just off the top of my head:Tigers33 wrote:I am curious to know...how many players off team USA came through college hockey?
Quick, Miller, Parise, Suter, McDonagh, Faulk, Oshie, Kessel, VanRiemsdyk, Kesler, Backes, Howard, Martin, Orpik, Shattenkirk, Wheeler, Stepan, Pavelski, Stastny...
Many played only a year or two...
Brown, Callahan, Carlson, Fowler, Kane played in the OHL. Everyone else played college hockey.Tigers33 wrote:I am curious to know...how many players off team USA came through college hockey?
Brown, Callahan, and Kane are all from western New York, where the OHL is the more common path of the elite players.
Just for fun, here is where the 2014 US olympic team played the year they were drafted into the NHL.
HS: 5
NAHL: 1
College: 5
USHL: 4
Ann Arbor: 4
OHL: 4
Shattuck: 2
The takeaway- where they play at 16-18 years old has very little to do with long term success.
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Duncan Keith- Michigan... Tech or State... cant recall off the top of my headalcloseshaver wrote:20 came from college hockey, Next team with the most from college level is Finland with 5. Can anyone name them from team Canada besides Toews?
Kunitz- Ferris State
Marty St. Lous- Vermont
Toews- UND
and... I'd have to guess.... Patty Sharp by process of elimination... Although where, I havent the slightest.
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Sharpe played at Vermont I believe.TheSiouxSuck wrote:Duncan Keith- Michigan... Tech or State... cant recall off the top of my headalcloseshaver wrote:20 came from college hockey, Next team with the most from college level is Finland with 5. Can anyone name them from team Canada besides Toews?
Kunitz- Ferris State
Marty St. Lous- Vermont
Toews- UND
and... I'd have to guess.... Patty Sharp by process of elimination... Although where, I havent the slightest.
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Duncan Kieth, Mich. Stalcloseshaver wrote:Sharpe played at Vermont I believe.TheSiouxSuck wrote:Duncan Keith- Michigan... Tech or State... cant recall off the top of my headalcloseshaver wrote:20 came from college hockey, Next team with the most from college level is Finland with 5. Can anyone name them from team Canada besides Toews?
Kunitz- Ferris State
Marty St. Lous- Vermont
Toews- UND
and... I'd have to guess.... Patty Sharp by process of elimination... Although where, I havent the slightest.