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That situation was one bad decision after another.

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 you ever think it could be the Brookings coach.

Did see Sauer play and he did nothing. Made a wrong decision, parents sometimes are not objective... parents are usually objective and poor evaluators.

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.

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.

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.

Actually, he's given up his last two years of hs. He would have been a junior this year.

I am curious to know...how many players off team USA came through college hockey?

Tigers33 wrote:I am curious to know...how many players off team USA came through college hockey?

Just off the top of my head:

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...

Yes but that still means that any didn't go through Canadian juniors.

Tigers33 wrote:Yes but that still means that any didn't go through Canadian juniors.

I think Faulk played one year at UMD and left for CHL, but I may be mistaken...

Thought he went pro

Rumor has belysma didn't let Kane shoot cause he didn't go to college

Deathblow wrote:

Tigers33 wrote:Yes but that still means that any didn't go through Canadian juniors.

I think Faulk played one year at UMD and left for CHL, but I may be mistaken...

Signed with Carolina after UMD won title.

Tigers33 wrote:Rumor has belysma didn't let Kane shoot cause he didn't go to college

He took an online college couse when he was playing juniors. That should qualify?

Tigers33 wrote:I am curious to know...how many players off team USA came through college hockey?

Brown, Callahan, Carlson, Fowler, Kane played in the OHL. Everyone else played 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.

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?

alcloseshaver 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?

Duncan Keith- Michigan... Tech or State... cant recall off the top of my head
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.

TheSiouxSuck wrote:

alcloseshaver 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?

Duncan Keith- Michigan... Tech or State... cant recall off the top of my head
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.

Sharpe played at Vermont I believe.

alcloseshaver wrote:

TheSiouxSuck wrote:

alcloseshaver 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?

Duncan Keith- Michigan... Tech or State... cant recall off the top of my head
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.

Sharpe played at Vermont I believe.

Duncan Kieth, Mich. St