Jacob Truscott Back
with all these guys leaving, is it really an unfinished business kinda thing? Is next year's team going to be great? This year's team wasn't but caught fire at the right time.. but we weren't even competitive against a superior BC team who then lost to Denver.
So ... do we have a legit shot at anything beyond what we did this year?
They've made the Frozen 4 the last few years and haven't advanced. It's not difficult to understand Unfinished Business as a mantra forthe returnees
its also not hard to understand my question. I didn't ask why HE said it. i asked if UM hockey next year is going to be a good team or not that can really make good on that goal/mantra.
Doesn’t it also depend on what other teams are like too? Next year certainly isn’t going to rival the ‘96 team in terms of talent but could they win it all because…stuff happens? We’ll find out
I am ready to sign on for a 4th Frozen Four it that is the board "expectation".
Frozen 4^2
It depends a lot on whether we get good news/confirmations that Hughes, Eernisse, Casey, and Edwards are all coming back. If so they are potentially returning 10 of their top 15 players with 3-5 impact freshmen and 2-3 impact transfers that could help offset the loss of Brindley, Duke, Nazar, and Warren (Holtz is probably easier to replace).
how about a goalie? i feel like goalie issues have plagued Michigan for years as we've had so much talent come and go without a title. seems like goalies have been good, but never great. why is it hard to get an elite goalie? are they just so rare at the college level? is it swing and miss?
Another goalie transfer from Ferris state just committed. 0.91 save percentage and 1.9 GA average
April 18th, 2024 at 10:02 AM ^
Well, we had an elite goalie committed and then MSU hired his coach. Otherwise Augustine would have been here, right? And predicting goalie success is like predicting QB success in the NFL draft. So much of it goes beyond simple measurables, that it can be a bit of a crapshoot. Look at the goalies that have gone from elite to mediocre (and sometimes back again) in the NHL.
Weren't competitive? Bullshit. They had several point blank opportunities to score. Their goalie had a great game plus a couple shots off the post prevented a close game. .
"Unfinished business." I seem to recall hearing that phrase a lot related to another Michigan team over the last year or two. Wonder how that turned out?
Good news, plus we just picked up what seems like an impact defenseman transfer from ASU as well (next thread up).
This is huge-- Truscott had his struggles this year and he's not my favorite player, but we don't have anyone on the roster or in the pipeline with his defensive skill and size. All of our other defensemen are smaller and more offensive focused.
April 18th, 2024 at 10:05 AM ^
Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing another Warren-style defenseman from the portal. Bigger and more physical, to complement our smaller, speedier offensive-defensemen.
Truscott is the kind of guy I wish we had 6-10 of in every year's roster. Talented enough to be draftable, but no so much that the NHL is trying to rip the guy off campus. Give me AHL guys all day (mixed in with a few top end guys to be clear)
This definitely helps. Truscott was also captain this year so good to have a team leader back.
Welcome back Jacob! SCTV hockey movie to entertain the UM/ Red Wing puck nuts here who need a laugh.