Buccigross says...
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I don't follow college hockey but glad PSU is going well
But I flipped the dial yesterday and Arizona State playing OSU. Is ASU a hockey dynasty of some sort? Are other teams from the south also good? Kinda surprised by it.
But I flipped the dial yesterday and Arizona State playing OSU. Is ASU a hockey dynasty of some sort? Are other teams from the south also good? Kinda surprised by it.
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ASU was one of the top tier "club programs" (IIRC), during the era when PSU was dominating the club hockey scene
Just recently moved up to "D1" hockey
We played a home series with them this season, I was at one of the games. They reminded me a lot of PSU our first year in D1; they had a few good players but on balance were just a step slower than we were. That's what our guys looked like back in the beginning so they won't win many games this year but as we've seen that can change pretty quickly.
The issue ASU has is that there aren't too many good hockey players down that way. They are probably hoping they can get the best California kids, but their program is going to require a lot of travel.
There was at one point a rumor that ASU was going to join the B1G for hockey.
The pretty girls at ASU and in Scottsdale would be enough to get me to go there 
A family friend, a few years younger than me from West Chester County, NY went to ASU back in the'80's to play on their club team. He considered PSU to play for the Icers, but couldn't resist the Arizona weather. So, they do have that going for them.
I posted a thread to Nate about a week ago asking to start one. Haven't heard back yet.
My gf's sons are both really good hockey players.The pretty girls at ASU and in Scottsdale would be enough to get me to go there
We are so hoping they end up at ASU!
Hahvud will take a nosedive in the USCHO and PairWise rankings with its two losses this weekend.
When I made that statement, I said to myself both Lar and Art will correct me. As usual (except in the statement itself of course), I was correct.Only if you consider northern Alabama, i.e. Huntsville, not in the South
ASU just started its varsity program, ala PSU a few years ago. Mario Lemieux's son Austin recently signed with them out of major junior hockey.
Yes. Season ticket holder. I make the trek up from Pittsburgh for virtually all the games.
We have some good discussion in the Den. New BWI Intern @David Eckert-BWI Staff just started doing in-game updates. There are regular Den members who are puckheads and season-ticket holders, but don't see them too much on the McAndrew Board.
I have season tickets. Also spend time keeping this up-to-date.
http://www.hockeyvalley.com/
FTR - the first year that I ran it, I tried the message board route but had little to no interest so I fell back to simply curating PSU hockey news.
The McAndrew Board is like an exclusive country club. You have to know somebody to get in.
If you guys let ME in, how exclusive can it be???
Buccigross is a great advocate for college hockey and has been very positive voice for Penn St. ASU doesn't have the facility/location/conference advantages the Penn St had when starting a program. They are well funded and should develop program quickly, but this year's team is terrible. Harvard dropped to #10 in PWR. Bucci is nice and polls are nice, but PWR is the NCAA tournament field and it updates after every game. There will be a change tonight when BC plays BU. Penn St won't be impacted. It's a good system. BIG is having another down year, which will hurt Penn St. If they keep winning they will certainly qualify for NCAAs and should be a high seed, but the season is just starting.
