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    • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

      Originally posted by vizoroo View Post
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      Why should I vote for Butcher who snubbed the Badgers? Just because he's from Sun Prairie?
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        Originally posted by MadCityRich View Post
        Why should I vote for Butcher who snubbed the Badgers? Just because he's from Sun Prairie?
        Pride in a native son of Wisconsin

        BTW Recruited for DU by a former Badger
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        • Originally posted by vizoroo View Post
          Pride in a native son of Wisconsin

          BTW Recruited for DU by a former Badger
          Blasphemy I say!!!!

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          • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

            Originally posted by markwojo View Post
            The only risk in going young is a PR hit. There is nothing binding on either party to engage in the verbal commitment game. If a kid doesn't develop to the expectations of the coaching staff of the school he has given a verbal to, there is the old stop answering the phone trick if not just manning up and telling the kid they need to go to junior and get better to grab a spot the next year.
            PR hit? Wisconsin is in the red zone when it comes to over committing players now. They have a ton of verbal commits and that lends itself to having to back out on offers as you mentioned. Doing that kills your reputation in the hockey/advisor world and good luck getting kids to commit there when they have a poor reputation of how they treat verbal commits.

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            • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

              Originally posted by vizoroo View Post
              Pride in a native son of Wisconsin

              BTW Recruited for DU by a former Badger
              Viz, I forgot to put a winking eye...I actually know Joe. There...I didn't want to come off as a *****!
              "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." Vince Lombardi

              "License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man; free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case, my enemy is a varmint....and a varmint will never quit...ever. They're like Viet Cong...Varmint Cong, so you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower...and that's all she wrote. Au revoir, gopher." Karl Spackler 1980

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              • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

                The Tier I Central District Championships are in Fond du Lac starting tomorrow. At all 4 age groups (U14, U15, Midget Minor and Midget Major) the same organizations won their state tournament-Team Wisconsin, Chicago Mission, St. Louis Jr. Blues and Omaha AAA.

                I'm hoping to see Team Wisconsin play Chicago Mission Midget Minor tomorrow at noon...future Badgers Koufis, Turcotte, De St. Phalle and Lindmark are all a part of the Mission team.

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                • Originally posted by Lemonade View Post
                  PR hit? Wisconsin is in the red zone when it comes to over committing players now. They have a ton of verbal commits and that lends itself to having to back out on offers as you mentioned. Doing that kills your reputation in the hockey/advisor world and good luck getting kids to commit there when they have a poor reputation of how they treat verbal commits.
                  Jealous?

                  Oz has been here before and his tactics are incredibly successful in recruiting. Stepan, Mcdonagh, geoffrion, b smith c smith and on and on.

                  UW will be more than fine. What may happen with verbals is Eaves recruits may not end up in Madison. That's normal when there are coaching changes.
                  Last edited by solovsfett; 03-17-2017, 08:07 AM.
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                  • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

                    Originally posted by DPlaya View Post
                    I'm hoping to see Team Wisconsin play Chicago Mission Midget Minor tomorrow at noon...future Badgers Koufis, Turcotte, De St. Phalle and Lindmark are all a part of the Mission team.
                    I'd love to see that game, but hopefully I'm packing for St. Louis and leaving at 2. If the UW gals don't win tonight, I'm in for that game. Maybe you could post an update when things firm up or post a tweet.
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                    • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

                      Chicago Mission downed Team Wisconsin U16 5-1 today. Unofficially I had Lindmark with an assist, De St. Phalle with a goal and Alex Turcotte with a goal and assist. Turcotte centers the first line with Luke Toporowski (committed to Spokane Chiefs WHL) on the left and De St. Phalle on the right wing. Lindmark and Koufis played together on a line with Lindmark centering the line.

                      I was really, really impressed with Turcotte and De St. Phalle today. Both have elite skating ability...both have incredible top-end speed and acceleration. De St. Phalle has really great hands and he is masterful at possessing the puck, even in heavy traffic. Many times he took control of the puck in his own end and just patiently evaded and escaped every opponent in his vicinity until he found a clearing and started the attack. De St. Phalle used his speed to generate two breakaway attempts today, neither of which he scored on. One he carried the puck, the other he flew behind the defense and received a pass to go in all alone. Turcotte is fantastic on his skates and many times just used his body and his feel to shield the puck and skate around guys while they were trying to push him off the puck. These guys should be terrors in two years when they hit campus.

                      Lindmark didn't jump out at me a whole lot as I watched. I think his skating is above average.

                      Koufis seemed to be an average skater.

                      Mission's first line was so good I think it made anyone not playing with them look average. After some penalties Koufis ended up playing the right wing with the top line and he threaded a great pass to one of the other forwards that they almost converted. It just seemed like good things happened to whoever was on the ice with Turcotte and Toporowski. De St. Phalle still stood out when he was not with his typical linemates, but it didn't seem like he was able to consistently show off his complete skill set with the other forwards.

                      I used to go watch a lot of hockey at this level but since my daughter has played it has admittedly been a while. My evaluation skills are likely showing some rust...

                      Funny story...I saw a guy at the rink I knew I had seen a picture of somewhere...got to thinking that maybe it was Andy Johnson. So I walked up and introduced myself and low and behold it was Andy. He and I used to blog together and interact digitally for a lot of years but we had never met in person. It was interesting that he would not "take the bait" and talk about specific players but did say he had seen both those teams play 8 times this year and thought it was a sloppy game after I mentioned I was disappointed with all the defensemen beyond maybe Vlasic and Weiss for Mission.

                      Speaking of Weiss (Notre Dame commit), one of the TW players blasted him over the boards into the TW bench area in the third period.

                      I had a great time watching the future Badgers and was glad I made the time to take in the game. That is a really impressive team. And to think that Badger defensive recruit Brady Smith started the year with that Mission team before jumping to the USHL....

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                      • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

                        Josh Ess saw his 1st USHL action this weekend. Notched an assist last night on the Powerplay.

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                        • Originally posted by herbst20 View Post
                          Josh Ess saw his 1st USHL action this weekend. Notched an assist last night on the Powerplay.
                          Yeah I saw this as well. Originally he was supposed to come in during the 2018 or even 2019 season. However, it was made known that 2017 could be his freshman campaign at UW.
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                          • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

                            Dominick Mersch apparently has a feisty side. Last week he dropped the gloves with another badger recruit Brady Smith. About a year ago he fought with the former badger recruit Jere Astren. Maybe Granato should give him a call and ask him to be a little more selective with his combatants. Then again has anyone heard if he is still coming to UW or not?

                            http://journalstar.com/sports/local/...a660d1e0f.html

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                            • Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. III - Building a better tomorrow...today!

                              Dominick Mersch apparently has some feistiness to him. Last week he dropped the gloves with another badger recruit Brady Smith. I believe about a year ago he also dropped the gloves with former badger recruit Jere Astren. Maybe Granato should give him a call and tell him to be a little more selective with his combatants. Then again has anyone heard if he is still coming to UW?

                              http://journalstar.com/sports/local/...a660d1e0f.html

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                              • Apparently Dominick Mersch has some feistiness to him. Last week he dropped the gloves against another badger recruit Brady Smith. I believe around a year ago he fought former badger recruit Jere Astren. Maybe Granato should give him a call and ask him to be more selective with his combatants. Then again has anyone heard anything new on whether he is still coming to UW?
                                Last edited by Great Day for Hockey; 03-22-2017, 11:59 PM.

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