Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

[herbst20]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

I heard rumors of this the past couple weeks, but his tweet tonight makes it official. Bobby Hampton is heading to NU in the fall.... A year earlier than expected

[NU_Husky]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

I heard rumors of this the past couple weeks, but his tweet tonight makes it official. Bobby Hampton is heading to NU in the fall.... A year earlier than expected

Thank you Scott. Blog post: http://northeasternhockeyblog.com/20...tional-letter/

[Thiessen'sBetter]

I heard rumors of this the past couple weeks, but his tweet tonight makes it official. Bobby Hampton is heading to NU in the fall.... A year earlier than expected

Does Hampton's acceleration mean another recruit is not signing/being pushed back?

[NU_Husky]

Does Hampton's acceleration mean another recruit is not signing/being pushed back?

Negative. We had extra money from Barry and Fio transferring, and coaches wanted Hampton to come in and develop under their tutelage against older players rather than in Cedar Rapids. We haven't lost anyone we were suspected to have.

[NU_Husky]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

Schedule being released on Monday. Here's what we know so far http://northeasternhockeyblog.com/20...ckey-schedule/

[NU_Husky]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

We had 3 recruits taken late in the QMJHL draft. Post on what the Q draft means for Huskies players http://northeasternhockeyblog.com/20...emie-bucheler/

[Tilldog40]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

Any word on the impact that Brandon Hawkins will have? Once again this teams fate will be defense and goaltending. Also can this team show up and play at the beginning of the season. I think we are all tired of the slow starts.

[NU_Husky]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

The schedule is out

http://www.gonu.com/news/2017/6/1/me...-schedule.aspx

[Richard]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

The schedule is out

http://www.gonu.com/news/2017/6/1/me...-schedule.aspx

And its brutal

[Split-N]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

I'm a bit bummed that we won't be seeing any B1G or Nacho opponents

[Thiessen'sBetter]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

And its brutal

Awful. All of the Atlantic Hockey games are basically have to win/cannot afford to lose games. There is no upside to playing these games other than maybe pad some stats for a Hobey campaign.

[Richard]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

I'm a bit bummed that we won't be seeing any B1G or Nacho opponents

No one exciting to go see other than Q. What is this all about?

[northeastern]

I'm a bit bummed that we won't be seeing any B1G or Nacho opponents

agree. non conf schedule is 'brutal'.

[PPGuru]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

With NU not being a marquee school for other teams to schedule, with the uncertainty of how HE would have to revamp its own schedule due to ND leaving, with the short window to fill the gaps....NU isn't the only HE team that will have a less than stellar Home schedule. With no obvious candidate to replace ND, HE teams have to start filling in future schedules now. Of course, they have to have those games 'cancel-able', too, in the event that a School approaches HE about becoming a member. Is it worth considering splitting HE into Divisions somehow?

[NU_Husky]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 Part II: Postseason Edition

With NU not being a marquee school for other teams to schedule, with the uncertainty of how HE would have to revamp its own schedule due to ND leaving, with the short window to fill the gaps....NU isn't the only HE team that will have a less than stellar Home schedule. With no obvious candidate to replace ND, HE teams have to start filling in future schedules now. Of course, they have to have those games 'cancel-able', too, in the event that a School approaches HE about becoming a member. Is it worth considering splitting HE into Divisions somehow?

This is important to know. Things can happen in the scheduling world on short notice, and it's not like teams are going to cancel long-standing agreements to make new ones. It's in bad faith if you do that. So NU adding SH and AIC I imagine is a short term fix to a short term problem. We *did* add 2 HEA games with ND leaving, and the ASU series was pushed back to 2018, so that might have cancelled each other out...but even so, I don't anticipate these AHA teams to be year-in, year-out opponents. If NU went local to try and fill in their gaps quickly, can't really blame them.

I'll bring it up to Jim at the FOH meeting next week.