Michigan Tech Offseason III: Two Years To Prove It Can Be Done

[Shirtless Guy]

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So apparently Mel announced on the radio this morning that there will be another defenseman for 2011-12 announced later this week.
Possible Targets:
Nick Amies-Cowichan Valley (BCHL)
Riley Sweeney-Surrey (BCHL)
Josh Monk-Surrey (BCHL)
Nicholas Wong-Cowichan Valley (BCHL)
Dan Molenaar-Eden Prairie MN
D.J. Jones-Wayzata MN
Taylor Fleming-St.Thomas Academy MN
Nolan Zajac-Cedar Rapids (USHL)
Carter Foguth-Muskegon (USHL)
Steven Hensley-Cedar Rapids (USHL)
Craig Bokenfohr-Camrose (AJHL)

Haha, Heisenberg breaks the news...its Riley Sweeney from Surrey. Nice job by me if I do say so myself, because he was not on Heisenberg's list before today. When I added him, I was wondering if he was even eligible for NCAAs since Heisenberg didn't have him listed.

[goldy_331]

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Haha, Heisenberg breaks the news...its Riley Sweeney from Surrey. Nice job by me if I do say so myself, because he was not on Heisenberg's list before today. When I added him, I was wondering if he was even eligible for NCAAs since Heisenberg didn't have him listed.

Is he the converted third string goalie?

[huskyfan]

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Happy Birthday to HuskyNation today.
We get to spend it together, in the car, driving westward for a wedding tomorrow.

and I'll be doing dinner with his parents!

[Shirtless Guy]

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I'd been tracking him a bit at the end of the previous season and had been hoping UAA might be looking at him when the commitment to Tech was published and was a bit bummed. He really performed well against older competition. Really well. Studly well.

Have you been following Riley Sweeney? His stats seem comparable to Sam's...Riley is younger and taller...I think Mel did alright on this one.

[crazytechfan]

I'm going to give Mel credit for thinking out of the box.

Help my math out here. Are we talking about a total of 3 recruits?

It is more than obvious that you've never met bb_dl.

[giwan]

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Have you been following Riley Sweeney? His stats seem comparable to Sam's...Riley is younger and taller...I think Mel did alright on this one.

He probably did we will see how he develops. More importantly how many of them are on the ice now practicing on their own?

[uaafanblog]

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Have you been following Riley Sweeney? His stats seem comparable to Sam's...Riley is younger and taller...I think Mel did alright on this one.

I am less familiar with him but will note that 7 of his 10 goals came on the power play. And while that isn't necessarily indicative of any shortcomings it doesn't mean he's offensively gifted as even strength scoring tends to do ... it does speak more about that team's utilization of him and his ability to fill a role like that so those are good signs (along with his age). All in all he's a solid replacement for Sam especially at this point in the game.

[JOHN SCOTT ROCKS]

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Apparently Tyler Heinonen "verbally" committed for 2013 or 14.

[huskyfan]

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Apparently Tyler Heinonen "verbally" committed for 2013 or 14.

Randy's son??

[manurespreader]

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looks from this that mr Heinonen is pretty good. I/m impressed with both of these and especially with shirtless.

http://www.ushsho.com/forums/viewtop...fc056b976a4f08

[Flashy Man]

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Randy's son??

No. Tyler played for Delano HS in Minnesota. Last season, he amassed 44 goals and 39 assists in 25 regular season games. He added 2 more goals and 3 more assists in 2 playoff games, including 3 points against eventual champion Breck. In 2009-10 he had 44 goals and 25 assists in 25 regular season games as well as 2 more assists in 2 playoff games. This season he'll most likely be playing for the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the USHL.

[mtu_huskies]

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looks from this that mr Heinonen is pretty good. I/m impressed with both of these and especially with shirtless.

http://www.ushsho.com/forums/viewtop...fc056b976a4f08

The third post down had him pegged as Tech recruit back in Feb 2010.

[bigblue_dl]

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Heinonen has some game but he needs some development to become a solid WCHA player. He's a good recruit with sky high potential, hopefully he becomes the player he could be. It will be good for him to play USHL where the level of competition is higher. In HS he played too many teams that he could coast against and still score 2 goals. He also needs to become a more level headed player, I believe it was against Breck (or Blake) in sections where his team was down 1 with a couple minutes left and he took a bad penalty. He was the best player on that team, he cannot take himself off the ice like that.

[Flashy Man]

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Shirtless Guy makes his THG debut in this Article.

[mtu_huskies]

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Shirtless Guy makes his THG debut in this Article.

Good article Shirtless.

And thanks Flashy for keeping a good Tech hockey website and twitter account going!

Is Justin Fillion in a similar situation as Tyler Gubb was last year?

After reading the article and looking at the Roster I would expect to see Cecere on there and not Fillion until December. Just mistakes by whoever updates the website?