2018-19 Division III Games, Updates, News Thread

[Scott_TG]

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Some preseason scores from the past week:

Plattsburgh 5 - Canton 0
Morrisville 4 - Nazareth 1
Oswego 4 - London Devilettes 3
Nichols 8 - Rhode Island (Club) 0
Utica 2 - London Devilettes 6
UMB 7 - Becker 1
Liberty (ACHA) 7 - Neumann 2
Wisconsin - Superior 2 - St. Scholastica 1

[Scott_TG]

Re: 2018-19 Division III Games, Updates, News Thread

USCHO Preseason Top 10:

1 Norwich (15)
2 Elmira
3 Plattsburgh
4 Hamline
5 Middlebury
6 Adrian
7 GAC
8 UW-RF
9 UW-EC
10 St. Thomas
10 Amherst

[GTOWN]

Re: 2018-19 Division III Games, Updates, News Thread

Some preseason scores from the past week:

Plattsburgh 5 - Canton 0
Morrisville 4 - Nazareth 1
Oswego 4 - London Devilettes 3
Nichols 8 - Rhode Island (Club) 0
Utica 2 - London Devilettes 6
UMB 7 - Becker 1
Liberty (ACHA) 7 - Neumann 2
Wisconsin - Superior 2 - St. Scholastica 1

Castleton 3 - North Halton 1
Plymouth 1 - North Halton 1

[MND3Dad]

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USCHO has the MIAC wrong.

Hamline will indeed be the dominant team. While they lose Bobrowski and Dodds, they return WAY more scoring power, they have the best recruiting class and I expect their goaltending to be better. If Hamline doesn't come out of the West this year, it'd be a major fail by Darwitz.
Gustavus is going to be really young. They do have a couple good recruits, but they lost a ton. Defensively they'll be superior, but I don't think they'll be anywhere as good as they have been.
St. Thomas might indeed be better this year but they will also be thinner.
I expect Augsburg to jump up. They should field three competitive lines and the team is experienced.

I'd venture:

Hamline (by a mile)
Augsburg
St. Thomas
Concordia
Bethel
Gustavus
St. Olaf
St. Kates
St. Mary's
St. Ben's

[shelfit]

USCHO has the MIAC wrong.

Hamline will indeed be the dominant team. While they lose Bobrowski and Dodds, they return WAY more scoring power, they have the best recruiting class and I expect their goaltending to be better. If Hamline doesn't come out of the West this year, it'd be a major fail by Darwitz.
Gustavus is going to be really young. They do have a couple good recruits, but they lost a ton. Defensively they'll be superior, but I don't think they'll be anywhere as good as they have been.
St. Thomas might indeed be better this year but they will also be thinner.
I expect Augsburg to jump up. They should field three competitive lines and the team is experienced.

I'd venture:

Hamline (by a mile)
Augsburg
St. Thomas
Concordia
Bethel
Gustavus
St. Olaf
St. Kates
St. Mary's
St. Ben's

Wow Dad, that's quite the strong opinion you have there. Let me guess, your daughter goes to Hamline? No pressure at all on Coach Darwitz. And you're predicting this is a year "when the Saints come marching in" the bottom ranks of the league. I guess only time will tell if you're going to be right or wrong. Let the games begin!

[Scott_TG]

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USCHO has the MIAC wrong.

Hamline will indeed be the dominant team. While they lose Bobrowski and Dodds, they return WAY more scoring power, they have the best recruiting class and I expect their goaltending to be better. If Hamline doesn't come out of the West this year, it'd be a major fail by Darwitz.
Gustavus is going to be really young. They do have a couple good recruits, but they lost a ton. Defensively they'll be superior, but I don't think they'll be anywhere as good as they have been.
St. Thomas might indeed be better this year but they will also be thinner.
I expect Augsburg to jump up. They should field three competitive lines and the team is experienced.

I'd venture:

Hamline (by a mile)
Augsburg
St. Thomas
Concordia
Bethel
Gustavus
St. Olaf
St. Kates
St. Mary's
St. Ben's

I agree that Hamline is the preseason favorite, can see how Augsburg and St. Thomas being 2 and 3 could be plausible, but am having a hard time with GAC being behind Concordia and Bethel. Why do you think they will be able to leapfrog a perennial fave like GAC?

[MND3Dad]

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Nope. Not affiliated with Hamline at all. Was a huge fan of Coach Darwitz as a player, not so much as a coach. And not because she doesn't know what she's doing, she clearly does.

[MND3Dad]

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Concordia returns about 50 more goals than GAC, Bethel 15 more. By the end of the year GAC might be better than those teams, but they just don't have anything proven past that first line. I love GAC's top 4 defenders and goaltending, but they are SO young, that teams can just play shut down against L1 and make the kids beat them.

Concordia has a new coach, so I'm not 100% sure about them, but they return almost their whole team.

And maybe I'm just hoping that Coach Carroll gets some payback this season. Might be wishful thinking by me

[jerrynu26]

Some preseason scores from the past week:

Plattsburgh 5 - Canton 0
Morrisville 4 - Nazareth 1
Oswego 4 - London Devilettes 3
Nichols 8 - Rhode Island (Club) 0
Utica 2 - London Devilettes 6
UMB 7 - Becker 1
Liberty (ACHA) 7 - Neumann 2
Wisconsin - Superior 2 - St. Scholastica 1

Norwich 5 - Bishop 0

[GTOWN]

Preseason ranking for the NEHC:

http://nehockeyconference.com/women/pres1819/201810/oct24wpoll.php

Seems to be clear break between the haveand have not teams.

[Scott_TG]

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Alvernia has been accepted into the UCHC for their debut season in 2019-20.

[Scott_TG]

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Preseason ranking for the NEHC:

http://nehockeyconference.com/women/...oct24wpoll.php

Seems to be clear break between the haveand have not teams.

Interesting that Suffolk has been ranked 5th of 9 despite not having played a regular season game. Says something about the players they've recruited (including the ones from other DIII programs).

Other than that, I haven't seen a preseason poll that surprised me.

[DDad16]

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Interesting that Suffolk has been ranked 5th of 9 despite not having played a regular season game. Says something about the players they've recruited (including the ones from other DIII programs).

Other than that, I haven't seen a preseason poll that surprised me.

My daughter has played with, and against, many of the players going to Suffolk. I think they will be a competitive (more than a typical first-year program) team this year. The transfers from Canton certainly help that! Looking forward to see how Suffolk, and Nazareth, do this year. Nazareth with 24 skaters!

[MND3Dad]

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MIAC Preview

https://www.miacathletics.com/sports...20181021ooy86z

Although I think they're wrong.

[GTOWN]

Re: 2018-19 Division III Games, Updates, News Thread

Interesting that Suffolk has been ranked 5th of 9 despite not having played a regular season game. Says something about the players they've recruited (including the ones from other DIII programs).

Other than that, I haven't seen a preseason poll that surprised me.

Truth is you can throw a blanket over Plymouth, Castleton and UMB. I prefer to think Castleton comes out on top of that! :-)