Comments on: US College Hockey: Ever-Growing Force in Player Development? http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/ NHL - Hockey Trade Rumors, providing NHL Hockey Trade Rumors since 1996 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: AvSfAn01 http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37009 AvSfAn01 Wed, 02 Apr 2003 18:06:32 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37009 nope

he played for UVM

]]> By: Obcd http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37008 Obcd Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:49:44 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37008 Martin st-louis played for Michigan

]]> By: Primis http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37007 Primis Tue, 01 Apr 2003 21:09:26 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37007 Comley rerally, really, really screwed up the SPartans this season. I don’t think he’s the right successor to Ron Mason. I see bad things in the future of the Spartan hockey program. Especially after a few years of not-so-hot recruiting.

]]> By: Kraftster http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37006 Kraftster Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:20:55 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37006 It’s actually a very oft debated topic believe it or not? There is a lot of debate about this for a fact.

]]> By: Wings4life http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37005 Wings4life Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:13:54 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37005 Michigan v Minnnesota on Thurs at 6pm!! Oh Yea! This is our revenge from last year! GO BLUE!!!

]]> By: defenestrate http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37004 defenestrate Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:02:22 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37004 Amen to expensive ice time – that’s why I play lacrosse..

]]> By: AvSfAn01 http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37003 AvSfAn01 Tue, 01 Apr 2003 16:53:29 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37003 Besides the fact that the NCAA would NEVER allow such an atrocity to occur, paying college players would turn college athletics into a joke and, worse still, a business. How would you divy out the dough? How would a college that isnt in division one ever attract any athletes? All the inequities that would occur make this idea seem like insanity. There is no way that paying college athletes will ever happen and for good reason.

]]> By: UsedandAbused http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37002 UsedandAbused Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:48:22 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37002 Hockey is becoming a more popular sport in America. For one it is also becoming easier to play. I am in a begginner league myself with a bunch of adults who have never had the opportunity to play or just discovered a new found love for the sport. I for one grew up in a big family and never could afford to play Ice Hockey, even though it has always been my passion. I was thrilled when I found a league that was for adults who never played. I suppose in Canada kids can play on any lake, but in the US it is difficult, especially the further south you live. Its still expensive and hard to get ice time.

]]> By: Kraftster http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37001 Kraftster Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:25:43 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37001 Sorry bout the blank one. Just a reply I had to someone that I wanted to put out here to stimulate some discussion about it. Something I feel strongly about and is controversial it seems.

Completely disagree. The players don’t just “declare early”, they evaluate the year’s draft for their respective sport, project where they may go, and evaluate from there. Professional teams do not HAVE TO take them….they obviously feel they are some of the better players out there, or they wouldn’t take them. If you are in a position as a collegiate athlete where you have a serious option of “declaring early” then you are going to college to showcase your skills to become a professional athlete, in other words, you KNOW that’s what you want to do. People who do not want to be professional athletes would never “declare early”. What did you/are you/will you major in at college? Let’s say for a moment it’s some form of business…let’s go with accounting. Say in your Soph. year an elite accounting firm offers you the job that you are going to school to get….right now! 6 Figure salary, full benefits, everythign you are going to school for as a sophmore. The reason you are in school is because you felt it was necessary to get a degree to have this job…well here it is when you’re a soph. No reason in hell you shouldn’t take that job. Absolutely no reason becasue there is no gaurantee it would be there after you graduate. Based on that analogy, how does it make sense not to “declare early”?

]]> By: mikster http://hockeytraderumors.com/us-college-hockey-ever-growing-force-in-player-development/comment-page-1/#comment-37000 mikster Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:25:19 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress24/?p=5392#comment-37000 Too bad Harvard didn;t win in the ECAC. They lost in the finals. Dominic Moore did play well though, good news for the Rangers.

He is a Miek York type, and he is done with college now, he’ll probably end up in New York next season, but maybe he will go in Hartford.

Lee Falardeau is also from Michigan State. He hasn’t done squat this season, but he’ll turn out good, a more refined Joel Otto.

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