As the NCAA Hockey season is winding down, I will go back and take a look at the previous RMU Men’s and Women’s seasons to generate a preview from everything involving current players to new ones, season match ups and a look at possible outcomes for the season.
My goal is to have something formulated in the coming weeks, barring time and unrelated events to the Centre Ice blog, this should be very possible.
As always, keep checking in for other updates and thank you for checking out the blog for the last few months as I had began to follow the team more closely.
UPDATE: Ryan has an assist and is +1 on the 3rd PD goal: Game Stats
Direct from my email to you my friends:
“Ryan Cruthers has agreed to an AHL/ECHL contract with the New York Islanders. Cruthers will play for the ECHL Utah Grizzlies on Wednesday against Las Vegas before being recalled to the AHL within the week. The Islanders AHL team is in Bridgeport, Ct.”
This brings the total number of RMU players who are currently playing professionally (from this year’s roster) to 6….yes, 6..AWESOME (8 players are currently playing professionally from the RMU program).
From the Utah Grizzlies website:
“West Valley City, Utah – Utah Grizzlies Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations Jason Christie announced today that forward Olivier Labelle has been reassigned from the AHL’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers to Utah and that Keith Johnson has been recalled to Bridgeport for the second time this year. In addition, Christie also announced the signing of forward Ryan Cruthers out of Robert Morris University.
The Grizzlies are a proud affiliate of the Sound Tigers and the NHL’s New York Islanders.
Recalled to Bridgeport two weeks ago, Labelle scored his first AHL goal of the season in his recent time with the Sound Tigers. In 43 games with Utah, Labelle has 23 goals, 20 assists and 135 penalty minutes. Utah is 25-11-5-1 this year when Labelle is in the lineup.
Johnson, a 2008 ECHL All-Star and the Grizzlies current leading goal scorer (26) returns to Bridgeport for the second time this year. He played three games with the Sound Tigers in December.
Cruthers recently completed four years of college hockey, the final two with Robert Morris University where he finished this year as the team’s leading scorer with 17 goals and 20 assists in 34 games.
The Grizzlies return home tonight to host Las Vegas at 7:05 p.m.”
You can listen to the game live here on the ECHL home page, just go down to “Live Scores” and click the link for the Grizzles game: here
The Wheeling Nailers found some new scoring from Sean Berkstresser, who tallied his first professional goal in the 2nd period of TONITE’S game against the Dayton Bombers.
The goal came a the 0:33 second mark in the 2nd period.
Check it out here: http://echl.leaguestat.com/stats/game-summary.php?game_id=4565
Rob Cowan has signed with Port Huron in the International Hockey league and reported there on Tuesday.
Tom Biondich is in Fort Myers, Flordia going to play for Gwinnett Gladiators of ECHL TONIGHT against the Florida Everblades.
From USCHO: Kevin, Ryan and The Joe
“Now for Cruthers. Let’s take his being an Apple Core alumnus out of this for a minute and get rid of that notion that he has all those points because he plays in a “mid-major,” College Hockey America. Cruthers was dominant this season and he plays on a team that has less depth than some of the players on teams in the “Big Four” conferences. Also, the majority of his games in conference were against Bemidji State and Niagara, and those teams are among the best defensively in the nation. Look at their goals against out-of-conference opponents and you can see Cruthers had no easy time getting his points.
He had 7-9—16 in 15 games that I’d classify as “big” games. That includes points against Ohio State, BU, Princeton, Colgate, and CHA rivals Bemidji State and Niagara. In 18 games away from home he put up 26 points and that’s impressive. Of those teams, Niagara is a conference champ and everyone except Bemidji is still playing in their conference tourney’s final four.
He had 17 multipoint games and point streaks of seven and eight games, when he scored 15 and 14 points, respectively. His 1.44 points per game was among the best in the country.
I won’t disrespect the student-athletes in the top 10 by saying these two should bump two out; that isn’t fair. But I will say that these two deserved a place in that top 10 and because they are not, they should be recognized for the elite players that they are.”
Vote for the Hobey…200,000 times
It’s nice to see people take advantage of a vote that only accounts for 1%.
From: Jim Connelly of USCHO.com
“I’m told that the T in RIT stands for technology, which is quite apparent if you look at this year’s fan balloting site for the Hobey Baker award.
Those enterprising RIT fans were able to figure out an automated way to stuff the ballot box at http://www.hobeybaker.com/voting. As of this morning, RIT’s Simon Lambert has 262,000-plus votes compared to say the 3,994 vote that current favorite Kevin Porter from Michigan has received.
And RIT isn’t the only technologically-saavy fan base. Miami’s Ryan Jones has received a solid 203,500 votes and counting as of this morning.
I’m told by those in the know (of computers and technology, that is) that the Hobey Baker voiting site is so basic that writing a computer script to stuff the box likely took about five minutes.
Thankfully this fan ballot aacount for only 1% of the overall vote (or as the site says, “the fans’ vote accounts for a full 1% of the total ballot in each phase in selecting this year’s award recipient.
Let’s just hope that the 99% of the balloting that is comprised of human voting isn’t replaced by cyborgs in the near future.”
A friend of mine (Andrew Chiappazzi) over at “Colonials Corner” offered up a little cross-promotion the other day for Centre Ice, so in turn, let me off up some information on what you can find over at Andrew’s site.
His site includes coverage of:
-Men’s Basketball
-Women’s Basketball
-Football
-as well as highlights on other major sports at Robert Morris University
You can currently find updates to the Men’s and Women’s successes in their recent seasons, information regarding Mario Hines, the senior wideout for RMU’s football team who is looking to take his talent to the next level.
Keep yourself linked to Andrew’s “Colonials Corner” for upcoming football recruiting information and reviews, as well as previews to summer seasons and workouts for all Robert Morris Sports.
Defenseman Ben Finney out of the Port Hope Predators of the OPJHL has committed to Robert Morris for next season. In 35 games this season, Finney posted 1 goal and 15 assists and 52 penalty minutes, by far his best season in his three years at Port Hope.
This brings the count of recruits to 11 for next season.
You can look at Finney’s stats page here: pointstreak.com
You can also check out Port Hope’s team page here: Predators
On Friday March 28th at 4pm, the CHA Champion Niagara Purple Eagles will take on the #1 Team in the Nation, the Michigan Wolverines, in the first round of the Frozen Four Tournament in Albany New York. The winner of this game could potentially play either Clarkson, or St. Cloud State in the Regional Final on March 29th at 7pm.
It looks like ESPN is more concerned with airing the McDonald’s High School Basketball All-Star game, as well as a pointless episode of NFL Live during the 4pm time slot when the first round of the Frozen Four begins. I don’t want to get into a huge argument about how ridiculous ESPN is with their bias on which sports they will air, but honestly, it’s the Frozen Four, why aren’t you airing it?
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