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Honestly, I tried to look a couple times but did not make any headway. The vast majority of scholarships I have seen are need-based, as they should be. Other than that, a cursory review of what I have seen did not appear to be applicable to him. I assume the love for the campus is sarcasm then? What happened to you?

I’m not sure that fits in with the idea here.

Wrong topic.

I’ve been encouraging it. He’s not overly adventurous. However, he met a girl from China at a Rochester summer program and they stayed together for 7 months via FaceTime, since she actually lives in a China. She visited over Christmas for a week and another week in January. So, there’s that. ?

Public schools have really upped their game the last two decades. https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members These are the research rock stars. Look at all the top tier public schools in there. Right there with Harvard, Yale, Penn, etc... I prefer to hear everything. I’m an information gatherer. Don’t spare me anything.

This is my opinion as well. Money isn’t really an issue for us if there is a sound reason to choose one over the other, although we have pretty much eliminated Miami since it is the most expensive with no particular upside and Rochester ($75k) came through with a decent $18k grant. We are both Rochester alums, so that is where my heart is. That’s total cost. We aren’t considering the commuter route. Tuition is only about $14k.

Each year.

$45k-$50k for any out of state public schools. MD is $24ish for us. Rochester would be $57K. Miami $70k.

My oldest has been applying year. So far, he has been accepted at: University of Rochester University of Maryland University of Miami University of Florida Pitt Penn State Virginia Tech He has no preference to date. Anyone else going through the process?

Didn’t you just put a number on his ability to be tough to play against? ?

I don’t write this software. This is like asking me to install a new feature into Microsoft Word.

This feature has been requested many, many times over the years. It’s not an unusual request from my experience.

I know this was two games ago, but it seemed to me those three goals in the third were two real soft goals that in my Ullmark and another incredibly unfortunate bad puck luck bounce. If those were routine saves by Ullmark and the other was a fluky rebound then I’m not sure how that reflects poorly on the rest of the team.

I am arguing from my own personal theory, I don’t have any actual information that this is what’s happening. I’m not sure if you tried to paraphrase what I said, if you did I think you missed my point. It’s not that they are not trying to win it’s that they’re not trying to win by any means. My guess is that they are unwilling to coach to the worst player on the team and instead are coaching to the best player on the team. I would assume you don’t want to waste the early years of all these great young players coaching bunker hockey simply because you haven’t had the time to acquire all the pieces that you need. I’ve posted video before of my daughter’s soccer team when they were very young. Those girls suffered a lot of losses, trying to possess the ball, to teams had who had great athletes. That’s because playing possession soccer is difficult and mistakes are often harshly penalized. But they are all incredible soccer players now despite the losses they suffered when they were younger. Again, just my theory.

It’s also possible this why you don’t see the front office panicking. They appear to be staying the course, regardless of record, streaks, or what radio hosts or fans say. My guess is that they have a different figure if merit in the short term than wins and losses. It is my opinion that they agreed to do this the “right” way which is whatever way they agreed-upon when they hired these guys.

Or what if this team has been operating in a different mode other than win by any means? What if coming from last place, the point of this season was to see who is capable of doing what and who is not capable? What if Phil wants to train his youngest stars to play the way he wants them to play instead of having them play to the lowest common denominator on a team that is not ready for prime time?

So, let’s just be clear on what you just said. Weave says Phil SUCCESSFULLY changed his scheme tonight from what he usually runs and you agreed with him by saying Phil CAN’T fit a scheme to his players because he is too inexperienced. I’m pretty sure I read that correctly.

I find myself not disagreeing with this one bit. He continues on for several more tweets after this.

LD does that and can play C or wing. At the time we needed centers and we still do.

If there was a redraft Leon Draisatl is the pick.

So the idea here is that the fans have a solid read and who he is as a player and the hope is that we can trick one of those big dummy general managers, that worked their way up to the top of their profession, in hopes that their scouting department and entire roster-building structure has no idea what they’re getting? Sounds like a solid plan.

Your last two sentences are in complete contradiction of one another.

I assume the normal trade guidelines are applicable here? We want to trade away our flawed, disappointing player that fans can no longer tolerate for someone else’s high-end, flawless hockey playing machine?

It’s just that there is a tremendous amount of unjustified hand ringing over the return. No one stops to pontificate why the amazing ROR only yielded what it did. People should not blame the auctioneer when the collectible Willie Nelson plate only fetches $4.95 at auction.