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brasssbonanzaa said:
Southwestern CT isn't exactly a recruiting hotbed. If anything, playing in Storrs or Hartford would be more preferable as it's closer to the big CT private schools as well as the Western/Central MA private schools that traditionally have strong programs.
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I am sure you know of the Drury brothers. There's some talent in New Haven and Fairfield Counties.
 
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yikes:

On Tuesday, January 6th, the Huskies will host Colorado College at the Bridgeport arena and return their again to play host to Notre Dame, date to be announced. The Huskies and Colorado College Tigers have never met on the ice.
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I saw that. One can only hope that the regular editor was away. Over-reliance on edit function, probably. At least it wasn't like the Boston herald headline: State finishes fiscal year in African-American...
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Southwestern CT isn't exactly a recruiting hotbed. If anything, playing in Storrs or Hartford would be more preferable as it's closer to the big CT private schools as well as the Western/Central MA private schools that traditionally have strong programs.
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Breakdown of current NHL players from CT:
Arcobello, Mark (C) EDM Milford, CT, Southwest CT
Atkinson, Cam (RW) CBJ Riverside, CT, Southwest CT
Bonino, Nick (C) ANA Hartford, CT, Central CT
Hainsey, Ron (D) CAR Bolton, CT, Northeast CT
MacDermid, Lane (LW) Hartford, CT, Central CT
McDonald, Colin (RW) NYI Wethersfield, CT, Central CT
Pacioretty, Max (LW) MTL New Canaan, CT, Southwest CT
Quick, Jonathan (G) LAK Milford, CT, Southwest CT
Wilson, Colin (C) NSH Greenwich, CT, Southwest CT

If you break this down by region. There are 5 of the current 9 NHL players from Southwest CT. If we could just keep some of this talent home going forward I think we would be in pretty good shape. Quick, Bonino and Pacioretty all having or had big roles on their playoff teams.
 
ATLDYKA said:
Breakdown of current NHL players from CT:
Arcobello, Mark (C) EDM Milford, CT, Southwest CT
Atkinson, Cam (RW) CBJ Riverside, CT, Southwest CT
Bonino, Nick (C) ANA Hartford, CT, Central CT
Hainsey, Ron (D) CAR Bolton, CT, Northeast CT
MacDermid, Lane (LW) Hartford, CT, Central CT
McDonald, Colin (RW) NYI Wethersfield, CT, Central CT
Pacioretty, Max (LW) MTL New Canaan, CT, Southwest CT
Quick, Jonathan (G) LAK Milford, CT, Southwest CT
Wilson, Colin (C) NSH Greenwich, CT, Southwest CT

If you break this down by region. There are 5 of the current 9 NHL players from Southwest CT. If we could just keep some of this talent home going forward I think we would be in pretty good shape. Quick, Bonino and Pacioretty all having or had big roles on their playoff teams.
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Nice job on the list! Add Kevin Shattenkirk from St Louis (Greenwich CT/Brunswick School in Greenwich/BU) and Ryan Haggerty from the NYR (Stamford/RPI)..he is a healthy scratch/not dressing BUT is on the NYR roster
 
3 Recent Olympians in that group of 10. For comparison sakes Massachusetts (21 active NHL'ers) produced 0.
 
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ATLDYKA said:
Breakdown of current NHL players from CT:
Arcobello, Mark (C) EDM Milford, CT, Southwest CT
Atkinson, Cam (RW) CBJ Riverside, CT, Southwest CT
Bonino, Nick (C) ANA Hartford, CT, Central CT
Hainsey, Ron (D) CAR Bolton, CT, Northeast CT
MacDermid, Lane (LW) Hartford, CT, Central CT
McDonald, Colin (RW) NYI Wethersfield, CT, Central CT
Pacioretty, Max (LW) MTL New Canaan, CT, Southwest CT
Quick, Jonathan (G) LAK Milford, CT, Southwest CT
Wilson, Colin (C) NSH Greenwich, CT, Southwest CT

If you break this down by region. There are 5 of the current 9 NHL players from Southwest CT. If we could just keep some of this talent home going forward I think we would be in pretty good shape. Quick, Bonino and Pacioretty all having or had big roles on their playoff teams.
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That's where they're from but not where they played high school. Many went to prep school outside the state. And Colin Wilson is actually from Manitoba, he was just born in Greenwich.

That plus my real point, which I failed to make effectively, was that game proximity to home is really not important to hockey recruits, at least in the northeast. As in, they don't care if the game is in Bridgeport, Hartford, or Storrs. It's more about the quality of the facility, quality of the training facilities, who the opponent is, whether it'll be on TV, if the scouts will show up. Hockey is not like football where you go play games close to recruits. The vast majority of programs are already close enough to where many recruits are. For instance, BU doesn't go play games in Minnesota regularly to tap that market, and accordingly, Minnesota doesn't come play games in Boston to tap the Massachusetts/New England recruiting pipelines. In fact, Minnesota hasn't played an OOC game in Massachusetts in 10 years.
 
Merrimack's schedule (http://www.merrimackathletics.com/sports/mice/2014-15/schedule) shows them playing us home-and-home but on different weekends. One is very early in the season, so that might have been moved. It also shows us playing them at Prudential Center in a non-conference game. They play everyone home-and-home except for Vermont, Notre Dame, Maine, and New Hampshire, who are either two home or two away. All matchups with the same team are the same weekend except us.

Edit: Same number home as away games.
Edit 2: Apparently Boston College isn't on the same weekend either for them. One is midweek. One of our games against Merrimack is midweek too. So it's clear they are somewhat willing to move things around to make schedules work.
Edit 3: BU's schedule is up too. http://www.goterriers.com/sports/m-hockey/sched/bost-m-hockey-sched.html At their place November 16, at home November 21. Again, not the same weekend. All their matchups except Notre Dame and Vermont are home-and-home, though again, not necessarily on the same weekend. It is clear that everyone, with the possible exception of Notre Dame and Vermont, neither of whom have released schedules yet, will be playing 11 home and 11 away. Also, it appears everyone plays Notre Dame and Vermont either two home or two away, though I don't know how they play each other.
Edit 4: In addition to the matchup in New Jersey, we play Merrimack away on October 18 and home on January 27, which is a Tuesday.
 
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Gregory Koch said:
Merrimack's schedule (http://www.merrimackathletics.com/sports/mice/2014-15/schedule) shows them playing us home-and-home but on different weekends. One is very early in the season, so that might have been moved. It also shows us playing them at Prudential Center in a non-conference game. They play everyone home-and-home except for Vermont, Notre Dame, Maine, and New Hampshire, who are either two home or two away. All matchups with the same team are the same weekend except us.

Edit: Same number home as away games.
Edit 2: Apparently Boston College isn't on the same weekend either for them. One is midweek. One of our games against Merrimack is midweek too. So it's clear they are somewhat willing to move things around to make schedules work.
Edit 3: BU's schedule is up too. http://www.goterriers.com/sports/m-hockey/sched/bost-m-hockey-sched.html At their place November 16, at home November 21. Again, not the same weekend. All their matchups except Notre Dame and Vermont are home-and-home, though again, not necessarily on the same weekend. It is clear that everyone, with the possible exception of Notre Dame and Vermont, neither of whom have released schedules yet, will be playing 11 home and 11 away. Also, it appears everyone plays Notre Dame and Vermont either two home or two away, though I don't know how they play each other.
Edit 4: In addition to the matchup in New Jersey, we play Merrimack away on October 18 and home on January 27, which is a Tuesday.
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One day off on BU at UConn. It is November 22, according to the BU website.
 
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