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Message: [QUOTE="The Viking, post: 3018888, member: 1599"] Was this entire highly-respected class he just brought in just a mirage? Do they all really suck after all? None of them and in fact no recruit he has brought in was promised a state of the art building. They were promised playing the majority if not all of their careers at the XL with practice at the existing Freitas. OK maybe the current freshman would see some state of the art stuff in their final season. But what kid commits to a school largely due to the fact that in his senior year, state of the art stuff will arrive. There's other stuff that clearly drew quality talent here in years past. This season has turned out to be a perfect storm of dung. Lots of youth replacing guys like Letunov, Naas, Schwartz and some quality veteran defenseman. The only way this team was going to be decent was if Huska pulled a 1986 Mike Liut and carried the team on his back - and he hasn't. If this year's class came in last year or the year before and provided the depth we need now we're probably talking a much different story. Less than a year ago UConn was the 5 seed, got a first round bye and was outplaying BU at BU until Masonius has his typical horrible turnover in the defensive end to cost them Game 1. They win that game, I think they probably win the series and advance to the TD Garden for the Final Four. Instead they end up losing to the eventual HE champions. Quinn said after the UConn series that no team played them harder all year. That was less than a year ago. So NOW our hockey future sucks because we don't have a 4K state of the art facility on the table? No.....that's too easy an answer. I've decided to be a reasonable optimist. Next year will be an improved season. We will get back into the playoffs and maybe do some damage. In 2020 or 2021 we will be finally be playing in Boston for the HE Final Four. However, if next year we are the same or worse (god help us) than Cavanaugh will have a ton of explaining to do. And he won't have the arena to blame, because no quality player he brought in - and he has brought them in - was expected to play much if at all in this 4K arena. And we have had much better seasons than this one. [/QUOTE]

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