Clarkson Men's Hockey 2022-2023

[David Techer]

Clarkson's record vs the NCAA tourney field is an unimpressive 3-7-1. Merrimack L, Colgate W and T, Cornell 2Ws and 2Ls, Qpak 2Ls, Harvard 2Ls.

[vicb]

Who would've thought Colgate would come into LP and take out both Quinnipiac & Harvard. First since '90.

Gates Goalie Gylander was the star of this game. Harvard had a couple of chances in the last min from in the slot with him out of position and a wide open net and either shot it wide or over the net. Still it was a great win for Gate and sends them to the NC$$ Tourney. I wonder if all the Donnie Vaughn Critics on the Colgate thread in the USCHO Fan Forum will tone down the fire him posts? USCHO has them playing 3rd seeded Michigan in the Allentown, Pa Bracket.

[LetsGoTech16]

Who would've thought Colgate would come into LP and take out both Quinnipiac & Harvard. First since '90.

[mk5188_]

slightly off topic, but good to see a former Clarkson coach [1999-2004 HC, 96-97 AHC] (https://fduknights.com/staff-directo...n-anderson/400 ) doing well: https://sports.yahoo.com/march-madne...010848173.html

[vicb]

https://clarksonathletics.com/news/2023/1/28/mens-hockey-knights-falls-to-slu-4-2.aspx

Look at the second paragraph.

Gary Mikel is sorely missed!!!

[NCNYHockey9]

What’s more egregious is Casey Jones’ bio hasn’t been updated in 3 years. Does it coincide with Gary Mikel retirement? Not a good look for a Division 1 program or Division 3 for that matter.

https://clarksonathletics.com/sports...asey-jones/943

https://clarksonathletics.com/news/2023/1/28/mens-hockey-knights-falls-to-slu-4-2.aspx

Look at the second paragraph.

[LetsGoTech16]

Martino, Gosselin, & Beck named to the ECAC Third Team.

https://ecachockey.com/news/2023/3/15/mens-ice-hockey-ecac-hockey-announces-2022-23-mens-all-league-teams.aspx

[LetsGoTech16]

Callin is the first senior to sign professionally, as he signs with the Worcester Railers of the ECHL.

https://railershc.com/worcester-railers-hc-sign-clarkson-forward-anthony-callin-to-echl-contract/

[Josey Wales]

If anyone has a connection to someone in charge of the men's hockey web page, please pass this along. On the top of the schedule, overall record of 16-17-4 is not .541 but .486, and league record of 9-10-3 is not .500 but .477. Both are losing records which should be sub-.500 winning percentages.

What’s more egregious is Casey Jones’ bio hasn’t been updated in 3 years. Does it coincide with Gary Mikel retirement? Not a good look for a Division 1 program or Division 3 for that matter.

https://clarksonathletics.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/roster/coaches/casey-jones/943

[David Techer]

If anyone has a connection to someone in charge of the men's hockey web page, please pass this along. On the top of the schedule, overall record of 16-17-4 is not .541 but .486, and league record of 9-10-3 is not .500 but .477. Both are losing records which should be sub-.500 winning percentages.

[mk5188_]

Another season ends in a typical Casey team fashion. Not aggressive until it's too late, no offense generated whatsoever, and a horrid power play. Haider played his ass off this weekend but had nothing to show for it. Hopefully he'll have a better support system around him wherever he goes next year. I know Casey won't be fired, so I'll just hope against all hope that some of these guys go out and grow their game over the summer.

We can only hope that Casey gets the impetus to want to go bigger as a coach and leave. Of the 10 full time coaches we have had, we've had 1 resignation (way back in the 1920's, one Mr. Gordon Croskery), 2 retirements while coaching (Jack Roos & Bill Harrison), 4 have gone on to want to go to bigger and better jobs (Len Ceglarski, Jerry York, Bill O'Flaherty, and Cap Raeder), and the last two (Mark Morris & George Roll) were only fired after scandal erupted. If the COVID party "scandal" didn't force their hand, nothing will (although they could wait out his contract and just not renew, whenever that is).

[Remember Walker]

I tend to agree with most of your comments CU2FF, but the one thing I would diverge from is the comments around the D-core. As a whole, I really believe they had a good year in and around the net. Tommy P, in particular, had a much better season than last, and it wouldn't surprise me to one day see his banner raised in Cheel for playing on the German Olympic team.

In earlier years of our coach's tenure, poor seasons were attributed to injuries or lack of depth in recruiting. Let's hear the excuses for this year. The fact that the three coaches didn't make any captaincy changes when this team had a flat tire against far weaker teams in the fall is indication that they failed in their actions. Yes, you want players to grow and learn, but the tendency to teach no action is also a dangerous learning. Is the hockey world that much marshmallow now?

As for our program, I personally believe, after watching 95% of the games this year, that no team in the ECAC had less puck control time than Clarkson this year. In all sports, possession is always a pathway to winning, and our style of choppy, chase and poke gives the puck to the opponent too much while our team tires out. This is the number one reason why weaker teams can play with us, and sadly this year, some beat us...we do not play control & dominate hockey. Name another team in the league that plays the continual dump and chase? Not Harvard, Cornell, Q-pac, not even Princeton. Why is this CJ's focus? As CU2FF points out, most of our talented forwards are not molded to that style.

I've heard many comments like, "Who can we get to coach who will be better?" Well, look at two teams...one being Minnesota State. They have ZERO NHL draftees this year and two the previous two seasons. Their record this year was 24-12-1 and #13 in the Pairwise in a much tougher league and schedule. They have Mike Hastings as a coach whose worst record was 24-14-3 in his first year, and has been to the NCAAs EIGHT of his 11 seasons. Eight...not three in twelve. He had no prior collegiate coaching on his resume.

Second is the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. The State of Alaska shut this team down in 2020 and much of their team departed for other teams. It took a heck of a battle by the people of Alaska to get the state to up the cost for the program and that of Alaska Anchorage. Head coach Eric Largen remained with the program and brought in enough talent this year to finish 22-10-2, be nationally ranked, and be on the bubble for an NCAA bid. This is his fourth season of coaching and he had no prior collegiate head coaching experience. How would CJ have faired if, after his second season, the school cancelled hockey for a year?

Good coaches are out there. Those teams with good year in and year out performance have good assistants who have learned how to develop a different offensive style, and those head coaches from other teams, like U Alaska, and those Assistants from good teams, are precisely who we should be looking at right now.

The 12-year run has derailed and in three years has not been put back on track. Like a soiled diaper, it is time for a change.

[cutothefrozen4]

Things that just seem off to me:

1) If we are going to consistently be a dump and chase team, then why in the world is our top 6 full of small soft skill guys? If you can’t let them makes plays or give them confidence to make the plays then they should’ve never been recruited here.

2) Brooks and Schneider have nothing to do with this season in terms of player personnel, but in an ideal world it’d be nice to have an alum behind the bench that bleeds for the program in some capacity.

3) If Brooks or Schneider were involved in special teams like I assume they are, it’s nothing against their character but it’s a fireable offense to design a PP to be that bad after a whole season.

4) Casey is becoming complacent, the covid scandal was a horrible look on a Head Coach despite not being his fault directly. Clarkson needs to embrace that there aren’t many area lifers like Morris. Coaches are ambitious and want to move up the ranks. We essentially were a feeder program to BC with Len and with York who goes from Clarkson to BG and BC where he was a legend, which in return helped significantly build this program to where it is, Ceglarski in 3 years set a different standard. If Casey can not hack it I’d like to try this approach again, young fresh mind with new ideas, great recruiting ethic, and as good of connections as you can have for a young coach. Having a younger coach that can RELATE to these kids somewhat could be beneficial in my eyes.

5) Stylistically our defense stays the same year in year out. Lengthy athletic defensemen that are great skaters, solid defensively. The two that are good with the puck in Beck and T. Taylor aren’t the greatest defenders in the corners because they aren’t very strong yet at this stage in their development, Sarsland is in that category too but isn’t as good with the puck as those two others, but he reads the game pretty well for a kid going from Minnesota High School Hockey to D1. Lewandowski, McFaul, Pasanen, Power, K. Taylor all could leave and it’d be fine, McFaul at least is a good shut down guy and can sometimes make an outlet pass, Power relative to expectations again is horrid and just not a high end D1 caliber skater from what I see.

6) Sometimes hard decisions and talks need to be made and had. Playing Jamie Collins over David Silye for a lot of the year for example. If a player isn’t good enough or isn’t performing to the program standards we need to be more cutthroat. Ellis Rickwood granted he played with an NHL first rounder all year in junior he put up 80 points in 50 games, and now this year gets plenty of opportunity and he lays an egg, 5 assists all year. Buhr who was a promising recruit looked awful in his 9 games, he leaves early, Egan has some tendencies that remind me of Tsekos but production wise had 5 points in 30 games. Bargholtz is a good example of knowing and embracing your role, he’s a solid 4th line PK guy. Egan, Grannis, Lewandowski, Mobley, Pasanen, Power, Rickwood, K. Taylor all should be having end of the year meetings with entering the portal in mind, in return we should be finding pieces that fit within our culture but maybe we can expand upon the traits that we need as a team and a program with high ambitions. If you’re accepting of getting to Lake Placid every year, that’s pathetic. We are in the backyard of Canada, Clarkson should always be relevant because of that fact, the GTA, the Ottawa area, Quebec.

[LetsGoTech16]

Another season ends in a typical Casey team fashion. Not aggressive until it's too late, no offense generated whatsoever, and a horrid power play. Haider played his ass off this weekend but had nothing to show for it. Hopefully he'll have a better support system around him wherever he goes next year. I know Casey won't be fired, so I'll just hope against all hope that some of these guys go out and grow their game over the summer.

Would be nice to keep Haider. Don't want to fill 2 goalie spots, but it's not like we haven't before. Atleast this nightmare of a season is over, and hopes for a comeback next year.

[cutothefrozen4]

Credit to Martino 29 in 37 as a frosh, 38 in 37 as a sophomore, he’s on a great trajectory but where does he go from here? Gosselin 33 in 37 last year, 33 in 37 this year, Campbell 33 in 37 last year, 25 in 33 this year, injuries held Romano back, Callin didn’t really take advantage of his fully healthy season, never filled in the void Kaelble left, not too long ago I remember upperclassmen Amorosa and Summers putting up big numbers. In large part to the PP which the special teams were awful this year so it’s different but things need to be figured out there, the PP especially this weekend when they really needed it was as bad as it gets.