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iveo83 t1_iu04r4o wrote

Reply to comment by MISSLIPPYSCARISGREEN in Hockey in Connecticut by poorlywrittenriffs

oh wow I know nothing about hockey. That's pretty cool though!

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DicNavis t1_iu0pjfj wrote

I think it’s one of hockey’s biggest advantages over other college sports. You can watch future NFL, NBA, and MLB players play in college but you don’t know which ones will be playing for your favorite teams. In hockey you get to devote energy into following the specific prospects who are most likely to play for your favorite team. You even get guys like Cale Makar who goes from winning a national championship with UMass to being a key addition to Colorado’s playoff run.

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MISSLIPPYSCARISGREEN t1_iu0uvcp wrote

The Finnish kid is actually playing tonight.

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DicNavis t1_iu0vgmb wrote

Fuck yeah! No reason he shouldn’t, tbh. He’s been playing with his U20 team in Finland while awaiting his visa, UConn was sorely lacking at center against BU, and even if systematically he isn’t quite ready to play a regular role on a line, he could be used as the extra skater and certainly benefit more from it than whichever freshman defenseman was gonna get a handful of shifts through the whole game. Add the question of Amonte’s availability into the mix and they’d be crazy not to dress a talented center.

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