New Look

My apologies as to drifting away from writing (says every blogger eventually) but I've been rather busy.

The old website I had originally created last spring wasn't doing it for me, so I found another skeleton and made it my own.  I hope you like it!  I'm always open to suggestions too, so feel free to hit me up.

New Conference.  New Team.


Before we dive right into picking apart every possible line situation and analyzing each team's strength from the league, I'd like to here what everyone else thinks may happen.

I'll give you a few reminders of what all went down last season to get you started, but keep in mind there was lineup changes very, very often.  This is what I found from late in the season last year...

Seidel - Herbert - Crandall
Farley - Cameranesi - Basaraba
Danberg - Hendo - Flaherty
DeLisle - Decowski - Krause

Olson - Welinski
Smith - Casto
Corrin - Bergman

McNeely - Crandall - Fons

Scratches: Johnson, Tardy, McManus, Young, Sampair

With that being the way it was, now we have to do the "out with the old, in with the new" dealio and see how we look.

Seidel, Danberg, Hendo, Flaherty, DeLisle, Olson, Casto, and Bergman have all departed.  This frees up 5 forwards and 3 defensive situations.  The dogs are bringing in 8 more recruits to fill some gaps, along with the players already rostered.

Alex Iafallo, Dom Toninato, Kyle Osterberg, and Sammy Spurrell will set a strong tone for the offensive unit coming in.  Being we lost 5 forwards, look for someone currently rostered to step up.

UMD's biggest weakness, undoubtedly will be our d-core.  Losing half of the normal night-to-night guys is going to cause a headache unless we have some eager rooks to fill the gaps.  Carson Soucy, Willie Raskob, Brendan Kotyk, and Dan Molenaar will be the freshmen coming in to repair.

So take all that information, add it up, and we have some interesting gaps to fill.

What's your line predictions?  Comment below!

Enjoy!