{"id":29360,"date":"2007-10-12T19:14:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T00:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2007\/10\/12\/200708-dartmouth-season-preview\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:57:04","slug":"200708-dartmouth-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2007\/10\/12\/200708-dartmouth-season-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2007-08 Dartmouth Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
Offense:<\/b> Simply put, the Big Green parted ways with five of its seven leading scorers from 2006-07. There’s no way to sugar-coat it, no way to minimize the effect that will have on Dartmouth’s capacity to put pucks in the net in 2007-08. <\/p>\n
David Jones, the leading scorer with 44 points in 33 games, is playing for the Lake Erie Monsters in the AHL. T.J. Galiardi — 31 points, second on the team last year — is plying his trade with the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen. Kevin Swallow transferred to Maine. Nick Johnson and J.T. Wyman combined for 27 goals and 27 assists as the third- and fifth-place producers, respectively, but the fact remains that among the departed were 55 goals the last time the group skated together. <\/p>\n
“Our losses through graduation and other reasons left us a little down,” said coach Bob Gaudet. “This group of newcomers is very important to the success of our program. It’s hard to single out specific players who will be keys to our success but between the freshmen and the players returning we should be able to make up for the ones we lost.”<\/p>\n
Sophomore Rob Pritchard flew under the radar on last year’s talent-laden squad, but buried 10 goals nonetheless and improved on his freshman campaign by eight points. Five new forwards don the Green this fall, and 19-year-old Waterloo veteran Kyle Reeds might be the best of the bunch when all the votes come in. Reeds won’t tip the scale, but he may tip the ice for Dartmouth after putting up 23 goals and 22 assists in the USHL last year. <\/p>\n
Andrew Owsiak and Scott Fleming posted gaudy numbers last season as well, but against somewhat softer competition.<\/p>\n