{"id":46182,"date":"2012-10-30T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=46182"},"modified":"2019-09-17T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T19:16:08","slug":"tmq-teams-standing-out-players-stepping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2012\/10\/30\/tmq-teams-standing-out-players-stepping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"TMQ: Teams standing out, players stepping up"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jim:<\/strong> We are just about a month into the season and a few teams are certainly making solid impressions. No. 1 Boston College handled its first major test, sweeping No. 11 Massachusetts-Lowell. Denver remained perfect with a sweep over Michigan Tech. And New Hampshire continues to impress me, sitting at 4-0-1. Those are three teams that currently stand out in my mind. How about you?<\/p>\n
Todd:<\/strong> I’ve thought that Denver is going to be a really good team this season despite its offensive losses from a year ago, and the first few weeks of the season seem to confirm that. If you lose Jason Zucker, Drew Shore and Luke Salazar, you just start plugging in goals wherever you can, and the Pioneers have done that with a good blend of scoring. Ten players have scored through four games, and that combined with strong goaltending could be a pretty successful formula.<\/p>\n
Lowell has been through a tough start to the season, with the losses to Boston College that you mentioned and a loss at Denver to go with a win at Colorado College and a tie against Vermont. Anything going wrong there or is it just a really tough schedule?<\/p>\n
Jim:<\/strong> I don’t think it is time to panic for Lowell. It made some mistakes on Sunday against BC, a team that makes you pay as we all know. The River Hawks’ biggest concern is scoring goals so putting three on Parker Milner should give the offense some confidence. But everyone knows this team is capable of being a national contender, thus I wasn’t surprised to see it remain in the top 15 in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n