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Andrew Wallace has taken over the top scoring spot on his team with 14 points in 10 games during the month of January.

Bryce Williamson is two points behind the league leader in the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

Chad Sumsion continues to lead his team in scoring with about a third of his points coming on the powerplay.

Now if we could just land a defenseman who can carry the puck and quarterback the PP.

DW and MM have put together a good class thus far. Im looking forward to this next round of announced commitments.

Another forward committed:

Brett Mohler currently plays for Tri-City in the USHL. Second leading scorer on a low scoring team, a third of his points are on the power play. Played in the BCHL last year where he was the second leading scorer on a low scoring team. He's listed at 6'1", 175 lbs.

A little more info on Mohler: http://www.ushl.com/news/story.cfm?id=3023" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"I felt that Bowling Green was a good fit for me as a student-athlete," said Mohler. "Their hockey facility was top of the line and the atmosphere was excellent. I like the coaching staff at Bowling Green and felt they were honest with me in the recruiting process. I'm excited to be a member of the Bowling Green family next season."

While I agree the environment is excellent... I lol'd at the top of the line hockey facility comment.

toddpav wrote:While I agree the environment is excellent... I lol'd at the top of the line hockey facility comment.

Maybe they're showing the renovation plans to recruits?

We have great facilities. Our locker room is recently renovated, we have a state of the art weight room, and a players lounge that the players have unlimited access to. The only rough facility is the actual arena.

BGDrew wrote:We have great facilities. Our locker room is recently renovated, we have a state of the art weight room, and a players lounge that the players have unlimited access to. The only rough facility is the actual arena.

Even the Arena itself is not that bad. Talking with some fans from MSU in December, they were actually surprised at how good the Arena looks. They said they had heard it was a dump. Their comment, "This is actually pretty nice."

rood wrote:

toddpav wrote:While I agree the environment is excellent... I lol'd at the top of the line hockey facility comment.

Maybe they're showing the renovation plans to recruits?

Are they showing the plans to anybody?

Offensive defenseman just committed:
http://nahl.com/news/story.cfm?id=1411

Sniper scores historic goal
By Jeff Hansen
Staff Writer

The 100th goal in St. Albert Steel history by Bryce Williamson was the latest milestone in a season of excellence by the all-star right-winger.
"It's a pretty big accomplishment," Williamson said after Friday's 3-2 overtime loss to the Sherwood Park Crusaders at Performance Arena. "I'm proud of myself for doing that."
Williamson, 20, hit triple digits in goals at 18:08 in period one as he victimized Crusaders' netminder Matt Esposito on the power play. D'Lane Sather was in the penalty box for slashing when the Steel's all-time career scoring whiz banked the puck in. Reed Linaker and Spencer Pommells were credited with assists.
"There was a scramble and I just spun around and shot the puck," Williamson said. "I guess I caught their goaltender off guard and it just went underneath his arm and off the post and off his back and into the net."
The fourth-year Alberta Junior Hockey League veteran from Seba Beach knew he was one goal shy of 100 going into the game but the magnitude of the moment didn't register until the scoring feat was announced at the start of period two.
"It was just another goal at the time. It put us up 2-0, which was nice."
The historic marker was scored in his 174th Steel game.
"Obviously it's a testament to the guys that I've been playing with," said Williamson, the triggerman on an explosive line combination with all-star centre Reed Linaker and the rugged Alex Perkins. "I've played with some pretty good players and without them I wouldn't get 100 goals."
Williamson's 101st Steel goal, and his 40th of the season, was an empty netter on a shot from deep in St. Albert's zone in Sunday's 4-2 home-ice decision against the AJHL champion Grande Prairie Storm (38-17-1-2). It was also the third point of the game by the Steel's MVP in 2008/09.
His assist on the third goal in two games by Perkins in Monday's 4-1 loss in Fort McMurray against the Oil Barons (36-18-1-2) was the 99th point in 57 games for the AJHL's second highest scorer. The leading candidate for the Ernie Love Trophy as the league's top point producer is Zahn Raubenheimer, with 101 points in 58 games.
The assist also extended Williamson's point scoring streak to 18 games (14 goals and 19 assists). He failed to register a point in only seven games, including three shutout losses.
The franchise leader in games played (176), goals (101), assists (129), points (230), power play goals (44) and game winners (13) is also closing in on 250 points in the AJHL. In 221 games the former Fort Saskatchewan Trader recorded 108 goals (his 100th in the AJHL was sniped Jan. 8 in his 207th game, a second period tally against Canmore Eagles' goalie Sam Brittain in a 6-5 road win) and 134 assists for 242 points.
The Steel (23-27-2-5) have three games remaining before the playoffs for Williamson to rack up the points.
"If we can play a full 60 minutes, our team can win some hockey games and do well in the playoffs," said Williamson, who will play next season with the Bowling Green State University Falcons in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.
The loss in Fort McMurray against a potential north division first round opponent left the Steel two points back of the fifth-place Bonnyville Pontiacs (26-29-2-1) with a game in hand. A fifth-place finish would set the stage for a possible playoff confrontation with the Crusaders (31-17-2-7). The teams butt heads tonight in Sherwood Park at 7 p.m.
In Friday's tilt the Steel jumped out to an early lead on goals by Pommells and Williamson.
The Crusaders pulled even in period two with a power-play goal by Adam Burns at 9:57 and a shorthanded strike by all-star Cody Kunyk at 11:44 that Steel goalie Chad Ketting should have stopped.
The Steel dominated the third period shot-wise 17-6 but despite tons of glorious chances and two power play opportunities, failed to put the puck past Esposito.
Early in the five minute OT period of four-on-four hockey, an unchecked Sather made amends for his first period penalty by going upstairs on Ketting. Shots overall were 41-28 by the Steel.
"We played a pretty good game but we had a couple of letdowns and it ended up costing us," Williamson said. "We came up on some good goaltending there at the end, but with the playoffs coming up we've got to have that killer instinct. We've got to bury the puck when we get the chance so that we don't let teams hang around and get a goal in overtime like that."

Picked up another one this week. Mike Fink had previously committed to North Dakota but changed his mind when they asked him to spend another year in juniors.

Article here: http://collegehockey247.rivals.com/cont ... ID=1052767

Be wary of specific information from Rivals on hockey recruiting. They're missing half of our recruits for next season and have one guy listed who isn't coming here and never planned to. I got the Fink commitment news from Heisenberg's list which is uncanny in its accuracy.

Chris does a super job at getting the commits down pat...some of the "prospects" are always missing but nothing is perfect.

I have some mixed thoughts on the Mike Fink committment.

First North Dakota recruits a ton of high quality recruits so at first I thought "yay we stole one from the Sioux!" But then read the article and if he was truely committed (not NCAA committed but mentally) to UND and they asked him to spend another year in Jrs to work out his game it's a little shocking he wouldnt see it as a positive opportunity to improve his skills and then after another season become a more important piece on the Sioux roster.

Mike has skill but he's still learning the game, learning what it takes to compete at this level and be strong on both ends of the rink," Des Moines head coach Mike Guentzel said. "He's more of a passer than a shooter right now and I'm consistently trying to encourage him to shoot more. He tends to play with a little too much finesse and we need him to adopt the mindset of tough hard-nosed scoring forward."

Fink admits he is more of a playmaker than a goal scorer, but he believes his talent can be useful on the next level.

it sounds like from the article that North Dakota WAS Right! he needs more work, I bolded the parts that NoDak's gameplay is huge on, they have four lines of big, strong players going hard and fast, with scoring skills and can hit and play at both ends of the ice.

thats really what BG needs more of too.

"He's more of a passer than a shooter right now and I'm consistently trying to encourage him to shoot more.

= fans yelling "SHOOT THE ******* PUCK!!"

sbkbghockey wrote:= fans yelling "SHOOT THE ******* PUCK!!"

they'll yell that no matter what, atleast in the student section....

BGFalconfromCincy wrote:

sbkbghockey wrote:= fans yelling "SHOOT THE ******* PUCK!!"

they'll yell that no matter what, atleast in the student section....

And there's nothing in the world more annoying.