- Dave Herel (Sr.) is moving from forward to defense. With so much of the defense leaving, he felt it was the best chance to get more playing time and be an asset to the team. I’m excited to see him get playing time either way.

 - Steve Thurston (Sr.) is actually a 5th year senior – something that slipped my mind during the preview. He had a medical redshirt year his junior year, giving him this chance to return and being a huge “addition” to the team. He’s also attending grad school. (I think the last 5th year senior we had was Eric Harbaugh.)

 - Frosh goalie Dan Ivanir is apparently like a Chris Matteo clone (one of the top goalies in Penn State history). Which is very good, but also means there’s a good chance of heart attacks for when he seems to be out of position.

if not the biggest. There may be a lot of penalties this season…

I’d worry about this, but apparently OB does this regularly in practice, so it’s just another scrimmage for those two.

Frosh defenseman – only walk-on to make the team. With the depth of our recruiting anymore, this is a real rarity. So kudos to him!

apparently had a big one in tryouts, and just had another big one on Dan Petrick. It’ll be nice to have a slew of physical defensemen again.

Sounds like all but one of the new guys played Junior hockey somewhere. So they’re freshmen, but not really freshmen…

Eric Steinour gets a goal, puts the white team up 2-0

Usually it’s fairly dead, but the football crowd has humored us nicely. :)

gives the blue team their first goal. Held off the bigger Steve Thurston, put a backhander past John Jay. Apparently that roller hockey stuff wasn’t just regular crap.

Oh yeah – there was a slashing call in there somewhere, thus the shorthanded goal.

6:42 left in the first half. Blue-White game is made of 2 25-minute halves.

Good commentator. He’s also connected to the Homecomming stuff. I dunno – I wasn’t really listening to that part.

gets a goal, with some nice passing with Mike Luongo – gives White a 3-1 lead.

Pusch was one of the last cuts, so if injuries/flu hurt us, it sounds like we’ve got a good group to pick from.

Some good beating and banging. Some good chances. Defense needs a little bit of cleaning up, but decent otherwise. John Jay has looked solid, Teddy looks shaky.

Sounds like a lot of line changes during practice – trying to get everyone comfortable playing with anyone else.

(And yes, Kirstein is in the running for Homecoming King.)

Yeah… I’ve never been a fan of his…

a few guys aren’t playing tonight because of one or the other.

and play on the ice, but the announcers have sorta moved away from the action.

Dustin Roux with an assist – me thinks that name might become a regular over the season.

puts it past Teddy Hume, puts white back up 4-2.

Doing a little talking about the ladies team – sounds like they did some heavy recruiting and should be able to field a full team every game. Hopefully good things are on the way for them as well.

goes back and forth – looks good and is in proper position at times. Out of position and playing soft at other times.

And as I say this, Steinour gets his second goal – whites up 5-2. Played for the Boston Bulldogs last year.

makes it 6-2. Look to hear his name more this season – returning junior forward, who’s a smaller guy, but is very fast and can play bigger than his size.

looks solid offensively. Dan Ivanir continuing to make saves.

Aryans White team wins it, 6-2. Dustin Roux and Eric Steinour look like two very solid additions to the line-up. From the vets that played, I don’t have anything bad to say, just a high likelihood that their names will likely be showing up in the boxscore more.

Teddy Hume still seems shaky to me. Would not be surprised if John Jay takes a lot of starts throughout the season.

Whitey always wins.

3rd – Ryan Erbe, Fr. Defenseman
2nd – Dustin Roux, Jr. Forward
1st – Eric Steinour, Fr. Forward

Not happy with D-Zone breakdowns tonight, especially in front of Teddy Hume. Didn’t think Teddy played well either, tho (Teddy wasn’t happy with his performance either).

Asst. Coach Billy Downey in Iowa for the Buc Bowl for recruiting. Trying to focus on top-line recruits this season.

I think IcersGuy may have just beaten you for most posts ever in one fanshot/fanpost. And if not, it’s gotta at least be some sort of percentage record.