Ed Trefzger

President | Consult | Publish @jazzweek | HOF Voice of @RITMHKY | Content @USCHO | Alum @RITtigers,

[HK Spisska Nova Ves @hknovejsa]

🔵🟡Do útoku prichádza „🇺🇸 americký Slovák“

S radosťou chceme našim fanúšikom oznámiť príchod novej posily do ofenzívy!
Novým prírastkom v rodine 🐯 rysov sa stáva Boris Skalos.
Ide o 23-ročného Američana so slovenskými koreňmi. Posledné tri ročníky odohral v kvalitnej NCAA.

[Ed Trefzger @EdTrefzger]

Imagine what any of us could do with 15 minutes less screen time.

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

KIDS: Imagine if you took just 15 minutes of your screen time in a day and shot pucks instead. 15 minutes.

That’s about 100 shots.

If you did that for a month, you will have shot 3,000 pucks.

From taking just 15 minutes out of your couple hours of screen time per day.

[Mike McMahon @MikeMcMahonCHN]

On hockey and age-based admission:

I had this in the newsletter a few weeks ago. More than 80% of college hockey freshmen last year were junior age-outs (20+ years old).

409 out of 509 players.

[Ed Trefzger @EdTrefzger]

@philgpbp We were very saddened by the end of CBS News Radio after being an affiliate for decades. We'll miss the quality of the newscasts and features and the people we've gotten to know.

[USCHO.com @USCHO]

Barring a miracle, the Mercyhurst men's hockey program essentially started and ended with Rick Gotkin. His tenure at Mercyhurst began in 1988 shortly after the school began…

To read full article go to https://t.co/sY1MMwLJgC

[Ed Trefzger @EdTrefzger]

@SHUHockeyBlog Ice Breaker doesn't count against your 34.

[Ed Trefzger @EdTrefzger]

@SHUHockeyBlog I would expect an unbalanced schedule.

[Ed Trefzger @EdTrefzger]

That's a good analysis, Mike. But I'm guessing the unknown part is how players will fare on their new teams, even with strength of schedule and the other elements figured in, if I understand correctly. And how they are used. Will they now be on a top line or power play?

One example: RIT is getting back a player who scored 27 pts in 21 games for the Tigers in 24-25 but 4 pts in 22 games last season on his now former team. More than SOS explains that. I would expect closer to that 1.29 ppg number this season.

Similarly, players who leave a top-tier program who were little used are likely to show more upside on a team that plays them, perhaps showing numbers more like their level at juniors.

Fascinating stuff to think about. Maybe pencil that in for a post-season comparison of CHN's CHIP or other metrics between this past season and next season for players who transferred. Games played/which line/power play all would be interesting.

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

It’s been a few weeks, but we wanted to comment on the disgusting decision to try and shut down Mercyhurst’s Men’s Hockey program.

We didn’t pull any punches on this week’s Friday Faceoff episode.

[Ed Trefzger @EdTrefzger]

What a competitor!

[Delaware Ice Hockey @Delaware_IH]

Lexie was her own block party all season long! 😤

[Brad Elliott Schlossman @SchlossmanGF]

Two key points today re: agents and the potential five-year eligibility clock starting at age 19.

[Cape Breton Eagles @CBEHockey]

Congratulations to Eagles Forward Lucas Romeo on committing to @RITMHKY!

[Mark Divver @MarkDivver]

Michigan D Matthew Mania is headed to RIT via the transfer portal

LA Kings picked him in fifth round in 2023

Good get for coach Matt Thomas and the Tigers

[Mark Divver @MarkDivver]

Matt Wilde of UMass returning to RIT via the transfer portal

Had seasons of 19 and 18 goals at RIT before transferring to UMass for 2025-26

[Sacred Heart Hockey Blog @SHUHockeyBlog]

SHU Roster Update after today…

- 10 players who dressed in the AHA Champ Game are no longer with the program
- 6 of the 8 players scratched are no longer with the program
- the top 4 leading scorers are gone

Lots of new faces incoming

#WeAreSHU | #RollPios | #NCAAHockey

[Ed Trefzger @EdTrefzger]

@MarkDivver Also was a teammate of RIT's AHA all-rookie team F Evan Konyen in Sudbury.

[Ed Trefzger @EdTrefzger]

@TorinSmith15 @DU_Hockey I figured out what happened. I didn't go past what the NCAA record book lists on page 2 and it hadn't been updated for Yaniv Perets. Later in the record book it's correct.

[Torin Smith @TorinSmith15]

Per NCAA source, @DU_Hockey Hicks officially holds the single-season save percentage record at .957, breaking Howard's 2004 record (.956).

His GAA came in at 1.1965 according to NCAA, so third-best behind Howard and Quinnipiac's Yaniv Perets (1.1732).

https://t.co/jqaJKJWFEJ