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Absolute tragedy. My son was one of his roommates and the whole team is devastated. The team is going by bus to his viewing on Sunday and to his memorial service in Hamburg, PA (past Harrisburg). Please donate to his scholarship fund (link was posted above) if you can. Branson was a really good person and it's super hard to have this happen to the hockey community.

I did see your post about the Cal U tragedy and I do hope you get something to them. That is really nice of you to do. I think the transition to ACHA "M" was gradual. I think I'm just old too and can't learn new things!

I have heard stories about those Airport tournaments! It's been years since I was involved, and you are technically right about ACHA M1...However, way back before there were women's teams in the ACHA, they were officially referred to as divisions and therefore D1, D2, and D3. This is years ago since I was involved, so yes, I'm sure you're right the names changed, but there are probably other older people like me still saying D1. This link is to the ACHA website from 2005 - notice they say D1: http://www.itsportsnet.com/league.php?scriptName=HOME&leagueID=7700

FYI - Jamie - Graduated from Slippery Rock with Finance and Sport Management Degree with Honors and is getting an MBA from Eberly Business College at IUP - Get your facts straight! I will not acknowledge jealous character assassination of college students - What a shame! Happy Holidays Everyone

Upper classmen... this is a fairytale. A 16 year old is supposed to “respect” an 18 year old because the 18 year old is two years older? Give me a break. Respect for seniority is applicable in honorary settings such as the military. Not fucking hockey, or youth sports in general.

Hazing was never anything but a reason for meatballs to get their rocks off, and dopamine hits, from the embarrassment of others. It always was a stupid practice, it still is a stupid practice. It is truly nothing but bullying under the guise of shenanigans. Even making someone carry water bottles is stupid. Why don’t you all take turns and all pick up pucks - that’s real team building. Teach your kids to lift others up.

We get it - your kid transferred from sru to iup. SRU are some how losers in this situation because they shut down the club hockey team. It’s a club sport, these schools care more about their image & eduction. 99% of the students are there for an education not to play club sports. Why would any young man transfer from one college club hockey team to another for their senior year. It’s not all that smart when you are talking about academics, majors and transferring credits. We are not talking ncaa hockey. once all the facts came out about SRU situation, that program needed shut down. It’s not the 80’s anymore regardless if any of us like it or not. you failed to mention the majority of the players stayed at SRU, a lot are now playing on the inline hockey team. Seems the ice hockey team was a problem. SRU was the winner here, they took action against a school club that didn’t take academics serious, alcohol issues & was constantly in trouble. BTW - there is no D in ACHA hockey. It’s M. This is not NCAA hockey. M1,M2 & M3 - not much of a difference in any of these teams (I’m not talking about the High power 5-6 schools in the acha) It’s the schools that have more than one team is where you see a difference in play such as IUP, Duquesne etc fielding M1 & M3 teams. The better kids at the school / older kids are on M1. a school like PSU that only fields one club team in M2 is virtually the same as the IUP M1 club team. Some schools have always just fielded one team in M3, some of these M3 teams would smack around western pa M1 teams.

When I was talking about seniors, I was generalizing - it doesn’t make any sense to transfer going into your senior year for club hockey. I don’t know what grade your kid is. I was making the point your claim of all the transfers was false and in general agreeing with what SRU did after all the facts came out. The program was like the old airport ice arena beer league - strippers & all. trust me buddy, I’m not jealous of you in anyway at all. You are the historian book writer, you should put out the truth, not spin it for your own ego. Again it’s ACHA M1.