OrangeXtreme
The Mayor of Dewitt
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Good observation. Only Trimboli makes logical sense to me since 4 middies were named to the 2018 team and the other 3 are all returning (like Trimboli).Kennedy, Trimboli and Solomon made the 2018 team (which was much larger) but are left off for the 2019 preseason list. Not sure I'll ever understand the logic used to create these preseason and post season lists. Congrats to Rhefuss and Mellen.
Wow UVA's faceoff guy/goalie are considered the best? I seem to recall both of those guys sucking last year. Amazing that there isn't a stud goalie or FOGO in the entire ACC.
Well I think they were put on the 1st team by default as the options were far from great. Not that Rode and the FOGO were terrible by any stretch but I definitely dont think first team ALL-ACC for either. Dukes and NDs goalie graduated along with Syracuse's, UNC was rotating guys due to injury so I think it became Rode by default. It's a similar situation at FOGO. ND and Duke's guys were lost to graduation, UNC's main guy was not good and well Varello had his own issues. So again it was basically Schwenk or Varello.
Good point. I believe ND's goalie was a freshman last year actually. But he was the only one I found even less impressive than Virginia's. I think Varello beat Schwenk when they went head to head pretty convincingly, but I'm sure his percentage in the end was much worse than Schwenk's. It was a very disappointing FOGO year for Cuse.