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Message: [QUOTE="JeremyCuse, post: 928135, member: 43"] Thanks for the comments Juicy. The schedule comes into play because the ACC is loaded and Syracuse traditionally plays an extremely difficult OOC including JHU, Cornell, Princeton, etc. While Princeton is off the schedule Albany is a monster and St. Johns has one of the most experienced and talented attack units in the country. The X issue could really come into play especially if it costs Syracuse a game or two early, combine that with games against Duke UNC UVA and things can quickly snowball. Now I think our talent will prevail but when your pre season #1 your looking to grab a top 1-3 seed not have 4-5 losses. The faceoff issue has really been going for about 4 years now. We brought in Daddio and Buhr two really highly rated kids 4 years ago as the heir apparents to Danny Brennan, unfortunately Daddio's been mediocre at best and Buhr's been worse. What ended up killing Syracuse was that the next two years we only brought in one additional faceoff guy when we should have been stockpiling like were doing this year and the next two. So what ended up happening is three years ago we brought in no one, two years ago we brought in one guy (who subsequently transferred and torched us Saturday at Towson), and then we brought in a couple guys last year in Conroy and Paduda. The staff and Desko seem to realize the gravity of the issue but were now trying to play catch up and are struggling to get someone on the level of a Fowler, Nardella, Novas guy, etc. We now have numbers with guys like Iacono, Paduda, and Demarco and two more coming in next year both of whom are highly rated. We really need someone to develop this year because we could easily see Bryant in the first round again this year which could end up being another nightmare. [/QUOTE]

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