Armstrong Falcons hire new coach
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Armstrong Falcons hire new coach
Dan Charleston was just hired as the new head hockey coach for the falcons. He was a former BSM assistant coach and played D1 hockey at Nebraska-Omaha and played in the AHL up until last winter.
Thoughts on this??
Thoughts on this??
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Not sure it is the most, but it is a rather impressive list:Sats81 wrote:Is this serious? Leopold? Who else?SilverStick wrote:It's pretty sad that no one cares to respond about a program that has produced more NHL players than any other hiring a new coach.
Jordan Leopold
Todd Richards
Travis Richards
Steve Jensen
David Jensen
Jim Johnson
Derek Peltier
Dennis Vaske went to Armstrong and played in the NHL also. And I don't know if he had NHL potential as he was pretty small, but Mark Merila put up huge numbers in high school before he concentrated on baseball at the U.
Not only did they never make it to state, I'm pretty sure they only made one section final (1985 - Todd Richards' senior year). That's what being in the same section as Minnetonka and Edina all those years will do to you.
Not only did they never make it to state, I'm pretty sure they only made one section final (1985 - Todd Richards' senior year). That's what being in the same section as Minnetonka and Edina all those years will do to you.
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They also were in the 2001 finals in 4AA.xy wrote:Dennis Vaske went to Armstrong and played in the NHL also. And I don't know if he had NHL potential as he was pretty small, but Mark Merila put up huge numbers in high school before he concentrated on baseball at the U.
Not only did they never make it to state, I'm pretty sure they only made one section final (1985 - Todd Richards' senior year). That's what being in the same section as Minnetonka and Edina all those years will do to you.
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Thought I had heard that when Bruce Johnson was coaching, over his 30+ year career that they made it to the section finals 6 or 7 times during his tenure, but couldn't make it out.xy wrote:Dennis Vaske went to Armstrong and played in the NHL also. And I don't know if he had NHL potential as he was pretty small, but Mark Merila put up huge numbers in high school before he concentrated on baseball at the U.
Not only did they never make it to state, I'm pretty sure they only made one section final (1985 - Todd Richards' senior year). That's what being in the same section as Minnetonka and Edina all those years will do to you.
They were in the section finals in 85 and 2001. In 1987 they were #1 in the state and were upset by Edina in the semifinals. In 2001 they lost to Elk River. In the 2001 game both Armstrong and ER had numerous guys play college hockey. Armstrong had TJ McElroy (st cloud) Joe McElroy (wisconsin) Aaron Johnson (mich tech) Evan Kaufmann (Minn) Derek Peltier (Minn) Mike Zacaries (Mankato) and a few guys who played d3 Adam Setten, Brett Beckfeld. They have produced a ton of great hockey players!