Can Mike Devine sustain Dartmouth while new faces on the blue line adjust to college hockey?
We mentioned the losses of Lewis, Lovejoy, and Hartwick earlier in this preview and one of the ways that Dartmouth can relieve pressure on those young players is for senior goalie Mike Devine to get off to a good start. “He’s going to be really important to us, but I don’t want to put the onus on him. I don’t want him out there having to stop 50 shots a night,” Gaudet said. 3. Will Yale’s upperclassmen forwards contribute enough scoring to complement sophomores Sean Backman and Marc Arcobello? “We had that great freshman class last year and a couple of guys that led our team in scoring, so it’s easy to say those guys are going to be better, and I think they will,” Yale head coach Keith Allain said. “We have some seniors on our team this year that didn’t have the type of years that I thought they could have, guys like J-F Boucher, Will Engasser, Blair Yaworski, and I think they have the talent to really raise the level of the whole hockey team. If we can get those guys to play up to the
