All-SUNYAC Selections

Five Lakers landed spots on the 2011-2012 All-SUNYAC teams.  Junior forward Jon Whitelaw earned First Team honors, while junior forward Paul Rodrigues and junior defenseman Zack Josepher were named to the Second Team.  Junior goaltender Andrew Hare and junior defenseman Taylor Farris were selected to the Third Team. Here's the full roster courtesy of sunyac.com.

First Team
F - James Cody (Brockport)  19 G, 15 A, 34 Pts
F - Bryan Ross (Fredonia)  11 G, 28 A, 39 Pts
F - Jon Whitelaw (Oswego)  18 G, 21 A, 39 Pts
D - Danny Scagnelli (Geneseo)  2 G, 10 A, 12 Pts
D - Mike Grace (Plattsburgh)  0 G, 12 A, 12 Pts
G - Mathieu Cadieux (Plattsburgh)  15-4-3, 1.78 GAA, .930 SV%

Second Team
F - Ian Finnerty (Brockport)  11 G, 25 A, 36 Pts
F - Paul Rodrigues (Oswego)  13 G, 22 A, 35 Pts
F - Sy Nutkevitch (Potsdam)  9 G, 31 A, 40 Pts
D - Michael Hayward (Brockport)  6 G, 8 A, 14 Pts
D - Zach Josepher (Oswego)  3 G, 18 A, 21 Pts
G - Kevin Carr (Buffalo State)  11-12-2, 2.94 GAA, .910 SV%

Third Team
F - Drew Klin (Buffalo State)  16 G, 14 A, 30 Pts
F - Zachary Vit (Geneseo)  12 G, 19 A, 31 Pts
F - Kyle Kudroch (Plattsburgh)  9 G, 13 A, 22 Pts
D - Taylor Farris (Oswego)  3 G,10 A,13 Pts
D - Erick Ware (Potsdam)  4 G, 13 A, 17 Pts
G - Andrew Hare (Oswego)  19-2-2, 1.71 GAA, .931 SV%

After analyzing the results the LeRoy Crew has minimal disagreements with most of the position player selections. We understand that while more Lakers could have made the list on pure numbers the SUNYAC likes to spread the wealth around and include all teams. They do this for two reasons, first the SUNYAC is a liberal organization that abides by the "everyone's a winner" philosophy, similar to Pete's soft economic views. Secondly, they believe that this will allow outsiders to view the SUNYAC as a highly competitive league. Even though most followers will tell you that Oswego and Plattsburgh are the only two teams that can compete on a national level.

However, we have a serious disagreement when it comes to the goalie selections. Oswego's Andrew Hare has the best numbers of any goaltender in the league but the selection committee still ranks him lower than Plattsburgh's Cadieux and Buff State's Carr. After seeing all three goalies in action we believe Hare is the most talented and should be the clear winner. Now the numbers between Cadieux and Hare are similar and you could make the argument that Hare plays on a more talented team but there is no excuse for ranking Carr over Hare. Especially when the Buff State netminder has a losing record and gives up almost three goals per game. There is a clear bias at work within the selection committee. Could it be because Hare is a D-I transfer and not a true product of the SUNYAC? Could it be because the committee believes Hare is the second best goalie on his team behind a health Paul Beckwith. We'll let you decide.