I’ll get back to my mid-season grades tomorrow with a look at the coaching thus far, but for today I just wanted to share a few links.

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Andrew Merritt of the New England Hockey Journal does his mid-season grades for Hockey East.

Ryan Lambert of Yahoo’s Puck Daddy takes a look at the race for Hobey Baker.  While I think he’s correct in that James Marcou will have to increase his goal production if he has a chance at the award he’s definitely underrating the skill of Casey Wellman.

Here’s an interesting article about what college hockey is doing to combat the growing list of Americans choosing to play Canadian major junior over going the NCAA route.

Here’s an article about the upcoming Avon Old Farms-Taft prep hockey game at Fenway Park which will feature recruit Mike Pereira.  The game itself is technically a private event and is being completely funded by two of the parents players to the tune of $30,000.  Whoa.

Luke Curadi who committed to UMass last December only to decommit a month later has committed to play for RPI.