Alex Tracy

... you know, math-wise, I'm, I'm not, I'm out on that part.

[laughs] Uh, I wanna, I wanna tell you how good a job you do with your players, 'cause our guy out in Vegas that does, uh, pro hockey with me, um, had a chance to visit with, uh, Alex the other day, Alex Tracy, and, um, he, he texted me right after the interview.

He goes, "Wow, what a great guy." And he goes, uh, "You should have seen him light up when he was talking about Minnesota State and you, Coach."

[laughs]

... with, when that's the scenario.

Um, and he makes it, he made it very easy to be a coach, that's for sure.

He, uh, he made a comment though that I thought was so, so Alex Tracy.

Um, our guy asked him about his first win, uh, and a shutout in his first professional game, and, uh, Alex said, "Yeah, that was pretty cool, but what's even more cool was listening to the fans in Tahoe chant my name, and understanding where I played before, and understanding the Maverick," and everything else.

But my thing is they lost, in a lot of ways, their identity.

You think like who was, who on that roster last year was the epitome of Minnesota State hockey? And it was Evan Murr, Mason Wheeler, Campbell Psychos, and Alex Tracy.

That was their, that was the core of their team, and that was what allowed them to, you know, play the way they wanted to play and a- achieve the things they ultimately achieved.

And they don't return any of those guys.

And it's, you know, Sam Corp is a, it's an interesting piece of business to get him in and, you know, see if he can handle some of Evan Murr's role.

But he's, you know, it's not a proven commodity.

Same thing with Will Skehan and Mason Wheeler and Vasi Letty and Alex Tracy.

It's, you know, it, good solutions given the hand that you've been dealt, but it's a very difficult hand.

Unfortunately, we're just running out of time right now.

I'm going to try to sneak in an interview that Stephen got with a former Minnesota State Maverick who we think is going to be In the ECHL, that being the one and the only Alex Tracy.

Let me see if I can gather this up for you here.

Steven, take it away for a minute.

All right, yeah, so Alex Tracy is going to most likely be with the ECHL Tahoe Night Monsters, but was at Henderson Silver Knights training camp this week, and we mentioned earlier in the show how a lot of the start of camps, the numbers were small because a lot of the guys that would be on the AHL team were still with the NHL training camp, so you had kind of a smaller number at the start of Henderson camp, and and probably guys that would be most likely in the ECHL or people that they invited in to skate for the first few days of the AHL.

I've

got Alex here, and we're almost out of time, so let's try to sneak the six minutes in quickly.

Henderson Silver Knights training camper with a former Minnesota State Maverick goaltender, but now he's in the Golden Knights organization, Alex Tracy.

Be careful.

Uh, Alex Tracy's the Vegas, Connor Mackey's with the Blackhawks, uh, Teddy Bluger's with the Leafs.

Nathan Smith is down and with the Panthers and Jake Livingstone is with the flames.

So, um, Smith is back in Florida, huh? Good for him.

And so I'm curious to see, you know, coming into the CCHA, he's going to have a lot to play for than, than he has, you know, his previous four seasons, uh, of college hockey.

Um, and we'll see, we'll see how, you know, if it's big shoes to fill, we, you know, we could step, we could talk circles around that, but there is no more Alex Tracy, but you do bring in a really, really experienced goaltender in Lassie Letty.

So, Very curious to see how he translates.

He won 13 games last season.

Vegas Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon announced today, Monday, that the following 12 players have been assigned to Henderson for the start of training camp with the Silver Knights.

Jordan Gustafson, Brandon Hickey, Lucas Johansson, Jet Jones, Samuel Mayer, Wiley McKay, Pavel Boisevich, Bronson Ride, Shane Smith, Sloan Stanek, Trent Swick, and Alex Tracy.

So the Vegas Golden Knights very quickly getting down in numbers.

They beat the LA Kings 4-2 Saturday night in Ontario, California.

He's, I think, listed at 6'1", which is on the shorter end for goalies.

But I mean, Alex Tracy was under six foot.

Matias Scholl was under six foot.

I don't think Bartoszkewicz is on, he might be listed over six foot.

They bring about half of their points back, 54.9%.

They lost 134 points to graduation in the portal.

Obviously, Trent, the big two departures are Evan Murr and Alex Tracy.

Murr transfers to the U of M. Tracy graduates as an All-American goalie.