Andrew Copp to forgo Senior Season
Signs entry level deal with the Winnipeg Jets and will forgo his Sr. Season. Congrats and good luck in the NHL, hate to see him leave but completely understand.
https://twitter.com/copp94/status/581094678340243456
March 26th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
But good luck!
Hopefully the talent on next year's team will send Red out with more of a bang than a whimper.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
Michigan Hockey Summer™
March 26th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^
how many of our guys go to Winnipeg? It seems like quite a few over the last few seasons.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:51 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
Those who leave sign contracts and ride buses.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:00 AM ^
Except the part about winning championships is wrong.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:40 AM ^
Nowadays its
Those who stay will lose to Penn State way more than they should and miss the tournament again
March 26th, 2015 at 11:47 AM ^
It wouldn't be a hockey thread without you trying to push your stale agenda.
We get it, you think Michigan should voluntarily recruit the NAHL so they would only end up with players who stay for 4 years. You bring it up in every recruiting thead.
Give it a break for one day.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
Speaking as a season ticket holder...This sucks.
Speaking for Copp's future - go for it!
Good luck and thanks for the memories.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
I don't know if there's been a player at Michigan I've liked more than Andrew Copp. I'm going to miss this guy.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
Good luck in the NHL! One of my favorite players to watch the last couple years, a true two-way forward.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
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March 26th, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
Really didn't see this coming. He was our under-the-radar, gritty mc gritstein captain. I didn't even consider that he'd go early.
Though I imagine it's got to be exhausting being the captain of an underachieving team. Might've just been tired of it. Good luck and thanks
March 26th, 2015 at 10:42 AM ^
I liked his grittiness, too---he sometimes reminded me of Dino Ciccarelli with his style of play.
Good luck with the Jets, Andrew!
March 26th, 2015 at 10:31 AM ^
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March 26th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
of key players and late defections of key recruits over the last decade than Michigan.
If all those guys had stuck around for their senior season and graduated, Red would have a few more Frozen Four teams and at least one more NC under his belt.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 10:55 AM ^
only a couple other programs have had comparable numbers of NHL-level players who had the opportunity to leave.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^
Early defections haven't been a factor for Red in the last 3-5 years as much as they had been historically
March 26th, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
#michiganhockeysummer begins...
I am pretty surprised about this decision. I bet he was really torn by the decision. He was an Ann Arbor kid who loved Michigan and changed his number to 9 because of Brendan Morrison. I for sure thought that he would come back and be the captain of Red's possible final year and hopefully bring the team back to the NCAA tournament.
I'm not going to play the politically correct game and wish him best of luck to play in the minors and not finish his degree. I know my degree has earned me far more than what his signing bonus will be. Sure wish he would have finished it out. Hopefully he makes it to the NHL to make this worth it or comes back to finish his degree...we will see.