For this season, the balls in Jonas' court, but next season the Crimson will turn to their goalie of the future, freshman Will Crothers.

"He's a big kid," Mazzoleni said. "He's competitive. We definitely recruited Will as the goaltender of the future here. He wasn't done anything to date to question that but he's a freshman right now. We're a fortunate that he has a senior to work with a watch and we don't have to thrust him in their right away and have him be the guy. It's a great situation for Will because we can bring him along slowly and play him against the right teams and let him gain his confidence."

Overall

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This is a good hockey team, but it's either young or inexperienced in a lot of key areas.

Beyond Steve Moore and Bala, there is not a lot of proven senior talent, and three of them are all forwards.

Jonas is also a senior, but he doesn't have any experience as the team's starting goaltender and it will be interesting to see how he responds to the pressure now that he knows he's the man between the posts.

The strength of this team is clearly the forwards. There's enough talent their to fill three lines and still score often.

"We're not a first line team," Mazzoleni said. "We've got three balanced lines. If you were to ask me what is my first line, I couldn't tell you. I've got three lines that can play. We've four lines that can play."