AlphaMikeFoxtrot

Anyone with a subscription to McMahon's newsletter have what he says about Verhoeff?

UNO was his original commitment

Donor and/or former player's son, no doubt.

Urban Meyer's hockey equivalent?!?

PSU MSU

Schloss from the top rope! https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/schlossman-college-hockeys-arms-race-has-pushed-its-resources-way-beyond-the-chls I made the same point he makes about Bedard to a friend. Also, calling out someone on Sportsnet by name! Hell yeah Brad.

CHL waiving the white flag, realizing they won't have top players at 19 ever again. https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/19-year-old-chl-players-allowed-play-in-ahl-starting-2026-27-nhl

More soiled diapers north of the border. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/gavin-mckenna-penn-state-canada-hockey-1.7581861

Please please PLEASE let McKenna's package (or any from a Big 10 school's collective) get rejected. https://www.oregonlive.com/collegebasketball/2025/07/new-college-sports-agency-rejecting-some-athlete-nil-deals-with-donor-backed-collectives.html

CHL trying to deny they were knocked down a peg. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-gavin-mckenna-chl-ncaa-div-1-penn-state/

Smith is giving any municipality in the state of Utah that wants it 500k to build a rink. Hopefully U of U and BYU are in his ear about D1 hockey. Went to Kilby Block Party in May and there was a ton of Mammoth gear there and around town. Obviously some of it is the new car smell but there's a serious buzz about hockey there, especially with the Winter Olympics pivoting to rotating between a handful of existing sites.

Big "protagonists of hockey" energy here. https://www.si.com/college/minnesota/gophers-hockey/is-gavin-mckenna-s-commitment-a-warning-sign-for-the-gophers

As an Oregonian I'd be on board, but according to a former beer league teammate who played club at U of O, Uncle Phil hates hockey after buying high and selling low on Bauer back in the day. He wants to buy a football championship before he croaks. Maybe once he's gone it could happen.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/07/08_College-Hockeys-Drop-the.php Wodon doesn't get much love around here, and it's generally his own fault, but this is worth reading. Among other insights, he addresses something on our minds that isn't getting much attention elsewhere: blue chips late in the recruiting cycle is a whole new world.

College hockey had more D1 caliber skaters than available spots before MJ kids were eligible, even the paper of record addressed it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/sports/hockey/ncaa-college-teams.html U of Illinois, Iowa, Washington and Northwestern are all no brainers. Purdue isn't far from U of IL either. Hate to say it, but it'll probably take some Big 10 nattys to get the wheels moving.

It makes sense for McQueen and Bear after coming off injury years to play another year of MJ, or Cootes or anyone else averaging close to a point a game. But if you're putting up 100 points, you've outgrown it and would be better served in NCAA or Europe like AM34 did.

Ty Farmer signed in Denmark a few days ago. Weatherby was trending on EP at the same time so he likely signed somewhere new in Europe as well.

My thoughts too. Treating a #6 pick like a back up plan can't sit well with him.

Nothing a lawsuit can't fix!

World's tiniest violin 🎻

More on Simpson at dev camp: https://985thesportshub.com/2025/07/07/bruins-cooper-simpson-juniors/

Nauruto's lack of charisma or whatever it takes to connect with recruits is probably what's keeping us in the hunt.

Only twice in the past decade has a non-NCHC team won it all. In that same time NCHC and Big Ten are tied with 2 runners up. Bryn is undoubtedly planting that fact, hopefully it resonates.

Do you mean Owen Berge? Not exactly impressed with his stats, but looks like the team was terrible this year.

He wouldn't share it if there weren't some traction.