Quincheezmo

Like many of you, I am feeling cautiously optimistic about improved d-zone play from our 8 new defensemen. However, I'm mildly concerned we may see a significant drop in offensive production. Last season's 8 Dmen combined for 111 points. When I look at the incoming D corps and account for past performance and level of competition, I'm coming up with a napkin-math projection of 80 combined points. Would love nothing more than to be wrong! Here's a fun exercise. As I was brainstorming the potential output of each of the new Dmen, I found myself trying to find a comparable UND Dman from the past 20 years or so. Here's what I arrived at: Pyke = Frisch Pehrson = Ausmus Zmolek = ? Britt = ? Weibe = T. Poolman Benoit = Peski Livanavage = Johnny T Komzak = ? Thoughts?

According to his elite prospects page, Hellsten’s numbers in Sweden’s J20 superelit league compare favorably to Chrona and Persson. Here’s hoping for similar ncaa performance.

Guessing/hoping we see a couple non-conference series in November?

Army

https://www.usahockeyarena.com/ Plymouth, Michigan This past season the U18s played Minnesota, Maine, Holy Cross, Bowling Green, and LSSU in their home barn.

https://www.sjhl.ca/news_article/show/999164 I have not seen him play, but he's been named the RBC Player of the Year in the SJHL. FWIW the SJHL gave us the likes of Reiger, Sanderson, and Chartrand.

Michaud was 208-237 on faceoffs this season. 46.7%

https://portal.stretchinternet.com/canisiushockey/

The way UND came out of this recent bye, I'd love to see them get another one!

I'm not sure Keane is coming. As an undersized forward I'd expect scoring to be his calling card, but his production in the USHL and BCHL hasn't been there. Also, his eliteprospects page doesn't look like the others. Just my own speculation, but it seems like that would make the forward numbers work out.

I've wondered the same. Being that he arrived the same time as his son, it's easy to speculate that they'll depart together. If/where he goes and who initiates the change are open questions. Nothing would surprise me. He has experience as a NHL assistant and USHL HC, that's a nice resume. Plus he's not a UND lifer. Perhaps he's more open to other opportunities than Berry or Jackson. Those are my thoughts.

UConn junior defenseman Joseph Masonius signs with Penguins AHL affiliate. http://www.wbspenguins.com/2018/04/19/joseph-masonius-signed-to-ato-ahl-contract-for-2018-19/

http://www.uscho.com/senior-signings-2018-offseason/ Signing sometimes take a day or two to show up on this list.

Huber with a playmaker too.

Is Nick Jones' appearance here foreshadowing another announcement? C?

Obviously we all hope and expect our team to return to the NCAA tourny next season, but I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion on here regarding how absolutely critical it is that they do so for the sake of experience. Next years senior class, except Jones, will be able to share the lessons learned from their magical run to the Natty as freshmen. The juniors will have a grand total of 1 NCAA game under their belts. The underclassmen will have none. This team is only a year away from not knowing what a Frozen Four is like! I think that those experiences produce more success, more experience, and so on. It is THAT cycle that I hope remains unbroken even though the NCAA streak is over. The team was actually quite good this year, and I'm not in the alarmist/sack Bubs camp, but we need to start a new streak right away. The end.

This isn't going to be easy, but there simply won't be a better opportunity for two wins in one weekend the rest of the way. And since it appears our Pairwise hopes are perched on the edge of a cliff, anything less than a sweep would be bad news bears.

I thought the B1G was moving away from games against FCS for CFP resume-building purposes? Am I remembering this wrong? Does anyone know the rest of that story? At any rate, this is happening and I'm excited. My wife and I lived in Omaha for 4 years and this might be an opportunity to visit the area again.

So I check out our commits periodically on eliteprospects.com via Schlossman's blog and I've noticed something curious. The past, present, and future teams are listed for each recruit and UND is listed as a future destination for all but Jackson Keane. A while back it was listed there. Does anyone know what's up with that? Is he no longer in our pipeline?