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Still think if Ferschweiler is at Western they will be in that conversation as well. Fiddler, Rudolph, Lin and Macbeath will be good, but I would imagine all 4 will develop at different rates, so who knows if they get up to speed before they play important games against other top teams. Western should be steady from the start.

I’m hoping that we will be tougher to play against though with the portal guys and returning forwards, and if our defense can get up to speed fast it will be quite the league race.

But all of them will have young talent in key positions which may give them some growing pains, especially early, which we know is huge because of head to head conference matchups. Duluth has their big line back, plus added Victor Plante, and also Barrett Hall from St. Cloud, plus a veteran defense with Hanson, Kleber, Cleveland, Pionk, and Siepmann, and added Carter Murphy. They will need to replace Gajan though.

Yeah, many thought that Minnesota would be devastated and decimated after their horrible year, but in today’s college environment, you can turn things around fast. They still will have their hands full with the Big Ten, but with the transfer portal, another year under the belt of some of their young talent, especially on defense, and hanging on to Ziemer, they are in much better position to compete. No doubt Minnesota will be looking to get off to a better start this year, so we better get up to speed fast.

I’ll wait for the official announcement before I “feel bad” for Minnesota.

I think Duluth will be favored to win the league though.

Brayden Klimpke was named MVP of Saskatoon. Kind of surprised Cooper Williams wasn’t best forward on the team, but would imagine he will really have a great year next year.

Doesn’t get any more scary than the run they have been on with minimal first round talent. Who knows if that would work as well, especially if they end up with a few one and dones.

I don’t know if Schlossman is hoping to remove checking from men’s hockey like it is for women’s hockey with his focus on Bettman and CTE. I get that he thinks fighting should be removed, but that isn’t going to remove CTE, as NFL players don’t fight and suffer as well. To me, players know that taking blows increases your chances of CTE, so they need to stop engaging in the kind of fighting that we saw at the beginning of the Four Nations game with Canada. Nobody forced that on anyone, and we saw that hockey can be just as exciting without it, as the Olympics were edge of seat good hockey. Bottom line for me is the players need to look out for their own health first.

Probably, but Brainerd lakes area would have to be an attractive option for him I would bet.

I believe Neil Whalen, who was the goalie for Central is the father of Lindsay Whalen. I imagine being competitive, a lot of the players from each team wanted to keep playing, but in retrospect, it is, and will probably remain the most memorable state championship game because of circumstances which will probably never happen again. I’m sure it is a talking point if any of the guys from the opposing teams see each other.

1.55 goals against and .927 save percentage doesn’t scream yank someone, especially when those stats include a game where the whole team was terrible coming off an eleven day layoff. His counterpart, Dobes has a 2.51 goals against and .909 save percentage. Bussi had a great regular season, but had his issues down the stretch, which is why they went with the experience in the first place. Pulling their goalie after their first playoff loss would have told the team it is time to panic after one bad loss in which the whole team was to blame.

Would hate to be a goalie playing under you. One loss in 10 post season games and you get the hook. People were critical of Hynes for pulling Wallstedt after giving up 8 against Colorado in game one and he had already lost a few playoff games. Who knows how that series turns out if he would have stuck with Wallstedt in game two.

Was actually eight overtimes.

Isn’t that like choosing between which serial killer you hate worse?