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The problem with that is if they don’t have a tie to the region or UND, if they explode, a lot of teams will be offering them at that point. I know that it isn’t meant to be anything other than a statement that they aren’t ready for this level, but it seems like an arrogant approach. To me that’s like telling a girl, I don’t want to date you now, but if you should become more attractive in a few years, give me a call.

https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=228574 Grant Slukynsky’s numbers didn’t stand out much either, and I bet Western is glad they have him. That said, they may need another guy or two that can play top six with the losses of Strinden, Rickwood and James.

True, and sometimes just switching to a different environment can be huge. Look at Brock Schultz’s production from Waterloo compared to Sioux Falls. I think a different team could probably do the same for Ashton Schultz’s production. Seemed like he had good production with the U.S. in the prospects games.

…and if that’s all he did, why wouldn’t he talk to the ref about why he presumed he was ejected?

You mean Carson Carels! Fingers crossed.

So you’re arguing for players to keep commitments under wraps until the end of the season.

I think it might be more of what it does to a team dynamic. Probably is known anyway, but if the team struggles people could sometimes wrongly theorize that everyone isn’t all in. I think Perron was already at Michigan at Christmas last year.

Yeah, if you believe their announcers we were warned time and again the night prior before they gave us a bench minor, so you would think Powers would argue why does he get booted without a warning. Still not buying it.

A handful or so of one or two year high NHL draft picks isn’t a cure for being young every year.

I’ll take “Predictable excuses” for 1000 Alex!

I bet Powers has this problem too!

I bet Powers will say he thought he was kicked out.

So he didn’t have to shake our coaches hands. Like I said, glad Arizona State signed him to an extension because any coach that can’t accept the other team outplayed his and needs to use refs as an excuse will have a team that isn’t accountable either.

Depends on what you mean by playing a full 60. They didn’t play well, with mistakes for a period or so, but I think the effort was there. Every team is going to have lapses and poor play, but for the most part it wasn’t like Arizona State was all over us.

Maybe, the announcers said Portland, but maybe they were wrong since he was drafted there.