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Hoping since he was helping to recruit Fitzhenry he stays around to play with him. We haven’t had much luck with #9’s sticking around lately though, so hopefully we’re due to have one stay 3 years. If he helps us get #9, I will give him my blessing to leave early though!

So we lose seniors Menghini, Malinowski, and Magnussen, and most likely Reschny, and possibly one to the portal. With the 3 you mentioned, that would leave us room for only the Ruck brothers.

https://www.eliteprospects.com/draft-center/2027 Not sure how many we lose after next year, but room may be an issue next year without pushing off a player or two. If you look at the 2027 top draft prospects, McKamey is one of the notable prospects, and would think Sanderson would be set to come in with Cooper Williams as well. Chase Surkan and Brock Cripps are other notable prospects. Could possibly need another defenseman like Cripps, depending on how many we lose. Opening up the CHL to recruitment sure makes a ton of great prospects available, and you will never have enough room for them all, nor should you, as you need those potential 4 year guys as well.

Brock England and the Rucks would work for me.

Schlossman said he believes Minnesota is still in the mix as well. Schlossman doesn’t throw things out there without some information source he trusts.

He means West getting pushed off a year to make room for another elite player.

The NHL draft coming in a few weeks. Could be one of the most exciting for UND fans.

Certainly would be nice to know one way or another so they either can find players to complement what they already have in place or know what they need to fill out their roster in terms of roles.

That would really surprise me, although it only takes one team to really like him and what he did at the combine.

He sure ruined his legacy in golf with his move to LIV, gambling issues and now this. He seemed to think he was more important than he was. Remember after all the Tiger Woods issues, and then Phil won the Masters and Jim Nance responded with “ A win for the family”. Phil has lost a lot of fans since then.

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.