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You know they aren’t hockey people when they call it a stadium rather than an arena.

There is a World Junior thread.

Makes you wonder if Jacob Kvasnicka just stays in Minneapolis after the World Juniors. That wouldn’t exactly ingratiate Minnesota with Penticton taking a player halfway through the season, especially when Minnesota needs to be building more ties in Canada rather than the opposite. Will be interesting to see what teams do that want to fill spots for the second half.

I think we already know. They recently split with Bemidji State, and did split with Duluth early in the year. From what I’ve seen, they have been getting outshot quite a bit, but they have a very good goaltender.

Watched Williams last night and to me it looks like he needs a lot more time in the weight room to be ready for college. Have to watch more before any real conclusions can be drawn, but didn’t see a lot of dog on bone, but a lot of coasting. Can’t judge him on one performance though, and you could definitely see the skill. I see that Chyzyk is out not only recruiting, but determining who is ready to come in, so I’m sure they will make the right judgements and let people know what the expectations are for improvement in order for them to make the jump. Looking forward to see future games to track his progress.

Seriously, just like with Philadelphia, Seattle hasn’t done near as well since Hakstol left, and both teams have way more pieces to the puzzle that Hakstol didn’t have.

I agree. I will also say that from what the coaches are saying, that he is very well liked in the locker room. It seemed to me that Calder kind of kept to himself. That isn’t a knock on him, as there are a ton of different personalities, but we have seen how far a great team chemistry can go, and vice versa.

Not giving hasn’t stopped anyone on this board or off this board from complaining about lack of success or for asking for coaches to be fired. Just because people have different priorities than you doesn’t mean they don’t want to see the program succeed. Just to be able to complain, I will donate a dollar to the effort, and if you go by those that complain the most vociferously to donation level, you better be giving over half your salary to the cause.

Does that give the new coach enough time to get ahead of the game for potential portal help? Like to give the coach plenty of time to construct their staff and do their due diligence on players.

Got beat 4 of 5 to Omaha that year as well.

The problem is if Hughes wants to play with his brothers, Guerin doesn’t have a say in letting him walk. I think it will all depend on whether the Wild show progress to a Stanley Cup run. A power play with Boldy, Kaprizov and Hughes could be devastating, but there are plenty of high end units that don’t perform to their talent level, and the Wild have already been living off of their power play. The reason the Wild struggled early this year even with a potent power play is because they weren’t playing to their defensive identity. The question is will this move do anything to change that identity, or just make it easier to maintain it by playing from the lead? Secondary scoring could still be an issue, but you saw how that changed when Zuccarello came back. I think it could be huge for them, but they surely need to make some postseason strides to show Hughes he should stay.

Yeah, having “firsts” like sweeping Omaha for the first time sure beats the negative “firsts” that were happening over the past 5-6 years.

It’s a super nice start, but we need to keep finding ways to win in the second half as well. Really different in the league this year, as there is already a clear line between home ice and being on the road. Usually it is up in the air until the final weekend. Just glad we are on the right side of line.

Kind of makes you laugh at the people who thought our season was on the line if we lost the second night at Clarkson.

ASU might be missing Potter, and I don’t think ASU has much offense without the power play, so wouldn’t put my money on ASU.