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Klee and Littler left so that the Ruck boys could form the most dominant 3rd line in the NCAA at UND next season.

If roster size limit stays at 26 for next season (which is an IF), then we'd be done at 8 D. Usually we're looking at 15/8/3. Doesn't leave a lot of room for injuries, which is why they're pushing to have that 26 number increased. That's a great looking group of 7D right there though. As Reschny said today...they'll be young, but really good. DU just won a title with a single SR Dman...it can be done. Let's go green.

He's a good one. A .919 save % playing for Alaska is damn impressive. He'll do well at MSUM.

No. The WHL champs won't be over until mid-May. Everything goes so much longer since they are all best of 7 series instead of single-elim.

Yes, for sure. I'm guessing Harper wasn't either since his Gopher IG posts were still active this morning (assuming the Murr news caused him to rethink things with UMN). I'm confident that those aces were in reference to some more CHL studs to be named later.

Finn Loftus goes from UMass to SCSU and now to UMN in three seasons. If UMN has another early exit ( ), maybe he can go for the 4 teams in 4 years next season at this time!

I'm hoping it's just Bryn keeping all options/avenues open. He did say earlier that he liked to have options A, B, C, D, etc. just in case.

Completely agree. You only take a run at Harper if you miss out on all three of the remaining CHL Big Guns.

Schloss updated the UND transfers article with a quote from Dane:

In conference "rival". Wishing him good luck...same with Jubs though...not when we're playing UST!

Neither of those have been confirmed as of yet.

Forwards (11 of 15): SR - Menghini JR - Croal, Swanson SO - Josephson, Kernan, Reschny, Zakreski, Zellers FR - A.Schultz, B.Schultz, Simpson Defense (6 of 8): SR - JR - Boser, Emery SO - Laurila, Verhoeff FR - Lindberg, MacKenzie Goalies (3 of 3): SR - Sandy JR - SO - Spunar FR - Heil

She's the new REA arena host.

Nice.

I think our major pickups to fill some of these F/D gaps will be announced after the CHL playoffs are over.

Buckberger from DU signs. Still waiting on their other D-stud, Pohlkamp, to sign...but it's coming soon.

Schloss is probably feverishly typing articles, but his fingers are all cramped up from all these portal updates all day.

Maybe he's coming in knowing that he'll be 7th/8th dman, similar to what Jubs was for us this year. That would still be weird coming into the situation playing 22min/gm for ASU to not nearly as much at UND though.

The players found a random party in Vegas the night before the biggest game of the season? This sounds like a gfhockey Judy’s rumor.

That’s weird for UNO, Jubs never played USports. Good luck to Jubs except for when UNO plays UND.

ASU picks up a trio of players. Penn State F Nic Chin-Degraves to ASU x Clarkson D Matthew Mayich (STL 6th) to ASU x Merrimack D Filip Nordberg (OTT 2nd) to ASU x

That was my next thought as well. Harper and Smith are both more offensive, if Smith is confirmed I could see wanting to push back Harper and risk losing him. Having never seen Smith play, I wonder how many of his points are due to DuPont working his magic out there?

Oh my. Gopher fans have been pumping both him and Grimes pretty hard for the last year. Would be crazy if they both de-commit after the coaching change. I'd be fine with him going to DU if that makes one less suitor for DuPont.

Looks like Bushy to BGSU, so he's off the list.

Great news. Just need a few more confirmations and things will start to take shape.