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It's gonna be a long couple months if most of these guys wait until after the draft to make their NCAA decisions. For us as fans, I mean.

It's not like the board is advocating for 100% WHL or anything close to that. We're just pulling for the team to snag a couple of the remaining high-end pieces from the WHL to boost the team for next year. None of our four portal transfers played in the WHL (and only Malinoski is Canadian). Only one of our current six incoming freshmen is Canadian and played in the WHL (MacKenzie)...the other five are all US and played in the USHL. We're still gonna be a team that pulls from all over...just trying to finalize the roster with a couple WHL studs.

Either way, we're talking about mostly Badger or Gopher fans in those two arenas, so patronage would be subpar in both.

100% Kohl Center sucks compared to Mariucci if you're just talking arenas...but if you're talking campus and city, then UW > UMN.

He'd be the last one of the Big 4 D from the CHL. Need to snag at least one.

If Carels goes straight to NHL and DuPont goes back to the Dub, the options for our final two D spots gets pretty limited for "high end" prospects.

I chuckled at Guy Flaming's post about this on X. Those CHL guys sure are having a hard time realizing that it is working out for these talented Canadians to go NCAA to further their progression.

That'll be chaos! Timing on that Clarkson series is horrible. Guessing we'll have quite a few gone during WJC/Spengler Cup for that series. Might only have 3-4 dmen available depending on who our last 2 roster choices end up being.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/unds-2026-27-hockey-schedule-features-intriguing-road-trips Oct. 1 — MANITOBA (exh.) Oct. 3 — AUGUSTANA (exh.) Oct. 9-10 — at Bemidji St./BEMIDJI STATE Oct. 16-17 — BENTLEY Oct. 23-24 — at Minnesota Oct. 31 — vs. Michigan State (in Austin, Texas) Nov. 6-7 — WESTERN MICH. Nov. 13-14 — at St. Thomas Nov. 20-21 — ST. CLOUD STATE Nov. 27-28 — LINDENWOOD Dec. 4-5 — at Denver Dec. 11-12 — MINN. DULUTH Jan. 1-2 — CLARKSON Jan. 8-9 — at Miami Jan. 15-16 — ST. THOMAS Jan. 22-23 — at Omaha Feb. 5-6 — COLORADO COLLEGE Feb. 12-13 — at Arizona State Feb. 19-20 — MIAMI Feb. 26-27 — at Minn. Duluth March 5-7 — NCHC first round (best of 3) March 12 — NCHC quarterfinal (No. 4 vs. No. 5 at site of No. 1) March 13 — NCHC semifinals March 20 — NCHC championship March 25-28 — NCAA regionals (Fargo) April 8-10 — NCAA Frozen Four (Washington, D.C.)

I'm sure it's a fine city. Just not one that you'd get excited about visiting for a destination game.

I just can't picture many people being excited about going to Austin for one game. Plus, UND has had a pretty bad record in these destination games lately. Hard to imagine a ton of people shelling out money to go watch one game.

Those are the type of players that can excel in college hockey. Short and fast. Speed kills. I'm assuming that he is one of the silent commits for UNO that Schloss was talking about.

I think next year's team has the potential to be more offensive than this years...certainly would help to add one elite FR recruit and at least one of the CHL dman studs that can help generate offense. But looking at the players lined up...our 3rd/4th lines should score even more. And we have most of the pieces together to have a really strong top 2 lines. Last year at this time, most wouldn't have predicted that UND would have scored as much as they did this year. Fresh off losing Boisvert, OMac, Perron, plus the senior group. But then James went +7 in goals, Strinden +7, Swanson +9, Croal +9 combined with FR Zellers 18g and Kernan 11g.

On one hand, it's hard to gauge the answers to questions asked just a few hours after your season-ending loss. On the other hand, there were quite a few questions asked about his plans for next year, and next year's PG team that he answered similarly. He also mentioned that he didn't want to join the U18 team and that he's not going to be at the draft in person. Will be interesting to see if he heads NCAA or not. Sounds like he is really close to his family and deals with their farm a lot. One advantage GF has over PG...it's about 17 hours closer to his farm.

Former UND recruit Pilgrim goes to SCSU instead.

Ian Engel ends up at NMU. Wish him the best!

I'd still take Fitzhenry, despite him not playing WHL (yet)!

Carels with 1g/1a but PG loses 3-2 in OT to Penticton. UMN recruit Kvasnicka with the OT winner for Penticton. PG season is now over. If Carels was waiting until the end of his season for visits and commitment…that clock starts soon.

Carels with the goal. PG up 1-0

I'm hoping one of these portal forwards takes off like Rickwood did this year. So consistent and reliable with steady points each night.

He said last year that he wasn't going to do that any longer. Not sure why. Maybe he didn't appreciate the MTU fans doing it back to him when Isaac Gordon re-committed back to MTU.

They don't have to be present to commit. Last season, Gibson Homer committed over a call. He mentioned that he had just watched the Spittin Chiclets video a bunch of times.

James and Rickwood both starting their pro careers well. Needed a couple of these goals against UW...

Timing could work out for a visit this week...looks like they have a few days off in between a potential game 7 (if PG wins tonight) and the next playoff round starting. If PG loses tonight, it'd be great to get a Carels official commitment sometime later this week.