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Congrats to Cooper on being a finalist. Guessing that Pelletier gets it (more goals and points), but Simpson should be a good one next season. Adding another guy that can snipe is always a plus.

Wonder if WI losing Finley and Montgomery helps steer Wiebusch their way. Certainly can't hurt with them having a couple lineup spots opening up.

He's a big boy, for sure. 6-5 and he's still only 18yo. Goal scorer, scores over 1/2 gpg in the OHL. Will go top 10-15 in the draft this year. Similar to Carels in that he follows/likes posts related to UND on socials.

Next year could be sweet. Two Schultz Two Lindberg Two Ruck

Imagine if Strinden could have continued his torrid goal scoring run that he had in the early/mid this season? He was lights out for like a month there and then only scored 4 goals the entire 2nd half.

Zellers - Reschny - X Swanson - X - Simpson Josephson - Kernan - Zakreski Menghini - Croal - Schultz Ex - Schultz, X, X Wiebusch, Magnussen, Lindberg from the portal would all be good. Ruck twins, Belchetz from CHL, also a guy like Zakreski (more unheralded) would be great for lower lines.

I'd settle for Wiebusch and Ruck twins for top 9, then Magnussen for lower. Haha. That would be a crazy stacked group.

Four open forward spots right now. Would be great to get 2-3 high end guys that can compete for roles in the top 9 and at least one older experienced guy out of the portal that can crush a lower line spot. Similar to what Young provided to the team this year.

Yeah there will be no end to the number of talented players that UND will be able to pick up out of the CHL and portal.

Sucks for sure. Strathmann is a guy that probably could be on a pp unit somewhere. But that opportunity wasn't going to come this year at UND. But possibly for his SR season. Klee and Littler...would have been great to hang onto at least one of them. They would have had a chance to develop into great 3-4 yr players here. We'll see what the staff can get in. Feels like this is gonna be a never-ending cycle (not just for UND, but for all teams now). The chances of getting someone like Dylan James who sticks around for all four years (and is talented enough to go elsewhere) are pretty low these days.

Looks like Klee to ND and Littler to UST

If Fitz is wanting to play on a line with Zellers, we better hope that Will wants to stay thru his JR season.

Would be crazy to possibly drop the goalie that just led you to the national title game. But I get it. Hauser didn't look that great during the regionals.

Updated Commit Stats as of Apr 13: WHL and USHL playoffs both underway Great start to the USHL playoffs for A.Schultz Heil has been lights out for Madison in the playoffs Forwards B. Schultz (USHL Sioux Falls) - '05: 59gp - 24g/22a A. Schultz (USHL Sioux City) - '06: 49gp - 17g/25a // PO 2gp 2-2-4 Sanderson (USHL Muskegon) - '07: 54gp - 17g/17a // PO 2gp 1-0-1 Simpson (USHL Youngstown) - '07: 61gp - 34g/40a Jundt (WHL Calgary) - '08: 62gp - 12g/10a // PO 7gp 1-0-1 Williams (WHL Saskatoon) - '08: 66gp - 23g/34a // PO 9gp 2-3-5 DeMars (WHL Penticton) - '09: 50gp - 6g/7a // PO 4gp 0-0-0 Grubb (SSM 18U Prep) - '09: 51gp - 13g/27a // PO 6gp 3-3-6 McKamey (WHL Victoria) - '09: 48gp - 6g/11a Defensemen MacKenzie (WHL Edmonton) - '06: 59gp - 22g/36a // PO 7gp 1-2-3 Klimpke (WHL Saskatoon) - '07: 68gp - 4g/42a // PO 9gp 1-3-4 Lindberg (USHL Fargo) - '07: 57gp - 6g/18a Penner (USHL Fargo) - '08: 33gp - 0g/1a Scott (U17 NTDP) - '09: 53gp - 1g/10a Thoreson (U17 NTDP) - '09: 23gp - 0g/4a Goalies Heil (USHL Madison) - '06: 41gp - 2.34 / .905 (24-13-3) // PO 2gp 2-0-0 0.99 / .968

Seems like the UND Hockey account is releasing returners slowly. Their account did Reschny yesterday...then Emery today. Wonder if Schloss is doing an article after each of those confirmations? If that's the case, hopefully we hear on Zellers in the next day or so.

Would be funny if Hicks losing his magical touch next season.

Yeah I'd imagine he'd want to discuss with whatever team drafts him before making any official statement. I can't imagine a team wanting him to sign right away...one more NCAA year would do wonders for him.

Highest point total forward currently in the portal goes to ASU. Will be interesting to see how his Union game translates to NCHC.

Don't see that everyday.

Hall is a nice pickup for UMD. Prob won't get as much playing time as SCSU with the Plante bros getting 28min/gm. I didn't see that if that was mentioned. Schloss list still has him as uncommitted.

The posts with the upcoming non-conf schedules are in this thread...just got buried a bit (on page 5).

They don't want to get hit with that $1k fine.

For a more defensive dman, that can be a good thing that he didn't stand out. I'll take a local kid that's willing to do the dirty work to help his team win. Will be interesting to see the last couple dman pieces to see where he'll slot into the lineup.

I'm interested to see where both Klee and Littler end up and where they slot into their new teams lineup. I doubt they were "pushed out" here, but they certainly would have had a spot on the 3rd/4th line.

JJ would be a great snag for sure. I just assumed he was heading to WI being from there. But getting a proven goal scorer from a tough conference would be great.