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If Zellers goes in the 2nd/3rd round, he has to come in the fall right? Hopefully Berry learned his lesson on the Shattuck guys with Scott Morrow. If he's ready, bring him in.

I wonder what his expectations were coming into this year. It was very clear that he would be battling to get in the lineup all year. Strinden isn't coming out, Kunz is progressing, and Albrecht is a veteran presence that brings a predictable game. I didn't see a single flash the entire year from Emerson that told me he was getting slighted in the least. If anything, he looked more and more like the clear cut bottom forward on the team (behind Ness and Montgomery). Just my opinion, but I thought he would've brought much more to the table this year as an older freshman that just put up over a point/game in the USHL.

You're forgetting Keith McInnis too. If he has a bounce back year, I could see him being a 3rd round guy potentially.

I sure hope not. Why would he play three years in Junior A and then make the jump after his draft year? It's not like the pandemic forced him down here as the WHL wasn't shutdown like other Major Junior leagues. If he does jump, it makes the Spicer situation that much worse.

I was thinking about this as well regarding James. As good of a season that he is having, does he step right in next year in a Top-9 role?

I'm pretty sure Gaber has scored as many points in a weekend as Ryder Donovan has in his NCAA career. Tough to speak to his situation, but potentially dodged a bullet there. No question this stings. Would he have helped next year? Probably not much. 2, 3, 4 years down the road? He definitely had the potential and pedigree to be a top of the lineup player as an upperclassman.

Hopefully he comes back soon. Him and Caulfield have been very underwhelming thus far after I expected them both to take the next step.

This appears to be a big get. Tough for a sophomore to play in the USHL, let alone put up 0.5 PPG as a defenseman. Good size too.

Wonder what the reason was. Maybe he sees all of these other recruits jumping him and foresees a lack of playing time. Happens a lot with these early commits, especially the larger forwards who dominate at lower levels due to physical maturity.

What he was saying is those forwarding requests could be because people were moving from one burrough to another, and staying in the NYC metro. The further breakdown would tell us if they moved from NYC to outside of the metro area at a higher rate than usual due to the pandemic.

You would think that Major Junior would have similar problems as the NCAA. There are several Major Junior teams located in the United States. What do you do with those teams if the United States doesn't allow sports but Canada does? So many hurdles left for everyone still.

I don't think it is a bad idea bringing in all of Sanderson, Kleven, Moore, and Miller next year. As it stands now, only Sanderson will be thrust into a prominent top-4 role to begin the season. The others can be sheltered and brought up to speed as they develop. Going into 21-22 and beyond, this will definitely be a big plus, especially with how Berry has been recruiting dmen lately.

Goal scorer, undersized, undrafted, great junior career. Ryan Duncan anyone?

Definitely agree. Keep them at their best positions until someone emerges that can replace them. Weatherby might not get as many 5on5 minutes as the top two lines, but he will definitely be on PP, probably be on the PK, and late in the third down a goal he is getting elevated to play with Pinto on the second line.

I definitely agree, but who does he replace as a center? Adams was very effective on the top line, Pinto is obvious, and Senden is too good as a shutdown center. To maximize the playing time of our top players while still utilizing their strengths, I think one option is to move Adams back to wing and use Pinto and Weatherby as the top 6 centers. Adams - Weatherby - Kawaguchi Mismash - Pinto - Gaber Hain - Senden - Ness Rizzo - Blaisdell - Caulfield Once again, way too much talent on the 4th line. What a problem to have....

My post was referring to the 21-22 season. I'd say there is almost 0% change JBD would return for his senior season, so there is no one coming in at his expense. He is arguably ready now, imagine what he'll be a year from now.

I don't know if it'd be such a bad thing for Miller, Moore, Kleven, and Frisch to each play 20-25 games and rotate on the 3rd pair. Injuries are inevitable. Kiersted and Bast will be seniors, JBD most assuredly will leave after next year (if not this year, fingers crossed). Going into 21-22 season, you'd have: Sanderson (So.) - Miller (So.) Kleven (So.) - Frisch (Jr.) Moore (So.) - Morrow (Fr.) Extras: L. Bast (Fr.), TBD (probably a C. Johnson/Rieger type replacement) That is a lot of youth in the lineup even with Miller and Moore coming next year. If they both defer til the fall of 2021, UND will probably have to ice 3 rookie dman every night in 2021.

They hold their rights for 4 years from draft day, or until after they leave college, the quote I put was from the NHL draft site and their are literally hundreds of examples of the scenario occurring where a drafted player plays a year of juniors after getting drafted and then plays 4 years of college. NHL teams will hold your rights until Aug. 15 after your last year of college, at which point you'd become a free agent.

"A team has the rights of an NCAA player until 30 days after the player leaves the college." Think Danny Kristo, Mark MacMillan, etc. Players that played a year of juniors after being drafted, and then 4 years with UND. 5 years after being drafted, the NHL team that drafted them still holds their rights until the summer after leaving UND.

I'd almost see: Sanderson-JBD Kiersted-Bast Kleven-Frisch A good mix of experience and talent on each pair. The top two are basically interchangeable, both very good 2-way pairings. Kleven-Frisch could get some easier matchups as they further develop. Could be a heck of a pairing in the second half of next year.

Why only two years? Once enrolled, they won't lose his NHL rights until he leaves UND.

Both Kawaguchi and Perunovich were juniors this year.

Where was the confirmation that JBD is coming back? I don't have a subsciption to the Herald, so I apologize if it was in one of the articles posted today.

Mismash - Adams - Kawaguchi Blaisdell - Pinto - Gaber Rizzo - Weatherby - Caulfield Hain - Senden - Ness I'm pretty close with you what you had. I know Gaber will be an older freshman, but his G/GP this year in the USHL was .72 , compared to .61 for Brock Boeser's last year in the USHL. Kid can score. The center depth on next year's team will be pretty ridiculous. I can see Weatherby being moved up with Pinto similar to some of the last few games of this year just to get him on the ice more.

Not an early departure.