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@stoneySIOUX we each got six and each got one conference all correct … and the tie breaker is being in on time! Better luck next year!

My thought was Pyke and Pehrson are bigger than Farmer and Sidorski were.

Looking at what left and what is coming in, did the team get bigger?

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Welcome to the 2023 game. The rules are the same as 2017 and 2018 and 2019 and 2021 and 2022. (2020 was an outlier year): pick six (6) forwards pick four (4) defensemen straight POINTS, not goals, POINTS (G + A) scored by your ten players in the four rounds to the Cup determines winner no more than five (5) players from a single NHL team on your team Teams must be in before first playoff puck drop. I'll need help scoring the game. Thanks to everyone in advance.

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@brianvfI'd honestly only claim 7D for now until Strathmann is official one way or the other. Also, Albrecht, Persson, Jamernik, Gaber, and Ness each have two seasons of play yet remaining. By eligibility they'd be "Jr". (They all played the 2020-21 year which doesn't count and 'never happened'.)

Warren (BC) looks like he's backfilling Pehrson's spot at Michigan. Now I'm curious.

I told someone "eight D, three G, and we kept just one of eleven" and the "one" is the third string goalie. They. Didn't. Believe. Me.

It's only April.

That's Komzak, but he'll be 21 in the fall. How about instead a Coloradan who'll be 24 and his brother is in the forward pipeline?

As happy as I am about Pehrson/Pyke/Zmolek I want to make sure the freshmen get time to grow and take over later.

Has Zmolek's hip been tested in contact yet? That's the other open question. Hence the 16F/9D question.

Bubs-winkle may have pulled a defense corps out of his hat!

One more D is mandatory to get to 8D and 26-man roster (right now guessing it's not Strathmann and he plays one more USHL year). Now the question: If they run 27-man roster is it 16F or 9D?

I see two rocks (Pyke, Pehrson) a step right in guy with one question -- will the hip hold up four freshmen most teams would beg for Find an insurance policy eighth guy and I'll sleep pretty well for the first time in a couple weeks.

I wonder who Pehrson knows already.

I'd say this (Pehrson) is a signal Strathmann is staying USHL one more season. Go find a 7/8 RHD that has some experience and be done.

Pehrson only has one season left. He fills a need very, very well (RH, defensive, experienced, used to playing with younger guys who'll make coverage errors). A year from now Pyke and Pehrson will both be done.

Big, experienced RH D used to playing with and covering for exuberant youthful defensemen who may make coverage mistakes. ... CHECK!

It's his "Covid" season. I'm willing to bet Michigan's pipeline and dollars didn't support him staying.

Monster get.

So we have Persson and now Pehrson ... Hennessy might go nuts. Pehrson is a monster get.