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The word you're looking for is: leverage. He should tell CAR "rookie max, everything" or nothing. CAR going $916k per for Morrow and SJS giving Graf $950k per tells me CAR's reputation as "frugal" (the nice word) may be accurate.

Collin Graf (Q, now SJS) got a bigger ELC than Scott Morrow (UMass, now CAR). Does CAR try to low-ball and Morrow bit? Very interesting ... https://www.capfriendly.com/players/collin-graf https://www.capfriendly.com/players/scott-morrow

So you see a "Peter Armbrust" role in his future.

Just the one ...

Perron will progress. Schmaltz can't have back-to-back stinker years, can he? Boisvert and Swanson are ready to step in. And Bubs pulled a couple rabbits out of his hat last year about this time.

If Blake is gone, keep scrubbing the portal as there's an unexpected hole in the roster.

The only way it makes sense to me is if CAR threw a rookie-max ELC at him and started his professional clock (one day closer to NHL free agency). If he stayed he could sign anywhere summer of 2025 (as he'd be four years after draft year, one USHL, three UND). CAR would not be happy losing that draft pick that way. Nothing here so far: https://www.capfriendly.com/

Stramel is former NTDP -> Nightingale effect.

- 'mack and Sacred Heart both at 4. - 258 and counting on April 4.

Every kid is different. You hope to find the ones that have goals that align to what you have to offer.

RE: comparing UMass and CC CC had the far better record against ranked and top PWR teams. Retort from UMass is "but BC and BU". And CC had quite the record against ... someone ...

What's going on at Scheels? I might be in that area needing a break later. EDIT: Found it -- https://nationals.usahockey.com/2024youthtieri15o Did we decide who TJ Hale's parents are (Ryan and Katie or David)?

Minot on line one; Greeley Colorado on line two.

You hung a slider and I got around on it.

Question: First-years normally help load/unload gear onto the bus. Yes, Zach Parise threw gear. What about new guys via the portal? Or do they come in as "upperclassmen" regarding pitchin' stank bags.

Oh my ... (per Schlossman):

Fireworks?

You can say it 1000 times but folks still don't hear: An NIL collective is a private organization and in no way directly controlled by an athletic department much less university. For example: https://1883collective.com/faq/

Fillion (to Miami) and Tellier of Q were guys I'd figured to get much interest.

A Swede like Lud scoffs at your proposed Belgian waffle makers. For him it's kringle or bust.

One more thought on goalies and the portal: Persson has a Covid year left but is going pro. Was Lud the two-year plan to get us to Heil and the plan changed, thus enter Semptimphelter for a year.

If it was the long-term not-a-solution solution I'd be against it. But I see a long-term plan forming up (Hedquist and Heil) so a rental to get there, and back to a stable recruiting pattern and rotation, is palatable. I'm guessing in about a year UND will be hard in the market for a starter capable goalie two years younger than Heil. And a puck-eater to replace Cheese.

Breakfast and pancakes or lunch/dinner and burgers? We'z gotz ta know! Glad to hear Blake moving on that leg. It looked scary.

I would point to Adam Scheel leaving after three seasons and Cam Rowe's decommitment putting ripples into the goalie recruiting pipeline as the reasons for having gone to the portal. Covid merely exacerbated it making guys available with one year left. Now that Hobie is here and appears as advertised, and Heil is a year out, things seem to be stabilizing to a two-year gap between the top two and a puck-eating practice third (any age will do).

It's all in the timing.