The Sicatoka

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.

DU falls under my general despising of maroon and gold teams.

The better part of humor is timing.

Wilbur and Albrecht would share an accountant. https://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/39799-2024-25-university-of-north-dakota-hockey-season/page/7/#comment-1366192

Scholarships have always been one-year propositions but I understand your point.

Heil has made a rapid turn around going from SF to the US NTDP this season. And Karl worked with hiim at an international tourney. I trust KG to be the goalie whisperer. I see Hobie and Heil as the 2025-26 tandem.

And now the transcript of how UND won Semptimphelter ... KG: Bubs, TJ Semp at ASU is in the portal. Bubs: Really? Call him. < sounds of dialing > TJ: Hello? This is TJ Semp the free agent goalie. KG: Hello, this is Karl Goehring of the University of Nor.. < cut off by Semp > TJ: UND? Is the Chicklets U thing real? KG: I'm calling you from the Zero Grav bed drinking a momosa. TJ: This isn't Omaha punking me. KG: See the 701 area code on my caller ID? I swear on the Altitude Room. Want to talk to Bubs? TJ: I'm in.

I said I'd only come in as a RH D if I was playing in front of @Wilbur so there's that too.

Give me the RIT tandem (Scarfone the G and Wilkie the F) and I'm out.

That's redundant.

That variable will not require a long much less a double. Likely a short.

"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, better, stronger, faster ... "

So goes the whisper.

Truth.

Thanks @Benny Baker for finding that image. You can't tell me that knee is in a good way right now. Blake made a dumb move and got that. Much room to mature.