AJS

I believe in all of the components to building a team that will have success. There is a level of balancing classes, leadership, upperclassman. Goes without saying certain aspects are more fun when they commit. Preaching to myself patience.

I don’t either, but like @brianvf said, really need that last F spot to be elite. Someone they hope can play on the top line. Get that and next year’s F group should be excellent.

Might be going with Top 3 / Bottom 9 strategy.

Berry isn’t the coach anymore. That would have been a once valid concern.

Offers from NDSU & SDSU

I've been consistent over the years. When it comes to recruits, my excitement is 100% in correlation with competing offers. Last year at this time, they had 5 recruits and days away from the Wunderlich commit. You'd think things would start to heat up soon. I know I followed this much closer last year, but really not sure who the main targets are right now.

I do really like the Lindberg pick-up. Perfect 3rd line F on a Championship caliber team. There's more than a handful of perfect 3rd Line F's on a championship caliber team on next years roster. Which is incredible if some of those 3rd liners are on the 4th line, not so much if they are on your 2nd line. What needs to happen? Minimum - 1 High-End F (Wiebusch, CHL first rounder), D - 1 of the remaining big 3 CHL, ideally you get 2 High-End F's, 1 remaining big 3 CHL Defenseman.

Still need 3, so I wouldn’t think this is necessarily true. Of those 3, you’re hoping for a few high-enders.

Don’t disagree. You’d think you’d need 2 portal upperclassman adds along with ideally 2 high-end CHL players. Is there only 1 high-end portal F left? After JJ who would you want from the portal before Lindberg? Magnussen?

Lindberg from CC is in. He would jump to #2 for my portal wishlist. 3rd on team in scoring. Top 6 FWD as a sophomore.

How can you improve this roster over last year? Put them in national title contender again. Higher-end Top 6, while keeping the 3rd / 4th line depth. Try to match Defense / Goaltending of this past year. Forwards. I'm not saying others cannot, but right now, you know Swanson, Reschny, Zellers are Top 6 on a title contender type of guys. Potentially Simpson as an incoming FR. In the portal is Wiebusch the only one where that's a lock as a Top-line guy? Do you feel good about Magnussen sliding into 2nd line? I think of the remaining 4 spots, you need 3 of them (either portal or CHL) to be high-end. Defense Need one of the remaining CHL big 3

I think it goes without saying that we are in a completely new era of college hockey. One year in. I'm with this take @atxsioux. I would say what worked in the past might not in the future. I think we all agree you still want a mix, different roles, some older players, but the talent level in 2x what it was two years ago.

I do think there’s some level of value you can pick up from social media, how much is up for debate. Both Carels & Belchetz liked the Reschny is returning post.

Like the Boser pickup. I think we're going to see slightly different roster construction moving forward (or I hope we do). To me, there's no point having a "designated" depth skater anymore (the 15thF, 8thD). With the increased scholarship limits (how many does UND have dedicated to hockey now?), stack the roster.

This has been my favorite post since the portal opened.

In a way a look at this as one and the same. Looking at everyone that has entered so far for UND seems pretty obvious these are by design.

100%. It's been said over and over but seems to need repeating. We don't know who wanted to leave and who essentially was pushed out. This says nothing about these guys are players or people. Strathmann / Klee / Jubenville - solid players for sure. Why I agree with @TheFlop that this would be a victory. It gives the staff room to balance the classes a bit (i.e. Portal) to go along with trying to add high-end CHLers. The question I pose isn't if Strathmann / Klee / Jubenville are good players, but do you think you can upgrade your roster at their position?

Re Potter - UND was runners up during his original recruiting process losing out to Michigan State

Gutzmer is UND’s highest rated recruit ever (per 247).

My guess is Gutzmer. Why? 360 did a retweet a few days ago, found it interesting at the time. Some heat coming from his following / followers. We’ll see. Talk about offers.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/college/hawk-watch-returns-with-und-football-recruiting-chats-with-ethan-howey-lucas-diehl-and-reid-steger

Wouldn't the statement more accurately be, a formula that hurts UND more than it hurts NDSU? If you look at the trends, the only reason NDSU is holding steady is because of their increased online presence. It feels to me like NDSU is throwing everything into the now (matching North Star program, FBS move, formula model). They need something to work (or in case formula model, hurts others more than them). If you're an NDSU alum. All eyes on Fall of 2027. Doesn't feel sustainable to pour $ into things like the North Star program and FBS move to stay stagnant in enrollment (without the dam eventually breaking). For UND. All eyes on FR classes. What you're going to see if they go up is huge FR classes (relative to SR classes) replacing small SR classes for the next 2 years. The article I'm wanting to see is "Plans for a new dorm" because of capacity issues.

To be fair, it’s people using YHH as a source. Which I don’t really follow, but I would have also thought would be accurate info. By all accounts doesn’t appear to be the case.

This was my question as well for the true FR that are entering. Seems like a really bad business decision. Completely understand once you’ve put yourself on the map. All-league type of honors. These guys weren’t even consistent starters. Very odd.

My favorite quote from the article. “This year’s endgame was unusually clean” USCHO & CHN predicting bracket integrity while Schlossman thinks location. I have not been paying attention recently as I’m still kind of blindsided by the potential to throw bracket integrity out the window. You’re Michigan and instead of getting the #8 seed, they give you a higher seed #7 who is also 2.5 hrs from the site. Seems so wild to me. I’m going w/ USCHO & CHN, emphasizing that quote.