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Landon Parker with a nice start to his season at EGF, 2-1-3 in 2 games. Was the Bantam Elite League MVP last year. MN Hockey hub has him as a 9th grader, is that correct? Netural Zone has him as a Jan 1st, 2002 DOB, is that correct? Those two don't really mesh, early '02 / late '01 would normally be a sophomore. Looking at the college hockey landscape, a lot of 02's have been going off the board. Minnesota is now at 7, 02's or younger. Would like to see UND get Parker / Cole Shepard locked up in the '02 category.

I'm in the same boat, big difference between players UND is actively recruiting and a list of good hockey players.

That's how I read it.

Hope Berry is putting on the full court press, think he could be a very good college hockey player.

This isn't necessarily meant to be a shot at Cam even though it'll sound like one, but 50% of the games he's played were against basically the two worst teams in the country. That'll help anyone's numbers. Played great against Minnesota and is the guy this year, but like when comparing records, the opponent needs to be taken into account.

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Although I stand by my comment and trust the coaching staff, I do find this commitment a little odd. The reasoning is as follows. 2018 Freshman Class Keane (F) Hain (F) Senden (F) Mattson (F) Weatherby (F) Tychonick (D) Scheel (G) Replacing 3 Senior Forwards, Gornall, Gersich (Early), Wolanin (Early), C. Johnson 2019 Freshman Class Donovan (F) Costello (F) Caulfield (F) Blaisdell (F) Bernard-Docker (D) Replacing Jones, Gardner, JJ, Mismash (Early), Shaw 2020 Freshman Class Kleven (D) Reid (D) Frisch (D) Mancinelli (F) Pinto (F) Replacing Poolman, Johnson, Peski, Smith, Hoff, Bowen, Yon 2021 Freshman Class Bowen (F) Kunz (F) They basically have 2018 / 2019 Freshman Class full. I could see possibly pushing Costello back to 2020 (that would be 3 full years of juniors though) to make room for Rizzo. So, I'm pretty much saying that ship has sailed with Rizzo. Now I don't see how you'd have room for Randklev from Moorhead, unless you push Costello back. This was just a long post saying the coaching staff must really, really like Pinto, since he's taking one of the few spots left. Side note: That 2019 class is stacked, that 2020 Defensive Class is ridiculous too

This over and over, the reaction was ridiculous. Per Schlossman's article, he'll be playing for Lincoln next year, which will be his Senior year in HS, how about we see how he does there before we jump to conclusions.

He's a November '00 birth date, so he'd only be a junior in HS.

I'll sum up my feelings on both games in this post. They definitely weren't as sharp as they could be on Friday, but overall, I didn't think they looked that bad. It reminded me of a game that would end their season in March / April. Outplay their opponent, but just can't bury the puck. In fact, I thought they had much better opportunities on Friday than Saturday. This year, I'll still say they've only had two games where I thought they played terrible (1) St. Lawrence Saturday (2) CC Friday, these two games wouldn't go under that category. The tie on Saturday was important, I just think we can mark this weekend up to (1) Opponents goalie > UND's goalie (2) No puck luck -- I actually thought Thome played well on Saturday, but Friday was the first time since Thome has been in, when I thought having Cam play might have made a difference. UND proved last weekend that they can play with and beat the best, now they just have to work on consistency.

This is well said, I can get on the same page that although I don't think it was a major, I can see why it was called a major. My overall problem with Saturday wasn't any one call in particular, but them collectively. Probably will never see another game called like it.

This is my thought as well, it's a shame Plant got hurt, but that's not a 5 minute major.

Important non-conference series (like they all are), need a sweep. Union looks to be Ok, but UND can't really afford any non-conference losses.

Berry took the high road, like you'd expect him to do, but does anyone one else wish he would have taken a strong stance and really questioned what happened on Saturday? I wouldn't feel this way if Motzko hadn't the week before. If Berry has the same type of comments Motzko did, two different coaches, two different weeks, that puts a lot of eyes on how games are called in Denver.

I won't quote @The Sicatoka entire post, but just one part. "So you're telling me in 2+ periods of hockey DU never slashed, never took a step into a guy's open skating lane, never gave a little tug with the stick blade on a hip, never left a stick in a guys feet staggering him, never grabbed on a bit too hard or a bit too long along the boards. In today's college hockey." I've said I don't think there were any phantom calls against UND, but when I talk about "unique" and never have seen anything like it, above has a lot to do with it. Matching up minors is the worst, so I'm far from that, but never have I seen every call go one way. Not only every call go one way, but never have I seen a situation where one team has 4 or 5 calls go against them in a row and the refs are calling questionable (not blatant // not Wolanin's, that was) calls on that team.

I've watched a lot of UND hockey and Saturday's game and how it was called was unique. I don't know if I've ever seen anything like it. Didn't watch the St. Cloud series, but have never heard Motzko react the way he did before. Fair or not, I wonder if you'll start to hear rumblings from opposing teams (you now have two) about the trip to Denver. Like I mentioned in my post above, Montgomery's tirades work, no doubt, he has the refs in his back pocket. I'm very interested to see and I'll pay close attention to how games are called going forward in Denver.

This year the offense was average and the defense was well below average. Reasons for optimism: O-Line have solid returners, many were freshman / sophomores this year RB's Legitimate depth at QB CB's will be greatly improved - Harris / Holm are an excellent starting pair, Blubaugh / Hunt / Carter will give this unit incredible depth Rogers / Larson / Cam will be a great ILB group RS Freshman D-Line mixed with Tank / Cieslak / Bennett

BCHL Stats: Blaisdell '01 (F): 4-10-14 22GP Keane '97 (F): 4-6-10 17GP Weatherby '98 (F): 21-15-36 24GP Tychonick '00 (D): 5-14-19 22GP Reid '01 (D): 1-8-9 19GP Scheel '99 (G): 8-5-0-2 2.19 GAA .928 SV% USHL Stats: Senden '98 (F): 4-3-7 16GP Mattson '98 (F): 5-3-8 15GP Mancinelli '01 (F): 1-1-2 13GP Costello '00 (F): 3-1-4 14GP AJHL Stats: Bernard-Docker '00 (D): 6-7-13 21GP NTDP -18: Hain '00 (F): 3-7-10 18GP NTDP -17: Caulfield '01 (F): 8-7-15 17GP

My observations from the weekend: Overall, very solid showing, they proved they can compete with the best in the country. This team does have incredible depth and they can roll 4 lines so effectively, Denver has elite players and it showed on the power play. Referee's were terrible, Saturday they had a direct effect on the game which should never happen. I wouldn't say there were any phantom calls, but Smith's "major" is the one that really drove me nuts. You can't call a major just because a guy gets hurt (guy who clearly came back too early from his injury). My big problem was I've never seen so many 50 / 50 calls all go one way. Couple questionable calls, the 5 minute major, disallowed goal. It was like a Denver fan was controlling the refs. Montgomery is an absolute clown. His tirades work no doubt as far as influencing the referees, but I'd be embarrassed if Berry carried himself the way Monty does. I soured on him after last season and they way he carried himself with the Florida job and the influence on players returning, ect. It was all true, but his arrogance was incredible.

The NCHC twitter account said that all 4 series are on NCHC.tv, why wouldn't it be? Games that are on FSN are still on NCHC.tv, only home games that aren't, will be the CBS Sports games.

This take is strictly from reading the Wisconsin recruiting thread on USCHO and their thoughts on Cruikshank, but I would be thrilled if he ended up at UND. Sounded like Wisconsin wanted him, but offered him less money than Cruikshank was expecting, so that's why he didn't sign. Scouting report is great skater that can score.

Everyone knows to take these rankings with a pretty large grain of salt, but I did like what they had to say in their write up. "has improved dramatically in the past three years. He has size, soft hands and excellent protection. He has the skill and ability to get pucks to the net and score in tight. Earned A at @bchllive Showcase." Hopefully he is a late bloomer that is starting to but it together.

5 The Weatherby one is strange, 4.75 is really, really high.

Here were our last 4 before Weatherby.

Given the Weatherby commitment yesterday, this would make more sense. I'm all about the #'s, right now we have 5 coming in next year (Forwards) with 5 openings (Gersich, Gornall, Seniors).