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Unbelievable Also surprising Monty made such bold statements about the hit when he obviously didn't even actually know how it happened. Also surprised to hear an NCHC coach talk like such a panzy ass about a physical game.

North's coach correct? I haven't heard anything about that yet.

Denver is the new goofs

Were they In the east region for a portion of that time span? I know they've been in the west since at least 06 correct? Surprising that they haven't made it more often while being in the west. Do they get many players from valley city?

I have high hopes for them this year. I hope to see them win that fight for the #4 spot in the west. I didn't realize they had only made state 2 times since 99?!? What were the 2 years?

I completely agree about that being scary and their D core being way down this season...but just take a quick look at what south/shanley and other Fargo teams lost. And that's when they were already worse off last year. I see DL being down yes, but I see 4-5 teams being even worse off than last year too. I'm anxious to see what the new WF school will have to offer. They'll be a wildcard

Like who? One player moved to bismarck and played for BHS last season, but I've never heard anything other than that.

GFC being way down from an undefeated season should still land them in the top 3. And it's not like they're struggling to find enough players to fill out a roster.

2017-2018 Preseason Predictions (with limited research) East: 1. Red River 2. Central 3. Davies 4. Devils Lake 5. West Fargo Sheyenne 6. Grafton 7. West Fargo 8. Fargo North 9. Fargo South/Shanley I think Red River will turn the tables on Central this season. Both teams lost a lot of their top end talent, but it's no secret that both teams will reload, but RR will come out ahead. I'm sure they'll exchange loses throughout the season but ultimately RR will take back the top spot. Davies might be the only other team that will be able to skate with those 2 teams this season and they might even steal a game from one of them. Spots 4-6 will be a log jam with DL coming through with the #4 spot, but obviously Sheyenne is a big question mark at this point and could easily surprise. Maybe they'll be more in the Davies caliber. The rest of the Fargo teams and Grafton look to be in the hurt bag pretty bad this season unless they have a bunch of outstanding freshman coming in and stepping up. With the 2 GF teams rebuilding pretty heavily and 3 stronger than normal west teams coming back this season, I would expect the west to be able to push their weight around a little more again. If things develop well we could probably see a Minot or a Bismarck team in the championship game again. West: 1. Bismarck High 2. Century 3. Minot 4. Mandan 5. Jamestown 6. Dickinson 7. Bott 8. Williston 9. Hazen/Beulah (50/50 chance they play every scheduled game of the season) It's hard not to put BHS on top where they live day in and day out in the west, but this year I wouldn't be surprised if Century or Minot take it away from them. That is unless both of them lost a lot of guys early to Jr's that I don't know about? Either way, it's a safe bet having BHS on top with those unknowns. It looks to me like there will be a pack of 3 on top (minot, century and high) and a pack of 3 in the middle (mandan, jamestown and dickinson) with Bott and Williston stuck on bottom (H/B isn't relevant). I see another season with Williston and Bott only getting a handful of wins with the majority of their scoring coming against H/B. How in the hell will H/B even finish out this season? They only had 7-8 skaters last season and lost half of them to graduation. Looks like a long disaster of a season again to me, unless they cut it short. But overall I see the West being a little stronger this season and the east being down a little bit which could make for a more evenly matched state tournament like we saw 2011-2014.

If you're not forcing the opposing team's D-coordinator to get creative to try stopping you, then you're not doing your job.

Hence western Michigan sweeping Denver. I agree, it'll be a bigger test

I wonder if he can scrap like Roy

Must be because it's no where near full.

A 1/4 full silent rink?!

What happened to Cam? Fall down the bus stairs?

I'm thinking they'll get out of this Friday vs Saturday performance funk for at least one weekend and will win both games. I'm thinking the bigger of the two wins will happen on Friday night.

Where can I find highlights from this weekends series?

I'd still like to see jones on the first line. Maybe JJ as the winger. I think jones is more skilled and obviously a hell of a lot faster than Rhett, so I think he'd be the better fit to compliment gersich. I'd even like to see JJ at righty with them just because of the speed aspect on fast breaks. Not like they'd be out much with losing pogo over there right now. 1st line needs to produce, 2nd or 3rd needs to wear and tear so put pogo there.

In...con...sis....tant

Getting any offense pressure?

There he is what? Scoring or just on the ice? I'm not able to watch

I hope Guchi and Yon split the spot for the series. Brad might be able to see a silver lining in short term injuries with the forwards this year. It should alleviate some pressure of who to sit. Although, even without any injuries I think things will start pan out as the season progresses. The freshmen will start to emerge from the pack and fall from the pack depending on who transitions into college hockey the best. We all know none of them lack the skill to play, so it will all be about their ability to cope with the transition the best and the fastest.

Who will be out this weekend? Guchi sitting both games? Yon out at all? As for the D-men I think it's obvious Bast will be playing.

Hopefully Wilkie has been placing monkey's on all of his teammate's backs.

Yes, I predict he'll get his first point this weekend, but that's all he'll get. I still don't see him getting many points this season. He's a grinder and a fighter that gets a lot of the dirty work done for the team but he just isn't a true scorer (minus the penalty shot). As for Gersich- he has a lot of work to do if he's going to chase that 20 goal mark again this season. Sure he's playing hard, but we need him to step up and produce. There are other guys out there with 6 goals and 12 points already. I hope he's just been saving the goals for the conference play and then he'll open the flood gates.