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This is an excellent take. Face offs extremely important and are amplified when you get into the one and done where zone puck possession is so key in the outcomes of games. I think there will be a real battle for the center roles on this year's squad.

I just can't get over the Varland trade. Talk about stupid stupid. Alan Roden and Kendry Rojas for one of the best relievers in baseball. That would be like the Twins being able to trade Matt Wallner for a top tier 8th inning guy.....And he's not even making a million bucks this year. Just a devastatingly horrific trade.

And another one today. Feel for the team, but this will be the norm all year long unfortunately.

So did I miss the official announcement on Sandy not coming back?

I think today is probably your look ahead to what we are in for most of the year. A good six inning start for Bradley, you have a two run lead late, but you have zero shut down relievers and you lose the game. Another good start for Bradley though.

Emilio Pagan back in Minnesota for the weekend.....Never forget..... I don't know what was worse, his late game collapses or Rocco continuing to put him out there for late game collapses.

Right. There have been a few players previously who I will not mention who have worn letters but should have been given a suit for Friday night performances or their body of work over a previous weekend. I think Jax and company are above that one......at least I hope they are.

Exactly. At Ohio state there are football players who make more in a week than the entire hockey team for an entire year.

Fixed your post.

I was talking to Carter Krier who does a lot of work over the summer with local goaltenders in the metro and he made it seem that unless its public knowledge (Penn State 750K) that what we think kids get in NIL is a lot less than it actually is.

With Herter and that d-core I've got Western in the top four. I thought Soller was coming in next year, but he must only be a junior school wise turning 18 in August. I think its a toss up between UND-Denver-Duluth, but I'll never sleep on Fersch and what he's able to get out of his teams. Will see if Hicks is able to be Matty Davis 2.0 and build on one remarkable season after another. Way too early opinion on life in the NCHC next year. 1. UND-Green Glasses. Finally got a Norwegian on the team. Last time we had one of those we made the regional in Fargo. 2. Duluth-Plante(s) and company. Can Sandy win a league regular season championship? Carl Axelsson a great goaltending recruit. 3. Denver-Carle and company. Likely in the F4 with the regional in Colorado again, regardless of their seed. 4. Western-Miller Time in the Zoo. Lost some points at the top, but they'll be fine. I'm high on Adam Benak. Elite playmaker. 5. St. Thomas-just missed out on the NCAA tournament last season. I think they sneak into the top 5 with an experienced guy like Musser. 6. Miami-Baby steps, and terrific goaltending. Still surprised that kid didn't sign. 7. SCSU-See how the new regime under Nick Oliver starts off. Some fresh faces into the fold as well. 8. CC-Latvian kid is the leading returning scorer on a team that had 259 points collectively. For reference UND, Denver, and Western were around 400 each. Only Omaha had less. 9. ASU-Complete roster rebuild..... 10. Omaha-Life after Simon. Jubenville could end up on the top pair. Seriously. You can tell I, along with David Carle, put a lot of stock in goaltending.

Couldn't agree more. There should honestly be three of them. One with us (weekly/bi-weekly?), then player advisors, and lastly parents. Our main goal here is accountability. And nattys.

Sounds like Kasper will be announced shortly to UND, at least thats what twitter thinks. I'll wait around and see what Brad Schlossman Tyler Young reports.

And again....we head to the 9th inning ahead 6-0. Chris Atteberry noted that the Twins have hit and run more this year then they did all of last year.

I've enjoyed them getting away from Rocco ball. Stagnant baseball, and the only aggressiveness we saw was getting pitchers out of the game as early as possible. Watching them just peck away at teams and make some pretty good pitchers look average has been refreshing.

Completely agree. He's a lot like Jackson Blake where they aren't play in your end and ride out a 3-2 lead guys while abandoning the forecheck. I thought he was Michigan's best player in their game against Denver.

First western Nodak kid to play at UND in 20 plus years. Left Minot right at about Bantam age and went down to Phoenix. I thought he was really good with the Fargo Force in two seasons there. Initially a Miami commit before he took his talents to ASU. Of note, he was only -2 last year on a team that wasn't great with some injuries they encountered.

If true I'm surprised.

Boser to UND.....per X.

For years I was told that putting the ball in play and singling teams to death wasn't winning baseball....

Schloss with Juby headed to Omaha. He will get to play a ton of minutes there.

A guy wonders aloud without truly ever knowing the number of kids that were given their walking papers in their year end evals. I mean a kid like Engel for UND for sure due to the numbers game. I'm sure a few more of the gopher kids with the new regime coming in.

If Shelton finishes .500 with this bullpen he's the manager of the year.

The Littler one is upsetting as a big kid would've been huge as a bottom 6 grind line guy with a nose for the hard areas.

Only two kind of surprises to me are Klee and Strathman as both would of had roles and played a good amount of minutes this next season. Wonder if Engel will now take his game to a D3 as initially anticipated.