SpudsSioux

I wouldn't be so sure. Wife is a UND grad. I think both sets of grandparents are in Detroit Lakes area. Sometimes that's a big deal with young kids.

Looking at commitment dates, all of these committed to the U while Raboin was there: Oliver Moore, Rinzel, Snuggerud, Chesley, Knies, Broz...whether that was Motzko or Raboin, I don't know for sure, but they certainly had their share of blue chippers during that 2018-2022 run. I think if Hak is interested it's still who I would want, but I would be plenty excited with either of them.

He WAS a top assistant at a Big10 program. So you're saying if he hadn't taken on the Augustana job to prove he had what it took to be a head coach, you would be more comfortable with UND hiring him? I will tell you he came to speak at a camp in Moorhead last summer and everything I heard was that the players loved him. He also landed one of them (Bergeson) shortly after.

I'm confused by how many people think Raboin is inexperienced? Six years as an Assistant at St. Cloud,4 at Minnesota. Was widely known to be the recruiter that brought in a number of the studs that St. Cloud and Minnesota got. Only real thing he had to do to prove himself is take a Head Coaching job and he's nailed that so far. I remember when people questioned giving Carle the reins at DU having never been a HC and he was technically "less experienced" than Raboin is now. If it's not at UND, he'll be the next coach at Minnesota or St. Cloud; whichever opens first.

I don't think they can if it's external. Berry and Hak were Internal hires/promotions. The North Dakota University System makes them post for external candidates. It's supposed to be 10 days, but does allow for exceptions. Maybe they were able to get an exception to shorten it due to the portal opening the 30th, but I'm guessing they wouldn't approve of a direct hire to an external candidate.

I'm not sure this is a concern with Hak. I think he's more competitive than he is loyal. Remember he parted ways with Eades which I can't imagine was easy. By all accounts he thinks very highly of Jackson (I think tried to get him to go with to Philly and Seattle), so I'd imagine he would retain him but not so sure on the others. Also would make sense why Jackson was named the Interim.

I can’t imagine he isn’t at least being considered. Obviously has had success early as a head coach maybe more important, was the recruiter under Motzko at both SCSU and the U and brought him some incredible players.

He’s quite a bit bigger than Randklev. At least 2-3 inches taller. I think the lack of intensity/compete had a lot more to do with teams taking a wait and see approach.

Something clicked with him this year. He’s always had incredible vision and great puck skills but not the fastest and very little compete level. Fall USHL stint didn’t go well, but he’s been on a mission this season and working hard in all areas of the ice. He also looks like he’s lost a significant amount of weight, looks way stronger and more fit and much much faster.

Boisvert has been a first round pick in every mock draft I’ve seen these last couple months. The mocks are including NA and Europe.

I don't think Kuehne is eligible yet. He's a fall birthday so he's only a Sophomore I believe.

One thing I really noticed with this group is the D-corp (and forwards helping out) are not letting letting nearly the amount of backdoor one-timers and tap-ins happen. Someone this fall mentioned when they hired Simpson they wondered if he would be able to teach that awareness and sticks in the traffic areas (because he was one of the best ever at it). It sure seems like that has been a focus point. There were multiple times last weekend it looked like one was going right to a Gopher forward and our D would get a stick on it at the last second to negate it. They are still allowing too many breakaways, but it looks to me like some of those are just not being super crisp with our passing yet. Forwards get a pass picked off and a good transition team goes the other way fast. But I would think goalies would take a breakaway over a cross-ice pass to a wide open back door player any day.

After Mooney, I would think Cooper Simpson.

Sorry I may have derailed this topic with that post. I was referring to the last time I really felt like this with the current run of high-end recruits. They didn't all make it here, but that was a time I felt like for about 2 years it just seemed like we were winning every big recruiting battle.

The only other one I can really think of is the run in 2010/2011 that seemed like we were winning every college recruiting battle for the NTDP kids...only to lose them to MJ after. I've wondered before if that's why our coaching staff went a different direction for awhile. I think the later recruiting now (not being able to until their Junior year) has helped with that a bit though. If I'm remembering right, all of these were in that 2010/2011 run of Hak's: Rocco, Koules, J. Schmaltz, N. Schmaltz, JT Miller, Stephan Matteau, Voltin, Thompson, Wilkie. Lots of program kids. Some panned out, some didn't, and some were 1st round picks that never ended up on campus.