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Man, what an all-time steal for us. They can have Tychonick all day; give me Stecher 10/10 times.

Idk what you all think, but is anyone else imagining D pairings without Zmolek in the lineup? I find myself doing that simply because he seems destined for injuries. I feel bad for the guy, but something just tells me we won’t have his services for the entire season. If we have him on the regular, that’d mean an embarrassment of riches because then we have 3 really solid RHD every night. If we don’t land another potent forward, it still seems like our back end will be able to more than carry their weight.

Strongly add BU to the list of schools I'd like to see clipped early on.

We have to start actually coming close to winning the trophy if we want dibs on that kind of name haha. Winning it once in 11 years plus playing only one other championship game has been tough.

He makes it clear that he’s in no rush to make the jump to professional hockey until his game is rounded out. Seems pretty mature with a good head on his shoulders. Thankfully it looks like we could have him for at least 2 years, especially since he’s smaller than most guys in the big show.

Was he on anybody’s radar?? Other than the penguins, of course.

Duluth is going to be much better this year. Max Plante will be healthy and I’m guessing will be in the running for NCHC forward of the year. They were young and inconsistent last year but last year’s freshmen have high upside. I’m leaning st cloud finishing last

Seems like he’s going to be a great 4-year diamond in the rough player who will be a Swiss Army knife. Will be fun to see him as a junior and senior

I haven't followed the CHL to this point in any way, shape, or form so I'm wondering if someone on here knows which of those 3 leagues is considered the strongest? Or if it changes each season? Anyone that's followed it over the years have any insight?

Yes he had 7 goals but he had 116 shots which was about 25 more than the next closest person on his team. He’s the kid schloss mentioned a while back that based on shot location and opportunity should have had a lot more goals than what he got. Kind of the opposite of what the saves above expected goals allowed stat(I know that “what if” stats are just that but it’s still a noteworthy analytic). He’s a right handed wing with a high upside that that loves to shoot and with a better surrounding cast would likely be a 15+ scorer for UND this coming year. But it’s all moot haha but being #1 player on your team with a bunch of your friends at a school and city you already enjoy isn’t a bad decision for him when it’s the difference between being the #6 forward in a new place

I was disappointed to read the Gordon news because with how much he shoots, I think he would have been top 3 in goal scoring on our team this year, probably 10-20 goals if chemistry evolved. Especially when you could be surrounding by some of the offensive potential we have this year. Wondering if we see Kernan end up playing on the right wing instead of center at times with us being so weak over there. But all of this may be moot if it is just a signal that we have another solid recruit coming in and none of us know it.

We have ourselves a good problem coming up this season. Because it's hard to push Jubenvill out of the lineup with how great he was defensively. Doesn't bring the offensive upside that Liv, Wiebe, Strathmann, and Laurila do, but he can be one of the shutdown guys on the left side. It's going to be an absolute battle for D playing time this year. Love it.

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That doesn’t mean he won’t require some acclimation (amount of time needed is TBD) at the next level.

I’m guessing he starts out 3rd pair for a while and will get elevated once he’s figured out how fast and heavy NCAA and NCHC can be. If he were a 17-year old forward that would be a different animal because he could into top 6 very quickly. But being a young defenseman in the NCHC is rough and even though he’s got the size for it he will need some adjustment time.

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Great list. There have been times where UMD has been much closer 2nd and maybe even 1st for a while around 2017-2021 but that was temporary. I think with how much Omaha and St Cloud fans hate us and allow us to live rent-free in their heads makes it really fun to beat them.

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Gophers won’t be as good as they were this year but they will be as good as us if not better when we play them. Still built to make the tourney. Have a solid D returning and Phillips coming on D. Offense will have Lamb and Ziemer returning. Grabbed what appears to be a good goalie from the portal. Plus with their big 10 money they may still pull a rabbit out of their hat to snag a player. Just because they lost studs doesn’t mean they will be slim pickings

Remember that one time we were ranked 6th preseason and didn’t even make the tournament? Oh wait that was last year

That combined with him working on his foot speed should allow us to see the Mac we were hoping for.

I think it’s brilliant. Those teams might take some lumps early on bringing in lower end CHL guys. But they are building pathways and connections to those programs and coaches that might give them the inside tracks to get better guys later on. Maybe it won’t be the super high end players, but they may end up snagging those diamond in the rough or late bloomer players that make a bigtime impact in college.

TJ played incredible the last 5-6 weeks, no doube about it. Leading up to that, Hobie and TJ had 2 very different leashes from the staff because it's safe to say TJ wasn't doing anything special for us the first half of the season. That being said we only got to see an hour of gametime for him each weekend so clearly the staff was seeing stuff in practice we aren't privy to. Either way, once Hobie is given the chance to take over consistently, he's going to succeed.

Cullen potter might have something to say about the fastest player argument but that’s not to say James isn’t one of the fastest

Haha. Thankfully we’ve got him until he experiences January in the red River valley. That’s when we should worry