spfreak

I just read an article about the WHL draft (James went in the second round). He states that he has always wanted to play in the "dub." I get the sense that this is a leverage type of thing.

I actually have tickets for Friday's game. Only looking for Saturday. Thank you, though.

I'm looking to buy 3 tickets to the Saturday, December 2nd game against Western Michigan. If necessary, I would buy a 4th.

The way i understood it, Chelios committed on his visit here. However, he still wanted to take a visit to Wisconsin and Gino told him that if he was going to take that visit then Gino would not take the commitment. Chelios went on the visit and that was that.

I was in class today and someone mentioned a few South St. Paul players that had committed to play at UND starting next year. Has anyone heard about this? I am not sure if she knew exactly what I meant when I asked if they had committed.

Has anyone heard any new information on Will Butcher? Last I heard, it seemed like he had possibly visited for one of the Minnesota games. Anything come out after that?

Central is going to be tough to beat this year. I don't see any other team winning state. I think that Central will lose quite a bit of talent after this year with the seniors that they have as well as Luke Johnson possibly going to Lincoln to play juniors (just my guess on Johnson). Should be an exciting hockey season.

When he played for Red River as an 8th grader, I was thinking that he would play high school hockey through his sophomore year and then go juniors. Based on what I see of his development as a player over the past 2 years and his physical growth as well, I still believe that he probably should play juniors next year. No inside info in my guess though.

He will be staying in Grand Forks for the time being from what I have heard.

I forgot about Knochenmus. I would really like to get him. It sounds like he and Brock Nelson were a pretty good duo in the Summer Elite League. I like that he has a gritty side.

I'm hoping for Grimaldi as well. I am trying to keep from getting my hopes up too much, however.

I am pretty sure that the ship had sailed by now on getting Ebert to come here, but seeing that he went 17th in the OHL draft it would seem that he won't be playing college hockey. Has anyone heard anything regarding him and any chance of playing college hockey lately?

I read that Poulin is looking at schools out east most likely. I haven't heard us as being a possibility.

On Brad Schlossman's twitter, it says that he believes that the commitment that the women's team got is Michelle Karvinen, one of the leading scorers on the Finnish Olympic team this year. She is 20 so I am guessing that she will be coming in 2010. I googled her and found that she is facebook friends with fighting sioux women's hockey so that would seem like a bit of confirmation of her commitment.

She won't be coming until 2011. I know that there is another goalie that will be coming in next year but I don't recall her name.

I don't know if he is number 6. To me he isn't but that is just me. He has really improved from last year. As far as I am concerned, you can never have too many good defensemen in case injuries happen such as this year.

I would be surprised if Blood were around for his senior year. IMO he is far and away our number one d man with Genoway out of the lineup and keeps getting better. I think he will be around next year but definitely not the year after.

The Force would have to trade for his rights as they belong to the Lincoln Stars. I am guessing that he will play two more years of high school and then go to juniors for two or three.

The last Sioux recruit to have accelerated was Toews. Hopefully St. Clair can be half the player that Jonathan was while he played here. Either way, a very exciting pickup. I wonder what the details as to the reason for this are? I don't believe Guentzel would have played a part in recruiting him to CC as he was at The U of M when St. Clair committed. As I recall, St. Clair was either 14 or had just turned 15 when he committed so maybe he was another one where he made the decision and changed his mind as he matured.

I haven't looked through to see if anyone has posted anything about it but when do they mail the season tickets out for hockey?

Actually Luke Johnson is just finishing 8th grade.

I'm thinking that's a Brooks. Speaking of that, does anyone know where I can find a tape of that fight?

Wisco

I am hoping that we can get Haula. He looks very good to me. Fallstrom is good as well but has indeed committed to Harvard. Haula is only a junior.

Farrell doesn't play for the prep team as far as I could tell. The shots after two periods were 38-4 in facor of Shattuck. The score was 10-0. So, in short, that would be a no to the goalie getting tested. I would say two or three of the shots were point shots without screens that went into the S on his jersey. I just looked through all of the Shattuck rosters and didn't see Farrell on any of them. Does anyone know what team he plays for? I figured that it was the U16 team but that isn't the case as far as the roster says.