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Wonder how many more commitment flips we see this offseason. With coaching changes, brand new recruits, guys staying, portal commits, lots of currently committed players to various schools will see that their program doesn't have room and will flip elsewhere.

There are also just teams who have had guys not perform up to a standard and teams need to improve. Lots of CCHA, Atlantic, Independent teams with brutal depth.

Guessing Clark stays in the state of Minnesota

2026 Denver is the first National Champion since 2009 Boston University to be trailing in the 3rd period of both Frozen Four games before coming back to win it all.

To be fair, Quinn Finley is a borderline elite shooter, but he's not an elite player who can get his shot off at any time. He also had a meh Frozen Four for his standards.

Goalie before them Magnus Chrona is a mediocre AHL goalie. Chrona graduates in 2023, everyone thinks, "well, Denver is probably f**ked next year". Nope, Matt Davis leads them to a National Championship. Davis graduates in 2025, everyone thinks "well, Denver is probably f**ked next year". Nope, Johnny Hicks leads them to a National Championship Denver is literally the "He can't keep getting away with this" Breaking Bad meme in real life. FFS

2022: Frozen Four Semifinal: Luke Hughes doesn't score on a partial breakaway in OT, later on, Jimmy Lambert overskates the puck coming out of the zone, Denver keeps it in, Carter Savoie scores on the rebound, Denver goes to the Championship Game & wins it. 2024: First Round: Matt Davis cramps up with UMass on the powerplay, Minutemen show zero urgency to win it with Davis not 100%, Denver kills it, then Tristan Broz OT winner 2024: Frozen Four Semifinal: Jack Harvey rings one off the right post late in regulation for Boston University, then another Tristan Broz OT winner, Denver goes to the Championship Game & wins it (Matt Davis steal) 2026: Frozen Four Semifinal: Michigan has one bad shift up 3-2 with 2:50 left, Clarke Caswell deflection ties it, Garrett Schifsky can't elevate a puck in OT that Johnny Hicks makes an incredible save on, Kent Anderson 2OT winner after the Pioneers were significantly outplayed 2026: National Championship Game: Severely outplayed for 45-50 minutes by Wisconsin, no problem, Rieger Lorenz ties it up, then Johnny Hicks monster save on Luke Osburn, Kyle Chyzowski deflection goal a few minutes later, Denver wins another National Championship. Small margins between being Dave Hakstol and David Carle. Hell, Jerry York at Boston College was Dave Hakstol before he turned into his generation's David Carle.

Wish these 3 series were replaced by Wisconsin, Michigan, & Boston College or Boston University.

Yes, but Minnesota wins the tiebreaker with 5 National Championship Game appearances & 3 National Championships, Boston University just has 3 National Championships in 3 National Championship Game appearances.

Montgomery left for the Dallas Stars in 2018, last just 1.5 years there before the alcoholism got him fired. Took some time to recover, got an assistant job with the St Louis Blues for 2 years, then got the Boston Bruins job in 2022. Carle 2018-present: 5 Frozen Fours, 3 National Championships in 8 seasons (only 7 full seasons since no 2020 NCAA Tournament due to COVID)

Hope Chyzyk has a couple fastballs up his sleeve, ready to drop next week during the portal window and/or after the CHL season ends when those guys start committing.

The fact that Colorado College hasn't made the tournament since 2011 is mind boggling

Had Buckberger committed, end of the Tony Granato Era led to him decommitting & flipping to Denver. Epperson (Mequon Wisconsin) was likely pursued hard by the Badgers but he was likely turned off by the Granato Era, committed to Michigan, was underwhelming at the NTDP, signed in the O before the rules change, CHLers then get NCAA eligibility, and he commits to Denver.

1950s: Michigan 1960s: Denver 1970s: Minnesota 1980s: North Dakota 1990s: no dynastic team, more parity 2000s: Boston College 2010s: Minnesota Duluth 2020s: Denver