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Love seeing Minnesota Duluth eat some humble pie this week

Wisconsin is officially in the tournament

Boston University's problem was they were too young and their young talent they brought in was nowhere close to as dominant of young talent as they needed

Guessing that was Michigan (Verhoeff said it came down to North Dakota and Michigan at the end of his recruitment)

It's mildly weird, but he also grew up in a boxing/MMA/UFC gym as his dad runs one in Quebec

Average age HS senior in Canada. The school year grouping is the birthyear (Jan 1-Dec 31), thus all 2008s graduate HS in 2026, all 2009s graduate in 2027. Verhoeff is in the middle

They aren't great either IMHO

Wish 247 Sports or someone equivalent actually covered NCAA Hockey Recruiting in depth. Puck Preps only does in small doses & they're hit or miss.

Literally laughed at Gophers fans saying online they'd be done as a fan if the coach & majority of the roster were Canadian. Not the first times I've read that either. Mentally insane insular tribalism from a lot of them.

Jayden Kurtz (2007, Rogers MN, Rogers HS/Chicago Steel) commits to Wisconsin

Kernan's absence was very visible on Saturday. He's surprised me all season, didn't expect him to be this solid & this NCAA ready right away

I would have had Hage, Martone, and Hrabal in there over Hughes, Trudeau, and Stavroff

F***

Some bad omissions from the Hobey Baker top 10 IMHO

The most intriguing thing here to me is how many projected returners (ex: Ziemer, Mooney, Clark) enter the portal or sign pro and how many incoming recruits (ex: Grimes, Harper, Jarvis, Humphreys, Katz, W. Cullen) decommit and go elsewhere. Gophers are only losing Lamb & L. Mittelstadt in terms of their bigger producers & have some very solid guys coming in. Will be paying attention to how it plays out.

Another Boston University departure, Gavin McCarthy signs with his hometown Sabres

It's not even leaving, it's simply moving up a level. NCAA is better than junior, you move up a level once you're ready to. Vast majority of hockey players aren't good enough to make the jump from junior to pro, the NCAA is the perfect middle ground where you can play against older, but still age appropriate competition before you make the jump to pro. Josephson may have done near zilch in the A if he just signed his ELC with the Kraken. He'll be more pro ready when he signs with the Kraken or whomever else

Correct. My inference of Pete Hughes' tweet is that the blue blood/premier programs would be willing to throw Wyttenbach a bag of NIL to get him to transfer, but nothing about Wyttenbach actually planning on leaving Quinnipiac. I expect him to be back there too

Gotta get one of Carels, Rudolph, Lin, or DuPont (presuming he's accelerated to graduate early).

Hate to say it, but Denver is so f**king clutch. Respect it

I knew Karabela had the potential to be very good, but he's really been fantastic for the Buckeyes this year

Horrific

The youth really showing tonight