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Michigan State and Minnesota*

Not always pretty, but got the dub

Shoutout to the players battling through illness right now

Much better period

Correct call, puck already past him when contact was made. Should make it the NHL rule where you get a PP if the opposing team's goaltender interference challenge fails

Subtly brilliant pass from Reschny to Zmolek, Kernan on the tip!

Worst 1st period since _______?

Terrible right now

Just don't look good 5v5 at all

Omaha looking far more desperate. Gotta pull our heads out quickly

FFS

Christ...

Solid start

Did the boys get Taylor Budge sick too? She sounds like she's fighting through it a bit on pregame

There's this weird fallacy being thrown around social media that is implying that all good Canadian CHLers were expensive to add in terms of NIL. That's completely false. A large portion, likely a 60-70% majority of Canadian CHLers that became eligible and are now in the NCAA for 2025-26, did not cost much if any to bring to campus. People just like to use NIL as a convenient excuse for not recruiting harder and better.

Ugh

2008s, 2026 Draft eligible, projected late 1st/early 2nd rounders. Schloss told me they haven't started looking at NCAA programs but that could pick up after the season. They could play another year in the Dub before going to the NCAA in 2027-28. They could sign and stay in junior and then go pro, so we'll see.

Guessing O'Neill comes in and Sanderson plays another year of junior. B. Schultz has to come in, A. Schultz we'll see with him

Exactly. I'm guessing they believed he'd be dominant in junior as a 19 year old & he hasn't been that so they wanted him back in junior for his 20 year old season and he wanted to come in. It is what it is, opens up a future spot

Essentially 2 head coaches plus a standout GM when basically no one else has a GM. Spoil of riches

Plenty of guys out of the Dub, Q, and USports for them to get, not a huge loss IMHO.

Whew!

He was skated through. Nelson didn't intentionally take him out, but he certainly didn't try his hardest to stop or not go through Ivankovic. Just my $0.02

St Thomas is certainly going to be a bigger player in recruiting battles for Minnesotans going forward, this proves it. They won't land the bigger names right away, but they'll be kicking tires earlier than most

3rd goal given up by Ivankovic was weak. He just hasn't looked as strong as he did pre injury (where Nelson accidentally on purpose ran him over).