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It's USports, and they had to fill a roster after most of their team from last year left via graduation/portal, so that was the strategy they went with. The regular NCAA portal was pretty weak for them to be able to get guys to fill voids. I don't think they were going to be a top team in conference regardless.

UNO isn't all USports guys, many are directly out of the CHL like Luke Woodworth, Marcus Nguyen, Spencer Sova, Dawson Cowan

Not that surprised, Minnesota Duluth's forward group is below average outside of their 1st line

Good win for the RedHawks

Assuming relatively low overall impact for a small sample in conference, but you could be right

Wisconsin dropping further into bubble territory in the NPI with tonight's disastrous loss at Minnesota

Pathetic effort from Wisconsin so far, 3-1 Minnesota right now in the 3rd. Fraudulent Badgers team, have some shame Hastings

3-1 Minnesota

2-1 Minnesota

Minnesota ties it, 1-1

Wisconsin 1 Minnesota 0 in the 1st

3-0 Boston College

Boston College up 2-0 on Boston University. Eagles look way better than they did a few months ago

The best route for most players in my opinion is to go from the CHL to the NCAA before turning pro. Only a handful can make the jump straight from junior to pro, it's a massive jump to play in the A at 19 or 20 years old coming out of junior. The NCAA is the perfect middle ground to play against older players, but not 30 year olds

Would be very surprised if DuPont is at North Dakota next year tbh

I think the problem for Boston University is that their roster has one A+ elite talent (Hutson), while the A level talents (Boisvert & Eiserman) as well as the A-/B+ talents have been underwhelming. If you're young AND not dominant, plus shakier goaltending from Yegorov this season, you're going to struggle, which they have. I overrated them, thought their talent would click a lot faster

When I say "light it up', I generally mean over point per game type of production, especially as a younger aged player. Pilgrim can certainly be a solid contributor (as Josephson is right now), but his junior production as an 18 & 19 year old doesn't suggest that he'll be a dominant, light it up, NCAA producer. That is more of my point.

I'm doing my own personal statistical projection with the stats I have. I don't think that's offensive

Is he willing to play another year of junior next year? He might have to

Time goes on and it just seems like Tennessee State won't happen for next year (or awhile, if ever) unless they get significant donations. Budget shortfall killing TSU right now

Nick Angell basically insinuated on that podcast that Minnesota's hockey NIL collective just wants to follow all of the rules and not do whatever it takes to pay guys. That's going to hurt their ability to pay higher profile recruits even a moderate amount, especially Canadians. So the Gophers haven't been creative with either their recruiting or their NIL. No surprise they're 41st in the NPI

Correct, Terry Pegula is a Northeastern Pennsylvania native who went to Penn State, made a ton of money in oil/natural gas, bought the nearby Sabres & Bills, and then funded the move to D1 for Penn State Hockey with the new arena. Basically, most schools need a big donor to make the move to D1