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He had a 2nd-3rd round grade pre-draft & fell to the 5th

Hopefully Duke makes the Dub and gets good enough to become a legitimate NCHC type of recruit. Even if not, hopefully he's good enough for D1 and play at Augustana in his dad's home state. Would be cool

Unsurprisingly, Sammy Nelson (2008, NTDP, 2027 Draft) commits to Notre Dame where his brothers are.

Schloss with the quick answer

Garrett Lindberg goes 2nd overall in the 2025 USHL Phase 2 Draft to Chicago. Sign that he'll go back to junior for another year and won't be in Grand Forks for 2025-26?

Depends on the player. Luke Misa is very different from Josh Zakreski. Matthew Mayich is quite different from Mazden Leslie. We'll see.

I never said that they wouldn't, but every NCAA team outside of a few like Minnesota will get much of their future rosters from each of the CHL leagues. You'll see fewer non elite NAHL, Minnesota HS, & New England Prep School types go D1. I also don't think the bottom tier USHLers will be NCAA locks anymore either. Of course, there will be fewer Canadian Junior A guys getting D1 interest too.

5 of the 6 commitments from yesterday were CHLers. The NCAA's demographics will change to even split or possibly plurality Canadian in the coming years.

NCAA route players have already avoided signing their ELC until done with their NCAA career. Not signing an ELC just pushes back RFA & UFA, which owners and GMs like. Plenty of teams are very supportive of prospects going the NCAA route and developing better instead of rushing into pro.

Don't be surprised to see the Sabres draft a CHLer this June and then "mysteriously", that player ends up at Penn State.

His Dub rights are owned by Victoria, would imagine he goes there unless he really wants to go to the USHL

Pegula money?

It has everything to do with their birthday. Porter Martone presumably graduated HS in 2024 due to his 2006 birthyear but because he's born after September 15 (the NHL Draft cut date), he had to play another season (2024-25) before being drafted. So if the rules were in effect in the past, he could have graduated HS in 2024 and then played for an NCAA program like Michigan or Penn State in his DY.

Gavin McKenna doesn't apply to your example, he's a late birthday (for NHL Draft purposes) but will already have graduated before his draft year. Same as Dylan Holloway, Kent Johnson, Owen Power, Adam Fantilli: all late birthday Canadians who graduated HS as normal, but graduated before their DY and thus went into university normally for their DY. Matthew Wood, Jonathan Toews, Mike Cammalleri, Macklin Celebrini, and Eli McKamey in the future are all examples of guys with normal birthdays who accelerated a year to graduate HS after their 16 year old season so they could play their 17 year old season (DY) in the NCAA.

McKenna will already have graduated HS. Canadian K-12 grade year grouping is Jan 1 - Dec 31, so thus all 2007s graduate HS in 2025. Celebrini fully accelerated a year to graduate HS early.

Get consistent goaltending and there's no reason why the team shouldn't be in the 7-10 range in the Pairwise

Although Marek alluded to Penn State throwing bags of NIL at various high end guys, so we'll see. Also, wouldn't be surprised to see a few teams steer Michael to the NCAA for a year if they don't think he's NHL ready: he's too good for junior and not eligible to play in the A under the current CHL-NHL Agreement, so the NCAA is the perfect one year stop to improve and work on his weaknesses before stepping into the NHL as a 19 year old.

All the scouts seem to think Mac will follow his dad's career arc of being an elite NCAA player but not elite enough to make the NHL but still have an elite minor pro/European Pro career. Although Brian Swanson would have played more in today's NHL as opposed to the clutch & grab, two line pass NHL pre 2004-05 lockout.

Swanson being moderately underwhelming was all the more justification to get Berry out of there & start anew.

I think it depends on how much he produces on the power play. Would be nice to have Swanson on one side of the power play sending cross ice sauce passes to Zellers for the one T snipe.

It's not sexy, but sometimes, the under the radar moves are better for winning. Just need one or two more elite scorers to complement those guys. Would help if Swanson takes the next step and we get a full year of consistency from James.

Will depend on who drafts Michael and what development situation they want for him. Certain teams love the NCAA route, some are meh on it, and some much prefer to sign their prospects right away & have them in training camp. Will depend on what the CHL-NHL Agreement looks like in the future and if CHLers are still barred from the A until their 20 year old season

Carle stole Mazur (Jackson Michigan) away from Michigan State. They don't win the 2022 National Championship without Mazur. Most national championship winning teams need to win at least one recruiting battle that isn't super favorable to begin, so yes, Chyzyk will need to win battles.

Agreed, Chyzyk/Jackson need to build recruiting pipelines. Hence why I've brought up needing to go hard after Cole Reschny, not only because of his talent, but also because his head coach is James Patrick. Victoria Royals to North Dakota would be a nice pipeline to establish, especially with Keaton Verhoeff upcoming