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Karsen Dorwart of Michigan State signed with the Philadelphia Flyers yesterday.

Colin Ralph (St Cloud State, 2024 St Louis Blues 2nd rounder) in the portal.

I always thought James would stay because he needs one more year before entering pro, especially with Grand Rapids being deep enough where Detroit might not offer him an ELC this year.

So we'll revisit this in 365 days and make our assessment of how dumb/smart that was

Livanavage back for 2025-26!

Gotta leverage the connection with James Patrick (Victoria Royals head coach) to get some high end Dub guys. Cole Reschny is the likely 2025 1st rounder on the Royals I'd really want. Hopefully Dane has Patrick's number.

Hopefully Simpson knows how to recruit, especially the elite top end guys. He's Canadian, his dad is one of the most recognizable hockey color commentators in North America and is connected to most notable hockey people in Canada. Use these connections to land some elite CHLers. Or he gets axed and we get a whole new staff of assistants.

Kinda meh until we get in season sample size on how this goes. Time for Dane to retain the current roster as much as possible and hit some recruiting home runs in recruiting/portal this offseason.

If Perron is gone (like rumors are indicating), you hope Zellers more than replaces that production and then they get a scorer out of the portal or a last minute higher end CHL add.

Wondering if the coaching change will make high end CHLers a bit more hesitant to go to UND for the next year or two. Also, Carter Bear might not be fully healthy for much of if not all of 2025-26 with the partial Achilles tear.

Interesting. Coaches never seemed to use him properly. If true, wonder if he'll take off under Naurato or not. Whitelaw didn't but that's partially a product of Michigan being mediocre af.

Wonder where Western Michigan would have been in the Pairwise with just two adequate goalies instead of Slukynsky and Rowe

Wood was a nice get for Minnesota despite his 2nd half of the season being underwhelming. Although I think he approached Motzko more than anything, he wanted to go there since his dad was a Gophers women's assistant back in the day. Collin Graf was a nice get for Quinnipiac out of Union back in 2022.

Crazy how 2 great NCAA goaltenders saw their draft stock fall because they played for the bleepshow that is the Omaha Lancers. Hrabal and Yegorov are damn good, interested to see how they do in the years to come at UMass & BU respectively and then for Utah and New Jersey.

You talk to this player at a bar, restaurant, or elsewhere?

Apparently they didn't want Nehring either

Link?

I don't hate their program necessarily. I think their fans who think the roster should be 100% Minnesotan (despite the fact they haven't won a national title since 2003 and their last 2 national titles don't happen without Thomas Vanek (Austria) and Grant Potulny (North Dakota) are dumb as hell, stuck in the past, and have their heads in the sand. The Gophers two best players in recent memory are from Pennsylvania and Arizona, at least IMHO, as they were better than Faber

Schmaltz and Ausmus were both on the team during DJ's tenure as an assistant, they both love the guy

Eisele to Minnesota or Wisconsin makes a ton of sense if he's in the portal tomorrow.

Wood likely to sign later today with Nashville per Friedman

Ferschweiler seems like a great motivator and a great tactical coach. Hope the next UND coach can do both as well.

Josh Zakreski 2 goals in Game 1 of Portland's first round series against Prince George

While we knew Snuggerud was going to sign and Rinzel was fairly likely, kinda surprised about Moore. Regardless, 3 huge blows so far to the Goofers

Denver plays such straightforward speed game, their guys can fly. Carle does such a great job there, gotta tip your cap