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Merry Recruiting Christmas & Good Morning to all! Hope to see some bat signals from Chyzyk soon

SGC seems like a Denver lean. Utah kid

Not disagreeing with ya there. Gotta balance your roster with an elite plan every year. There's a reason why Denver has won 5 National Championships since Minnesota won their last.

Assuming DuPont does go NCAA, I'd be quite surprised if he doesn't end up at Denver, North Dakota, or Michigan. Maybe Michigan State, Boston College, Boston University, Penn State make a serious push for him, but I really think it's one of the 3 I mentioned.

If DuPont commits to UND, Chyzyk needs to tweet a picture of this for the bat signal precursor:

Considering that goalies at 17, 18, 19 years old are complete projections & most are wildly guessing on pro potential, most 15 year old goalies are even bigger unknowns. They'd have to put up godly numbers in minor/HS/Prep hockey to really be on the radar of the mainstream

Nope. He's been eligible to commit since last year. He's (essentially) Canadian as he grew up in Saskatchewan & all Canadian 2008s graduate HS in 2026. IIRC, Beuker & his advisor/family wanted to take a measured, patient approach about where to commit for the NCAA.

Of the NTDP 2008s, the only uncommitted players are Wyatt Cullen (likely to commit to Michigan State on August 1), Luke Carrithers (not a great goalie), Brady Knowling (not a great goalie), and Dayne Beuker. Everyone else of that NTDP team has committed now.

2025 August 1 Recruiting: Top 10 Europeans from Schloss

As Schloss mentioned, his brother Wilson Bjorck is committed to Colorado College. Imagine Viggo, a likely top 10-15 pick, ends up at Colorado College. Would be wild

The great thing now is that there really aren't any excuses to have down recruiting cycles. Talent pool is huge and North Dakota has tons of advantages in Western Canada. There's pressure knowing you have to hit home runs in recruiting every year, but you love having that high standard. New staff is poised to have a big August 1 cycle.

Letang wasn't anywhere close to the progression point of becoming Letang when he was 16. DuPont's floor is Letang, his ceiling is just below Makar IMHO.

Tyler Martyniuk (2008) commits to Michigan State. Solid defensive defenseman who should be a 3-4 year guy for State.

2025 August 1 Recruiting: Top 20 Canadians from Schloss

This should be 80% of the commits for the average cycle, would like to see Chyzyk & Jackson break through in Ontario, get some solid players from Illinois, California, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Jersey when possible. I think New Englanders will be extremely hard to ever get as first time recruits since their cultural ties are to the Hockey East programs for the most part.

There aren't enough further right conservatives who care about hockey to really push for it. And it would get thrown out in court anyway IMHO. More high end Canadians (from the CHL) in the NCAA is better for the sport. Too many mediocre NAHL guys littered throughout the NCAA, especially in the CCHA & Atlantic, it's very underwhelming.

Really interested to see which Canadian 2009s commit on August 1. Brock Cripps (WHL, Prince Albert Raiders) has always been intriguing to me, supposed to be pretty high end.

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If they watch hockey, I'd assume so. I know there are some Gophers loyalists on the Moorhead side of the border. And the locals there obviously tend to obsess about NDSU Football. Off topic, but I wonder how many "reversible jacket" fans there are in North Dakota, in terms of oddballs who are North Dakota Hockey, North Dakota State Football fans, considering UND has been the hockey standard in the NCAA until recently, NDSU doesn't have hockey, & NDSU Football is the FCS football standard. Like I wonder if Kleven, Strinden, etc down in Fargo liked both or if they were UND all the way for everything growing up.

Notre Dame likes recruiting Minnesotans, especially the prestige/academically inclined. They'll get a few MN kids in this cycle most likely

Carels was rumored, but obviously his ETA is 2026 at the earliest.

North Dakota was at 10 or outside of the top 10 until Reschny committed. Absolutely monstrous late addition to boost the ranking into the top 5.

Very worried Zimmerman commits to Minnesota

Fitzhenry only follows 2 programs on Instagram: Minnesota & Michigan. Certainly not the biggest indicator, but it still is an indicator of current/recent past interest.

Those guys have proven track records of elite junior production & they're older. They're worth the investment. All of these 15/16 year olds coming out of minor hockey, HS, Prep, too much projection to have to do. Need a junior sample size IMHO