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If Ravensbergen doesn't go NCAA, he and his advisor are dumb. CHL straight to pro goalies is almost always a bad idea

Meghan Chayka is her name. Buccigross is weird

It depends on how well he produces.

One of the Canadian teams I hate the least, that's fine with me

Braeden Cootes goes to Vancouver at 15. Another guy I'd love at UND. Would be the perfect NCAA player IMHO

Outside of the occasional few, Boston College hasn't gone after many high end Canadians, but I expect that to change some. Wisconsin's athletic department doesn't seem to care enough about hockey anymore to really go for it, plus Hastings favors the older gritty veterans which is reflected by his recruiting strategies. Minnesota isn't a serious threat for high end Canadian CHLers until proven otherwise as I always mention. Agree on everyone else: Denver, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Boston University will be serious threats. I also think Arizona State will be lurking and going after high end CHLers, with the ability to land a few here and there, they're a sleeper wild card for me. Ohio State doesn't care enough about hockey to make serious pushes for elite guys, Notre Dame will get more moving forward but not a ton. Could see them having big time appeal for the Catholic/academic/prestige minded CHL families and get some commits that way, as they have with Edina and Maple Grove kids.

Spence, Mews, Ivankovic are all blue chippers that they already got to be fair. I am wondering how many draft eligible OHLers will just sign pro shortly after this weekend and forego the NCAA (which would be foolish for most of them IMHO). Michigan is facing stiffer competition now that Michigan State has their s*** together and elevated back into a power since Nightingale took over, and Penn State is going for it now with their NIL budget + Frozen Four run momentum, not to mention the normal competition for elite OHLers that Boston University will always give the maize and blue.

Procyszyn is still unsigned, thus still NCAA eligible. Definitely the type I'd guess Michigan, Michigan State, Western Michigan, Penn State, Boston University, & likely more out east would be targeting. Definitely a good guy to keep on our radar. Very possible that Procyszyn was considering the NCAA route coming out of minor hockey, so thus it's very possible that Chyzyk was scouting him to try to bring him in for Waterloo in the USHL.

I should have stated that many of my targets wouldn't be for this year specifically and should go back to junior for another year before coming in. Fiddler, Behm, Lafreniere, Bear all need another year for different reasons.

Any of Braeden Cootes, Ben Kindel, Roger McQueen, Carter Bear, Cameron Schmidt, Lynden Lakovic, Blake Fiddler, Nathan Behm, Tommy Lafreniere from the Dub. Not convinced any of the high enders from the O or Q will be going to North Dakota until proven otherwise.

Thoughts on the (potential) effects: 1. Not every USHLer will be a near guarantee to play NCAA D1 Hockey. 2. Far fewer Minnesota HS, New England Prep School, NAHL, Canadian Junior A (BCHL, OJHL, AJHL, SJHL, MJHL, CCHL) players will make it to NCAA D1 Hockey 3. The NCAA will likely go from a 61% US, 29% Canadian, 10% European (Source: NCAA Scoring Leaders 2024-2025) split to closer to a 45% US, 45% Canadian, 10% European split. Unlikely to have the majority of NCAA players be from the States anymore. 4. Nearly every non elite player will get deferred back to junior a year or two, considering the player pool has expanded by ~1600 and it is now easier than ever to bring new recruits in. 5. Far more (potential) 4 & 5 star talents in the game coming from the CHL. Minor hockey across Canada still produces a ton of elite players that the NCAA hasn't seen enough of due to the old rules.

Hoping most teams steer uncommitted CHLers to the NCAA after they draft em. Just would be better for those players' development and great for NCAA Hockey

Miami loses their top recruit to the K

Selfishly, I hope he gets drafted by a US team

Some of the high end guys will struggle with the adjustment, no doubt about that. There are fairly high end older CHLers coming into the NCAA next year that I'm really interested to see how they do: Oliver Tulk at Wisconsin, Shea Van Olm at Penn State, and even Josh Zakreski at North Dakota; I believe they should do very well right off the bat. 18 year olds like Cole Reschny are talented enough to be able to adjust very quickly and produce at a well above average rate. Some will struggle of course, I tend to think of the high end talent level of many Canadian CHLers as high enough to overcome challenges in the NCAA.

A lot of the 2009 born Canadian CHLers will commit to NCAA programs pretty quickly in this new world. Some will wait, and some will just go the straight to pro route.

Agreed, but you do need high end guys on every team. I'm not convinced Minnesota is going to go after & get (m)any high end, Canadian CHLers until proven otherwise.

Ryan Lin, Liam & Markus Ruck, Chase Harrington, Daxon Rudolph, Mathis Preston are all names I'd add for my wish list.

For all intents & purposes, until North Dakota gets high end commits from the O and the Q, I'm not going to expect them to pull OHLers and QMJHLers at all. The Dub is the one major junior league I expect that UND will grab several players every recruiting cycle, many of them 4/5 star types. So if none of the uncommitted like Kindel, Cootes, McQueen, Lakovic, Schmidt, Behm, Ravensbergen end up at UND (whether it be because they signed ELCs right away or end up at other NCAA schools like Denver or Michigan), then I'll be quite concerned. Not super worried right now because they added Reschny, Verhoeff, & Zakreski for this season and Williams for the season after.

That's a quality addition IMHO

Yep. You're seeing Colorado College and Bowling Green do very good work recruiting the Dub already. No, they haven't gotten any blue chip 5 star types, but they've gotten several that should be very solid 3-4 year guys that help build NCAA Tournament teams and potentially make a deeper run.

I personally think every team in the league other than maybe Edmonton is very comfortable about their guys going the NCAA route. And even Edmonton is fine with the NCAA route, they just don't like Americans, they'll take NCAA route Canadians and Europeans. What NHL teams don't like is when NCAA prospects don't develop quickly enough to sign with 2-3 years and then the allure of going back for their 4th year (removed from being drafted) to potentially run out the clock to UFA. This is why Carolina got Jackson Blake signed after his 2nd year at UND, since he was drafted in 2021, spent his D+1 in the USHL, & then D+2 & D+3 in the NCAA, he only needed one more year to become August 15 UFA eligible. NHL teams are only fine with their prospects getting to 4 years removed if they have the guarantee from those guys that they will sign immediately following the conclusion of their 4th year.

Denver is the wild card team that I think can still make a couple big moves. They have the ability/space to do so, and the prospect of playing for an elite head coach & motivator has a definite allure.

Chyzyk saying that several kids wanted to wait until after the draft to make a decision about NCAA (or not), so I guess we just wait for next week to see how the dominoes fall. And the hockey world will have to wait till mid to late July about McKenna

Wonder if that rumor about a potential car versus pedestrian accident that I keep seeing hints about on Twitter had anything to do with it. Or if the possibility of West playing football cooled any interest Motzko & the Gophers had.