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To be fair, that podcast has been all over Carels to UND for months. Schloss talked about Carels quite a bit in his podcast yesterday and said Carels their top choice. It feels like it NHL or UND. I do not think he takes a visit if his mind is made up. His sister plays at Jamestown so I am sure his family wouldn’t be opposed to him coming to Grand Forks.

From like 43:00 to like 43:20 Cam Robinson said “he’d like I think” and “I think he’s expected to sign”. Definitely a little jumbled but I think they are talking about Carels but are kind of all over the place so I wouldn’t read much into it.

I’m not expecting to hear much on Carels until after the draft. The Called Up podcast made it sound like he’s expected to sign on yesterday’s podcast. Going to college eliminates the possibility of him getting sent back to PG and he still will get NHL games at the end of the year but I understand that he ultimately wants to play in the NHL. The risk of playing a season in college and joining his NHL team in the spring is very minimal.

Worst case scenario is that UND has three defenseman with world juniors experience on next year’s roster and that’s something few teams have. I would love to add one of the top uncommitted defensemen but as long as the spots are filled with quality recruits, I am content. Either way, there is a ton of talent on this roster.

Reid is committed to Michigan State. Carels would be a great fit for UND. I imagine Bryn will be doing his due diligence on DuPont and Rudolph as well. Just speculating, UND probably would have filled their defensive core already if they knew there wasn’t a good chance that they could land at least one of those guys.

Verhoeff essentially confirms he will be returning next season with his instagram post today.

“Obviously there’s a few decisions to be made this summer and see where I’ll end up for next year so I think I just kind of had to embrace that moment and hope it’s not my last, but I think that there’s a chance it might be. It’s kind of hard to take that all in, but I think I enjoyed it a lot.” Sounds like he’s not returning to Prince George.

UND has had no early signees, has gotten better in the portal, and has a pretty solid recruiting class coming in. Pretty much every team besides Michigan and Duluth has gotten gutted and is scrambling to find their replacements.

Hopefully not. On Carels, Scott Wheeler said on the CHN podcast he thinks he will commit after his CHL season ends. He is the only guy that could potentially sign, imo.

I wouldn’t expect anything on Carels for at least another week. There’s a good chance he takes a visit soon and I wouldn’t expect a decision until then.

Good catch. It must’ve been in the last couple of days. There were a few rumblings on here a few days ago and he did not follow UND hockey at that time.

I would almost add Giorgos Pantelas in that group as well. I haven’t seen a lot of talk about him going to the NCAA. He would be a nice get.

Their two best defenseman, Verhoeff and Emery, are both right handed. Laurila and Mackenzie certainly have top pairing potential, but they haven’t proven it yet. He was more so saying that top 4 LHD is more of a position of need, imo.

He is just saying the right things. He could very well return to PG, but the odds of that happening are slim.

Schloss said on his podcast this morning that UND doesn’t have any silent commitments. I wouldn’t expect any of these names to be committed unless they take a visit after the season. For reference, Ryan Lin committed about 10 days after his season ended. It’s a safe bet that he visited Denver in that time frame before officially committing.

I would argue our “fallbacks” this year would be players like Cooper Williams and Brayden Klimpke, who are returning to Saskatoon next year. Those two, production wise, are in the mix of the players in the next tier. Outside of the big four, there are only a couple of defensemen that are uncommitted with more points than Klimpke. Points obviously aren’t everything either. We will how many spots are still open when the portal closes. There’s not really any names that I would think UND would be after left but players can still enter for the next 9 days. This is a slow burn but we are slowly but surely seeing what Bryn has had cooking for the last year unravel.

https://x.com/schlossmangf/status/2044860870975431090?s=46&t=EmaKipyBO25sUSJd9yeZFQ

Walking this back. A UMass reporter inferred Denver initially but it might be Ohio State as well. More likely Ohio State. Weird fit, imo.

Rumor is Denver for Boumedienne

His instagram follows outside of BU are: UND, Ohio State, Minnesota State, and Michigan. Winnipeg Jets pick if that means anything. Follows and drafted team location do not mean anything, imo. I would support it if UND got him but I wouldn’t really care if he went elsewhere. Carels would be the preference.

Hate to see it

Livanavage and Wiebe played with him at the Spengler Cup

I like Lindberg and Wiebusch. UND has very few right handed forwards. Brock Schultz, Ashton Schultz, and Jack Kernan are the only right handed forwards we have. Both have shown they can be productive against top competition as well.

Wiebusch would certainly be a top line/top PP guy. I do not see any other remaining portal forwards making the top 6. Kasper Magnussen maybe but transfer from CCHA, AHA, and ECAC schools are so hit or miss.