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Perfect time for a recruit to make a commitment then lol. Sounds like UND was in heavy on Alex Command before he signed his pro deal in Sweden per yesterday’s called up Pod. Nice to see Chyz and team making pitches to the Euro guys. Something we’ve lacked in the past few years for recruiting IMO

Schloss has been eerily quiet this week… Curious if we hear some commit news today

They would have to offer something like 7-10 million per year for him to leave present day but who knows Chayka might be the one GM that would allow him control in building the team. (Making the assumption that he would be more open minded than when he was in Phoenix. Plus if you allow Carle to take more control of roster building it takes ALOT of the Toronto media heat off of him)

Helps your D out so much when your forwards aren't constantly turning it over at the blueline and feeding a team's transition going the other way. IMO that was the bigger issue at times in 2024-2025 when our defense was struggling. They had normal growing pains +++ were put into defending way too often when they never should have been from the jump

Example - Tyler Young was pretty close to being just as impactful as Eric Nilson or Cayden Lindstrom.

Looks like he’s now following a few of the Nodak boys (Sandy and Menghini)

They got that sequence a little jumbled with how they talked about but they were talking about Albert Smits actually. Rewound a couple of times to double check that lol

They also mentioned on the pod that Carter Meyer is leaving the NTDP after this year to play in the Q which will definitely be a blow. Heard a few players were leaving but naively felt it wouldn’t be any of their top players haha. Seems like they could lose a few more big ones now who knows

Xavier Villeneuve to BU very likely it sounds like per the latest called up pod. Not a huge shocker with him being a Quebec kid

If you're a BU fan with hockey being your #1 sport being kicked out of the Patriot League isn't exactly the end of the world IMO lol

Not sure if another young late 1st / 2nd rounder is what BU needs. Seems like they could use some older D+1 CHL players. They kinda got burned by the same type of player last year (Fondrk, Murtagh, Amico all come to mind as guys that should've all been in JRs last year)

If Cale Makar can play two years of college post draft year it makes me lean towards thinking Carels will be a 2 year player. Defensemen typically take longer to develop.

The con with that is the 2 vs 3 game for the most part is still going to likely have poor attendance. (granted, assuming the 1 seed wins, 2 out 3 games at the regional should be well attened)

I don't know how much more the ticket allocations should expand. The attendance at the Wisco vs UND game had 1 section for Michigan fans and 1 section for Denver fans that was very empty until halfway through the game when their fans finally started filing in. If you make the allocation larger for those lower bowl sections it's only going to get worse IMO

If you want to get college hockey on TV more often during the regular season, Bucci's idea is the best way IMO. You can sell all the top programs in a package to a TV network. The big issue IMO is the Big 10 teams likely don't break off from their current TV deal (however maybe Fox would be the ones to take on the TV rights and air the non-big ten team games on FS1, etc) Being able to flip on games consistently on Big 10 network, FS1, and FS2 would be an improvement over the current system