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Wouldn’t be surprised at all if yall are battling it out with Wisco for 3rd in the big 10 and hell if some breaks go Minny’s way who knows maybe even compete for top 2. Not as likely but never know with injuries + hockey can be random as we all know.

We were the only school possibly in the mix that has a 1st round pick on the right side that we'd have to push down to the 3rd pair / play on their off side. Put us behind the eight ball compared to MSU and Michigan unfortunately. Just how the timing worked out with who was in our system heading into next year. Think the staff was upfront about if he was coming here the ice time was going to be pretty spread out and that likely took us out of the running.

Agreed - He was the one player that came to mind that will be solid for them. The fan "conspiracy" take would be that Freschwieler is preoccupied with possibly interviewing with the Kings in LA...

Western has been woefully quiet in recruiting it seems like but Pat will find a way like he typically does.

Pridham struggled quite a bit during the OHL playoffs from what I heard on the Athletic pod. Had a couple of games where it sounded like he was getting 5 minutes per game because he wasn't effective whatsoever. Based on that report not very bummed about missing out on him. (Now Command and Lars Steiner I'm a little bummed about, but the staff pursued them but they signed pro deals. It happens)

Always felt like Michigan would be the favorite for Dupont, not a huge shocker. They have the wide open spot at 1RHD that other schools don't really. The one shocker from Scott's article is that Cameron Reid apparently hasn't committed to a school yet. (Jeff Marek had said he was going to Michigan a few months ago but maybe that fell through?)

If we can hit on Brock England / Fitz Henry + swing Brock Cripps as well at RHD the Ruck Twins could end up being gravy on top lol. Wishful thinking but hopefully comes to fruition

Remember seeing Cole Smith posted up at Joe Blacks a few times back in the day, so based on that will guess him

Scott Wheeler had a write up about them and they were honest with NHL teams that if it worked out the preference would be to play together. Obviously you can pick your path in the NCAA so I’d be very shocked if they weren’t a package deal

Yeah I'd say he's definitely just not trying to hurt any feelings on the situation. Think alot of these reporters are either clueless or just trying to put him in a tough spot with their questioning. A little odd that his coach is doing the same thing by throwing the idea out there that he could be back. Trying to put a 17 year old kid in a weird spot like that is a tough look hahah.

Little interesting in that Tommy Bleyl seems pretty comparable to Daxon Rudolph so a little weird that MSU isn't just bringing in Tommy Bleyl. Wonder if they go that route if they miss out on Rudolph

The intent + spirit of the rule when they made it was so you couldn’t cherry pick 5+ feet past the blueline for offense lol. Not nitpick if someone’s was 5 centimeters offside

If you want to get into technicalities to sue I don’t believe any hockey players were on the panel that voted for this (there were other athletes tho in general for other sports. So “technically” was not collectively bargained. Thats my amateur guess of how someone in the hockey community could attempt to sue

Ya i think bare minimum a fair compromise would be the committee re-emphasizes ref calls it at their discretion. It’s slowly ramped up imo where I’ve definitely seen teams do it when they are hemmed in their zone. only issue is the refs don’t want to affect the game so they’ll avoid calling it

General rule roughly seems to be the guys that are fringe 1st rounds and lower by now you would have guessed would have committed They don’t really need the input as much from the team that drafts them because that input will be pretty straightforward. Play college if you think you’re ready, if not play a year of juniors then head to college for a couple years until you’re pro ready.