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I've heard some pretty legit criticisms of Roobroeck's compete level so far this year so UND may have strayed away from him. Think it was Pronman with the Athletic that had mentioned if he doesn't kick it up he could fall out the first round completely.

Based on the US NTDP (u-18s at least) being down at the moment quite a few of them likely need a year of JRs before heading to college. Obviously in reality that’s not gona happen for many of them

Based on the scouting write ups and highlights he seems to have some Caggiula qualities to his game. Sign me up all day for a player like that.

Technically they'd be young class wise but present day based on the current players you projected, the only 18 year old they would have on the blueline is Verhoeff. (And fortunately he's got the poise of a Senior/JR + as we all know likely a top 5 draft pick) 20 yo Soph - 18 yo Soph 20 yo Fresh - JR JR - 19 yo Fresh I think that mix makes it acceptable to possibly bring in 2 new CHL recruits on the backend if they want to.

Thinking back to then I have a hard time seeing this current staff missing the details about his issues during recruitment. Especially with Bryn being around rinks constantly now, think news like that makes its way around.

Think it’s likely that Dalton Andrew is our designated “cut” player. I wouldn’t be surprised if BC has at least one player designated. Not sure if they were already at 26 at the time when they were going after Carboneau? I know Michigan has 1 roster slot left open as well according to Naurato on the CHN pod the other week

I think in general most teams won’t want to rush him and will want him to fine tune his skating. Bottom 4 are Buffalo, Nashville, St. Louis, and Calgary right now. Could see that realistically being the worst 4. I’d wager that each of those teams will want him to go back for 1 more year vs him leaving after his freshman year

Think from an evaluation standpoint you would want players naturally ending up wherever they are drafted (not based on being US or Canadian). In my mind it's easier to scout that way in lieu of the alternative where you don't know if the US talent is down for a couple years or vice versa if Canadian talent is down?

Thing to note for the future Hockey Canada will be bringing their final roster selections to a training camp that starts Friday 12/12. (UND plays Omaha 12/12 and 12/13) So definitely a chance that Verhoeff and Reschny could be gone for the Omaha series at home if they are selected. https://www.sportsnet.ca/world-juniors/article/hockey-canada-makes-major-changes-to-world-junior-camp/

Bob seems a little unorganized with how he’s structuring his future classes etc. Just seems like the current state of college hockey has passed him by. I think most blue bloods like us and them can get away easier with firing a coach and retaining the future talent. (It’s over hyped by the media that firing a coach is THAT detrimental) I just don’t see the future being nearly as good as that spurt with Cooley, knies, Faber, etc. Better to rip the band aid off sooner than later.

A little interested to see how many undersized players this staff will go after in recruiting. I think they'll be okay with a couple on the roster as long as the player shows good compete in battles etc.

If I’m a coach with some pressure on me like Bob, I just don’t understand the rationale for not going after a couple of players from the CHL. To give some credit to the big 10 I don’t know how the Gophers can expect to be competitive while a lot of their peers went out to get a CHL players to improve their own rosters. I don’t think below .500 is out of the question for them, so he’s really going to have his ass in the jackpot if that happens

From watching the highlights of them vs the Gophers I have a hard timing seeing our PK look as passive as the gophers did last weekend. Hopefully we minimize time in the box overall but I think we'll fare better from a PK perspective. I don't think its crazy to say we're the best team by a good margin that Duluth will have played this year as well. We've had some growing pains the past couple of weekends but based on last Saturday (yes it's just 1 game) we applied some good lessons learned with how they defended. Think that's what alot of us have griped about the past few years is not seeing enough improvement to show the team is actually learning from past mistakes. IMO we saw that last Saturday. It'll likely be a split but if this team goes out and makes a statement with 2 wins I won't be surprised either.

Granted Guy Gadowski has reasons to be rolling his top 2 lines but I do think its a benefit to be a team thats typically trying to roll 4 lines like we appear to be so far this year. Pretty sure neither of those players are suited to play penalty kill based on those minute totals too so not the smartest roster building from Gadowsky and Co.

Think the biggest takeaway from last night is the team was willing to sacrifice some offense to go out and find a way to win a pretty meaningful game from the pairwise perspective. Considering the group of forwards being relatively young they overall did a good job of picking their spots with dumping the puck and forechecking the hell out of their D vs when they realized they had a transition opportunity and could carry the puck.

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That’s an awarded goal all day every day Didn’t see it but sounded like Dane was (rightfully so) hot about it not being called

Props to Michigan they actually look pretty legit that was an impressive win This is kind of how I viewed Western pretty much every year until last year. Solid team but never really considered them a threat against contending teams in the top 10. Will be interesting to see how the next few years shape up for them

Before the year I didn't think it would be a conversation between McKenna and Verhoeff going number 1 Unless things drastically change it'll definitely be a discussion once this summer hits IMO

In similar news - Noticed last night that Aden Bouchard and Ludovic Pearault now follow UND hockey on instagram.

Agreed, don’t envy what he’s had to go through the past few months. (Guessing) that all 3 of the coaches have likely sat down with him this week to make sure he’s doing alright mentally as a person first before even getting to hockey.

The NCHC app not being on samsung TV's app store yet is pretty frustrating as well while we're at it

I think they’re gona be a little offensively challenged maybe this year. They seem to not have too much depth outside of Potter and a couple others Did see a group of their fans don’t seem to be opposed to moving on from Powers (it’s a cool story that he’s the coach from the club team. But on the flip side he’s a club hockey coach) would be interesting to see who they bring in if they moved on from him.

Good catch. He definitely has a grounded family that isn’t concerned with him making it to the show as fast as possible

That would check out with Michigan. I'd like to almost throw BC in that group too. It has to be 20 years+ since they've come to Grand Forks? We visited them last during the "Fog" game in Boston. (I'm not counting the ice breaker in my view because they're coming more for the tournament since they got invited, not because they went out of their way to work out a scheduled visit with UND)