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If I had to bet on a school in Utah to go D1 first it would be BYU (basing it on Ryan Smith being an ultra wealthy alum, just bought the Utah NHL team and seems to genuinely like hockey, plus believe he’s already providing a good chunk of NIL to BYU)

Nice to hear that Jax and Co seemed to go all out to re-invigorate the summer pro camp. Think it's huge to have that presence around current players to help keep passing down culture and expectations to new/current players. And for the players that have pro aspirations, I'd assume they love to have current pros around to bounce questions off of.

Ya think based on ticketmaster they aren't opening the upper bowl.

Bummer, was hoping they'd go with the same font as the jerseys

Nehring could be a guy to help fill that void from Bump for WMU, wish we could've landed him back in the day recruiting. (I think that's why it's fair to applaud the coaching staff for locking down Grubb and Penner, because for whatever reason the past regime either missed out on landing Nehring or didn't think he was worth recruiting) Not sure if he was a late bloomer? He was a horse for WMU last year though especially considering he was a freshman.

Definitely a pipe dream but Kentucky and Louisville would be some fun additions to the NCHC. Would work nicely in a 4 team pod with Miami and WMU

Granted - spicer and Panzer were "young" recruits back before the rule changed I believe so a little bit different of a situation.

I'd assume with Penner being a July birthdate that there's a good chance he'll play 2 years of junior

True, granted Wassilyn would be the same situation (underaged who had to accelerate education)

Apparently BU may bring Wassilyn in early this year. (Doing that instead of bringing in Tynan Lawrence would be insane IMO) Bet Bryn and Dane will be hot on the phone to check in with Lawrence’s advisor if BU actually pulls the trigger on it. Maybe it sits fine with Lawrence but wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t either

Looking back at it Hankinson did really well during the "timeout" game. He described the emotion turn of that to a T while it happened (which seems pretty hard to do considering it's your alma mater) Ben Clymer along with being shamelessly biased, just sucks overall. Sounds like an all time snob the way he talks.

If this causes Motzko to get extended for a couple more years I'm not sure if I'd be too angry about that hahah.

Ya Jake got to be pretty good at it after he had some time behind the mic. Scanlan (don't blame him based on just being up there in age) cant really come close to matching Jake's enthusiasm. A little curious how much longer they have Scanlan doing color...

Definitely wouldn't bet on it, but curious if TNT / HBO streaming would maybe be someone the NCHC is talking to. Obviously have the NHL now and they are doing more sports streaming as well.

Saw a recent tweet from Cam Robinson that he allegedly hasn't had any contact yet with NCAA schools. Is the Michigan commitment a silent one?

Could be off but I was assuming Verhoeff was the one that got the big NIL offer (assuming it was from Michigan since he visited there along with UND)

Likely that Chris Peters is just throwing names out there but definitely is nice to hear Nodak mentioned by him for Dupont

Kinda like losing JT Miller in July before school starts...

For the St Thomas vs UND game at the X. Trying to get some tickets but not 100% sure what side UND will be shooting at twice? Not sure if anyone has already asked the ticket office? Looked back at the Gopher games the past few years and noticed they actually take the Wild's "Home" bench. But not sure UND can pigeon toss St. Thomas to the away bench like the Gophers did hahah. The bench names on ticketmaster dont align with the "St Thomas attacks twice" notice when you hover over a ticket....

Wait so they changed the high stick rule for goals back down to the crossbar height? (shoulder height seemed alot easier for everyone + the refs to determine IMO)

Swanson may be a possible flight risk if this season doesn’t go too well for him individually. (Granted if he struggles this year not too sure how big of a loss it would end up being in the grand scheme of things.)

Western Canadians don't really seem like the type to go to Notre Dame so I think thankfully they wont be in the picture on those recruits. Looks like they'll be more of a player on the US recruits though definitely (Having an older super structured pseudo lame duck coach gone now probably fully opens the door for Sheahan a little more too)

If they grand fathered in Dalton Andrew as a “cut” player they would only be at 25 players + 1 to get to 26 once Engel joins

Agreed. That mindset makes it interesting to see where Swanson fills in this year. Don’t see his skating getting much better so he’ll have to make up for it big time with compete level and valuing the puck in the o-zone.

Unfortunately don't think they could make Thursday and Saturday work because they're too close together to book travel etc for the championship game on Saturday