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Wasn't able to watch on Saturday but I didn't have an issue with there being no calls Friday. (might have been a case where Western was being discrete with hooking / holding)

We’ve heard that one before haha. I’ll believe it once he’s still there in mid June. Have a hard time seeing ASU putting some quality players around him compared to what some other teams could.

While we are on the ASU topic, Cullen Potter seems like a possible flight risk to the portal. Just seems like whatever is currently going on at ASU isn’t very conducive to a good locker room

Turning the lights off after goals is JR hockey stuff. Thought that during the 2024 game at ASU when UND faced them

In past years I would be more confident in Duluth sitting back and waiting for teams like Michigan or MSU to make mistakes like they usually do in the playoffs but not sure their defense is good enough to do that this year around

Pretty sure if was just to give his legs a rest for the stretch run. Didn’t see any injury report regarding him

Will be interested to see if it’s enforced. I don’t recall the ncaa specifically calling out the use of agents / 3rd parties before? So in theory there shouldn’t be any commitments until say day 5 of the portal being open. (Granted you can just tamper and then slow play the commitment) Also not sure what they could do as punishment. A postseason ban for a year if you’re caught? Seems like since the ncaa puts on the tournament they can actually enforce that possibly?

It was pretty funny to hear Naurato mention on a recent podcast that the biggest thing that sometimes bothers him is "Negative" recruiting / people saying negative things about Michigan's program and how they run it. Then last weekend he did exactly that by more or less saying he "doesn't even know if Penn State knows what they're doing behind the bench" lol (Granted, I would agree with him on that take). And now we have Jeff Jackson's comments about him and staff poaching McGroarty. Maybe a little bit of sour grapes from Jeff though because I feel like Notre Dame was maybe starting on their downward trajectory at that point?

(clarifying for locals that have Midco) I'd assume it will be on Midco for for any game that UND is hosting at the Ralph

This team has 1 regulation loss in the calendar year of 2026. If they don't deserve a "1" seed then no team in the country does. Yes defensive play was a bit loose but that's more of an abnormal thing for this team overall this year. They also put up 10 goals on the weekend to snap out of the "mini" little offensive funk they seemed to be in.

A little disappointing that Weems and co with the NCHC weren't able to figure out a TV deal for at least a part of the playoffs. (unless we have some late breaking news upcoming) For as much as this conference has had success you need to have a TV deal to showcase your big games come playoff time. I get they were losing some money with CBS but the lost money is well worth if you try and get 1 semi final game on TV along with the championship. Big miss IMO.

NCAA basketball does this with 2 - 4 team groups at each regional usually. You can't tell me it doesn't help boost the attendance by at least a decent percentage. Bare minimum it should be an improvement on the current system.

I’m going to blindly assume they’re waiting for Bob to get let go.

Albany is such a chore to even get to. If you're flying from Forks / Fargo pretty sure its a 3 leg flight (so 10 hours worth of flights)

Saw him and Dane Jackson both follow each other though for what it's worth

Think with the CHL adding depth to almost all of college hockey you're now typically going to have a lot of quality "4 seeds" outside of that 4 seed from Atlantic hockey. That even would happen once in a while in past years, just think it will likely be the case pretty much every year now.

Beck Thoreson back in the lineup for the U-17s

2’ is kind hahah that puck looked like it was 5-10 feet wide. Like a long lag putt that you forget to read

The success in year 1 that Dane and Co has had in my head makes me think it’s makes Bob’s seat slightly hotter.

The Wisconsin collapse the past few weeks has been very wild. Hard to really pin down a major flaw for why they’ve been struggling. Maybe goal tending? They looked like a legit equal to Michigan state when they played their series before winter break. Lost whatever confidence they had during the 1st half in pretty quick fashion

Above is actually why I rooted for Denver in the 2017 title game. Was still disgusted with Duluth from the frozen faceoff championship game.

Miami seemed awesome last night. Them turning it around for this year (finally) obviously helps ASU is solid for the most part it seems

Don't think it impacts too much but this likely loses Penn State at least a couple percentage points for high end recruits in the future. Yes it probably happens everywhere but it's different when it's front page news of a random student harassing a player to that point (assuming the story is actually true).

What's the point of having Pat Brison as an agent if he can't work out handing the kid a nice lump sum to sign an NDA.

Spitball guessing but think he would likely be suspended 4 games? If so that is 2 games at Michigan and 2 home games vs Ohio state. If it would turn into 6 games that would mean he's gone for 2 games at Notre Dame. 4 of those could be pairwise killers with losses so could impact them alot.