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Agreed on both. I get that moving on from Rholick might be risky but might as well give it a shot. (In his defense though, that game day atmosphere is brutal for the most part. Hard sell in recruiting I’d imagine)

Was thinking he might play as a draft eligible player as well. Will be an interesting case study because college hockey even compared to when Macklin played has gotten alot better overall. I feel like Joey isn't as put together as Macklin/Eichel were but maybe someone can correct me on that

US didn’t even play Chase Reid either which was a surprise since Canada decided to mostly play everyone. There are some players like Reschny that hate to lose on Canada but not enough + their goaltender didn’t make nearly enough saves (granted no way will he be the starter over Ivankovic. Assuming they wanted to see what they had)

Should add Keaton looked pretty solid as well. Looked very confident with the puck and was making plays . He had a little rust at moments but was great to see him playing with a little swagger

It’s summer hockey - but Reschny looked like he’s already in mid season form during this game. Just seems hyper driven right now. He put a Fin right on his ass during one of his faceoff wins. Already seems to be a step faster and stronger on the puck as well.

Watched most of the game yesterday and he was going balls out trying to make the camp roster hahah. (credit to him he's not gona leave any doubt and will make the coaching staff have a conversation about putting him on the roster) Liked his game alot - likely more of a bottom 6 guy at UND but a damn good one. Basically ran around all game trying to crush guys and then had some nice finishes (rebound goal by being around the net, nice forehand backhand finish, and then a quick snapshot for his hat trick goal). He's a pretty big kid but can move well for his size

Playing for the Calgary Hitmen in the WHL next year

Was the USA performance in the first as bad as I would guess? Being down 4 zip in the 1st is a tough way to start

In theory if you don't accept / defer your signing bonus I feel like they would have an argument Granted, not sure how many players actually feel like doing that hahah

Moral of the story - Never trust a Russian

Thing to note with goalies is there are just less spots in an organization teams will drop their prospect goalies down from the AHL to the ECHL if they aren’t playing enough in the AHL just to get the players some reps.

You're likely right but currently I don't see many that jump out looking through the lineup... (obviously as you go through a season things change) Ashton Schlutz seems like a minor risk being an original Berry recruit. Even looking through the D core I don't see any glaring flight risks

Breakdown of the Canadian WJSS roster from an NCAA view 18 out of the 32 skaters on this roster will be in NCAA for the 2026-2027 season 7 from the NCHC 6 from the Big Ten 4 from Hockey East 1 from the ECAC

Based on the timing of us likely have 1/2 top pair spots on the right side I think our odds are pretty good to land him. Alot of the other options are likely going to be full on the right side (MSU, Denver, Michigan too assuming Dupont plays 2 years of college) Even if Dupont leaves we just beat out Michigan for Keaton last spring so I feel good about us beating them again in a recruiting battle.

Would agree most of it is on him hahah. Although, think the players involved need to take some blame as well though this time around

Will be fascinating to watch how it goes for Edmonton this year + next year If it completely blows up in the next 2 years and if Babcock is a large reason why I would guess at that point McDavid will ask to be shipped out. (ironically a lot of the blame would be on McDavid for being among the players to help bring Babcock there in the first place)

Their head athletic trainer Will Morlock seems to be a big sell for them recruiting wise at least at the surface. (it seems to maybe be a bit overblown hype but who knows maybe he is that good of a trainer?) Nightingale has seemed to target the "project" type player alot recently so those types are flowing there now because a player like them just did. (IE Stramel, Mason West, Cayden Lindstrom come to mind) Personally I'm not as bummed out about missing out on those player types. Don't get as much bang for your buck it seems when they play there for 2/3 years but you only get a truly productive player for 1/2 years.

Based on Drew Daley's insta follows it seems like he's going to entertain both East coast + Western blue bloods. Not always the case with NY area kids so a bit of an exception

Pretty damn good point haha. Both crimes seem pretty similar but the punishments are far from equal.

Unless they find a solid voice to replace Tim for home play x play the job may still be his to lose. The news is officially out now so I'm sure they'll have some other voices interested in looking at the job in the next few months.

Ya that may unfortunately have been the case. The writing seemed to be on the wall but maybe Tim didn’t see it that way. If so it puts the school in a little bit of an awkward spot Thanks to Tim for everything if this is the end

I think holding kids back is more about maturity + confidence (at least hopefully that's why you're doing it) That extra year of maturity helps all throughout HS with education/sports IMO or whatever the kid ends up doing + entering college freshman year a little more mature in theory. (nothing wrong if you go the other way either everyone has their own choice)

They also had 500K free up as well for this upcoming year with no buyout money on the books. Wonder if that 500K more or less was mainly re-routed from Jax to the assistants then the private money was funneled to Dane's contract. Regardless sends an awesome message from Jax about the whole staff being valuable members of a team. Based on the reporting + results safe to say Jax has held a high standard for being tenacious with time on the road recruiting, time spent coaching, pre-scouting, etc so good to see him rewarding the staff

Wow did not expect that. If the plante family didn’t live in Duluth and have ties to them so the kids went there, hard to imagine them being much better than a 5th/6th place team yearly in the NCHC from 2025 - 2027

Grub and Boomer had some nice moments for the Northern Plains team. Still early and a ways until they get to campus but they're showing some nice signs