Fratt Mattin

No. He was playing well before that and I don't blame him for not knowing you could get 5 for that. I'm still shocked

"Gooning it up" is a bit of a stretch

Ridiculous. This sport has gone ultra soft

I think the Kempf criticisms have been overblown. For a 19 year old playing behind a mediocre team in a tough conference, he hasn't been bad. He's obviously no Trey Augustine though. Will be a big adjustment in net for the Americans this year

I miss the WDAZ days

This is a bigger problem than it seems. I can remember more than a few recruits over the years who have said that they got interested in the program by watching TTD. Given that our facilities remain one of our biggest attractions to potential recruits, I think it's a huge mistake not doing more behind the scenes stuff and letting people see just how comfortably our players live. A lot more programs have their own behind the scenes shows now as well, so even if just putting out glorified highlight reels was good enough at one time, it certainly isn't anymore

Looks about right

If the rumors about Carels being a near lock to commit are true, then we could have a real logjam at LD. That would be Laurila, Strathmann, Jubenvill, MacKenzie, and Carels all vying for time there. Even if Jubenvill transfers, I wonder if we see Laurila play his offside. I know he did that a lot in Fargo

I think Wiebe is probably the most likely departure, followed by Livanavage. Verhoeff will depend a lot on who drafts him and how pro ready he looks in the second half. Right now he looks like he needs another year, but that could change fast. I imagine Emery will play one more year to keep rounding out his offensive game, but you never know. Jubenvill is probably gone to the portal unless he starts seeing more playing time. Let's just assume Wiebe and Livanavage go pro and Jubenvill hits the portal. Then your d-core for next year looks like this right now: Laurila-Verhoeff MacKenzie-Emery Strathmann-Lindberg Extras: Engel, ?, ? If they added two of the names mentioned above, it would be a very talented group, but also a pretty young and inexperienced one. I wonder if they would look at adding only one more freshman recruit and then getting a vet out of the portal to balance things out.

I think back to Sanderson and how he looked good, but not great until the last few months of his freshman year. When you remember that Verhoeff is a full year younger than Sanderson was, I think it really puts into perspective how well he is doing with the adjustment to college

One thing that I think a lot of evaluators are underrating with Verhoeff is his age. He's not just a 17 year old freshman, but an extremely young one at that. I know he hasn't made a ton of eye popping plays, but he also has made very few errors in my opinion. I think the fact that he has been able to play well in top 4 minutes, in college hockey's toughest conference, against guys who are up to 7 years older than him, says a lot. Playing defense is about a lot more than racking up points and I've been impressed by his body of work so far

Agreed on Preston. He needs to be a top priority for the staff.

That is an elite list of names. Wow

I don't know a lot about analytics, but I think this actually means they are #2 in goals above expected. That can mean two things, either you have elite finishing talent on your team, you're getting a lot of puck luck, or a little bit of both. This likely means they're due for a bit of regression in terms of actual goals scored

I haven't watched Simpson much myself, but from what people say it sounds like he is not very well suited for a bottom 6 role. Maybe they thought they had enough scoring without him and needed more role players. Still surprised they wouldn't take him over some others in a scoring role though