Fratt Mattin

It’s clear that they’re trying to land one of Carels, Rudolph, or DuPont, but I’m very curious what the plan is for the last spot. Getting 2/3 seems unlikely and honestly maybe ill-advised given how young and inexperienced it would leave the d-core. So assuming they don’t plan to add two of the big three, I wonder what the reason for the delay is in announcing the other defenseman? I assume it will be an older guy with a few years of junior hockey under his belt

Just my anecdotal sampling of mock drafts and scout opinions. It is much more common to see Verhoeff going 5-6 in most mocks now, versus 2-3 before this season.

He will not go #1. He’s on the bubble of the top 5 right now if you go by public consensus. Who knows where some teams have him internally though

I did not think Blake was NHL ready at all when he left and I was obviously wrong about that. With that being said, I don't think Verhoeff is anywhere near ready. He has some big skating and processing issues that need to be addressed. He looked so overwhelmed against Wisconsin's forecheck, I don't think there's any chance he could handle the NHL right now. Blake had holes in his game when he left, but he dominated the college level offensively. Verhoeff has yet to dominate any element of the game at this level. To be clear, I think Keaton has a ton of potential, it's just not put together yet

No idea. I'm not familiar with what the arrangement is here

The Ralph takes money from football?

I’d be fine with that too. Moot point as long as the 14 sport minimum is in place unfortunately

Yes. Hence my advocating to cut all but a few of them

I really don't understand the reaction to this that I am seeing on social media. Why in the world should colleges keep funding sports that lose boatloads of money and that nobody attends? The school and the community gain nothing by having a tennis team. If the minimum sport requirement and Title IX were not a thing, I would see no reason why we shouldn't cut everything but hockey, football, and men's and women's basketball. Make everything else club sports

This, 100%. The minimum sports requirement makes no sense to me

I really only see upside to this move. If you earmark even half of what we will save on tennis for revenue share for hockey, that’s at least 2-3 top six caliber forwards you can now pay for. Take the other half and put it toward rev share for football and now we’re really cooking

I don’t see why this is so shocking to people. I’m always sad to see sports go, but it’s very hard to justify keeping a sport that was losing us $1 million per year

I believe his dad owns the Wheat Kings, so I sort of assume he's of the table.

I thought he had been following us for a while

I believe it's because they have a home football game on Saturday, which is just sad. Gopher hockey is second fiddle at best on that campus. Maybe third when basketball is good

I think it's the NHL or college for him next year. I don't see what he would have to gain by going back to the CHL. As others have said, probably just trying to say the right thing here and not be disrespectul to PG

Have you heard anything about who might be more realistic targets?

Not taking a side in this debate, but I do have to disagree that Verhoeff had a solid game against Wisconsin. Now to be fair, most of the team struggled, but he really crumbled against that forecheck

All good, that makes more sense. I agree with your comment as it pertains to Lindberg

I would be suprised if Magnussen would come here without basically being guaranteed top 6 time given he was first line, point per game at Bemidji. If you’re right though, that’s great as it would probably mean some big CHLers are coming

Scoring mainly, but I do have concerns. He only had 4 goals at 5 on 5 last year. Hoping Bryn has a CHLer with some finishing touch up his sleeve

Yep. Lindberg and Magnussen are good pieces, but we will need a little more high-end scoring punch from our CHL adds

I don't know what you technically can and cannot do in terms of contacting the players themselves, but coaches are in regular contact with players' agents about moves like this.

I wonder if we called Lindberg after it became clear we weren't getting Wiebusch

I've never seen a 5v3 that was focused solely on one timers. There was no attempt to set anything up except for one time blasts from way out. Didn't get that at all