Fratt Mattin

The bracket will still be relatively fair overall, but we know that they don't tinker to try to make things more fair, they tinker to boost attendance and lower travel costs. It's hardly the end of the world, it just bothers me that they adjust matchups based on anything other than trying to give the best teams the easiest games

But they aren't adjusting the matchups based on fairness. If they were doing that I could maybe get on board. What they're doing is adjusting matchups for better attendance and easier travel, which is not fair. The highest ranked teams deserve to play the worst teams. Now, if you believe the NPI is not the best way to determine that and want to have the committee do their own ranking to determine seeding, that's fine. That wouldn't be my preferred system, but at least the underlying goal would still be to give every team the most fair matchup possible

I don't get this argument at all. So the NPI isn't precise enough to determine matchups, but it's precise enough to determine who makes the tournament and who doesn't? Not to mention, this presents it like the committee is tinkering with the bracket for fairness purposes, which they aren't. They're tinkering with it for travel/attendance reasons, which is completely ridiculous

They’re so desperate for the NCHC to stop winning every year. They’ll do anything to get the Little 10 a title

The fact that we may get a much harder regional than we deserve because of attendance/travel concerns is everything that’s wrong with the current system. Number one seeds should host and everybody should play their numerical match. I could get on board with adjusting matchups to prevent conference foes meeting in the first round, but otherwise, we should be limiting human involvement in match making as much as possible. The high seeds need to be rewarded for playing well in the regular season and not punished to promote attendance

Yeah, I think as long as we can make a competitive offer there will always be guys who turn down the extra money in favor of a better program fit. I just think we need to at least be in the ballpark of what other schools are offering. It will be hard to get many guys to accept 1/3rd of what they could get elsewhere. I give Keaton a ton of credit for that

This is true to an extent, but if the difference in dollars is great enough, even those “high character” guys who aren’t just going to choose the highest bidder will have no choice. We don’t expect pro athletes to take massive discounts, so I’m not sure why we’d expect college kids to do so

Denver is 100% the model. We’ll be fine as long as we get the right guys and find enough money to retain them and supplement them with a few blue chippers

On the one hand, this is an awesome testament to the program’s prestige and reputation. On the other, you never want to hear you’re being outbid by that much. Kids like Keaton will be the exception, not the rule

I actually feel the opposite. While it may not be a super popular post college place to live, I think it's a great college town. The city is really set up around the college and I don't think it's hard at all to sell someone on four years there. Obviously the weather could be better, but the difference between GF and Fargo, Brookings, etc. in that department is fairly marginal

Elite Prospects put out an article identifying some standouts from camp

No, character only factors in when it's Matt Frattin 🙄

No chance. It’s the pros or UMN for him I would think

I don't buy this honestly. I think he signs pro, but if not, I'd bet he's back at Qpac. Interesting that UND is mentioned here as a big NIL player though. Wonder if there's any truth to that or if this account was just throwing out names of blue bloods at random

Sick

That was an ugly goal. Spunar needs to control the rebounds, but the entire team in front of him broke down there

We look like we’re skating in quicksand

I think he can play second line, it just depends on linemates. For example, if we landed the Ruck twins, Kernan would be a perfect fit on a second line with them. I just don’t know that he has the offensive skills to drive his own line as a sophomore

Yeah there’s no way that’s the plan. It’s gonna be a CHLer or a transfer

I love Kernan, but that’s not a fair comparison. Schmaltz obviously had a much higher offensive ceiling, even though it took him a year to get there

Probably a good chance Jubenvill hits the portal too. If that happens we’ll need to add a d-man who’s comfortable not playing right away, unless the coaches are good with Engel being the 8th d-man

From Schlossman's article on the Carson Scott commitment (referring to just defensemen commits here): "Lindberg and MacKenzie are expected to come to campus in the fall. The others are future commits."

Lindberg is coming in next year. That’s basically confirmed

Yeah, to be clear I think he’s a good player. I just don’t understand the rush to get to college unless you’re dominating the level you’re currently at

Losing Pilgrim and O’Neill so close together makes me think we recently picked up a silent commitment or two from some CHLers. Guessing our commits were told whether they’d be coming in this year or next and these decommits are a reaction to that