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But also took a really dumb/unnecessary penalty with 6 minutes left in the third period of a 1-0 hockey game. Tough call! I think this team needs Kernan and Littler in the lineup and producing to be successful.

I think the one big thing with DuPont is him waiting to see how playing your draft year in college affects McKenna and Verhoeff's (more specifically probably Verhoeff as a D man) draft stock. These two (along with if there are any others playing college hockey from the CHL currently) I believe will be a case study for others moving forward. If one or both don't put up all that great numbers and they fall a little in the draft I think would have a lasting effect on others thinking of accelerating and leaving the CHL. For all the others that get drafted this summer, it certainly seems like a no brainer to take the jump to a higher level of play.

From what I've heard, Carels is supposedly the one who informed his agent/advisor that he wanted to come to UND right after the Verhoeff and Reschney commits that Schloss has mentioned on his Pod.

Certainly agree on Lin. I would think and like to see us get one of the WHL guys (Lin, Carels, Rudolph, Dupont). If would could get one of them and already would have Lindberg and Mackenzie coming, I think we would only have room for one unless like was mentioned if a guy like Jubenvil hits the portal. Would really like to add Preston to the forward group!

I think both Schultz's will be coming for sure. So that's 4. Lose James, Strinden, Rickwood, Young for sure as seniors and then only early departures and transfers. I agree I think we are certainly after a high end CHL forward for next year so will be interesting to watch. Could mean we lose a current recruit and/or someone or a few on the current roster.

I think he has about 700,000 reasons why he won't!

I really wish we did but I don't think so. Unfortunately I think our main big targets are going to be the CHL guys committing in the spring/summer again.

This is certainly no guarantee. Two of the worst recruiting classes we've had in years was the 2-3 years after the national title which still frustrates me to this day. How we never capitalized on that momentum like DU has is infuriating to me.

I was thinking this as well. Would be nice to get a few of the big fish in town for this weekend.

Based on the news that the CHL won't be giving out scouting passes to college hockey coaches, I think we might see the same situation as this past year where most of the big name CHL guys wait until after there season is over before committing to a college.

Agreed there isn't much you can take away from that game other than all the newbies getting their feet wet playing in front of a REA crowd. Take two years ago when we all thought Perron was going to potentially be better than Blake after his performance only to have that be his best game in a UND jersey.

Anyone know if Chyz is over in Czechia recruiting? I would think he would be over there with many targets playing in the tourney.

Please no more of this! With our D core, we should see a lineup of 12 and 7 each night. Hopefully easing in Laurilla and probably working in all 8 throughout the year.

I must be old school as I agree. The first time the Gophers came to town with all there players wearing the random numbers I just thought it looked dumb.

I sure hope that still needing to fill two forward roster spots for next year isn't hurting our recruiting efforts for Aug. 1! That's what worries me a bit that we may be spending more time than expected on next years roster. I'm sure they are still working crazy hard on Aug. 1 recruits though but don't want this taking time away or losing someone because of it.

Does anyone think Cameron Schmidt could be an option? He fell to the 3rd round but some had him listed as a 1st round talent but his size dropped him down to the 3rd. He was drafted behind Simpson so I don't know if that would mean they wouldn't want to take him in over Simpson for this year.

Fiddler is a D so I would say he would not be a target for this year.

And I've said this a million times as well. The committee swayed the vote by putting "Fighting" in front of hawks. I've said it forever that whatever nickname they put "Fighting" in front of was most likely going to win.

I sure hope this means that we see 7 D dressed each night vs. a 13th forward. I never understood dressing a 13th forward vs. a 7th D. When this rule was put in place, I thought it was the ideal spot to work in a freshman D man where you can strategically spot him throughout the game.

It sure seems crazy to me that Tampa isn't actively shopping him. I figured they would have traded him by now and he would have signed with whomever traded for him.

Doesn't this seem strange? Why in the world would we take a commit supposedly months ago that is considered an extra/depth player when the recruiting player pool literally doubled and there was/is tons of talented players available. Is this a sign of where our recruiting was back then? I certainly have no clue who said player is/was but it seems like a blessing in disguise that he can't get into school if he truly was only a depth piece.

He could be talking about Tate Prichard as one?

I would think based on numbers we will probably have to bring in one of or maybe two of Schultz, Simpson, Pilgram and O'Neil but I would say O'Neil would be the least ready at this point. Ideally they all play another year of juniors though.

I think we have to hope Chicago throws the bag at him! Chance to coach a "generational talent" in Bedard and build a young team.

You may want to check your research on those natty's!