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Anybody hearing any recruiting news out there? Seems to be pretty quiet in this area for quite a while. I know Berry was in Saskatchewan recruiting last week and Shaw was on the road as well.
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6 hours ago, UNDBIZ said:
Not during tourney time, at least in my experience. During the real Final Five days, it seemed you couldn't get a downtown St Paul hotel for under $300 per night. Hotels in downtown Minneapolis are plentiful enough the tourney doesn't make a huge difference in rates.
100% agree. Minneapolis has more hotel options therefore you can usually find decent rates. I paid under $100 a night the past two years in Minneapolis. In St. Paul, you were almost certainly paying $200/night but I would make that trade any day for the tourney to be back at the X. Huge difference between Minneapolis and St. Paul. St. Paul is a hockey town and Minneapolis simply is not.
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2 hours ago, southpaw said:
What happens when it moves to the X and attendance doesn't really increase and you're looking at a quarter empty lower-bowl and a half-empty upper bowl? Or people get upset (believe me, people will whine about everything) because it's not exactly like the Final Five?
The first year at the Target Center I had a full suite of people that had attended the Final Five for years. After the first year, almost all didn't and haven't come back and it has been difficult to get people to come. I can pretty guarantee an attendance increase if it moved to the Xcel even though the ticket prices most certainly would increase as well.
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8 minutes ago, tho0505 said:
Your 2016-17 UND Roster
http://www.undsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=13500&SPID=6405&SPSID=58685
Surprised and a little worried going into the year with only 14 forwards two of which are walk-ons in Gornall and Smith. Not a lot of depth.
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On 5/25/2016 at 10:15 AM, siouxczech29 said:
I'll have a go too, SCPA...
Left Wing Center Right Wing Tyson Jost Schmaltz (A) Boeser (A) Gersich Gardner Poganski (A) Janatuinen Simonson Wilkie Ludvig Hoff Olson Gornall Dixon Bowen Cole Smith Zach Yon Left Defense Right Defense Ausmus (Cptn) Wolanin Colten Poolman Poolman (A) Shaw Dixon Bowen Chartrand Christian Evers Goaltender Johnson Tomek Hrynkiw Anderson I like the idea of going strong up the middle with the four centers being Schmaltz, Jost, Gardner and Simonson. No chance Olson plays center. He has no where near the skating ability to play center .
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11 minutes ago, SiouxScore said:
Definitely teams do a lot of work to figure out how likely a kid is to come to their team, to me that pick is basically Fargo just taking a flyer. I know Hain is a great player but I thought it was a little strange he went 1st overall just because so few Grand Rapids players leave high school early to play juniors. I guess they could get him to play before and after the high school season though.
Especially considering he turned down an offer to join the National Development team.
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19 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Olson is not a top 6 guy heading into next season. If Schmaltz comes back my 2nd line is Pogo Rhett with either JJ or Gesich.
I'm not sold on Wilke but could see a 3rd line of him, Simo and Gersich or JJ
100% agree. I wasn't sold on him as a top 12 guy this year. Not a fan of his play. I think his skating holds him back drastically and all he does is run into people and damn near cost us a chance at a national title due to his dumb decision late in the semi against Denver.
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On 3/18/2016 at 7:40 PM, siouxnami said:
So is Christian Cakebread officially no longer a recruit?
I see Heisenberg's site doesn't have him listed as committed to UND anymore. Not surprising if true.
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2 hours ago, ringneck28 said:
Another possible issue, Vikings play Detroit at noon on Sunday in Minneapolis
That just sounds like more tickets available for Sioux fans to me!
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15 minutes ago, Redneksioux said:
To me Logan Brown stood out more than any other player in the tournament. Big, athletic, and sways making plays happen. Too bad he's playing Canadian juniors.
I thought he improved his stock in this tourney as well. Actually I think that entire line of Brown, Yamamoto and Middlested all had a solid tourney. In my opinion, Clayton Keller was the best player in the tourney other than the Finn Puljujarvi (sorry don't know how to spell his name). I thought Jost looked solid but nothing flashy. I will be interested to see how the scouts quantify their performances in the semi's as I thought both Jost and Keller laid eggs in the most important games. The best D I saw was Jakob Chychrun. I thought Chad Krys was the most overrated player in the tourney. I would take Lindgren over him any day (based on this tourney only).
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26 minutes ago, Goon said:
I am going to agree with you. If anything, I think this team is one of the more talented team's I have seen at UND. I don't remember a d-core this talented and goaltending was very good. Forward play was awesome in all three zones on the ice. I know I've told people that I think this year's team was better than the 2010-11 team.
I think both were extremely talented but I'm still taking the 2010-11 team. In my opinion, the 10-11 forward unit was much deeper (Kristo and Nelson on the 3rd line) with two solid scoring lines Pony Express and Gregoire-Vande-Hextal. I would take this year's D-core but that 10-11 core was excellent and deep as well Genoway-MacWilliam, Blood-Forbort, Marto- LaPoint and then Simpson and Gleason as extras. Not to mention Dell had one of the best year's for a UND goaltender ever. Just goes to show how different a team is remembered when they didn't win a championship.
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3 minutes ago, KoolGuy2K said:
Alright. You got me on the DOT. But I'm pretty sure the Pony Express was already together prior to that season, and when Frattin came back, he was a stud. I think he would have had a great season whoever he played with. But Hak was here many seasons and only figured out two great lines?
As mentioned, DOT and Pony Express plus Kristo-Knight-Nelson in 2012, and Caggulia-MacMillian-Parks last year before Mac got hurt at the end of the year. I would have to disagree with your assessment totally.
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2 minutes ago, MoreSiouxForYou said:
IMO, Schmaltz stays next year. To go play in the AHL, I think his injury bug only gets magnified. He has sat out portions of both years with upper body issues. Not to mention the step up he took this year, in addition to another good year in the weight room, he could really make a splash. I do think CHI will put the pressure on because they need prospects.
Boeser and Stecher will come back, Ladue is gone.
I agree with this assessment on Schmaltz as well. His strength improvement from freshman to sophomore year was undeniably noticeable right from the get go this season but he still has been dinged quite a bit. I think another summer in the weight room and junior year would be greatly beneficial to have the possibility of stepping right into the NHL after his junior season as to playing in the AHL next season. I think Boeser needs another year to gain strength as well.
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28 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:
its easy to say that because we don't like the gophs but I know who is more talented. RMU has a few nice NC wins but overall their schedule is terrible. MN has my money on who's a better team. Lastly, I wouldn't want the emotional drain after that first game. We'd match up much better against RMU from a depth perspective.
Exactly. Give me RMU over the Gophs any day. It's not even close. The Gophs have the talent to perform great in a one and done situation but their struggles have been consistency in winning consecutive games.
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6 hours ago, UND-RedSox fan said:
They may flip Michigan with Denver to get Michigan in Cinci for "attendance" purposes. They may even flip those entire matchups. They've shown in the past that the $ is more important than bracket integrity. UND, Denver, Lowell, and Minnesota would still be the region of death
Looks to me like no matter how the pairwise falls at the end that Quinnipiac will have the easiest regional and whoever of St. Cloud or UND gets shipped to Cincy will have an easier rout than through St. Paul. Obviously, I think a lot hinges on whether or not the Gophers make the tourney. I know in years past (including last year) that the AHA winner has taken out some #1 seeds (Mankato last year #1 overall) but drawing them as opposed to the Gophers in St. Paul is a big difference no matter how close they are in the Pairwise.
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1 minute ago, Sodbuster said:
Is Mittelstadt committed?
Yes Minnesota.
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10 hours ago, Smoggy said:
Really??? I've seen him live and didn't ever notice him make a defensive play. Thought he was very non-existent in his own zone and too often looked to leave zone early for a rush. Put it this way...EGF in the section championship held TRF to like 4 shots and 3 shots (one empty netter) in second and third period. EGF controlled the offensive zone and TRF was the faster team and hit more.
I totally agree all but I only watched him play in two games against EGF in which he scored 4 and 2 goals. He was invisible when he didn't have the puck and never backchecked and hardly even makes it back into the D zone. He is definitely a talented skater and player but is a long ways from being complete and I think he will learn some hard lessons next season if he plays juniors. Also, not having a letter on his jersey could be telling? But that is a total assumption on my part but just was kind of a red flag to me when 99.99% of the time in high school your best player/players are the captains.
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8 hours ago, GDPritch said:
Good question GFG regarding Grimaldi. No doubt a talented player but sort of an odd career at UND, seemed like he should of had way more points than he did I(I think so anyway). Talented player (like a gnat at times) but his play was frustrating at times too. Not sure if it's a size thing or what. Yes, seemed to be very easy to knock hit off the puck but I'm no great hockey mind.
I always wonder if the knee injury and surgery causing him to miss pretty much his entire freshman season really hurt his development. I was told the previous year playing for the U18 team that he was consistently the best player on the ice in games against NCAA competition. I didn't see it with my own eyes but was told by many who not only watched but played against him.
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6 minutes ago, AZSIOUX said:
Would rather see Olson in over Wilkie. If neither are going to score I'll take a two way hard checking forward who will body someone when need be. amazing the difference between between wilkie and Brock and they shared ushl goal lead last year. Didn't expect much from Wilkie but only 4 points as of now.
wolanin and shaw should should split if not wolanin both.
Nice to see CBS back together
In my opinion, Olson is the first forward I would sit. Sure he brings a physical presence but to me nothing else. His skating holds him back drastically. He's the slowest guy on the ice and I thought Wilkie was starting to play quite well before his injury. Just needs to get the monkey off his back as well and pot a couple.
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9 hours ago, Smoggy said:
I'm going to preface this with only seeing him play once this year and wasn't specifically watching for him. He's good, but I think Loven from EGF is better complete game or was last year for tourney run (been injured all year). Johnson does have speed but other than a rush you don't really notice him. His line mates did most of the work tonight other than the one great move to beat D and then go top shelf backhand. Fourth goal was empty netter. Didn't really notice him shoot other than around the net to get read on that. Same in D end. Didn't notice him make a play until empty netter, but again wasn't watching only him the whole time. Doesn't seem to dominate a game the way a Bowen, Yon or Loven did. Those guys you just always seemed to be aware of when they were on the ice.
I was at the game last night and watched Johnson closely. Definitely a talented player and an elite skater but invisible when he doesn't have the puck. Floated back on the backcheck, did nothing in the D zone and rarely went hard after the puck on the forecheck but if he got the puck with speed through the neutral zone he was gone. Sad to say but these are habits that are built by playing inferior competition in Class A high school hockey. I think he will need to prove himself for a year or 2 in juniors and learn to play in all 3 zones to be successful at the next level. Which is what he will have to do if he wants to play in the USHL. No doubt he is a talented player though and I think he is much more talented than Loven at this point.
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21 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
Fair point but Suter is still stealing from the franchise he plays for more that Joe IMO.
I will still say Jason Pominville for that prize. $5.6M cap hit for three more years for a player who should have been in the press box before Vanek and Zucker Saturday night. I hope they can buy him out after this season.
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10 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:
No...the injury sucks for hockey players. If that's what Caggs has, he needs to rest and come back when he is a solid 100%. I haven't heard anything on him yet. I'm guessing something will come out today.
Yes I agree. I separated mine during my playing days and tried to come back after a week and got checked from behind and was out for a couple weeks after that. Even though the shoulder felt fine I was very hesitant to make any contact thinking I would reinjure it again. Not much fun.
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Anyone have any insight as to the who the potential recruits on the bench before the games were this weekend? I believe there was one Friday and two Saturday.
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9 hours ago, yzerman19 said:
Honestly, a fourth line of LJ between JJ and Wilkie might be lethal!
1. CBS
2. Chyz with Gersich and Pogo
3. Gardner, St Claire and Simo
4. LJ with Wilkie and JJ
I don't think you will see the Chyz, Simo, Pogo line broken up anytime soon.
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