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If we could land Cruikshank I think this portal would be a homerun for UND. That could potentially give us the options of Weatherby, Ford, Senden, Cruikshank and Jamernik up the middle (and I'm not including any of the potential freshman)and I'm of the opinion you can never have too many centers. Much easier to make center a wing than vice versa.

Correct which is why we could use this year's transfer portal as kind of a bumper year to hopefully give these recruits another year to develop. Getting Cruikshank would be huge as he could immediately be slotted in as our #1 center. Another solid forward and solid D well along with a goalie now would be my wish list.

Oh wow interesting. So your telling me there's a chance!

Cruikshank to BC. Damn!

Yeah I love how some outlets like to spin that staying in college another year can hurt your development but never mention how leaving too soon can stunt your development much more quickly. The Cale Makar vs. Tyson Jost comparision should be in every college hockey's locker room. No better example of what happens when you stay and develop an extra year or two vs. leaving too early. Even the analysts doing the NHL draft this past year made the same case. The NHL can chew you up and spit you out in no time even a top prospect.

Now that the game is over and I see how it went with UND taking control early and putting it on cruise control the rest of the game, I am kind of glad they got to play and adjust to regional ice. The one disadvantage is UMD is a top heavy team relying heavily on 9 forwards and 4 D so there is no doubt they benefit greatly from not having to play what I preseived to be a hard fought tight contest in which they would have inevitably had to roll with those 12-13 players playing big minutes.

Yes this exactly. He was basically let go by Wisconsin as they wanted to push him out later and later. At the time of his decommittment, I thought he would be a target of ours then and I sure hope he is now.

This is what I'm most curious about myself. I think Berry and the staff (along with most other coaches) will be looking quite hard at the transfer portal and this is where I think some of the biggest recruiting battles may take place in the next few months. I not crazy about the forwards we will likely lose and their replacements coming in to replace that production so it would be nice to land a few higher caliber, more experienced forwards.

I'm going to have to agree with you here. Kierstad has been a monster all year playing in every situation and stepped up even more when JBD went down against Denver and last night. I think we can all agree that we are lucky to have all three of these talented defenseman on our squad!

Totally agree and I have been saying this from way back when they switched up the lines in the Pod. The Pinto-Gaber line was our best without Guch and putting him there didn't turn the needle much if at all so I would go Gaber-Pinto-Budy, Mishmash-Adams-Guch, Hain-Senden-Jamernik, Blaisdell-Weatherby-Caulfield. Don't think it will happen but I like having four solid lines that can score and win with depth and I think a lineup like this could make that happen. I think both Senden and Weatherby are most effective at center but again I don't know if Bubs splits up that line.

Here comes Bemidji

Jamernik will be 27. I'm surprised it took so long for this to get out. I had heard about him coming in over a week ago.

I'd like to see Guch back with Adams and Mishmash and try someone else with Pinto and Gaber. That line has been our best from the start and Guch hasn't really moved the needle to make it much better. Sad to say but the Hobey Hat trick finalist is the 3rd best player on that line. Need to find some scoring throughout the lineup as I thought coming into the season that depth would be our strength but that hasn't been the case as there is much generated from the other lines as of yet.

I've deleted and re-downloaded multiple times and still no dice. I have no clue why. Guess laptop it is.

Agreed. I thought they would keep for 4 centers the same as with the way these games come in bunches depth will play a huge factor but I'm surprised Hain is in the top 6 although they tried him there early last year as well. Thought he would stick with Senden and add Ness with them.

Anyone have any issues using the app from an iphone? I have an older iphone but have the latest updates and when I click the app it quickly opens and collapses. I can't get into it so had to watch on my laptop. Any suggestions?

No let's play forwards at forward and D at D this year. I think he will get his opportunity at D when Sanderson is gone for World Juniors.

Sorry but no on this. Let's not move a D to forward unless we absolutely have to. I think we have enough forwards to fill out the lines properly and much more talented than Reiger.

Yes I saw that as well and have said all along Jost left too early and that is basically what the analysts were saying. Button even went as far as saying the NHL can chew you up and spit you out in no time and basically said that is what you are seeing with Jost. I never would have expected this after watching him for an entire year in Grand Forks.

Nice to see. I've been surprised at how slow the commits have been since August 1st. I thought we would have had some lined up but maybe the whole Covid thing is the reason.

Anyone know if Halliday de-committed? Heisenberg doesn't have him listed as a UND recruit anymore.

Sorry if this has been stated already but do we know the entire roster yet? Is Moore on campus for sure?

I was thinking Mankato as well. I would imagine you can pick from a short list as to who the opponent would be: Mankato, UMD, St Cloud, Bemidji and then I'd throw in possible Michigan Tech and Northern Michigan. It's going to be someone who can bus. I would imagine they would try to get someone from out of conference if possible as well.

Would Louis Jamernik be a possibility? Won't he be too old for another year of juniors?

I know they did some work last summer/fall but not sure how much they have left to make it playable.