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I'd be curious to see their methodology. From my professional experience, several of those are going to be problematic. At a minimum, there is already a major divergence where senior folks, with the use of AI, can do the work of numerous underlings. The grunt work which was previously done by the new hires is becoming cheaply replaceable. There are 5 or 6 of those that I would be very hesitant to encourage young folks to pursue, with accounting being at the top of the list. I recently saw an AI accounting program demo which scanned and reviewed around 1000 pages of financials and prepared a small business tax return in about 3 minutes. Of course, the information (at this point) would need to be reviewed, but the net time saving is immense. From my experience, any transactional or data driven service is in a major state of flux.

I agree that those things are worthwhile endeavors, but whether they are worthwhile higher education pursuits which justify paying many tens of thousands of dollars is quite a different issue.

There's not enough information to draw that conclusion. I'm pushing 50 so I have listened to TH as long as I can remember. Listened to countless games, and the home games I've attended I'd listen to the pre and post-game shows. He is Sioux hockey personified. In listing the highest approval rating for UND athletics, TH has to be at or near the top. He's a UND legend. That said, it's time for him to hang up the microphone.

Looks like it has happened, but usually with Russians due to limited information and exposure.

With the talent on the blue line, I think MacKenzie is really flying under the radar. I won't be terribly surprised if he's the best college D-man on the team next year. He does have close to 2 years on CC and KV.

Personally, while I hope the staff can land more blue chippers than in the past, our GM is going to earn his keep by adding high quality pieces from the remaining pool of recruits. So far, I don't see any swings and misses in that regard.

The same could be said for some of the late commits last year, namely Ollie and Kernan. In my opinion they were huge additions and not the typical types with their more modest expectations coming in.

Both last year and this year there were 15 players on the roster who will not be the following year. I would not have foreseen that happening for any college team a decade ago.

Gonna be a weird senior night.

It not like these guys (from the rumors of silent commitments) haven’t played in big games. We’ll hopefully have a good chunk of players who have or will be WJ participants. They’ve been playing elite, high pressure hockey for years.

Yep. I like the silent commitments much more than a potential silent de-commitment.

Looks like 2 more for both F and D. I'm hoping for no news for at least the next couple weeks. I believe that would be good news and an indication of where the remaining spots will be filled from.

Exactly. To win a title the “key” is to have a competitive team and have the best goalie in 4 games in a row.

Any idea on how much information the players have as to who's coming in the following year, i.e the hinted at silent commitments or previously arranged portal adds?

No question that with a series system that Michigan wins in 1997. The one-and-done system provides that chip and a chair possibility. High level hockey has, by far, the highest statistical probability of the lesser team winning an individual game, or a team that is out-played winning a game. Even without a statistical deep dive (which I've done) if you look at the odds on individual games, the NHL odds are much more compressed than the other major sports. Just looking at NBA and NHL lines tonight, there are 3 NBA games where the underdog is a 18-1 dog, and highest NHL line is 2.2-1. Of professional and major college sports, NCAA hockey is unquestionably the one with the most randomness. NCAA basketball would be second, but basketball is much more predictable. After high school, I believe that NCAA hockey is the only level that is one and done. It is what it is, and it makes every game have the excitement of game 7, but to claim that there is no luck involved in NCAA hockey is straight-up moronic (not aimed at anyone in particular).