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A couple of things here. From what I've read, UND is planning on opting in next season. The reason they didn't for this coming season is because they want to wait and see how the roster limitations of 26 per team shake out, there is a lot of talk that the number will be increased the following season so it's a smart move by UND to wait it out a year. Secondly, foreign players cannot earn NIL deals in the U.S. (as stated in above quote) so we can put to rest the notion that Boisvert left because of a 150k deal.

Exactly! Again I'm not buying this narrative of UND can't compete because of NIL!

Yes, and those donors are especially interested in football and to a lesser extent basketball. NIL in college hockey just doesn't dole out much cash. UND has very rich alumni who are very well connected to other rich alumni and I would argue that this isn't about NIL but rather locker room issues that will be sorted out soon enough. UND will be back folks, and if you bet otherwise, well a fool and his money are soon parted....

UND is among the highest revenue generating programs in all of college hockey, hell they are probably the highest! I know some will say "but the Big Cheese generates billions a year and no way UND can compete!", well hockey at the Big Cheese is usually an afterthought and all the NIL money goes to football and the left-over crumbs are given to the basketball teams....hockey there is irrelevant and less than an afterthought to the big donors and media. So I call bull$%!# on the UND is getting killed because of NIL. Now I'm not from the area nor a fan of UND (but have upmost respect for the program!) and I'm telling you guys that this storm will pass and UND will be able to compete with anybody!

And I will ask again, how did Boisvert secure a 100k NIL deal when Canadians aren't even eligible for House Settlement money let alone NIL???????????????????

But how, he's Canadian and every thing I've read and heard says that it is very difficult for foreign born players to earn NIL deals....so is this an under the table thing????

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Canadians ineligible for NIL deals? Yes I understand there may be backdoor methods to get around this prohibition, but those methods would not be able to generate much money. So, are Perron and Boisvert really flight risks because of NIL or is there something more to this??

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How much are the blue blood hockey programs offering in NIL money to top recruits. I know that Mike McMahon once tweeted that 1st and 2nd round NHL prospects were earning 100 to 120k a year but that has been widely discredited (I think). If it is true though, can UND athletics afford it???

Who should they be focusing on? A ton of rumors about Michael Misa going out east or even Minnesota. I'd love to know who exactly has the coaching staff talked to?

I'm wondering if they've talked with several "blue chippas" from the CHL and have some soft commits on one or two but those players are waiting until after the NHL draft to announce their intentions?

Wow, what a well thought out response..don't even know how to reply to such deep insight and analysis.... Well something tells me I overstayed my welcome here. I understand that in this day and age having a countervailing position to the general (group think) consensus is quite frowned upon on American college campuses. I would hate to get in trouble with the though police down there, especially during my annual fall trip to the Big House to see Michigan play. To yzerman 19, you seem like a well informed poster who is not quite so provincial minded, even though I'm sure you feel NoDak is better, perhaps you could continue to educate some of these college fans about the merits of the CHL.

Again I will say I saw much more time and space in the NoDak - Quinn game than the Memorial Cup game...on NoDak's first goal, 2 on 1 numbers down in the slot, where is the Q Defense?? Gersich all alone was allowed two quick shots, his second goes in. On the 2nd goal, horrible goal tending from Garteig , No. 6 Toews from Q utterly misses his check and lets Boeser easily pass him by for the goal after a misplay from Garteig. 3rd goal, absolute confusion from Q D, Boeser easily takes puck away and passes it to an unmolested wide open Caggiula for the goal. 4th goal, Boeser on a one on one battle going to the net spins around and passes to yet again a streaking and wide open Caggiula for the goal. 5th goal. after Garteig gives up a fat juicy rebound, Poganski all alone shoots it in.

Those two games were in essence try out games for the Canada hopefuls while the CIS finally got to play on a big stage with a ton of scouts watching...the games meant everything to both sides playing, were hard fought and intense and of course proved that the CIS was in no way superior to what some posters on HFBoards thought...after all the college boys were flat out dominated in the second game Tkachuk and Mathews complimented each other quite well...who knows, maybe of Boeser was as good as Tkachuk instead of his inferior he might of got to play more with Mathews.. Your last point was merely a biased opinion...I'm still waiting for you all to explain the mighty NoDak depth over London..

Hmmm, the best CIS players squared off against a portion of the better CHL players in a pre exhibtion WJC tune up for the Canadian World Junior team. Now keep in mind that the best Canadian CHLers sat out the games because their spot on the team was assured and that many top American, Russian, Swede and Czech CHLers were of course not there. The CIS all star team was of course several years older and in fact many of them were ex CHL players and were from teams like UNB, Alberta and the like that generally do well against NCAA competition. So the best from the CIS faced off against the not so best from the CHL and according to these so called sages from HFBoards, the CIS should of mopped the floor with the much younger and smaller CHL players right.? Well not exactly, the first game ended in a tie but the CIS did win in a shoot out. The CHL players then blew the door off the older, supposedly stronger and more experienced CIS players 5-0 the next game. So much for the CIS being better...imagine if the CHL actually had all their best players playing...