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Do you see any other D1 hockey coaches actively campaigning for NIL money? Maybe the reason BB isn't is because he already has a sizable war chest from private donors that the public isn't aware of. Who knows, NIL isn't transparent & it's difficult for the public to know with certainty what's happening in the back rooms. Not going to lose sleep over NIL ... it can be a nice addition for the program; but a savvy coach like Ferschweiler or Carle who can recruit & develop the right players is infinitely more important than flashing the latest Canadian phenom with big wads of cash. And if a player's first priority is an exorbitant amount of money, one should question if that player will be fully invested in the team & will do anything to help it succeed.

6 of the 10 are seniors, I thought this year was the last year for 5-year players..unless these 6 are all graduate students.

If any of these highly-drafted players leave for another school, would wager that it would be due to not seeing much promise in the coach's system for his development. Bottom line is one will probably never know a player's true reason for transferring, unless one happens to be in his inner circle. And if college hockey is so cutthroat & the best players are constantly being wooed by other programs' money, the 3 players you mentioned would have already been offered lucrative deals by others & there's a good chance some of them may have never set foot on campus as a result. But they still came. Boisvert in a January interview said he never even seriously considered about going to any place other than UND. And Perron stated he knew UND was where he wanted to go as soon as he visited. Doesn't sound like money was a defining reason for them, unless they're being given large sums of money that the fans aren't aware of, which I doubt. If any of the 3 bolt, perhaps Emery because he seems to be the most impulsive. People have speculated Boisvert out east due to family, but he left home (Quebec) at 14 to play in the US to elevate his game, so he doesn't strike me as a homebody type who would prefer to play closer to family. But like you said, who knows. Boisvert is the most crucial of the 3, & of the team, because the offense next year will be built around him if he stays. He is the king on the chessboard that BB needs to protect at all costs. Whatever that takes.

Thanks, was wondering when the new goalie would be arriving.

Anyone know the opening & closing dates for the portal this year?

That would require 6 periods of consistent, passionate hockey; TJ playing unconscious & channeling his inner Matt Davis; winning the specialty teams; & BB outcoaching the opposition...all from a team who had 0 shots on goal in the 3rd period Friday & went goalless over 60 minutes on the weekend against a very average UNO team.

"Still growing" is a more acceptable way of saying the team still doesn't know what it's doing.

And of course Croal is sitting again. No lessons learned after last night's game. UND won after all, which means the ol' Bubster runs back the same players & the same strategy; while the one guy (Croal) the team needs for energy when the team loses momentum sits in the stands again...BB would rather sacrifice his left nut than bench #27 or #29; because they're seniors, after all, & have earned their ice time.

An orchestra is only as good as its conductor.

The same dude who was a healthy scratch 2x last weekend.

I was suggesting if another school was trying to poach him..but as @AJSsaid, & this makes sense, it's highly unlikely that a player currently on the roster will transfer to another school for monetary reasons. It would probably be because he felt his skills weren't developing enough, chemistry issues, the team wasn't being managed properly or the team just flat out sucked & there was no chance for postseason success. NIL for college fb & bb is a whole other beast compared to college hockey, as you were saying. If NIL had been around 20 yrs ago & we were dumping absurd amounts of cash on guys like Toews, Oshie, Parise, Nelson, we'd still be without a title while those guys played. A savvy coach like Ferschweiler or Carle who can recruit & develop the right mix of players is much more conducive to success than shelling out a lot of money for the latest phenom. Not saying NIL isn't important, as it can be used occasionally for the right player or two, but it's not something a program should build around or be overly worried about.

That's a summary of your previous opinion, which I'm not interested in. If anyone here can summarize Brad S's podcast, pls do so.

If you want to make a point, summarize it in a paragraph. Not going to spend 1.5 hrs listening to a podcast.

Correct. Local media in a small market will almost always try to deflect any negativity away from the HC. The Herald is no different. Expect slanted articles where feelings don't get hurt & honesty doesn't get revealed. Which is unfortunate, because a journalist should never be a mere mouthpiece for the program. I pay $9.99/month for Schlossman's reporting on players, recruits, game recaps, etc, not his honesty. Discernment.

Using Boisvert as an example & if he were being lured away with big bucks to another program, I think UND would move heaven & earth to find a donor to outbid anyone else. He's that important to the team. So that if he or any other player of his caliber left UND & it wasn't related to playing time, it would likely be because that player felt he wasn't developing like he thought he should be or the team's potential didn't match his expectations.

Your moderator skills are only surpassed by your sense of humor. If that actually happened, it would rank as one of the greatest coaching feats in college hockey history, considering they currently can't string 2 solid games together to save their lives, let alone 8.

MN of course has many more alumni, but it's the percentage of those alumni who have deep pockets AND are passionate about their Gopher hockey team. And I'd argue that shrewd coaches like Ferschweiler & Carle who can recruit & develop the right players + implement effective systems are more important than simply throwing big money at the latest Canadian hockey phenom. I thought the Englestad family had a contingency in their kitty for something like NIL. Maybe not.

All I'm saying is that NIL for college hockey isn't as daunting & threatening to smaller schools as it's made out to be..plenty of smaller schools are thriving outside of the B10: Maine, DU, QU, W. Mich, Providence, Mankato, BC & more.

Who has an equal or larger hockey fanbase & who has the more passionate fans? MN may have 3x the alumni, but that doesn't mean diddly if the vast majority of them are lukewarm fans or not even interested at all in hockey. The vast majority of boosters/alumni at schools like OSU, PSU, Notre Dame, MI, etc will be opening their checkbooks for their favorite football & basketball players, hockey is a distant third in priorities at those large schools, if that. Mankato, Quinnipiac, Denver & Boston College were also in a national title game during the last 4 years; all with smaller enrollments than UND. It's fallacious to argue that a school needs a large enrollment/alumni base like MN in order to compete in modern college hockey NIL... And Jackson Blake may have been ready & wanting to go pro regardless of what was offered to him by the Collective. It's impossible to say that NIL money, or a lack thereof, was responsible for him leaving without knowing him personally or him stating publicly, which he hasn't.

From what little I've read about NIL for college hockey (there aren't many articles on it), I've learned that this money comes from private individuals & companies, not from the institutions themselves; so it shouldn't matter all that much whether a school has an enrollment of 15k or 45k because it's privately funded. Unless someone here has an article stating otherwise that college hockey NIL comes from the schools themselves

Chess vs checkers

Just guessing here, but a trip to Hugo's to look at some towels for motivation probably isn't going to be of much help for a team that has some deep coaching & player issues. And besides, if a team requires stunts like these to pump themselves up, it proves that they lack self-motivation to succeed.

A successful season for UND would have been playing consistently well from October through April. While other teams who were finding their groove last November, it took this team until February before things started really clicking for them; losing & tying along the way to glorified D3 teams that tanked their PWR. Too little, too late & a regression from last season. And any coach starting Montgomery over Littler is demonstrating loud & clear that he is being negligent in his duties to put the most talented players he has on the ice.

Schlossman replied to my question & verified that Littler was a healthy scratch, which is absurd in a must-win game.

I asked Schlossman in one of his threads why Littler wasn't playing & this was his reply: "He's healthy. Moreso just comes down to them having all their forwards available." I think he means he's a healthy scratch, unless I'm missing something.