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Like you said, I think it was more about Notre Dame keeping their own TV deal, which I think the NCHC viewed as them being treated special. Not a great precedent for a new conference.

You would think some team would offer them for next year, which would make it difficult for us to make room for two if they are a package deal, and if they are interested in the college route.

Which is why it is surprising he hasn’t been drafted yet, as he put up nice numbers last year as well.

Weird that Woo is one goal short of making Medicine Hat’s two leading goal scorers and points leaders as defensemen.

That’s why UND needs to hang on to guys who are willing to play an extra year of juniors who are second tier guys, so they can plug and play with more experience if you lose more high end guys than you expect in any given year. Hopefully the coaches keep a better mix of short term and long term players than other teams have.

You’re right, probably talking more about potential. Assuming being an overage who has great numbers with no talk about being drafted that there might be a gap in his game. I know being a bit undersized plays a factor. Probably could work out better for Arizona State, because he might be more likely to stick around. The guys I thought had a bigger upside because of being young and are nice draft prospects are: Carels, Lin, Rudolph, DuPont, Villeneuve, Vanecek, Pantelas, Mackenzie, and even Klimpke, and Pickford, although I believe he has signed with Montreal. Like you, I don’t follow the OHL, but assume there are a few there as well. No doubt Arizona State is getting a guy that could be running their power play for a while, but like I said, so many great players out there so compete level may be a determining factor who becomes a stud, and who is just a bit above average in college. Might be wishing we had a player of his caliber for longer rather than a shorter stint of a guy who takes a year or so to get up to speed, but when they do is signed by their draft team.

I think Button has over emphasized the World Junior Championship in this latest ranking. We have seen that offense is more abundant (and sometimes defense lacking), in that setting. I would take more account on how these guys play against other age groups. We’ve seen guys go off in the World Juniors and have almost as many goals there as they have in the whole college season. Ryan Poehling comes to mind. It should definitely be part of the evaluation, but I would weigh it accordingly. Do you give McKenna points for being a top scorer, or do you weigh the opponent when he got most of his points?

…and Zakreski committed under Berry if I’m not mistaken.

This is why you better get guys that are going to compete hard, because he is a nice recruit, but there are probably 10 or more defenseman in the CHL alone that I would put ahead of him that I would want UND to get. Simply look at the latest 2026 draft rankings to find a ton of high end talent. Will be interesting to see how many actually go the NCAA route.

When you have to question everything now in regards to AI, there should be a mechanism that confirms reality from AI.

Yeah, Central scored very late on a two man advantage. Some very lazy clears by Red River’s defense really hurt their chance to hold on. Marto was very good for Central.

Was expecting a little more offensive production from Grubb, but I think every level of hockey is more competitive with so many development paths available.

This is ridiculous, the NCAA should make these decisions in a timely manner because teams need to be able to have backup plans depending on those decisions.

Lars Steiner at #61.

https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=260540 Similar numbers to Adam Gajan and he is going to be playing in the Olympics. Not saying he will or won’t be good at the collegiate level, but as we have seen with judging guys solely by numbers, there are a lot of outliers and different development paths. I would be more worried if the coaches are having concerns, because they are evaluating the play of all of our prospects, but I trust they will do what is best for the program. Don’t want to move on from someone like we did with Stephen Halliday and then regret it.