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If they stay 4 to 5 years, it probably means they aren’t producing enough to get a look at the next level. I would rather they produce insanely for a few years and move on, making room for the next big recruit, than to have them struggle to find their junior magic and stay a long time.

Yeah, but I don’t think you plan on that, thinking you can over recruit. If they do that, they would possibly have to do it every year, as the following year you may need to make room for McKamey if he has a good year, and who knows about how the recruitment of Pue, Schultz, Thompson, etc. goes. It would be nice to have a spot available for surprises every year.

Is he comparable to a Jordan Schroeder in game and stature, or has he grown since he was at Edina?

Would have been a former player, but just came across this on George Pelawa. Can you imagine if he would have been on the Hrkac Circus teams.

I will add that we will need our young defense to play well early, as playing MSU and at Minnesota will be a huge part of our non conference schedule. Playing Minnesota right after they play Duluth could make them desperate to not have a repeat of last year, or give them a ton of confidence early on.

Seems odd as neither seem like they will be key components when they are ready to compete for the Cup.

Winning = butts in the seats!

We’re full next year, is he out a couple years possibly?

Certainly they won’t have as dynamic of a defense in Medicine Hat this year with Pickford and Woo being gone.

Well, they do take all of Jan Brady’s coaches!

It’s not like they are going top 5 or 10 in the draft. Emery is going to be here for a third year, and he is probably much more athletic.

Wow, a gopher fan spouting off about something of which they have no facts. Go figure! Guess they can’t use the 25 year old Canadian on this one since they wouldn’t be eligible for the draft. Wait, maybe they are 25 and it is like that Little League World Series overage guy years ago!

I imagine some decisions for leaving after next year could be how we end our season.

Guess I wouldn’t appreciate gopher fans coming on here and gloating when they get big recruiting wins against us, but to each their own.

Would love to know how much they threw at Ziemer and Mooney to stick around. How much did Snuggerud get to stay that additional year?

I’m guessing Minnesota is willing to throw a bunch of NIL money at Landon DuPont, but hopefully years of being jerks about Canadians, will keep biting them in the future.

Were Maine, Quinnipiac and Western trying to buy a Championship then? No doubt they’ll get some money, but nowhere near the figures Big Ten schools are throwing around.

Probably smart for Ottawa to get ahead of this while they still had some time. It was obvious that he wasn’t going to sign long term with Ottawa.

Did Minnesota have any first round picks to offer?

Someone else made another good point, is that if they don’t get drafted by the same team, they could use the college loophole to make it happen themselves, which would mean one would need to stick around long enough to make that happen.

They must be down to earth guys with some of those schools not being the high NIL teams. Last player I remember from Osoyoos, BC was Neil Eisenhut.

Like I said before, how great is it going to be to watch the NHL draft with 6 guys most likely going in the top 3 or 4 rounds, and maybe 5 going in the top 2 rounds. If Klimpke goes top 4, that would be 7.

Hopefully the same NHL team drafts them, so they wait to make the step to the NHL together when they are both ready.

I guess those that said there was a 0 percent chance that UND would get the Ruck brothers were wrong.

I get that people don’t like the Tkachuk brothers, but I hardly think they are cancers. Florida seemed to do quite well with Matthew. I do question that Brady is worth 3 first round picks and a second though.