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Since they are in trade talks with Pittsburgh about Phil Kessel, maybe they didn't have the cap space, although I am sure they plan on offloading a lot of cap space too. Haven't seen that Anders Lee signed with the Islanders yet, so maybe they would rather have a hometown boy rather than another old Fighting Sioux.

Raise your hand if you had Colton Sanderson being one of the leading goal scorers down the stretch of the Championship season!

Well, only 4 forwards on the team last year finished ahead of him in plus minus, and 3 of them were the line of Senden, Hain and Smith. It isn't a foregone conclusion that new guys are going to be responsible on both ends of the ice from the get go. On the contrary, guys like Adams were just figuring it out at the end of year two.

But you never know, as the layoff might not help with Rask being so incredible right now. It doesn't take much for things to turn in the other direction, as I'm sure not many people would have suspected that Martin Jones would be playing as well as he has based on the first few games in the Vegas series.

But if they are hoping Joe Thornton wins it, should they not have called a penalty on St. Louis when Thornton was complaining that they shot the puck into the net above the plexiglass, which replay confirms? They might have never got to overtime had they not missed that obvious call.

Don’t know how they missed that hand pass. That was worse than the call against Vegas because Vegas just was inept at killing a 5 minute major. In the same token, the refs missed an obvious delay of game penalty in the second while the Sharks were still leading that would have given them a chance to take a two goal lead. Just goes to show you that professional officiating isn’t much better than college. Cross checks to the back of the head, and dangerous hits that resulted in injury. Interesting to see if the refs apologize again, because horrible non calls both ways.

Not trying to convince you of anything, just saying that if you want to support a saintly team, you should cheer for the gophers because they have never done anything beyond reproach. Of course I am being facetious.

Sounds like the same thing people say about the Sioux, playing on the edge. Marchand is an idiot, but beyond him you have guys that play physical and play hard. Most of the guys you mentioned played in the 80’s during a different time in hockey. Remember Dean Dachyshyn, Dan Brennan, Howard Walker, Cary Eades, Jim Archibald, etc.

It's all a matter of perspective. You tell me your favorite team, and I'll pick out some from them as well over the years. Heck, let's pick the Sioux -- Prpich, Hextall, Blake, Schriner, etc.

I wonder what kind of impact Kleven will end up making. After watching a few of the games with the U.S. National team, I can see him spending a lot of time in the penalty box, as college hockey seems to be wanting to take the punishing hits out of the game. We're getting to the point where anything that looks like it hurts will draw a penalty. I can see him getting a bunch of unwarranted penalties like Matt Greene and Andrew MacWilliam. It sounds like he is progressing offensively nicely, so hopefully that will offset some of the attention I think he will garner because of his aggressive hitting.

https://www.milehighhockey.com/platform/amp/2019/5/11/18535859/2019-nhl-draft-prospect-profile-alex-tucotte-scouting-report

Inherently better could encompass one position -- goaltender. Ben Bishop compared to the list of goaltenders Hakstol had at Philly. It wasn't until after he left that they brought up Carter Hart, who performed much better than the cast they had before. That said, how many points out of the playoffs were they when Hakstol left, and how many did they end up out of it? Not really sure about that stat, but people were giving the new coach props, but I don't think they moved up, even with the improved goaltending.

Yeah, not sure what the thought process was there. His brother is at Wisconsin, and even if he didn't like it there I would assume he could go to Major Junior as a stepping stone to the NHL.

A team took a crack at Cole Caufield in the 20th round too, so you never know.

What does butter our bread? Just curious because people seem to be complaining about money quite a bit around here.

...and how Cale Makar seems to have transitioned seamlessly to the NHL, having already played against 24 and 25 year olds.

The point is that he dictated how he wanted the land to be used. UND didn’t have to accept the donation if they didn’t like the purpose.

So you were pretty upset with Ray Richards then huh?

That's the problem, in every league there are only certain players they are concerned about. How many times are offensive players penalized in the NFL for leading with their helmet? Bottom line is the Players Association needs to be involved, but by the reaction of most of the players to fighting, I don't think there is the desire to go to war on the subject. I have seen at least half a dozen dangerous hits in the NHL playoffs that didn't even get penalized.

Apparently, neither do the players. If you get guys like Svechnikov just flat out not fight, then maybe it changes. The players themselves always bang their sticks against the boards after a fight. The players need to show they care about eliminating it first, then maybe things will change.

So what is Schlossman’s end game in his constant rants against Bettman? Reminds me of his constant drumbeats about the women’s hockey team. Even if Bettman admitted trauma causes CTE, the players know this and choose to play the game. This can be caused by fighting as well as checking and hits to the head. We saw what happened to Pavelski. In sports like football and hockey it is going to happen. Now if he can prove the teams are forcing their guys to fight, he might have a case.

Don’t think sucker punches happen all the time. The Bruins are paying for his reputation. The call against him in game 2 at the end of the period might have cost them the game. That probably doesn’t get called on most guys, but with his reputation, the refs were on the lookout.

Are we putting the cart before the horse, just like we did with Kennedy. So we in essence have two lame duck leaders?

I don't care what either do at 14, I am interested to see how they develop and do at the college level.

We aren't going to need to worry about that with Don Lucia as our new assistant!