tnt

Jake Sanderson with another goal and assist so far today. That gives him 53 points. To put that into perspective, that’s double the number of points of Brock Faber at 26. Impressive! Wish we could have seen him in the lineup more at UND.

Exactly, no way Michigan or BU get to the Frozen Four.

Yeah, I think we’ll find out soon enough if he is the change we needed.

No, he became an assistant basically out of college, and he didn’t really ever play in college. I’m sure Malone’s long NHL career he has learned from tons of coaches, nevermind tricks of the trade he could pass on to the forwards. I would call that real world experience. He is very well respected veteran, and I suspect would get that kind of respect from the players as well.

If UND hires Chyzyk as many hope, and have retained Simpson, having an on-ice coach to work with the forwards might be the way to go. If they want someone to demonstrate that work ethic and hard nosed play, Brad Malone could be a very good fit. Years in the NHL, and now experience coaching in Major Juniors would give them another recruiting angle. That would be a pretty well rounded staff. Be interesting to see when Oshawa’s season ends.

Must be miserable to be miserable all the time. You might want to step away from these recreational pastimes , if not for your health, for our reading pleasure.

Yes, and then have them portal out when they don't get ice time.

True, but in the same way, I don't feel sorry for any of them when they aren't able to find a new place to play out of the portal, or if their current coaches tell them they are no longer needed because they have found a better player. This kind of free agency cuts both ways.

Do you even watch pro hockey? The same coaches just keep getting recycled. How many has Montgomery been through already?

Nick Jones is another one that had the unselfish characteristic we need.

Not saying it's complaining because it is natural to want to see progress when teams are garnering commitments from the portal and seemingly no progress for us when we have holes to fill. But much as it takes a while for the younger players to make their decisions in the August period, some players are doing their due diligence and taking their time to make a decision, which is good. Now that all this press conference and stuff is out of the way, I am hoping we see some progress soon, because you know there is a lot going on behind the scenes.

...and I'm sure we will. Personally, after all we have been through, I wouldn't have wanted to take a chance on Whitelaw, so don't understand why people are worried that Western has got a couple portal players and we haven't. I'm sure we will see in the days ahead who will fit with the new direction Jackson wants to go.

First people say we shouldn't be using the portal, now we get mad when another team is getting more portal players right off the bat. We used to worry about the elite prospects slipping away, now just any player going somewhere else brings the ire of fans. Bottom line is that Jackson was right, whoever you get needs to buy in and give it all for the program. Ferschweiler seems to have gotten his guys to buy in, and that is a big deal. Maybe he thinks he has the magic touch, but as we have seen one guy can upset the apple cart. Maybe he can get Whitelaw to become that team guy, but then again, maybe he upsets the apple cart that they have going.

Are you talking about Brandon Holt from Maine? Much more concerned about not taking the second time around chance on Hampton Slukynsky who was probably more integral in beating Denver. Would actually really like to know if they let Karl's thoughts guide them on goaltending recruiting, or what the thinking was?

"One last shift" changes to "One last Season"!

Which brings me to this, we take a no name recruit (I will allow them to use my name), we put that name on the jersey, then we use makeup to conceal the identity of Jonathan Toews and put him in that uniform. He can play half the game, and we are set. Oh, and if there is some NIL money to be thrown around, I would be glad to accept that.

No more volunteer assistants. If they have 3 assistants that is it.

David Carle does the same thing with his players keeping them fresh, so not going to ding Berry for that.

Thought it was interesting that he mentioned Berry as one of the coaches he thanked, but when he was talking about coaches and culture, Berry wasn't mentioned with the other coaches that time around. Very telling.

So Chaves gives Jackson a 5 year deal? It didn't say anything about buyouts, but if you give the assistant coach of a struggling team a 5 year contract it better not have an absurd buyout clause.

Was it stated somewhere if this press conference is going to be streamed, and if so does anyone have a link?

No doubt, but it has now gotten to the point if you don’t follow suit, you get left behind. So basically the NCAA talking about sportsmanship is a joke because they have created an atmosphere where it is impossible to practice it without ruining your chance to be competitive.

I think most of us knew there were some issues behind the scenes, but nobody could have guessed that it was this bad. Hearing what some players think of each other really shows that divide, and if the coaches were like that, then you see why there was division. Somebody had to be adults in the room, and I question going forward if it wasn't just wise to start fresh all around, especially with the revelation that UND hasn't been as visible on the recruiting stage as other programs. That wreaks of relying on the laurels of the program, and when you are getting a half million a year, that is unconscionable.

Remember when all the coaches in the league had a gentleman's agreement not to poach verbal commits? It was a huge thing when I believe Motzko and Monty got into it because Denver poached Cole Guttman? Now with the portal, it seems like it is dog eat dog, and everyone is in play. How I long for the days when there was some sort of sanity in college athletics.

What letter was that? To me, if Berry said that, then he wasn't confident that his own assistants were capable of being in charge, which is kind of an indictment on himself.