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Probably people clinging to “back in the day” pricing to determine if they still want to give a place their business.

Haven’t seen him play, so not sure it is fair to judge his offensive output because Fargo hasn’t been an offensive juggernaut. I’m sure the coaches have been able to monitor his play often.

Interesting that 2009 Ludovic Perreault has 12 goals & 22 points in 41 games on the same team as fellow 2009 Eli McKamey, who has 1 goal & 6 points in 27 games. Don’t know if the injury is still holding back McKamey or not, but interesting stats. I know Perreault was one of Schlossman’s top 20 recruits list from Canada to watch this past August.

Would be interesting to know if he would agree to that, or go play with his brother at CC. I believe CC was one of the teams he was considering before committing to UND. If you’re not dominating at the current level, why rush it though.

Makes sense.

Going to miss all the business when UND makes the Frozen Four in Vegas in April. Really, Vegas has become so expensive that they are chasing people away.

I think Gross would either finish his career at St. Cloud or turn pro.

He seems really invested on being a leader on this team. Nobody would surprise me, but I think he knows he could benefit by another year with more responsibility.

If we don’t win a title this year, I can see him wanting to be a part of a championship team, knowing we would be contenders. Would assume if he chose to do so we would lose someone, either a recruit or someone currently on the team. You would possibly have pairings: Liv - Verhoeff Mackenzie - Emery Strathmann/Laurila - Carels Strathmann /Laurila - Lindberg Jubenvil - Engels Someone would certainly leave in that scenario. Experience on defense is huge if you want a championship run, so Liv staying would be huge. Hopefully it would be going for back to backs.

If so, you lose a lot of development and are starting from scratch, albeit with very talented players. Think of us a couple years ago with a very young defensive crew. Not a great recipe for a National Championship team with one or two upperclassmen.

Personally, I think Bob is either doing his best to recruit replacement guys like Jackson did when we looked like a mess, or they will show him the door. Be interesting to see if they are active recruiting players in the CHL beyond the already committed Kvasnicka. I think Bob probably is feeling the pressure to turn it around quick, so we’ll see if he is stubborn, or if he changes his philosophy a bit. So many good defensemen in the CHL, that maybe Minnesota could even pull one if they move that direction. Personally, I hope teams use the “All Minnesota” provincialism against them on the recruiting trail in Canada.

Makes you wonder if Kvasnicka would have played instead of Zellers had Vanbiesbrouck not stepped in to include Zellers.

You playing in the UND golf outing?

Beyond Carels, don’t know how much room you have for another defenseman with MacKenzie and Lindberg coming in. Assuming we lose Wiebe, Livanavage and Zmolek. Emery could go, but would be wise to stay. Need to keep some experience on the back end, as we know that there is a bigger learning curve for defensemen.

In the same token, how can the Bears throw a Hail Mary 40 yards and the defender not be right on top of the receiver?

Even worse, they only had one timeout left. That’s just saying we want to make it look closer in the final score,

…and looking at him play, I would be surprised if he is really the 5’10” that they have him listed as.

Someone break up Mercyhurst, they won again tonight.

They are also saying they should come up with NIL money and raid UND and UMD’s rosters. They could maybe get guys who aren’t happy with playing time, but do you honestly think a guy like Zellers would leave to get sat on the bench while guys like Mooney get tons of ice time? Bob has lost his team, and if anybody should be raiding, it should be other teams’ raiding Minnesota’s decent incoming recruits. Wonder if Bob is given an ultimatum, to preserve the recruits they do have. Cullen plays the game the right way, and should steer clear of that situation, rather than needing to be the savior that can help get their talent to play together. Wish he would come to that conclusion on his own and seek out a team that is in concert with the way he plays the game. Hey Wyatt, UND is just that type of team.

While I think Dane is getting players to play the right way, I’m not so sure any coach is going to prevent college students from being college students. He can’t make guys like each other with opposite personalities. Thankfully, these guys all seem to like each other, which is great for team chemistry, but I do think if there were conflicts that Dane would make it known, you don’t have to like each other off the ice, but you will not be bringing that dislike into the locker room and that being a professional is to set that aside for the betterment of the team, much as in any organization.

Yeah, plenty of times guys ranked in that area don’t get taken at all. Only takes one team to like your game that thinks your game would suit a certain role.

Really think both Laurila and Strathmann have been very good, plus losing one defenseman to a blocked shot puts us short, especially if another one gets a penalty that is used a lot killing penalties. True there are forwards that need and deserve ice time as well, so if everyone becomes healthy I can see that on occasion.

Good problem to have, but who comes out? Menghini and Young have been playing great lately, and while Klee hasn’t been putting up the points quite as much, he is playing well with those two.

Would like to see him shoot more just to keep the other team honest. He did have a couple shots tonight where the goalie had a horseshoe in his pocket.

The opposing teams broadcast team said they were surprised Andrew O’Neill was only #126 on Central Scouting ranking because he has so much grit to his game. He had 2 goals tonight in a loss.