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Yeah, the last guy we got in the transfer portal that was on the WCHA all rookie team worked out pretty well in Chris Jandric. Hopefully Zmolek, who was on the CCHA all rookie team makes the same progression as Jandric.

Haven’t heard anything on Cooley. You would think if he was going to sign and play this year yet he would have signed already.

Yeah, it’s one thing to get kicked out, it’s another to taunt the crowd when the player is obviously in severe distress. Terrible look is right. They better have had a talk with him about penalties and decorum.

People said the same about Hakstol. I'm more of the mind that if you get me there all the time, you are going to get it done at some point. An empty net goal, or a routine save away from not even having this conversation.

Let it go.

What was the call? Looked like holding to me. He wrapped his arm.

I don’t think he understands the essence of rivalry. I’m sure Ohio State cheers for Michigan in football as well as Auburn and Alabama, and I’m certain North Carolina cheered for Duke in basketball this year.

Almost convincing that you’re a UND fan. Almost smells of the all Minnesota refrain. See ya!

It surprises me that more players don’t go against the grain and take the puck back where the pass is coming from. VanDevelde was great at that and had an empty net to deposit the puck. Wish more guys would do that than one time the puck the direction the goalie is headed.

Don’t know, but I’m sure they are blaming their own 25 year old goalie.

You never know, but it will be interesting to see if guys like Brodzinski and Nelson are asked to come back, especially if they lose both Nies and Cooley. If Arizona gets Bedard, does Cooley leave to play with him? Arizona needs to start selling something to their fan base, but if they are still in Mullett Arena, are they fine with Cooley having another go in college?

Seen plenty of our guys cry after losing. Would be more embarrassed if he was laughing it off. When you come back for another year and put it on the line night in and night out, I would hope you would show some emotion.

Now it’s time for us to get our house in order so we don’t have to live vicariously through another team. We need to be cheering for our team down the stretch in the NCAA playoffs.

Don’t know, but has good size at 6’4”, 195, and is a 2005 birth year so could possibly still grow.

So I see a Denver player is heading to Mankato from the portal. So who is making the player decisions for Mankato?

Without risking getting burned at the stake, you can say the same about Red Pepper, but how many reference that from their college days.

I think all of the talk is tongue in cheek, because Red Pepper isn’t the answer to recruiting either.

https://michiganstate.rivals.com/news/michigan-state-hockey-signs-gavin-o-connell-and-owen-baker-for-next-season?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMHwPe7ccX65dODhwQexvwBFW5r4RmZKFGRUJh3YYupCYB690qwpip68iH7cAYHH5I32WV0pUpB9PV5_TukB1EI0cMD8ygOTMq1ocQfLkWD6FZOt5i1I1re7WseTzBt6OyR4JOURVNYigYd2C6_7bM0C0xJrM3qICgMlaHRgMEcV Looks like it must have been at least a month ago. It says the Bulldogs might not have had room, but I’m sure the portal changes everything in that regard. So did they lose him like we lost Spicer?

I didn’t know that Gavin O’Connell flipped from UMD to Michigan State because of his relationship to Nightingale, besides losing Howard through the portal.

Our Mayor should have reason to make it happen for two reasons then, his city and his Alma Mater.

…and stay out of the box.

Berry has so many great qualities as a coach, I just hope he can put his loyalties aside and look at things objectively. Let’s face it, we all have blind spots when it comes to people we know and like, that’s why you need someone bending your ear that can look at things from a more objective perspective.

Kind of makes you wonder if he offered Mismash and Adams a chance to come back for an extra year. I heard on NHL radio today that many NHL coaches and GM’s hurt their team’s future because they can’t recognize what others see on when it is time to move on from a core group of players, and double down thinking they have another run in them. They said sometimes when you fall in love with your players you set your future back. Berry strikes me as someone who will be loyal to those players sometimes to a fault and to the detriment of the future. Since he always expresses that UND is run like the professional ranks, he needs to take a deep look in the mirror, and ask himself if he doesn’t make decisions out of loyalty. That is the definition of culture, no advantages in responsibility for taking dumb penalties or not producing or fulfilling your role. It wouldn’t hurt for them to have an outside person take a look at how we got to the point of having to use the portal extensively. Since Hakstol seemed to have guys waiting in the wings every year, and being able to get another year of juniors out of someone because they weren’t desperate, maybe he wouldn’t mind looking at the situation. The question is, are they too proud to have someone look at it objectively and critically?

So are you advocating going full out into the portal like Q did this year. We outplayed them badly one game this year early with guys like Blake, McLaughlin, and James having hardly any college experience. This is the same argument made a few years back after we lost to Denver in the 1st round of the NCHC, then the next year Kawaguchi, Adams, and Weatherby took steps forward and Pinto made a big difference. Of course we don’t have that option on the back end, but things change fast, as in the progression of Dylan James from early to late, kind of the same progression we saw with Sanderson.

Yeah, even if Strathmann is on the same page now, you never know who (Major Juniors or other college teams) will be bending his ear next year in Juniors, especially if we struggled again next year. I.E., does another school look more attractive with a better chance at a Championship.