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After breaking the single season goal record for Green Bay Gamblers on Saturday night, Zellers continued scoring for 5 pts (3 🚨 2 🍏) on the weekend. He now leads the USHL with 44 tucks in 48 games, and 25 apples, for a total of 69 points, tying him for the league lead in total points. The amazing stat is he has played 48 games, the kid he's tied with for points, Landon Gunderson (ironically also from Maple Grove) has played in 57 games. GB reports he missed some preseason games to make sure he was fully recovered, and was in Canada for World Junior A tournament. In a post game interview he said now that he broke the GB record, he's shooting to hit 50 goals on the season. For perspective, in 2022-23 Mack Celebrini in played 50 games, had 46g 40a for 86 pts. https://ushl.com/ht/#/player-stats

Thanks Skippy, I was up to speed last century.

Didn't you post in one of these other threads there was "no way" Sasha was leaving? Now you know with 100% certainty he wanted to leave, and it was money & to get closer to his family? You would be a good weather broadcaster.

Right, the "we should take the (moral) high ground" argument & not play 'their' game. Always a good excuse when we get beat for not getting off our collective a$$ and beat 'them' at their own game. You've heard this line before, I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere NoDak, but it's true for me. I was always taught to never give up. I was told if they change the rules, learn their rules & beat them at their own game. I paid my own way through UND with all kinds of ugly jobs. But, if today some of my donations to UND goes to an NIL, to get a kid to come to play a sport, or build the latest drone technology at our school - I'm all in!! And as long as they don't cheat, or break a law, I'm in if they win or not. UND gave me a great start on life, and even if these kids stay for 2 or 4 years, they will forever be a part of the same UND I am proud to represent. If this is going to be about what's "fair" or you only play for the Sioux Hockey team if you "play for pride & tradition" - we are beat before we take the ice. Might as well demand all the players use straight blade sticks too, because some of these kids shoot the lights out with these new twigs. We have to go to war on the field in front of us, not the one up on that shiny hill of 'moral high ground' that doesn't exist. Rant done. I apologize in advance for the sarcasm, but not really.

Ask all of the posters "in the know". I haven't read in any of these threads where, "...UND was close, but at $25,00, it wasn't on par with the current market." Don't hate the player(s), hate the game. We can whine, complain & make principled statements like, "Well! If playing for the Sioux ain't good enough, the we don't want 'em!" And the other schools will smile, say 'Thank you very much' and take those players. It's not any different from the game pro sports play when, _____ quarterback's new contract just made him the highest paid QB in the league. Show that you respect the player's skill level and/or rank in their sport, or someone else will. I hire sales people all the time, believe me, they know exactly what their competitors are making, and where the market level is set. But ask the 'experts', I have no clue, maybe we are paying now, but just not enough.

Yes. Dane did 70%, Karl & Dillion the other roughly 30%. It is like this with most college hockey teams. Other sports do it differently.

Are we being punk’d?? You took a hockey class where Jackson showed up, sometimes, and he gave you the same advice I give my 10-year-old & his team at his squirt practice?? And you think that qualifies him as a coach to take over one of the most historically successful college hockey programs in the country? Now I better understand how David Koresh was able to convince all those people down in Waco he was right. 🤯

Ding ding. It was.

No one will ask those questions. It's a press room of 5 reporters. They will all turtle up & ask about 'changing the culture' and 'what players are leaving' or 'how will you keep the current recruits'?

If that’s true, why are there so many rumors about current (high emphasis on current) players hitting the portal? Or recruits getting calls from other schools? Name the players, if you can’t/won’t, we have to assume you’re full of BS & just trying to do your friend a solid. And when you look at who’s left on the roster, of course they’re going to say that, or they fear they will have their ice time cut if DJ gets the job. It is absolutely professional malpractice to ask or force these kids (they are still kids) to give any kind of comment/recommendations on the current coach or potential coach. Anyone who does that should be dropped as a candidate, & the administrator(s) should be fired on the spot. So many have said it, which is why it probably won’t happen. But once again - slow down, wait for the tourney to at least get past the first round, do a real national search, talk to REAL former players & actually listen to their advice, & then pick the best candidate to restore our favorite hockey team to national dominance. Go SIOUX!!

Who is in charge of the offense? DJ. Who messed up the PP & had it taken away from him? DJ. Who as given the PK, drove it to the bottom of NCAA? DJ. Who was #1 recruiter, missed all the ‘chippas’? DJ. What could go wrong with him as HC?

Definitely not true, at least the part about the locker room.

Not true, at all.

1,000% agree with your list & especially the order. But I’m very afraid this is rigged for candidate not on your list, but still in the Ralph.

Good thinking. That’ll show ‘em. If that’s the plan, bulldoze the Ralph, it hasn’t produced either.

OK Boomer.

You are very wrong. Players/recruits play to win, they don’t want to suck. But they are not committed to a university that cans the coach they loved.

That’s cute. You still wait for the Easter Bunny to bring you a basket too? The AD is a moron. He had no plan other than to fire Berry. He isn’t smart enough to understand how to play the game at that level. The DU’s & Michigan State’s of college hockey are playing 3 layer chess, while our guy is still getting beat at tick tack toe.

Not with Dane Jackson. He “doesn’t agree with that style of hockey. We need to be more physical as a team.”

He’s worse than Jackson. No coaching philosophy beyond ‘F’in hit ‘em get the puck!’

No. He is not.

Sorry, fat thumbs, numbers too close together.

Folks should watch the transfer portal VERY closely today!! I mean, duh, captain obvious. But, there is a chance for Sioux hockey to add a legit blue chip defenseman for next season….

Minnesota Hockey Magazine profile on Zellers' season in Green Bay, and how fired up he is to play Sioux Hockey. https://minnesotahockeymag.com/will-the-thrill/

Zellers scored 2 goals in first game at WJAC. Assist in game 2 and game 3. Over a point a game. Heil pitched shut out in 2nd game as well, Hendrickson played 3rd period. Looked really dialed in. Laurila has been top D pairing. Canadian teams are not the powerhouses of past years. USA beat West team 4-0, East team 8-0. Team Sweden is the real deal. 🇸🇪 goalie made 10 highlight reel saves. Hendrickson in net for 🇺🇸. Also had a great game. USA lost 5-3, looked a little disjointed & could not get a greasy one past the red hot goalie. Rematch will be the Gold medal game on Sunday.