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This. If we have four FR dmen next season, they'll all be highly skilled, but FR nonetheless. They'll make mistakes, so it'll be good to have experienced 200ft forwards to help out until they get up to speed.

Dang. He's one that a lot of us were hoping would end up in GF if he was going NCAA. MSU crazy stacked run continues. These stacked first rounder teams have yet to win anything in the postseason, but it'll happen sooner rather than later I'd guess. And this list doesn't include Belchetz:

WHL finals series tied at 1 game a piece between Everett and Prince Albert. Game 3 is tomorrow. Both DuPont and Rudolph with 0g/3a so far.

Insane. Super cool for him.

I've been seeing a lot of mentions of that as well. Would be a great pickup for them and a nice offensive dman to fill the Hutson spot in their lineup.

That's my thinking as well. They obviously knew that they had no shot at the 1st rounder CHL forwards (or knew that those players were sticking in the CHL), that's why the forward spots were filled up early. And if they were only in the running for one of those two big D, then I'm guessing we'd have seen a portal or other commit already on D. My guess is that they are holding both spots open to see how it lands. Plan A - land two of the big boys Plan B - land one of the big boys, then get a portal/commit Plan C - land zero of the big boys, panic, fire & brimstone, pitchforks, then get two portal/commits

Reid is heading to MSU. But I would take Carels and then one of DuPont/Rudolph in a heartbeat.

Great news. Not totally unexpected, but always nice to confirm. Now we just need a couple more D commits, and we're set. I'm hoping for one after the WHL playoffs (or Memorial Cup, depending on who advances) and then another after the NHL draft.

Tarin Smith from Everett goes to UMN. Not sure how bad his injury is or if he'll be ready by the start of the season. But good pickup for them. As DuPont's defensive partner, I'm not sure how many of Smith's points are just due to him being paired with Landon.

My thoughts as well when I saw that announcement.

Prince Albert takes down Medicine Hat, 4-2, in their series. Prince Albert now takes on Everett for the WHL finals...so it'll be Rudolph vs DuPont. Rudolph had another good game...1g/2a. Jonas Woo had a really good season and playoffs for MH...will be interesting to see how he does at ASU next year being a smaller, more offensive dman. Good pickup for them, for sure.

I'm betting that we start to see a much improved Verhoeff as his Soph season progresses. Similar to Emery this past season. EJ had a good but not great FR season, but really started to blossom his Soph year.