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Strinden won the annual IronMan competition...3 time winner! Natural hat-trick of trophies for him. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/ben-strinden-wins-third-straight-iron-man-competition Also good to see that some of the new players excelled in the competition as well. And no surprise on James winning the skating aspects.

So did Michael Misa...some where speculating that he might be a late-addition to an NCAA school...

Yep. Don't feel sorry for them at all.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/chl-discontinues-passes-for-ncaa-coaches The comments from the Red Deer GM are humorous to me. How often did CHL teams poach players & recruits from NCAA schools, including UND, over the last few years? Do you think any of those CHL teams gave the NCAA teams a heads-up that they were talking to the players or that the players were leaving the NCAA schools? This is just doing to them exactly what they did to the NCAA teams, and the CHL teams don't like being on the other side.

Yeah, kids these days definitely want to sign up for 3 years of long bus rides back and forth from Saskatoon and living with a billet family. Not many will want to play in the best arena in college hockey, chartered planes to away games, and top notch facilities. Not to mention coeds.

Hmm, interesting. If he no longer comes next season, could free up a spot for a blue chip CHL guy.

Updated Commit List as of Sept 9th: Added B Schultz and Penner to the list. Forwards B. Schultz (USHL Waterloo) - '05: 0gp - 0g/0a Pilgrim (USHL Tri-City) - '06: 0gp - 0g/0a A. Schultz (USHL Chicago) - '06: 0gp - 0g/0a O'Neill (WHL Edmonton) - '07: 0gp - 0g/0a Sanderson (USHL Muskegon) - '07: 0gp - 0g/0a Simpson (USHL Youngstown) - '07: 0gp - 0g/0a Jundt (WHL Calgary) - '08: 0gp - 0g/0a Williams (WHL Saskatoon) - '08: 0gp - 0g/0a DeMars (WHL Penticton) - '09: 0gp - 0g/0a Grubb (SSM 18U Prep) - '09: 0gp - 0g/0a McKamey (WHL Victoria) - '09: 0gp - 0g/0a Defensemen MacKenzie (WHL Edmonton) - '06: 0gp - 0g/0a Lindberg (USHL Fargo) - '07: 0gp - 0g/0a Penner (USHL Fargo) - '08: 0gp - 0g/0a Goalies Heil (USHL Madison) - '06: 0gp - .000 / 0.00 (0-0-0)

Maybe he is planning on doing a different GIF moving forward? His tweet just said that the GIF was being retired. Who knows. I'll guess we'll see if anything is mentioned when DuPont commits.

Good call.

He's poised for a big season in the USHL:

#ferdaOxbow

Haha, true.

Two of our more anticipated freshmen forwards. Cole Reschny, 1st rounder, probably our 1st/2nd line center. Will Zellers, USHL goal scoring champ and PotY last year.

Five goals? Easy. Cole and Will will combine for that themselves.

Yes, for sure. Looking at UNO's roster, I seriously recognize only like 6-7 names and the rest are mysteries. They'll be fielding a USports All-Star team essentially with Simon still in net at least. Just hard to predict how those players will adapt and how quickly. They will be the most interesting NCHC team to follow this next season IMO due to that USports unknown...I could see them finishing anywhere from 4th to 8th and it wouldn't surprise me.

It also makes me wonder how some of those USports players (that UNO and others loaded up on) will do in the NCAA/NCHC. Granted, I don't think Manitoba has ever looked like a top USports team, but I think the majority of them are going to have a tough transition to college puck.

Ha, for sure. Most of his career UND highlights taken during his FR year exhibition game.

That would have been sweet! But understand his reasoning to match the kids.

Or at the very least just take off the current jersey that they give the players and have your period correct one underneath. I believe that Eddie did that.

WHL preseason games have already started. Jundt looks to be making the transition to WHL nicely!

Agreed! You know a lot of eyes are gonna be on him. Wouldn't be surprised to see him take some lumps as he adjusts to the NCAA level but hopefully he's flying by the end of the season and helps lead UND back to the F4.

Article on Verheoff that goes over some of the nitpicks & criticisms (along with the strengths) of his game: https://newwavehockey.com/f/2026-early-scouting-report-keaton-verhoeff

Incoming 10 freshmen announced for this fall: https://fightinghawks.com/news/2025/9/2/mens-hockey-north-dakota-announces-incoming-freshman-class-for-2025-26.aspx

That’s so weird. What happened at ASU then?

Jim is on it. there were hundreds of them. Pretty crazy.