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Those Boston schools just offer better NIL money.

Ouch.

Agreed. His speed is certainly his best attribute currently, but he's gonna develop into one of our better skilled forwards when he's a upperclassman, IMO. If he gets paired with one of the top 2 lines at some point this season...watch out.

Blurb on Zellers and his great start to the season: Averaging over a goal per game and almost 2 points per game so far. Will be interesting to see how well he does in the USHL next year before coming to UND.

UND doing better at blocking shots this season: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-defensemen-are-blocking-shots-at-a-high-rate?fbclid=IwAR3Wg8dUnQJIETA-jdFRmNuAfEWNq4CyPThbgB3Mn-7-U-QMcm-Nb_N2mM4

Removed Singleton and Ausmus from the list. Updated stats thru 11/6: USHL (Forwards) Croal (Muskegon) - '03: 14gp - 5g/10a Littler (Cedar Rapids) - '04: 13gp - 8g/3a Panzer (Sioux Falls) - '04: 14gp - 5g/5a Slipec (Chicago) - '05: 11gp - 1g/4a Klee (Muskegon) - '05: 14gp - 2g/6a Swanson (Fargo) - '06: 12gp - 4g/11a Boisvert (Muskegon) - '06: 14gp - 10g/5a O'Neill (NTDP U17) - '07: 15gp - 1g/3a Simpson (Tri-City) - '07: 14gp - 1g/2a USHL (Defenseman) Jubenvill (Dubuque) - '03: 14gp - 5g/5a Strathmann (Youngstown) - '05: 11gp - 2g/9a McInnis (Waterloo) - '06: 11gp - 0g/0a Emery (NTDP U18) - '06: 13gp - 0g/3a Laurila (NTDP U18) - '06: 13gp - 1g/1a USHL (Goalies) Heil (Sioux Falls) - '06: 8gp - .873/3.30 (4-4) Other Pilgrim - MN HS - '06: 0gp - 0g/0a Zellers - SSM - '06: 20gp - 21g/17a Schultz - MN HS - '06: 0gp - 0g/0a

Good article from Brad about how the majority of top US recruits are picking NCAA over Canadian Jr league the last few years: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/americans-playing-hockey-in-canadian-major-junior-leagues-is-at-a-20-year-low

I'm guessing either Hain and/or Senden?

UND kicks off their NCHC season by traveling to UMD. The main downside to that, of course, is listening to the horrible UMD homer announcers. Best to mute and pair up with TH. UMD is 3-3-3 to start the season. Tie against MTU, Win/Tie against NMU, swept BSU (one in OT), got swept by Cornell, and Loss/Tie against UMN. Neither of their goalies have amazing stats thus far (.896 & .891), but Thiessen earned them that tie against UMN when he stopped 47/50. Similar to last year, most of their offense goes thru Steeves. We'll get another look at Cole Spicer (their 2nd leading goal scorer) and Luke Bast (their only D with more than 1 goal). We've definitely played a tougher schedule so far, so hopefully we go in there and can take advantage. We should have better forward depth and high-end skill, along with hopefully better goaltending. Tough to sweep on the road in any barn though, so hopefully the boys can come home with 4+ points.

Getting too crowded with recruits in Michigan:

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2023/11/05_Roundup-Wisconsin-Sweeps.php

ASU squeaked out a couple wins this weekend against winless Stonehill. Not encouraging going into their games against DU next weekend. We'll see how they do against the Pios.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/jackson-blakes-overtime-winner-gives-und-5-4-victory-in-wild-game-at-boston-university?fbclid=IwAR3_T7Oxr3v0Cf4aBozLOT2z8qldiYr4_y58c2-tSqeIJBYw73u8uW4OIqs

Spicer and Costantini with good starts to their seasons. Going head to head with Spicer next weekend at Duluth. If UND can contain him and Steeves, I like our chances.

The announcers didn't really have much to say after that goal.

Another view of the GW OT Goal:

Yes it was offsides.

Yes for sure. Especially UW if they keep rolling. They're rolling over these other B10 powers so far. The loss to us is the only blemish on their record thus far.

Booo!

Man, did we need that. Huge PWR win right there.

REVIEWED AND GOAL STANDS!

Yes, as long as they count it

BLAKE!!!!!

Chances of a BU PP in OT?

I'm not liking our chances in OT. They just have too many super high end offensive players.