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Get that Firestick working. Plenty of Keaton and Cole and Will highlights incoming.

Both on offense and defense.

Man this is crazy.

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/2026-nhl-draft-dethroning-gavin-mckenna-first-overall-pick-lawrence-lin-roobroeck-stenberg-verhoeff

Schloss wrote an article about the pro camp...I remember hearing about that years ago but didn't realize that it kind of died off. Sounds like Dane led the charge to bring it back, and that's great to hear. Great group of former players showed up! Hopefully the current team got to hang around and skate with them a bit! https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/nick-schmaltz-brock-boeser-among-former-und-standouts-back-in-grand-forks Nice list of attendees:

Yeah, should be listed soon...just states one month before first game. Hoping to see you there this year!

For this year?

<cue Seinfeld meme>

Wisdom and Whitelaw were two very solid pickups out of the portal for them. I would’ve welcomed both to UND, although I’ve seen it mentioned that Whitelaw is an issue in the locker room. They lost their best 200ft forward in Washe, their best center in Matteo, and the best forward in the league in Bump. Bump will be very hard to replace, he single-handedly won them several games.

That streak has got to end sometime, right?!? Every year the last like three seasons they've lost all their big scorers and every year they get replaced by someone new. Has to end at some point.

I'm not sold on WMU or DU being #1 in the league this year with all they lost. Both have coaches that can certainly get the most out of their players though, so it wouldn't be a shock. Also not sold on UND taking over the top spot if one of those two above isn't #1. As UND also lost a bunch. Gonna be a wide-open, fun season I have a feeling.

BSU bringing in a couple older guys that played pro AHL/ECHL last year: https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/sports/beavers-hockey/beavers-finalize-2025-26-roster-former-pros-cleared-to-skate-in-ncaa-through-eligibility-center Thornton is a 21yo that played 49 games in the ECHL last season. McClennon is a 23yo that has played 5 full WHL seasons, played a few games in AHL/ECHL, then 2 seasons in USports. Dang crazy recruiting world we're in now. I still wish we didn't have to play BSU every season...

Agreed. Sprinkle some chippahs in with these really good 3-4 year guys and you have the makings of some great rosters for the next few upcoming seasons.

Schloss already dropped the article: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/fargo-defenseman-zaide-penner-commits-to-und

It was a Hlinka defensemen...just on the US side instead of Canada. Still crossing my fingers on 1-2 of those Canadian ones though...

Another local kid.

Bryn is pumping them out this week! Excited to see who this one is...

After his heart surgery, Kuzma is going to the OHL for a season before going back to PSU the next year: https://x.com/PennStateMHKY/status/1960131427049361652

He used to be a DU commit.

Updated Commit List as of Aug 25th: Added Grubb to the list. A blue-chip D & F would really make this a great recruiting class...let's see who the coaching staff can pull. Forwards Pilgrim (USHL Tri-City) - '06: 0gp - 0g/0a 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 AAA) - '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 Goalies Heil (USHL Madison) - '06: 0gp - .000 / 0.00 (0-0-0)

Article said he's back at SSM this year. Wonder where he'll go after that. He'll have options! Judging by his numbers, seems to be a nice setup guy...he was piling up the assists at the Four Nations as well.

Now...can UND re-establish the SSM connection and grab one or two of his SSM linemates from the Four Nations tourney?

Nice. Best “local” kid. I’ll take it. Welcome aboard!

Great get for them but figured he would stick with one of the Boston schools.

Dang a Sunday afternoon Bat Signal?