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https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/jackson-kunz-looking-to-build-upon-breakthrough-weekend?fbclid=IwAR3no8QovTbQ5BOeP1Njp1iJS5tgKgxmuzWiCheXGGR2Qd077-9Gh5Ywap0 Article on Kunz looking to breakout after his good weekend against SCSU.

USCHO First Bracket look: https://www.uscho.com/2023/02/22/bracketology-first-edition-proves-that-there-might-be-some-extreme-difficulties-in-seeding-this-season/ I guess it must have slipped his mind that QU and Cornell can't play in the 1st round in Bridgeport.

Loaded with grinders? That sums up a lot of the season, for sure.

Or maybe not much at all. Mbereko is a stud.

I have the sneaking suspicion that we will be running into a "hot goalie" this weekend.

Karl runs the NCAA-leading PP though.

Isaac Howard - 1st round - 4-9-13 Jackson Blake - 4th round - 13-23-36 Ryan McAllister - undrafted - 11-30-41 According to your logic, only Howard would be a blue chipper of those three, which I guess means that Blake and McAllister are grinders. Yet, if you were building a team for this season and were only allowed to take two of those three players...which two would you want?

Blake for sure. GFHockey won't consider him a blue chipper since he isn't a 1st rounder, but Blake has blue chippah skill for sure.

Next time I will use more .

Alright, I'd say go ahead and ask them. I, for one, am in agreement that I wish Johnson would have gotten more of a shot here, especially since the optics appear that he was brought in rather than Morrow. That said, I would say that our track record of developing players for the NHL is unmatched by at least 95% of the colleges.

Yeah I'm sure Ottawa doesn't want any more of their players coming to UND after watching Pinto and Sanderson regress in their development while here.

I can see it now... Motzko is taking a prized recruit around for a tour of Mariucci. The recruits parents look around and mention in passing that the Ralph seemed to be a much nicer arena with better amenities for the players. Motzko, with his razor sharp ears, hears this comment and feels the need to confide in the parents. "You know, according to some posters on the siouxsports.com message board, there is a potential locker room issue going on at that school...I'd steer clear." The parents, who are always interested in gossip (they watch a lot of TMZ), are intrigued and take his comment to heart. No less than 20min later, the highly sought after recruit has given his verbal commitment to join the Gopher program for that fall. After the family leaves, Motzko chuckles to himself and says "thank you siouxsports.com...thank you once again."

White breezers. Not a good look.

They've certainly been recruited. Just haven't landed any recently, unfortunately. Cooley said it came down to UND and UMN. Eiserman was down to UND, UMN, and BU. Kent Johnson was down to UND and UM. Hopefully he can change that soon.

Blake's pipe in the 3rd with just a couple minutes left would have blown the roof off the place and been a good reward for a strong weekend from him.

Hopefully see some of this next season (Emerson from Perron):

Agreed. As I've mentioned before, I think our offense will be even more improved next season. If they can shore up the D-corps and get a quality portal goalie, it could be a very good team. Could. Unfortunately we saw what high expectations did this year. I believe Boisvert the year with Swanson too. Take all those same forwards mentioned above (minus Gaber) developed another 1-2 years. Great core forward group for the next 1-3 seasons lined up.

Geez, that's a huge difference. A win would have been nice from it.

Or both stay for one more year and I’m a happy camper.

Yeah I think he’s taking the Toews approach and being in college at 17.

And…you lost me.

He'll be dominating at BU next season.

This kid is gonna tear up NCAA hockey next season. UND will get to see him too, as we play at BU in early November.

Geez...beautiful pass and then Pinto chips the puck off the bounce. Sweet goal.