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Gonna be a fun season with Sanderson. Great cross ice pass for a chance.

My connection has been working well on my PC

Too many grindaz. Not enough blue chippahs.

Two transfers on top line. Interested to see how those two do with how many goals they put up last year.

Would have been great to see Adams come back for his 5th season this year. He would have been a great addition to the offensive production.

Us against the government! Bring your guns, it's gonna be a fight!

Both USCHO and CHN have released their preseason polls: https://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-mens-poll/2021-09-27/ https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2021/09/29_CHN-Preseason-Top-10.php USCHO has us at #8 and defending champs UMass at #1. CHN has us at #5 and UMN at #1. CHN I feel has us a little high to start the season...same thing with UMD, who they have at #3. By the end of the year UND could be a potential title challenger, but I feel we could have some kinks to work out with all the holes in the lineup to fill.

And they weren't even picked to win their conference.

Haha, yes.

My feeling is that the arenas are just trying to make it as easy as possible for them to still be able to host events such as this in the current environment. As much of a distraction/inconvenience that it may be, it seems more and more venues are moving toward these types of policies, so if your goal is to not show any medical info to anyone, it may become more difficult for you to go to any sporting event. Hopefully all this crap clears up soon (not likely), but I'd rather see them do something like this rather than just cancel the game entirely and we don't have any hockey to watch at all.

Maybe some people just want to see some hockey.

I don’t see this affecting our fan base at all, regardless of how many people show up.

Agreed. Could see the 2-7 teams finishing in any sort of order by end of season.

That was a big surprise to me as well. He could be a Hobey contender this year IMO.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/hockey/7192715-Jake-Sanderson-wins-UNDs-Iron-Man-competition Sanderson won the Iron Man competition.

Their coach has been saying for 4 years that they are close to joining a conference.

They could have chosen to throttle the NDSU club team if they wanted.

Using the new NCAA waiver for exhibition games, UND will now play Bemidji on Oct 2 instead of Manitoba.

Fantilli bringing his buds along with him. Wish we could have landed Fantilli, I know it was a long shot, but he did visit UND. Michigan is going to be like UND last year in regards to off-season departures. Half their roster will be gone at the end of this season, but they at least have some studs lined up to replace a couple of those departures.

Either Rutger McGroarty or Matthew McGroarty. Rutger is committed to Notre Dame and Matthew to Quinnipiac.

Wowzers.

I'm intrigued. What are you hearing? New recruit coming in this year...moving up a current recruit a year early...transfer portal player...sniping a recruited player from another school??

Well said.

I'm interested too...can't be many impact players available this late in the game. "Hey do you want to play hockey for UND this year...by the way, school starts tomorrow"