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Holy crap, huge news! What a great pickup for UND! Hakstol is continuing to land these "big" guns! I put big in quotes because he's about as big as Duncan. Hopefully Rocco can put up the stats like Duncan though!!

Here are the stats for SSM: http://www.ssmsports.org/hockey/teams/2009...am-tier-i-stats He was a 9th grader last year (95 birth year), 5-8, 150lbs. He had 170 pts, leading the team in scoring by almost 70 pts. A search on WCH brings back these results on him:

Draft article on Nelson/Forbort: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/arti...2/group/Sports/

Potential new UND recruit? Jordan Schmaltz, a 2012 dman recruit for UW, announced that he is de-committing from Wisconsin and opening up his recruitment again. http://noalibisnoregrets.blogspot.com/2010...-wisconsin.html Looks like we were one of the schools that he visited prior to UW: If OSU doesn't nab him, that would be a nice pickup for UND, as we don't have any Defense recruits lined up yet for 2012 (and only one lined up for 2011...Nick Mattson).

I really hope that Danny comes to UND next fall (2011) and develops into an excellent 4yr player for UND. He had so much potential in HS, and then has kind of fallen off the map in the USHL. Perhaps this last year in the USHL will help him out...

GF native Alex Simonson commits to UNO: http://www.ushl.com/news/story.cfm?id=3330 That's a horrible ratio of points to penalty minutes. Blais has accumulated a good group of recruits from the USHL... Montpetit was a former UW recruit and Walters was a former UMN recruit. Is this the Matt White that was a former UND recruit, or is that the other Matt White? I forget.

I wonder how many games the WCHA would suspend Mario for almost going into the stands to fight?

Maybe you were a cancer in the locker room?

http://www.pointstreak.com/prostats/player...p;seasonid=4429 Not sure what he is doing with his hair there ( ), but welcome aboard if true! Will he be bringing his friend Rocco along?

Glad to see the UND Cycling Team doing so well. It kind of hit a wall there for a couple years with membership numbers (the last year that I was president, we won both the DII road and mtb conference titles), so I am happy to see it prospering once again and doing so well on the racing side.

From Brad's blog: Who is everyone's guess?

I don't see scoring being a problem next season. Kristo, Frattin, Gregoire, Hextall, Malone, Trupp, etc...all those guys will be scoring threats next season. Not to mention having the best offensive dman in college hockey is always a plus. I look for our PP to be a step or two above where it was this past season. Having a high-end frosh class is nice...but UND won't have to rely on our freshmen like other schools. We'll only have 3 or 4 incoming recruits. When you compare that to the huge classes coming in to DU, UW, UMN, etc...those schools absolutely NEED their freshmen to contribute, where UND has the luxury of having a strong corp of experienced returning upperclassmen to rely on.

Hey, WCHA league and playoff titles count in that too!

Sounds like Poulin has committed to BU.

Youtube video of Oshie's shootout heroics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYrIMOQJ8Y

Sucks. Doesn't he want to play for championships each year, instead of battling for WCHA home ice? Big pickup for the Gophers.

http://wiki.siouxsports.com/doku.php/2010-11_schedule

A Gopher poster over on USCHO mentioned that Canadian goalie recruit Joel Vienneau has committed to UMN for the 2011 season. It was down to the Gophers and Michigan for him evidently. Darn those Gophers recruiting those "overage" Canadians!

What happened to Toews?

Awards from last season were announced (from Brad):

Any recent word on the Rau brothers? Wouldn't mind seeing them, Grimaldi, and Ebert all in the green&white. Is that too selfish?

He would be a huge pickup for the Sioux. I hope that either we get him...or Denver doesn't.

From Brad: Not sure if he was even being recruited by UND.

No doubt! Put the Lammy twins and Karvinen on a line together. They'll put up 2-3 goals a night! The UND team should really move up the WCHA standings next season...