dustnyou

In our youth association (16uAA) we had a great kid leave home to play AAA. He loved it and did great. However his Mother back home became very ill so he returned to help support her. Of course he was allowed to rejoin the local AA team and continue playing at home while supporting his family. He didn’t leave because of playing time or homesickness, he came home for reasons more important than hockey. I couldn’t imagine telling this kid “sorry but you can’t play here anymore “. Sounds like the NDHHA needs to check their egos and put the kids first!

Mercyhurst is the worst team in college hockey this season. We should win that game no matter who is gone.

I was yes. And I agree with you 100% What a stupid rule to not let kids back from AAA.

I didn’t realize kids weren’t allowed to come back. When did they start disallowing before and after’s in ND?

Extremely similar. I believe someone did a comparison looking back a lot of years (20 or so) and there were only 2 changes to the tournament fields using NPI.

The USHL has filed an application to register the trademark: National Junior Hockey League. I’m not sure what’s cooking here…

Sioux win tonight. Lose tomorrow. It’s hard to be the home team on Halloween. They’re all gonna wanna go out and see the babes in their “outfits” tonight. Slight hangover tomorrow… But dont get mad fans. This is one of the reasons why the CHL guys wanted to come to college

Right. Just like Verhoeff and Liv are now. We are going to get DuPont and next season both him and Verhoeff will each quarterback a power play unit

I’ve heard Miami more than anywhere else from alumni

Eli McKamey making his season debut tomorrow night for Victoria.

Rickwood

Zellers

There seems to be a lot of USHL bound players opting for the CHL instead, not the other way around.

The Rodents will have more CHL recruits as time goes on considering more and more MN kids will opt for the CHL over the USHL going forward..

Last I heard (early last week) was that Western was still trying to get him eligible to play.

Love seeing Johnny Toews back on the sheet. A lot of folks had him pegged as a 4th line center / depth add for Winnipeg Not so much. He’s currently centering Jets 2nd line, on the PP and dominating faceoffs . He looks real good.

Agreed. Love the roof in that barn. Beautiful town and campus as well.

UND’s non-conference schedule is put together very thoughtfully with the #1 goal of receiving an at large bid to the NCAA tournament. Splitting it between traditional powerhouse / rivalry programs (quality wins / strength of schedule) and high win % chance / games we should win 90% of the time. Dave Hakstol was very successful making the tournament with this formula. As fans we all want every non-conference game against blue bloods and desirable destinations but there is actually a very methodical reason for who they schedule. Conference realignment played a big part in this. There’s teams we play that don’t get everyone too excited about but in theory, it’s great to play the top teams of weaker conferences. This is huge in the pairwise. We also need to play “weaker” non-conference opponents for high win chances because of how strong the NCHC is.

Livanavage one of the first 4 selections announced to the US collegiate selects team.

I agree. He’s a bottom six player. Had he stayed for another year of development, he’d be a top six player through those 500 games..

I 100% agree with this as well. Had he stayed, he would’ve been a different player .

He will play in his 500th NHL game this fall. Do you know how many former Sioux have done that? It’s less than 20. You don’t play 500 games in the show if you weren’t ready.

Zellers

I’m gonna give JJ a pass on last nights game. 2nd NFL start. 3 starting O Lineman out. #2 receiver out. And he just became a father a few days ago. That’s quite the week with focus on more than just football.

Interesting