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Everything I had seen seemed to point him to the Gophers, so I'm pleasantly surprised to see this. I'm thinking he'll come in 2014? I'm sure the Lemieux de-committ opened up a spot in that class.

Jason was the other one who came to my mind when the subject came up on the chat tonight.

Unprofessional is what he is.

Don't know how up to date it was, but in the recruit section of the hockey preview this fall in the Herald, he was listed as a '13 or '14 recruit. If I had to guess, I'd say he comes in 2014. I think there's a few guys ahead of him as far as coming in next fall.

More importantly, they cheated in the class equivalent to POLS 115 - American Government at UND. I took that class. If you paid attention at all anywhere between 5th grade up until college, you could pass that class without studying. I get that it's Harvard, but those kids are supposed to be academically gifted and should be able to handle a very basic government course. It's comical to me.

I personally shell out, what? 60 bucks a year on the UND Insider package. I'm not shelling out additional money on a webcast with annoying announcers and blurry pictures. I can barely afford the cost of living. Priorities.

I watched the webcast and they didn't even really get it on camera at all. I'd be shocked if anyone is able to get a decent video of it.

Just wanted to clarify my previous post... the webcast for the games in Tech have been free to those who already have UND Insider subscriptions. So it's technically not free, just not an extra charge.

In the past because Michigan Tech uses the same webcast company, we have gotten the webcasts of the games for free. I'm sure later in the week we'll find out if that is once again the case.

I thought it's been said it is a lower body injury?

Yes, it's very nice. Lots of TV's, place is huge. The Roseville location is also very nice and would also have the Sioux game on.

My first year at the Final Five (this year will be my 5th), I sat in Club, right in front of the SRO rail, where incredibly drunk and obnoxious UMD fans sat. So you can find those drunk and obnoxious fans in any fanbase. Needless to say, it's been lower level ever since. Haven't dealt too much with Gopher fans because they were only there 2 years I went and both times they lost their first game

For Patty's Day I wanted a Final Five Championship...

I'd call the US team full of talent, but then I saw Canada's roster...

You go to the Final Five to win. You go into the NCAA tournament to win. Do you think a bunch of D1 athletes want to go into a tournament, no matter what it is, and not come home with the championship? Not a chance.

That's not a recruiting problem. That's a recruiting CAN'T. Haha

You mean Tony? lol

I'm actually done having this conversation b/c all you do is argue with everything I say.

Namely because the Gophers over recruited forwards for 2013 so the need for them in 2014 isn't as high. That's why some are questioning the space issue. They have no senior forwards, but will probably lose a couple early, and they are still bringing in at least 5 forwards next year.

He transferred to Benilde-St Margarets. The rich get richer...

UND won't recruit every top kid in Minnesota. (we didn't recruit Mario Lucia after all! ) Gotta find the right mix of kids. I haven't seen Hurley play (weird considering Edina is in my backyard) but maybe he's similar to a lot of players we already have? Or maybe they already know there's no interest on his end. Could be lots of reasons. Also, the Hockey Hub recruiting page is "user-submitted", meaning people contact the site about schools they know are recruiting each player, so if no one mentioned UND, it's not going to put it on the site, even if we are recruiting him. There are so many kids out there that commit here that we have no clue we were showing interest in. Just something to think about.

Poolman is not coming next year. Hes 2014. LaDue, Crisfield and likely Thompson I'd guess. My point was we have 3 eligible to come in and I don't see, as of now, more than Forbort, any other early departures from the blueline. Of course, that could change. We still have Simpson, Mattson, Schmaltz and Panz. Bring in the three mentioned and we are good. JMO.

D-men? If we lose Forbort early, we still have three potentially coming in to replace him and Mac and Gleason next year. I don't think next year is our recruiting target anymore. I think it's further out.

He torched us and his team still got swept...

Yes. The knock on him is his lack of physicality, and always has been.