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I was debating about going as well.. Oh! A schedule! http://www.lincolnstarsblog.com/2011/05/2011-lincoln-stars-tryout-camp-schedule.html You're welcome.

No. To both questions. This wad addressed in another thread as well

He already said he would be no matter what his dad does. It didn't matter when his dad was at scsu. Doubt this changes anything. His dad doesn't stay in one place very long anyways.

From what I heard, JT was never planning on coming. He said he was fully committed... unless the team that drafts him wants him to do something else.

While I agree with you, I'm also not going to brand him as Satan for making a few mistakes in his young life. Been there...done that.

Luke says the rumors are not true about the WHL.

I hear the same thing. I have some mutual friends with his older sister.

I question your source at this point.

How many regionals has MInny hosted recently? I've lost count. I rest my case.

Yup, I had heard that as well. He could have played in Des Moines if he wanted.

Are you for real? A decline? Yeah, we've really been hurt by poor recruiting... Yeah, not really.

They are a governing body though.

In my opinion, College Hockey Inc. has been so focused on increasing the awareness of College Hockey in Canada that they are overlooking the fact that maybe they should be reaching out to Americans even more so.

They're both going to the NTDP. Eichel is committed to BU.

If the reasons for his dismissal that I heard are accurate, I'd be pretty sour too.

This isn't anything new. It's just more frequent and common now. It used to be all the Michigan recruits. Now it seems us and Miami are taking a lot of the hits. I bet pretty soon if you go to the NTDP and keep your college scholarship, you'll be an outsider. The latest de-commit though, the McCarron kid, is a different case since he's just decided to go to a different school. On a side note, I thought it was a pretty telling/interesting that Luke Voltin favorited my tweet that said him getting kicked off the NTDP was the best thing that ever happened to him. I guess he agrees! haha. I get the impression he was glad to get out of there. You won't be able to convince me that something strange isn't going on in Ann Arbor though. But then again, the NTDP doesn't care about kids keeping their college commitments. They care about getting kids drafted high.

Never going to happen. The "higher-ups" in college hockey have no say. USA hockey is above all of college hockey. That is probably something USA hockey and Hockey Canada/CHL are going to have to work out. But I would be shocked if it ever happened.

I stopped even caring when this began to drag out.

Talk to me when you're the one the rumors about and tell me how you feel then.

It's classless to bring someone's personal business up in a public forum. It's slander. Maybe not in the legal terms, but it defames someone's character all the same. I'd prefer to leave rumors to the National Enquirer or something...

I met some Canadians once who were shocked I knew what the WHL was...

I learned a long time ago not to attempt to talk college hockey with Canadians because they just don't understand. This was along the same time I figured out how clueless Habs and Leafs fans are for the most part. I take back the generalization about Canadians, I'd say Manitobans are much more knowledgable about the college game and UND than others, thinking back to when I was in Winnipeg for the game in January...

I don't think in general too many are ready. Glancing at USHL rosters, there really weren't too many high school juniors on the rosters this past year. Maybe a couple per team or something.

It's all the same to me though... It's all quitting to me. Maybe some think I'm off base here, and that's fine.

NTDP effect in full force.