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Yes. And skinny.

No, he played a year of juniors after finishing high school.

I think it’s unlikely he plays another 2 years. He’s going to be 25 in May.

I don’t think they’re that confident in our 5/6 defenders either. Last Friday night our top 4 D we’re all over 22 minutes in ice time. Third pairing guys were both at 13 minutes.

Yeah - It’s the first time all year he’s been able to practice. I’m sure everyone is thrilled to see him back on the ice practicing again.

I could’ve sworn I saw on Twitter he is definitely gone, so don’t tell the Coyotes.

I always add them to my Apple wallet so I don’t have to worry about loading the Ticketmaster app.

I think Berry needs to figure out a balance between developing the younger guys and still putting the most successful team on the ice. I have felt for a few years now that we have sacrificed development of some of our younger players in favor of borderline overplaying the veterans. It’s been going on before this season but I think people overlooked it because things were going relatively well.

I’m not necessarily a fan of never offering scholarships to high school players myself, but it seems Berry is only going to offer the completely obvious D1/NHL prospect playing high school hockey. And to be fair, I don’t think he’s the only coach like this. That’s why all these high school hockey players are committing to more mid-tier college hockey schools that will offer them before they get to juniors. They don’t want to wait until juniors to commit a lot of the time.

Berry doesn’t seem to offer scholarships to kids playing high school hockey very often. A lot of these guy’s playing in this tournament might be more “keep an eye on and see how they do in juniors” types.

Huh? Who are we talking about? Bast was the only defenseman that missed significant time due to injury in the first half.

He played in the U18 exhibition game. He turned the puck over in the defensive zone and the other team scored. I think they opted for Moore since it’s become obvious we can’t play both because they are defensive liabilities. Look. I want to win games here. If they wanted to play Johnson as the extra skater I’d be okay with that. Power play could probably use him at times when it has struggled. Johnson’s plus/minus is good because he is a good offensive guy on the back end and we scored goals when he is on the ice. But his mistakes defensively ended up in the back of our net so I’m not sure how comfortable I’d be with him skating a regular shift. But then again I think the majority of our defensive issues have been because our third pairing has been really bad no matter who we play on it.

Ah wouldn’t that be great lol

This has happened before this season where Midco broadcast an away game and NCHC TV still got the home team’s announcers so I went by what happened last time.

Well yes, that’s why he didn’t play until Thanksgiving weekend

I’m bad at math. .914?

Yes and I hate that.

It’s really funny to me seeing 24 referred to as a defensive defenseman because the first time I saw him play in juniors in Alberta he had 2 goals and an assist in the 1st period of the game. His defensive game has actually improved a lot since then.

Midco is broadcasting it on midco. Alex and Jake are calling the game. If you stream on NCHC TV you will get the Omaha feed though. There’s an article on the GF Herald about it.

Bast didn’t play until Thanksgiving weekend for added reference on how long he was out.

Can 5 even play hockey right now? He’s been injured the entire season.

No part of me would be at all confident Omaha is getting it done this year. It could happen but it’s definitely not a bet I would make.

I think picking Omaha to advance to the conference semi-finals for the first time ever in addition to winning a series against a team it has never won a series against ever, and facing a team they have not beaten this season is a really tall task for Omaha.

There’s usually a couple teams Ontario leagues that are decent. The year I went to the national junior A tournament in Canada, the Ontario teams got beat pretty handily by the AJ (Brooks) and BC teams (Prince George). Portage Terriers were there out of the MJ and they were more competitive.

If I recall he was in the portal the entire year Alaska didn’t play. I think he was trying to finish his undergrad degree so he could easily grad transfer so he stayed in Alaska. I think this may have been when transferring as a non-grad transfer required you to sit out a year. Players on teams that sat out the Covid season still had that season count towards their eligibility. Sidorski is the same situation.