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If people want to stress over recruiting, it’s fine. Offseason has been real boring and we all need to pass the time somehow. I think next year’s team will be more skilled than last year’s.

The “recruiting is down” narrative is an overreaction to how the season went. It has little to do with recruiting and more to do with the lack of development of certain players already on campus. Because of this lack of development, people are looking at future players, failing to realize not many freshmen can make an instant impact right away like some would like. This is obviously just my observation of things.

I used 10 points as the minimum, in my defense. I don’t think you can expect 10 points from someone (Yon) who can barely crack the lineup as it is. Bowen had 5 points this season, 15 would be stretching it for me, but I could see in the 10-15 range being reasonable. Hoff, I’d like to see him toughen up a bit so he’s not injured or hurt every other week. I think he could reach 20 points if he can stay healthy. They dont need to light up the score sheet, but they need to be better than they were this year or they’ll be in the stands.

Lol no one expects those three to light the world on fire. I don’t think expecting two of those three to contribute 10 + points or so is asking too much.

Yup. That’s why it’s an unknown with new guys, so I’m hesitant to assume *insert team here* will be okay based purely on their incoming recruits who haven’t yet shown anything at the college level. We’ve thought recruits would dominate here before too and have been wrong. Lesson learned for me. On Thome, he’s got the leg up because he has the experience, but that doesn’t mean he’ll keep it.

The defense on the 2016 team was so good because they basically had the same core defensive unit for 3 years. Our current group this last season had no seniors and lost just one guy early. This is the beginning of a strong group back there. Even without seeing the new guys, I feel good about the returning group there.

Yeah but he’s an unknown at this level. You can’t replace experience.

Yup. They lost most of their offense and their goalie. Emphasis on goalie. If their new guys aren’t up to speed quickly, they might be in trouble early in the season until they adjust.

Why can’t you let us diss our opponents? I kid, I kid...

I’d rather have a bunch of guys with PP abilities than be over reliant on 1 guy to do everything back there. Like Wolanin this last year and Poolman the year before.

I guess my point was that while ISS has him high, Central Scouting had him at 62nd among just North American skaters. And Mock drafts had him around 58th pick. That’s a big difference, so that’s why I don’t think he’ll go in the first round. We’ll see how the draft goes. I think we’ll know if he’s coming in the fall once his season ends.

Why are we assuming a) he’s going to be a first round draft pick and b) that he’d be here 1 year? I just don’t see him going first round... He may be on campus in the fall, or he may not. It’s still being decided.

I think Jimmy Schuldt is still undecided, according to the SC Times article I read. I’d guess he’ll be back though.

I’m just going to caution about placing unfair expectations on any freshman coming in, but in particular Weatherby. I thought everyone put unfair expectations on Kawaguchi and half this board was calling him a bust by Christmas. I actually heard Kawaguchi on a BCHL podcast yesterday and he characterized his start to the season as “bumpy.”

Or they probably put the guy who scored the most points among returning players on the graphic?

We do not play in Duluth the weekend my cousin is getting married there. So that is disappointing.

This is me rolling my eyes at some of the responses in here.

I think guys like Bowen and Hoff just need to try to stay healthy. Bowen missed 10 games, and Hoff, including time away for Olympics, missed 15. And who knows how healthy they actually were when they did play. I don’t generally expect much scoring from this class either, but collectively if they could improve production, that’d be ideal. Placing high expectations on a freshman class is asking for trouble.

Yeah, that’s you’ve been whining about for months.

Must we re-hash the same old talking points all summer? Like, we get it. This has been brought up and discussed multiple times already.

Yup guess I’m not as doom and gloom as everyone else! Need more out of the sophomore class, not denying that, but other than that I’m feeling pretty good.

I’m bored of this “recruiting is dead” narrative, personally.

I thought it was already announced Ahcan was returning. That or heavily assumed.

JT did. It was tweeted by Penticton. JBD’s team is still playing, correct?

Craig Button on TSN had JBD higher than Tychonick also. His rankings are more “off the board” than some of the other rankings you see out there though. I also think Johnson will be moved to forward.