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Not a big fan of people doing that but if you look at the twitter page of a BCS type recruit you will see plenty of it. I believe it is supposed to be some type of NCAA violation but fans of every BCS team do it and I don't think I've ever seen a program penalized for it, most recruits love that kind of attention.

The simplest reason is because its a Big Ten school. UND and NDSU won't win many if any recruiting battles with Big Ten schools. Like I said if he gets more big time offers like a Nebraska or something that may change things but as of now I believe Minnesota is the only big time program to offer him.

Ryan Burns @RyanBurnsGI · 14h #Minnesota @CoachPatPoore just offered Fargo (N.D.) South running back James Johannesson (@TheRealJJ4) after a great camp last Saturday. Would think Minnesota now becomes the favorite to land Johannesson. It sounds as though he also had a good camp at Nebraska and if he gets that offer it could change things.

Should have beat them last year but they will be a lot tougher this year. Their star player Banham didn't play against UND last year and they have added a couple nice pieces in a graduate transfer and a freshman who basically rewrote the record books for MN high school basketball. They should be a tourney team and a pretty good test to see where UND stacks up this season.

I believe the Vikes open up camp in Mankato on Friday.

Looks very similar to the Ralph especially the players lounge.

Niskanen to Washington for 7 years $40.25 million!

Chicago reportedly signing Brad Richards to a 1 year $2 million deal and I'd think another move would have to be coming from them considering they're already over the cap. An already tough central division has gotten even tougher this off-season with the moves that have been made by those teams so far.

After watching Moulson with the Wild it just didn't seem like he fit well with the and I didn't want him back unless it was at a pretty good discount. A little surprised and confused to see Iginla get a 3 year $16 million deal from Colorado as he just doesn't seem to fit with the type of team they had last year and have been building the past few years.

Why? I think it is a real good move as it really helps adding another goal scorer and they didn't tie themselves up long term to him. I know Buffalo had to spend a lot of money just to get to the cap floor but 5 years $25 million and a no trade clause for Moulson and 3 years $4.5 million seemed like a lot for a 4th liner like McCormick.

Think that is a good move for him just seemed like he was never a fit with Columbus.

Wild get Vanek on 3 year $19.5 million deal that includes a no trade clause. Vanek reportedly turned down more money and years from others to join the Wild.

A lot of money being tossed around early on. The Blues land Stastny with a 4 year $28 million deal. Edmonton seems to just be giving money to whoever will take it with a 5 year $20 million deal with Beniot Pouliot and a 4 year $14 million deal with Mark Fayne. Former Sioux Brad Malone should have a good chance to be an NHL regular as he signed a year deal with Carolina.

The Wild beat writer Michael Russo wrote in his latest article that the Wild aren't going to make an offer to Niskanen. I think they wanted him on a shorter term like 3 years and he can easily get a 6 or 7 year contract from someone. Russo mentioned Tampa Bay and Washington as destinations that make sense and I think Detroit has him pretty high on their list as well.

My guess is Vanek and Willie Mitchell to Minnesota and that Niskanen will get the biggest deal of all the free agents.

Care to enlighten the rest of us why he couldn't since everybody else including people close to the program were under that impression until he decided to bail for the CHL?

Yes he would since he had a scholarship offer and had committed. Yeah there are a lot of hockey players who would like to be at certain schools and they're not but the reason for that is usually that they don't have an offer to that school. Whether Mantha thought there was a better option or not is up to him but if he really wanted to he could have been at UND for the 15-16 season.

If he preferred to be at UND he would be at UND. Most knew when he said he would let whatever team drafted him decide his next step that it was just a convenient way for him to say he was going to the CHL. I agree with what others have already said and that is as soon as he was wavering on his commitment his scholarship offer shoulda been pulled and I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

Darren Dreger @DarrenDreger · 21h Looks like Matt Greene is staying in LA. Work finishing up on a 4 year deal.

From Gopherhole.com: Gophers vs. UND & USD? Unofficial, but saw a couple different reports that the Gophers will host both the UND Fighting Sioux (Big Sky) and the South Dakota 'Yotes (Summit League) as part of their 2014-15 schedule. UND has advanced to the Big Sky Tournament semifinals and finals, respectively, the last two seasons. South Dakota State, a regular on the Gophers schedule, also still a possibility. For now will add to Gophers' schedule, will do more digging for more confirmation.

New roster is also up and the numbers for the freshmen are: #3 Poolman #8 Schmaltz #10 Simonson #11 Olson #14 Poganski #33 Johnson

The class has been announced with no surprises, Johnson, Olson, Poganski, Poolman, Schmaltz, and Simonson will all be freshmen next season. http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=58684&SPID=6405&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=209529180&DB_OEM_ID=13500

Roster to officially be released this afternoon. North Dakota MHockey ‏@UNDMHockey 2m In need of a June hockey fix? We will unveil our incoming freshman class later this morning and the complete 2014-15 roster this afternoon.

I think we will see a similar Friday/Saturday rotation like we did this year with Thompson and Ausmus between Poolman and probably Ausmus while up front there should be a little more depth and hopefully guys pushing for playing time that we really didn't see a whole lot of this past season. Here is my early shot at some lines: Johnson-MacMillan-Parks Caggiula-Schmaltz-Poganski Pattyn-Gaarder-Olson OD/Chyz-Simonson-St.Clair Thompson-Schmaltz Mattson-LaDue Ausmus/Poolman-Stecher Ausmus/Poolman-OD/Chyz-Murphy-Panz-Sanderson

BU gets a big time commit however this will probably be one of those cases where they shouldn't count on him until he actually steps foot on campus as there have been plenty of WHL rumors with Bellows. Kieffer Bellows ‏@BellowsKieffer 7m I am very excited and proud to announce my commitment to Boston University! Thank you to everybody who has helped me! #GoTerriers