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I wouldn't count on Shanks to UND, here is an interview he just did on Friday and it sounds like he is pretty confident he will be a Gopher unless he doesn't get admitted and that would be pretty surprising based on what I've heard about him. http://www.gopherhole.com/news_article/show/326556?referrer_id=388419

Looked like there was a recruit on the bench pregame, seemed like he had good size anybody see who it might be or where he was from?

Solid win but still need to put together a full 60 minutes. Need to do a better job clearing the traffic in front of Zane tonight as I believe all CC's goals involved traffic and he usually makes the save on most of what he can see. CC really got in lanes and blocked a lot of shots, Thorimbert also made a couple real good saves and got help from a post or two. Need another win tonight and hoping for a full 60 minutes.

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Seems like he should have some intangibles and good hockey sense as I would guess he's been around a lot of hockey during his life so far with his dad working in it. I would estimate he would probably be a 15/16 or 16/17 arrival on campus.

Chris Dilks ‏@ChrisDilks Adam Tambellini has 3 points two periods into his WHL career. Had 4 in 16 games at the NCAA level. It's not so bad dining at the kiddy table

Grades or just not liking school and deciding he didn't want to deal with it anymore was my first thought.

I liked Tambo and thought he is a kid who would greatly benefit from the college weights program and really improve as his career went on. My first thought when I saw that he has decided to leave the program was could he have trouble with school or just not like school and decided he didn't wanna deal with it.

What did you think of #7 Kieffer Bellows (Soph) of Edina? I haven't seen him but have heard he is really good and gonna be another great player to come out of Edina.

Roth is the smaller one and is pretty good with the puck but I wasn't really impressed with anything else he did. Bethune is more of an all around player that has great offensive ability, he can play a physical and power style at times too.

Think a lot of teams were very interested in Bethune and I would have liked him at UND but I am a little surprised that Roth had an offer already at his size even though he has put up a lot of points. I've watched them a few times and Bethune is definitely the better player and I kind of wonder if UMD offered Roth partly to have a better chance to get Bethune.

Don't like losing any game but really not gonna worry about this loss at all because it is an exhibition and doesn't have any effect on the season. Kind of expected the team to not be up for this game at all but I still was hoping they could find a way to win. Fully expect the team to bounce back tonight against a bad team tonight but I won't put much stock into it as well because it doesn't mean anything again.

I'll go with Rodwell and I don't really care if we keep it going or end it either.

Nice to see the all the former college players on the U.S. team, by my count 12 former WCHA players on the team.

I think Voltin is still young enough where he is a guy who could be pushed back another year and still play in the USHL but I'm not sure if Rowe still can although I think he is one they may like to push back.The article says Simonson will come next season and I would think Olson and Schmaltz would be the two that are definitely here next season. The rest of the committed forwards would probably be pushed back to the year after although I believe Wilkie signed a NLI and that usually means the player will be here the next season.

Good about 10 minutes of play there at the end to get the important sweep. Now some time off to hopefully get everyone healthy and ready for a 2nd half run.

I was gonna pick Ausmus but then I started thinking about it too much and decided to go with Simpson guess I shoulda went with my first instinct.

I'll go with Simpson to hopefully finally end this thing tonight.

Haha I think the Northern Michigan goal deflected in off Stecher.

Yep I heard Jackson right away and continued to laugh at Kober and Hammer as they just kept talking about the puck going in.

Overall another pretty decent game and another important win tonight. Northern Michigan really didn't have any real great chances and I think it has been quite a while since we have been able to say that about an opponent. Game really seemed to be getting chippy as it went on and I would expect the same thing tomorrow. You can still tell that there are a number of guys that aren't 100% that are playing right now so hopefully we can get another win tomorrow and head to the break on a nice little streak and get close to fully healthy.

I wasn't too familar with the exact rule but watching you could see and hear Jackson yelling from the bench to make sure the refs were reviewing the goal and looking for that so good to see him on top of that.

Yeah based on the lineup the only guy out you could kind of consider a regular is Ausmus and he has been almost an every other game kind of deal going right now.

I'll take Stecher tonight.

Should be noted Minnesota's top player Rachel Banham who averages around 22ppg did not play today I think as more of a precaution because of a minor injury sustained in their game vs. Miami because she got injured at the end of the 1st half against Miami but came back to play the 2nd half of that game.