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Hockey team has plenty of leadership. Just because they're speaking out against the terrible nickname/logo instead of just falling in line like the other athletes doesn't mean there is no leadership. They want to speak their mind and share their feelings instead of just falling in line and that is fine with me.

I don't care if the hockey team or any team for that matter embraces the name or logo. I'd be surprised if Faison says anything to the hockey team if he was gonna he would have a long time ago with the Siouxforever stuff. He knows they bring in the money and just won a National Championship and doesn't wanna upset anyone in the hockey program.

He isn't wrong.

So nothing official on Schmaltz signing yet but certainly everything pointing that way and I can't blame him if he goes. He would have been a dominant college player this year and I definitely think he is ready for the next step. He will have a chance to play for the Blackhawks right away and I think he will stick with them for good. For the Sioux I would think they will bring in another forward but it will be interesting to see who. Probably another forward already in the pipeline like Adams, Keane, or Mattson. Without knowing who if anyone they will bring in to replace Schmaltz I'd go: Gersich-Jost-Boeser Janatuinen-Gardner-Poganski Hoff-Simonson-Wilkie Yon-Bowen-Olson Gornall,Smith Ausmus-Wolanin C.Poolman-T.Poolman Shaw-Johnson Chartrand,Peski Johnson Tomek Hrynkiw Anderson

Gophers recruit Casey Mittelstadt announced he will return to Eden Prairie for his SR season rather than enroll early at Minnesota. Ryan Poehling will join St. Cloud a year early Nick Kelly ‏@NickKellyLNHS 39m39 minutes ago Lakeville North junior forward Ryan Poehling announced he will NOT return for senior season, and will head to St. Cloud State next year

Wayzata forward had visited UND. Colin Schmidt ‏@colinschmidt03 20m20 minutes ago Very excited to announce my commitment to play hockey at the University of Minnesota! Huge thank you to everyone who helped along the way.

Yes he turned it down.

Definitely teams do a lot of work to figure out how likely a kid is to come to their team, to me that pick is basically Fargo just taking a flyer. I know Hain is a great player but I thought it was a little strange he went 1st overall just because so few Grand Rapids players leave high school early to play juniors. I guess they could get him to play before and after the high school season though.

I'm not trying to say he should come in next season either just explaining the situation for Mattson in Bloomington based on what people who have seen him during his time there have said. I've never really thought he would come in straight from high school so I expect him to be in the USHL next year and maybe a change of scenery there would be best for him as well.

From what I've heard part of the problem is his adjustment to Bloomington's system hasn't been very smooth at all. Bloomington plays very defensive and conservative and doesn't allow a whole lot of offensive freedom to the players. I still would expect him to produce more than he has in his time there this year but I like his potential.

If the NCHC does add Arizona State I think I would be fine with UND going to the B1G.

I hope it was true I'd rather not have ASU in the NCHC.

The choices would be Bast, Evers, Johnson, Kiersted, or Peski. Looking at the ages Bast will be 20 in December, Evers will turn 19 in May, Johnson just turned 20, Kiersted turned 18 earlier this month, and Peski turned 19 in March. Bast is the interesting one to me as he was supposed to be here in the fall but after missing much of this season with injury I could see him playing another year of juniors. The plan for Evers had been for him to come in last season so he has already been pushed back one year so I wouldn't be surprised to see him here in the fall. When Johnson committed it said he could come in for either 16 or 17 depending on who leaves. I think Kiersted was a 16 or 17 when he committed so I'd guess unless we lose LaDue, Poolman, and Thompson he plays another year in the USHL, Peski was scheduled to come for 16 but it did say in the article when he committed that he was flexible if that changes.

Brad has said that Poolman will come in for sure this year so that's 1.

Would have loved to see Stecher come back for his SR season but can't blame him at all and wish him the best of luck. A guy who really embodied everything that is Fighting Sioux hockey.

There was a Lets Go Sioux chant right away last night. Would not have been a good idea at all to reference fighting hawks last night, it would have just took away from the celebratory mood.

I think Schlossman has them listed on the side of his blog.

Yeah the total put him at #55 in scoring in the USHL.

24 goals and 14 assists. 36 games with Fargo 13 goals 9 assists, 23 games with Waterloo 11 goals 5 assists.

Think Yon and Poolman are 2 of the others that are for sure coming in. Likely see Hoff and Smith come in for forwards too and any others would depend on early departures. Defensively whether another comes in or not will probably depend on who leaves. Seems pretty likely that LaDue will sign and if Stecher does too than you'd need to bring in another one maybe Evers.

Definitely agree Caggiula was helped in the direction of the goalie and barely made any contact. If they were gonna call Caggiula for the cross check on that the goalie should of got called for a dive too as he was barely touched. Refs let goalie get away with a bunch of slashes anytime anybody was near the net as well.

From Brad's blog Future nonconference Tentative, subject to change 2016-17 vs. BC in NYC (1) vs. Mich. State (2) @ Minnesota (2) vs. Canisius (2) vs. BSU (2) at Union (1) vs. RPI (1)

I don't think they ever did in the 2 games and I'm sure a lot of fans enjoyed that. They also made sure to mention the Go Sioux messages from Hak.

So happy! Got everything out of everybody tonight and showed the dominance we have seen often this year. Fighting Sioux hockey back where it belongs!

I know Buccigross and Melrose get ripped on quite a bit for their announcing but I did enjoy that they only called us North Dakota or UND last night and hope they stick with that again Saturday and not mention the nickname. The injury to LJ is tough as he had been playing some of his best hockey the last few weeks. I think we will see St. Clair in for him but the other thing is can St. Clair step in at center or will he need to play wing. If they trust him to play center it allows you to move Sanderson or Simonson up with Gardner and Poganski which I like better but you can only do that if St. Clair is capable of centering the other line.