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He will also be a team leader at some point if his brothers are any indication

You can blame me when he underperforms. I can take it.

He had a bit of offense to him his freshman year, but I'd say he's probably more defensive. I was also wrong. He was on the all-rookie team, not rookie of the year.

You got a good one with zmolek. He was the conference freshman of the year for us.

I'm all good. We already knew about this one. I suspect that there will be another one going there. On another note, this response yesterday to all of this from one of our players showed some serious leadership. I have to admit, I'm not so sure I'd have the maturity to fight through like this.

Damn....they can't even let us have one day. 1 hour before the intro press conference they post this.

I'm not sure there was a spoeculation list outside of Dan Myers....and he wasn't on that one. Frankly, everyone was so shocked Knott didn't take the position that very few people have been keeping their eyes on this (presumably outside of the AD). This is, however, about what i would expect. A guy from the USHL because that's where we have to do our recruiting.

Good, I guess? I know nothing about him. My preference was a guy that built a team in the in the juniors and has some familiarity with the college game. Alex Tracy (the "other" goalie this year) won the Clark Cup with him a couple years ago and announced he was staying over the weekend. I suspect Strand has a good name with the former coaches as it seems like a few guys came from there. Beyond assumptions, I got nothing else.

Luke Strand is the guy in Kato. https://msumavericks.com/news/2023/4/10/mens-hockey-strand-named-head-coach-of-maverick-hockey-program.aspx

Suck it, Big Ten.

May have spoken too soon on them. They are still unknowns as they are seniors, but have a covid year if they want

No worries....my attempt at dry humor obviously failed.

Who said anything about self pity? This sucks, no other way to put it. The reality is that this will take us a hell of a lot longer to recover than it would und. I was just pointing that out.

Sorry didn't realize....you missed 2 though. Sowder and malinowski gone too.

I'll be sure to take the life advice.

I'll be shocked if we keep half of our recruits and im not sure the bleeding is done on the current roster....and as we all know, there is a distinct difference between a blue blood program with a coach that's won a national championship and a team in the 5th best conference in the country with no head coach and lead recruiter/assistant coach when it comes to filling out a roster. Really? Stop

100% agree.

Of course at this rate,we may give up 70 shots per game

https://mobile.twitter.com/davemcgauvran/status/1643322053800476672/photo/1 not sure how to embed a pic...sorry

So...to recap, this is the mavs last week. Pro Contracts: Livingstone Hirose Borchardt Pavel Carroll Sandelin Furry Transfer Portal: Silye Zmolek Fitzgerald Tassy Coaches: Hastings Knott Hockey ops: Regner And we haven't even heard anything about incoming recruits yet. This sucks.

As much as it would benefit my team right now, disagree completely. Players should not be held to a higher standard than coaches. Maybe administrators and coaches should themselves to a higher standard and be required to sit out a year before they take another job. I have little doubt that the shine is going to wear off of Hastings and Knott in Kato after this. We all thought we had a guy that was different. The injection of money into college hockey has made the "hockey community" lose their mind.

Scratch that....3 best forwards. Talk about destroying a program from the ground up.

Here comes the flood.... Seriously, we lost our coach, our assistant coach, our hockey ops guy, our conference rookie of the year. How long til they take our women and children?!?!?!

Yeah, I'm not sure I would have done that. I won't argue, but im also not delusional. Und is a blue blood and doesn't have as much to worry about. I would he shocked to see a coach leave und for a big ten school. Other schools in the nchc definitely have to worry, but not und and most likely not Denver.

I appreciate that. The saltiness is wearing off. I'm not particularly upset with individuals. I just can't handle people that either try to tell me it's not a big deal and "you'll get someone good" when at the same time celebrating what a great hire it is for wisconsin. If it were so easy for us to find someone good, wis onside. Would have done that. It's gonna be a heck of a difficult thing replacing maybe the best head coach and maybe the best assistant coach in the country. I also take issue with people that basically say that Mankato should just know who they are and don't be upset that someone better can double our coach's salary. We should just be happy that we're a second class citizen in the hockey world. This isn't the cesspool known as college football and personally I don't want it to be. If that's where the sport is headed, count me out. I don't want any part of that.