SJHovey

I think only one freshman in the country (Eiserman) has scored more goals than Boisvert.

The problem with the pwr right now is we’re on the wrong side of a pretty big gap in rpi. The gap from 11-15 is just .0037. The gap from 15 to UND at 18 is .0219. Big weekend for us coming up.

Even more improbable is they win out and win Penrose. Still possible. 😀

I’ll just say it looked a lot like harassment.

Why are ND fans harassing Emery in the penalty box?

Oh, no doubt. But at this point they need pretty much every break they can get.

Seems like we should be big WMU fans this weekend. I think if they get at least 4 points at ASU, they secure the Penrose. Maybe we catch them with a hangover next weekend.

The other problem is the NCHC isn’t that great this year, too.

As I recall, Hak had been a head coach in the USHL for about four years before coming over to UND. After just a single season at UND, he was named "Associate Head Coach" which I interpret as sort of being second in command. At that point I think Berry had only been at UND for maybe a year or so, and had no head coaching or professional coaching experience, so Hak seems like the natural selection for Blais to name as Associate Head Coach. Blais obviously left under good circumstances, and wasn't fired, so I'm sure any support he gave for Hak being named his successor would be given some weight. Then, after Blais left, and Berry spent a few years as an assistant, he went on to be an assistant at the professional level, before returning. Once he returned, he spent another year as an assistant, and was then named "Associate Head Coach." Thus, when Hak left, again under good terms, I assume his selection of Berry as Associate Head Coach, and any positive comments he made about Berry, carried some weight.

It's sort of funny. In all of the discussions ahead of the NCAA opening up the path for major junior players, you almost never heard anyone talking about how many college players might choose to leave college and go to a junior team, knowing they could possibly return.

You're not going to see it on the scale that you do with say football. Kids aren't going to be getting millions of dollars. But I think we're kidding ourselves if we think it won't have any impact. If a kid is choosing between say us and Minnesota, and if they offer the kid even $25,000 and we offer nothing, I don't like our chances. A school could make a difference with even a fund of say a half million dollars, which is peanuts to the big schools.

It's got to be an interesting problem for someone like Carle to consider. First, with respect to the pay, it's not an automatic that someone like Carle would conclude he has to make the jump. NHL coaches are obviously paid more, but in some cases it's not that much more. He'd probably get offered something like $1.5-2 million/year. It's not like he'd get ten times the salary he is making at the college level. There has to be a desire to know whether you can occupy and perform one of the top 30 hockey coaching jobs in the world. Carle certainly has job security at DU, but even that can change. Everyone thought Lucia could remain the MN coach for life after he came in as a hot coach out of CC and won two championships for the gophers. 10 years later they couldn't wait to be rid of him. To me, the biggest concern for a college coach has to be NIL, and what is going to happen in that regard. If both college and the NHL are going to be about who pays players what to come and play for them, why not take the NHL job?

Fun fact. There isn't a single current college hockey player who was alive when Michigan last won a national championship.

I think the point of my post was missed. I opined that Blais’ most successful four year stretch was significantly better than Hak’s best four year stretch, and Blais did it with zero first round picks vs. Hak’s half dozen.

He wasn’t on any of Hak’s FF teams or the four Blais teams I referenced.