SJHovey

I don’t know. I attended a Dave Gunther basketball camp at UND when I was in 7th grade, and I never got a sniff. Can’t believe that Dave would have already filled the 5’10” slow guy spot on the roster five years early.

Do we want him here four years? I’d like a goaltender pros are begging to sign.

If BU and Michigan keep stealing our players in the portal it will change.

I think people are being very smart if they are reluctant to just jump into NIL with both feet. There are way, way too many questions, and the inevitable changes, to just throw $100,000 at some kid. Say I give a prospect $100,000 to use his NIL, but conditioned upon him coming to play hockey at UND. If I pay Shaq to promote Coke, I'm pretty sure that contractually he's not going to be able to drink Pepsi. So this kid can't transfer, or quit, or sign a pro contract, or maybe take up baseball, while he is under NIL contract with me? As the holder of his NIL contract, can I assign it to someone else? Can a booster at MN offer me $150,000 for the kids NIL deal, and the kid then has to go play for MN? I could probably sit here all afternoon and type legitimate questions that anyone involved with NIL is worried about right now, and doesn't have an answer for.

If everyone ends up going to 26 on the roster, I think the 15-8-3 is going to be pretty standard. Don't know that teams will go with two goalies or 14 forwards.

Right? I've always maintained that you go to a sports book and make a parlay wager, then lose all the picks, you should at least get your money back. Strange, I always lose that argument as well.

And there is only one team that hung four or more goals in a game on Hampton Slukynsky this year, and they did it twice, on back to back games in Kalamazoo.

Just my take, but I think having “balanced” classes is less important because of the portal. I have no problem grabbing a kid or two out of the portal if they are a quality player, but I don’t need someone who is going to play third or fourth line minutes, just because they are a junior or senior. Having 8-10 freshmen isn’t the end of the world. If those 10 make it to their senior year, some will enter the portal when they see quality underclassmen coming behind.

Heard another thing on one of the CHN blogs. Carle talked about how the BC guys with the program were all teasing Zeev two years ago when he was going to Denver alone and they were going to win all these titles together at BC.

I used to be the same way, but I accept it now without begrudging these kids anything. I realized it was just the fan in me that was angry. I went to school, once. If I had wanted to, I could have switched colleges or universities every year, and so long as they were willing to let me in, I was free to make the move. Why should college athletes be any different? The other thing we have to remember is college is likely the only time in their hockey playing career that they get a true choice as to where to go, whether to switch teams, and how long they want to stay with one team. Hard to be critical of them for taking advantage of it.

So Brad thinks it will be a short turnaround on the assistant's job that's been posted. So, maybe announce on Thursday? Here is my question. Shouldn't we be hiring two assistants, one to replace Karl and one to fill Jackson's spot?

In my opinion, no. Not even close. The new reality is that kids (in all sports) are going to seek greener pastures. It's true in hockey and football and basketball. Other sports as well, I assume. The traditional powers are not going to be exempt. Kids will leave traditional powers for other traditional powers, or even schools of lesser standing if they think it will improve their situation. Matthew Wood, as a first rounder, leaves UConn to go to MN. MN exits in the first round and UConn nearly makes it to its first Frozen Four. MN loses a kid to Mankato. We've lost high draft picks to OSU or elsewhere. It's the new reality. We just have to be prepared for it so that we can pick off players from other teams as well. Boisvert was a very talented player, will likely be a Hobey Finalist candidate wherever he goes, and will play exactly one more year of college hockey. I think we'll survive without him. As for Perron and OM, I would have loved to see them stay, develop and finish their college careers here. But there have been hundreds of players as talented as they are who have come through the program before, and and hundreds more who will come after them. They are not irreplaceable. Far from it. I wish them the best. Good luck wherever they go. But if we play you, I would hope we will greet you rudely.

Given that someone here posted back in February these players had already selected their team, it seems unlikely that there is any correlation between their departures and the firing of Berry, hiring of Jackson or any player input into that process.

I watched that game last night, and the post-game festivities, and I suddenly realized something. Even after all these years, it never gets old to see a kid, wearing a BC uniform, standing on the ice crying his eyes out.

I wish him well. I would have liked to have seen him stay, but I still think we have some skill on the D line, and coming in. By the way, did he get hurt in that WMU game? I remember thinking that I hadn't seen him on the ice for awhile, and looking for him on the bench. I'll admit that I didn't see what happened if he did get hurt.