petey23

I always applaud the kid and family that make a good informed decision and don't let ego get in the way. A friends nephew finished his high school career in Minnesota. went to NAHL and USHL tryout camps. Had choice to play in NAHL or USHL. If he went with USHL team he would have started season as their 6th or 7th D-man. He played NAHL instead, 1st pair, Played point on #1 Power Play, Killed Penalties. Played the next year in USHL as a top 4 Dman, had a few college offers and had decided to play 1 more season in USHL and then got a late offer over the Summer from a more "prestigious" hockey school and had a nice 4 year career, got his degree and is now playing in the ECHL with a little AHL time. He will probably head to Europe after this season to see different parts of the world and put some money away.

My original post was simply pointing out that yes Spooner and Rauhauser had things work out for them by staying in High School....but they had to play a couple additional years against better competition to elevate their games to the college level. 170+ and 150+ games respectively. Which is the path many take to college hockey, just recognizing the other side of the argument for kids leaving early to play against better competition. Every kid and family has their own best interests to look out for but my personal opinion is, stay home, play other sports, play with your lifelong friends and graduate from high school and then go from there. No need to be in a hurry to get to college. You are more mature as a player at 20 but also as a human being which can help on the academic side as well.

Is it the cart or the horse?

The average age for a college hockey senior who played 2-3 years of junior hockey is 24.

yep

A little longer path as Rauhauser will turn 25 in March and Spooner will turn 24 in March.

I don't think we will carry 9 D next year....but I also think we will lose at least 1 D early if not 2. Left D Right D Kierstad JBD Tychonick Frisch Sanderson Bast Kleven Rieger Miller(R), Moore(L), Bast(L) are next in line.

They should have to go in a quiet dark room and go through concussion protocol.

True

UND seems uninterested in playing defense at all. It looks like a walk through where you play at about 60-70% effort just to give the offense the opportunity to run their offense with little to no resistance.

Think it had to do with matchups. DAE has had a couple clunkers against NDSU but has had a solid freshmen season. I'll take 14 points and 5 boards a game this year and I think he has a bright future for UND.

And UND actually paid for his daughters schooling for a couple years as she was recruited to play Soccer at UND

And Parrish tonight who has an absolute man crush on UND hockey.

What happened to Alterbauers?

Pat Micheletti

Anyone else lose their Midco Feed?

They could. As of right now Penn State has a 61% chance at an at large bid

Midwest Regional-Allentown, PAUND vs. Sacred heartPenn State vs. Massachusetts-LowellNortheast Regional-Worcester, MAMinnesota St.(Mankato) vs. QuinnipiacMassachusetts vs. ClarksonEast Regional-Albany, NYCornell vs. Ohio StateBoston College vs. Arizona StateWest Regional-Loveland, COMinnesota-Duluth vs. MaineDenver vs. Northeastern

I wasn't old enough to go to Frenchy's legally. Some older guys got me in one of my first nights at UND...I turned 19 early in 2nd semester so frequented the east side establishments.

The Under 18 team is in Europe for the 5 Nations tournament. They beat Czechoslovakia 3-2 yesterday and Russia 3-2 today. Sanderson has 2 goals and 2 assists so far I think and Kleven played pretty heavy minutes today as they were protecting a lead in the 3rd period. He absolutely stapled some poor kid from Czechoslovakia yesterday.

18 year old me ended up in Frenchy's one of my first nights in Grand Forks. Signed up for mug. 2 1/2 years later when I turned 21 I returned and they couldn't find it?

Just spit balling here and this might be a crazy idea but what if The Ralph made it so phones worked half as well in the concourse as they do in the arena?

I think if DU is a 2 seed at #7 or#8 overall then if UND is #1 overall they would be in Colorado but if DU was #5 or #6 I think that doesn't hold bracket integrity very well.

Well. That is enough to impeach with these days.

I had put Rieger in wrong spot on my original post. We have 5 righties and 3 leftys this year so if we lose one of each and bring in 2 leftys we will be at 4 and 4. Kleven is a senior school wise. If Kierstad does leave it will be interesting to see if they bring in Miller or one of Moore or Bast?