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The family and I attended the CC hockey fan fest today. We got to see them play an intrasquad scrimmage, heard remarks from coach Mayotte, and got to meet the players. Coach Mayotte is a very sincere sounding, yet confident guy. He is very bullish on this year’s squad, particularly the incoming freshman class. CC has a freshman from Grand Forks on the roster-Drew Montgomery and we visited a bit. I said to him that I hope coach will include him in the starting lineup at least one of the two games up at the Ralph, I think that would be really cool for him and his family, especially going up against his brother. Nice guy. I asked him, “Do you ever say, “Sioux Yah Yah!”? And he laughed and said, “I USED TO! Not Anymore!” He was a cool kid, good sense of humor. Hoping he’s successful (except against UND lol). When chatting with sophomore goalie Kaiden Embereko and another player, I was telling them about the Hrkac Circus and how Tony Hrkac put up 116 points in one season and their jaws just dropped in disbelieve. They thought that was pretty amazing.

https://www.michigandaily.com/ice-hockey/johnny-druskinis-removed-from-michigan-hockey-roster-after-rule-violation/

I seem to recall in the most recent podcast with Schloss that the league is reducing the # of tv timeouts per period, anyone know more details about this? I think this is excellent news.

BU is going to be so loaded this year.

https://www.hockeyjournal.com/cole-eiserman-decommits-from-minnesota/

I believe that’s who they said. His dad played for the Huskies in the 1990’s, I believe.

Jan Brady podcast on DU. Also, discussion starting at about the 9 minute mark about some high end recruit de-committing from SCSU.

I just googled him and found an old Herald article regarding his commitment to UND. His quotes make you think he was definitely coming to Grand Forks.

I listened to it last night as well and the deep level of knowledge Schlossman has about the other 7 programs is simply impressive. Being I follow CC pretty closely as well, to hear him talk about their players, their incoming players, the guys who left or graduated, if you didn’t know any better, you’d think he was the beat writer for that program! Much appreciated analysis by Brad and his two co-hosts.

I’m jealous of those of you attending the game today! I’ve always liked the Boise State stadium with that blue turf, so cool! I had the opportunity to see UND play at both Texas Tech and Wyoming and it was so much fun! Glad to represent North Dakota at these bigger programs. Best of luck to UND football!

N is for Nowledge

CC guy Joe Paisley’s pre season ballot… https://paisleyhockey.wordpress.com/2023/09/13/tigers-picked-seventh-in-nchc-preseason-media-rankings-come-mock-my-ballot/?fbclid=IwAR3guL1btjNIqlSAvvV2seqf0dxdUulDVMygLHPaBUTQebr6ZY7sv5wdWXk

Lol! I lost a bet. It was either get a butterfly tattoo on my lower back or listen to these St. Cloud guys’ podcast….I think I should’ve gone with the tramp stamp…

I’ve been listening to each of their NCHC team profiles discussions and sometimes they do provide insightful info but yah, with the UND podcast, you would’ve thought UND had brought in 8 new D men from beer league, the way they described it.

Yep! Those two clowns! Ironically, one of them lives in North Dakota and never misses an opportunity to take digs at UND.

There’s a couple of St. Cloud guys with a podcast and they picked Duluth to finish 7th.

Or the ones from the late 90’s with the jelly donut logo on the shoulders!

Thoughts on the new design of the front of the DU jerseys? @MafiaMan???

Wasn’t it Gopher fans who for years ridiculed teams like UND for having “much older” players?

If the Tigers didn’t have Mbereko back there between the pipes, things might really be difficult.

CC has a pretty good incoming recruiting class coming in; lots of goal scorers up front and on the blue line. That said, they’re probably still a season away from being a legit contender. Definitely on the upswing though.

Check out this series of ECH college hockey game day videos on YouTube. These are pretty fun!

McKown accounted for over 25% of all of CC’s scoring last year. They definitely need to find more guys who can score.

https://gazette.com/sports/cc-hockey/goals-are-the-goal-for-colorado-college-as-school-year-begins-mayotte-seeks-20-wins/article_2b1169b2-37d5-11ee-9980-8b422b4152c0.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR3muTs-EtdvzBYK1RJoBPEmP6KNq-HUWjn7y_jeYeSHGL92bRA9tNKeqCE

Not sure if this belongs in this thread or not but interesting take from our friends at letsgodu….They’re speculating the possibility of NDSU and SDSU leaving to joint the Mountain West conference. https://letsgodu.com/2023/07/27/colorados-pac-12-exit-dominoes-could-hit-university-of-denver-summit-league/