yzerman19

Fitzy is a great kid and an unbelievable hockey player. I gotta believe the ball is in his court for wherever he wants to play.

Blue Bloods: BU, BC, Michigan, Denver, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin Solid Next Tier: Michigan State, UMD, New Hampshire, Maine, Harvard

at the same time that pressure is going to trickle to High School....kids are going to need to go to junior at 17

Man, anything lower than the USHL is now a death sentence...CHL and NTDP will dominate chippah's...CHL and USHL will dominate age out depth and role players...going to be very, very hard to work your way to the NCAA if you aren't elite at 16 and it already wasn't easy...

I live in Minnesota these days...did I just notice that Minot High now goes by Minot United? What are they a soccer club? There should be heads on a raft in the old Mouse (Souris) river if thats the case....

His grandparents live in GF....kid grew up in Soux stuff....hopefully he is in the mix

yes, he chose to play up and was good and never came back vs peers

maddox schultz is an interesting player...he is obviously very, very good. He is physically mature based on his height to weight. He never played in the top end events for his birthyear. Like the WSI U15 is kinda the benchmark. He didn't go. Pue and Thompson were linemates and lit it up...

I rarely find myself able to make a blanket statement on this forum, but I tend to agree with pretty much everything I've read on this thread today...I think I need to log off and have a drink before the worm turns lol

Yeah...Minny HS hockey you have to take a look at the conference and strength of schedule a kid plays in...then you def need to consider the player's age...freshmen and sophomores who are killing it are different than seniors who are killing it, especially if that senior re-classed to be older.

Nice press on Thompson, who was up in GF last spring.

He got big pretty young...not many 200+ pounders in Bantam let alone PeeWee hockey. He is a nice kid. He plays hard and has that grown man size. He does have a nice nose for offense as well. The key question will be how much of an advantage was his early size and will he continue to grow. I like the player, so I hope he continues to get better. Nice numbers in Elite League and good numbers for Warroad.

Good player...he is a kid who will need some junior time to see what his projection is IMO.

Heyohhhhhhhhhh!

Excellent player. All 3 of those options will likely be on the table for him. He's being smart, as are most of the American early draft picks in the WHL. The ones you haven't seen sign are likely very high on the NTDP list and are being patient.

hahaha did that more than once

pull the red river roughrider red, black and white or Central maroon and gray hat over the eyes

wheelin' around and picking corns until more kids showed up and then the sweet words "wanna get a game going?"....I think coke and mello yello was 35 cents in the machine. XL 93 brings back memories too. We played a lotta of free for all...I remember trying to stick handle a sponge puck on choppy, snowy ice.

The sound of pucks hitting the boards at night echoed half a mile

Pizza in the warming house was a special treat...Remember how cold the water from the fountain was? Also, if it snowed, we didn't wait, we shoveled the ice ourselves.

Viking Elementary!

Gotta say as RR alumni that seeing Central knock off Moorhead made me smile. Minnesota does not have a monopoly on high school hockey....well, they do for day in day out....but a GF school can beat the best of Minny on any given night. GF might not be growing like Fargo, but as long as there is UND hockey, there will be players and teams. Congrats to Central, and congrats to the families and coaches that keep developing these players....not sure if kids still grow up on the ODRs of GF like I did, but I sure hope so...

JT Miller dropped the gloves with the biggest guy on the ice in the Four Nations. He will eat a puck for red, white and blue. He has been a long time captain in the NHL. Perfect 4th line player.

EGF getting smoked last week when moving to play MN teams is a bit of a downer