yzerman19

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

Joey Cullen (Sophomore 2010) 2.80 points per game and RJ Thompson (Freshman 2010) 2.75 points per game seem to not be having any difficulty transitioning to High School Hockey. Maverick McKinnon 2.33 and Jaxon Cook 2.29 played high school last year and are also 2010's and clearly being big producers for their teams as well. Moorhead and Eden Prairie have had tough schedules thus far with a couple top 10 match-ups each. These kids are pretty fun to watch play.

Joey Cullen is very, very talented, one of the top players in his birth year. The narratives that get thrown around are silly though. He is well positioned to grow and be a great player. I wish him nothing but success...its not the kid's fault when grown ups are the problem.

MNHOCKEYTV carries all the varsity games

Maverick McKinnon hung 7 points on a loaded STA team vs a weak Tartan team last night. He's a strong NTDP candidate and scores a ton. Not sure on how he projects size wise and if he plays Sioux Hockey, but the kid racks up points and is a good kid.

Moorhead vs Edina today in some big action over the border.

bantam AA

My brother's best friend's girlfriend's cousin said she heard him commit at 69 flavors...

people always complain when little johnny doesn't make the team...he waited his turn, so he should get to play...nope...this is big boy/real world...get better at hockey and you won't get cut.

true, but same as the big schools in the cities...lotta good players get cut in Edina, Tonka, EP, etc

Think about this...if you add EGF Sr High to that list, you are barely bigger than Edina and still smaller than Tonka and EP....imagine a single team of RR, Central, EGF....

Yep. Central + Red River is 2300 Moorhead 2000 Edina 2700 Minnetonka and Eden Prairie each well over 3000

2 super elite 2010's back from Michigan AAA to MNKOTA high school: Joey Cullen and RJ Thompson

That's a very good showing out of the gate

Yes, but its a go for 2027 is what I saw, so they just delayed it...and yes...CHL is separate technically, but... So good additions to my comments, important clarifications

The only thing I know for certain is that they are going forward with that national Tier 1 development league for 15U and 17U and they want that to fit into the pyramid with USHL and NTDP. I would be surprised if they are trying to roll into the CHL, although stranger things have happened...I just can't see USA Hockey surrendering to Hockey Canada though as governing body of all Tier 1 junior hockey in North America....NHL development money, top US players considering CHL are important things for them to think about...who knows, I am speculating....