yzerman19

all the insta and internet hype is just that...hype...scouts don't watch hype or highlights, they watch games. who is better to a scout, the guy with a couple highlight reel goals and big celly's or the guy who got one and took great routes with perfect details and won...

So, Joey Cullen is universally a top 5 player in the birthyear, will he stay and do before and after with the force or will he go to the program? I mean Moorhead is stacked for years...I think Matt Cullen should get the key to the city for what he did to build that crew and the community hockey wise. They are lined up for a decade thanks to Matt. Its almost unfair...they will own Section 8 probably forever now...at least they played an elite schedule with the metro blue bloods.

Roeder is elite...he is quietly one of the absolute best players in minny high school. He plays a good physical game, clean but hard, and he reads the ice, handles contact and dishes it. I put him among the absolute best projections in Minny

too bad its hard to find...you can definitely get to the parking lot...lol...said with love and humor

Other topic, I get going to USHL or CHL out of high school...to AAA? Only if you are 16 playing prep AAA or better at an elite program. One example of a late blooming player isn't the norm. If you are leaving and then going to the NAHL...good luck to you.

lets go RIDAS!!!! no CHippahs, but they RIDAS!

And, do you think it made a difference for him? That's my point.

If you leave your local to go to a tier 1 program you had better be elite...and I don't mean in the eyes of your mom. I'm talking certifiable top 2 rounds of CHL or USHL draft. You also better have a darn good reason for not staying that has to do with your own development and you better be going to a top tier program with top tier coaching and development and competition or else you are simply throwing money away.

I gotta think that guys having success playing older competition (that's what the NTDP does after all) will be seen as "better" so that's the 2010's playing high school or prep or 16U or 18U. I'd also think they'd pay attention to the league. So Minnesota's power conferences in hs hockey are not apples to apples with some dude playing high school in California. Massachusetts prep school circuit same.

Joey Cullen had to have gotten a bid. There's no world where he isn't in the top 4 or 5 players in the birthyear when healthy, and that's including Dmen like Daley. Did Buttweiler get a bid for sure? He's a good player and deserving of a look. Also not surprised on no Hontvedt. Nicol did get big young like his brother, but the kid is really good for his age. His older brother plays the game right, I imagine he does too.

In AA- Lotta really good teams are out in the metro power sections. Seciton 8: I can't see Moorhead not getting there and making a run. Section 7 making an argument will be surprising, it is weak this year. Edina vs Wayzata will be a good tilt. I think Tonka will walk Chan, but you never know. The Andover vs Centennial match is a shocker that nobody saw either of them going to the dance.

yeah...the 16 year olds running social media sites probably ain't the best sources. I'm not saying they are wrong, but not definitive.

anybody hear anything on the NTDP 40 man list? I see social media is speculating, but I haven't seen nor heard anything legit.

they should do it the weekend before, so all those boys can go to the State tourney to cheer on the school they will be playing for. That is how you build the culture

That is up there with really bad ideas

Lets go Red River!!!!

someone probably asked this earlier, but is there an online link to watch the games?

gotcha...I figured that is what you meant, it is in alignment with my thinking as well...as my grandpa used to say "who told you it was going to be easy?"

this is not a pointed retort, so said with earnestness. When you say "do very well in juniors" that is a bit ambiguous in the discussion around levels of junior hockey. Are you speaking to the traditional get 30-40 points as a senior and then get on with a USHL team? Because I am not discounting that for role players and depth guys. My point is mostly around things like the NAHL and the BC league and the MJHL SJHL AJHL levels

Since 1975 Harvard has more tourney appearances than any other Ivy (22)and claims the only NCAA title by an Ivy in the last 50 years. New Hampshire has the same 22 appearances and was runner-up twice. Those 22 are 1 less than Wisconsin (albeit Wisconsin won 5 titles in that time frame).

well its no secret that Bob might be at the end of his tenure...so it seems reasonable that prospects that are in that 2009 birth year will wait to see what happens there.

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...