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3 years for an NHL #1 is great for us!! It is rare that those guys stay four unless they were "project" picks.

How many members of a gold medal winning WJC team are in the East Coast league?? To me, the WJC has always been the proving ground. I did not see a single comment related to my listing of Sioux players, performance, draft status and league. I don't see anyone saying that Danny is going to the show where he'll be an immediate impact player ala Toews, Parise or even Oshie or Stafford or Zajac. I think Danny could become a nice second line winger and be a 15 goal a year guy. fifteen years ago, I would say he would struggle based on size and the type of game played...today's NHL is much more suited to Danny's game. Mario Lamoureaux was second in ECHL ROY voting, and is a scorer in that league...Danny brings WAY more offense than Mario. If Danny played in the ECHL he would score 120 points a year.

I would imagine that the Kings are underwhelmed by his development and will actively seek to sign him and send him to the AHL. Not a knock on him or our program, but he did not play like a third year first round draft pick... For all of those "it takes dmen longer to develop" I agree in theory, but Matt Greene, Keith Ballard, Erik Johnson, Jack Johnson, Brooks Orpik all went early...so did Paul Martin (a second rounder)...Jacob Trouba was a one and done...and all were playing at a much higher level than Derek...In order to maximize their significant investment (a first round pick) I believe LA will push to have Forbert in the AHL. They will give him a max NHL deal, knowing full well that he is likely to be paid only his signing bonus and AHL salary for the next two years. Not trying to be a hater, just calling it like I see it.

Pony dropped the gloves tonight in the show...

There are more high end skaters playing college hockey now than there were even 10 years ago, let alone 30 years ago. That is "spreading the wealth" among teams and creating parity.

Even when Budish, Haula, and Bjugstad weren't scoring goals, they were dominating forecheckers that few teams could match in terms of strength down low...that is tough to replace. I remember thinking that on our team, only Mac was physically strong enough to man up against them, and even then if he didn't have position he struggled, and Mac was one big, strong customer. Other D men had no chance...Gleason, Mattson, Schmaltz all looked like children against them on the boards, and Simpson and Forbert were just hanging on for dear life.

Peg #9 overall

Not surprising...that young stud had no business in the NCAA at the end of the year...too good.

One and done is a lot about puck luck. Kermit and the Farce maybe gave us good juju in the 80's. Perhaps we used all ours up for a while...

He's won 4 broadmoors, and a couple macnaughtons...those are championships... I'd like a couple more NCAA trophies too, but it is extremely difficult and getting more difficult to win one.

So Hextall, Watkins, Malone, and Vandevelde never put up the numbers Kristo did, were drafted much lower, and are in the AHL, not the ECHL Gregoire put up similar production numbers, was drafted slightly lower and is in the AHL. Nelson had similar numbers was drafted higher, but left early, and is in the AHL Better numbers of late in a Sioux uniform? Parise- NHL, Toews-NHL, Oshie-NHL, Bochenski-NHL-AHL-KHL, Frattin- NHL-AHL, Duncan- AHL- Europe

You don't send a 2nd round draft pick who is among the NCAA leaders in goals and assists and has a WJC gold medal to the east coast league. Not even a consideration. He will suit up in Hamilton yet this year...would've said Montreal if they weren't competing for a playoff spot. Bjugstad will get to start in FL. He might get sent down to the AHL if they think he needs to work on something in particular, but his default will be the NHL. First rounder with that size and skill set...he'll need to prove he can't play at the NHL level, where most guys need to prove that they can.

To actually warrant looking at a new coach, the following would have to occur IMO: 1. Fail to earn home ice for playoffs for two years 2. Fail to make conference tourney for two years 3. Fail to make NCAA tourney for two years

I am sure that they blew it up and freeze framed it. If you can't discern any white between the red goal line and the puck, then it's no goal. If that was the explanation, I would respect that. Instead, they make up something about the goalie being pushed into the net?

There actually were quite a few black mountain men...and there weren't a lot of women in the mountains...cold nights and all...

I was thinking early departure so no degree. I agree that there are worse fates than what you describe...again that usually requires the piece of paper on the insurance side or investments side. Restaurants are the singular lowest probability of success entrepreneurial ventures, so that probably is rolling the dice...

And that cash differential between being in the AHL and the NHL is astronomical. Say you get a max rookie deal if you are Forbert...so that's what about $280k to sign, which after paying taxes and your agent is really like $100k. Then you make $70k per in the AHL...now this isn't terrible, but at the same time, it isn't great either, considering it has a short life. What do you do when you're done??

Guarantee this is money, not performance driven

Gotta go where the puck is going to be...

Living in Mpls, watching the games in my basement on FCS...playing knee hockey with my 2 year old while he says "I'm Danny Kristo, you Corban Knight, Mommy's Rocco Maldi" gives me pause and makes me think of another little boy who played knee hockey in a basement and pretended to be Doug Smail...Fighting SIoux hockey lives forever!

The last decade, that many have been calling "failures," has given me many hundreds of hours of enjoyment. The shared experience of Sioux hockey with my fellow fanatics (and those whom I've dragged along with me for the ride) has been so worth it. My investment in the team has been so worth it. My investment in game tickets in GF, St Cloud, Duluth, St. Paul, Minneapolis so worth it. My ridiculously expensive cable TV package just to get FCS so worth it. My old set-up with wires everywhere to run the desktop computer through my TV so worth it. All those games, all those moments of greatness and pure joy. The moments of heartbreaking losses. All shared with people I know and with a universe of people that I might never know but share a common bond with me. I'm with the previous poster...I can't imagine the last ten years without Oshie, Parise, Toews, Bochenski, Greene, Smaby, Chorney, Vandevelde, Trupper, Pony, Frattin, Porter, Duncan, Kristo, MacWilliam. I wouldn't trade those ten years of Sioux hockey just for national titles...no way...

If he had someone attacking the net with speed with him, a bunch of his shots would've become assists. Even if you draw iron or pad, a strong drive to the net or a shot is always a good thing. I do think he is playing in fast forward and without teammates moving at the same rhythm and without line chemistry,math at causes problems

Regardless of personnel, I think we really need to evaluate our systems on the forecheck, powerplay, breakout, and d zone coverage. I would spend all summer bag skating guys with parachutes and weights. We need to be quicker and make quicker, better passes. We need to quit playing along the walls and start attacking the scoring areas. We need to leave our zone with speed and numbers as a cohesive unit. We need to put the puck on net and have guys winning battles to the rebound areas. We need to make guys miss in order to advance the puck.

These have to be the likes of Jerry York,Jack Parker, Red Berenson, Herb Brooks

Who will Danny pass the number 7 to? I know this was a MN tradition, and I think we are doing it now too...Osh to Kristo to ?