yzerman19

well, that's one approach....

USA Hockey Tier 1 Nationals start today...lotta talented kids playing. Of interest at the 13O level is Team ND and MN Lakers (District 6 HP team). At the 14U level you have Minny kids on SSM, Little Caesars, and MN Blue Ox (HP team with Moorhead and Warroad boys) Team ND is also in this tourney. 15O you have SSM and SF Power. 16U SSM is loaded (Diego and Fitzy are underagers and will be in red, white and blue next season), SF Power in the tourney as well. Very talented 2010 playing up with his brother on the 16U North Jersey team (Will LaSouro).

Yes, with as much success as he had on the ice and on the bench with this program, it wasn't coincidence. Thanks for the memories!

GF, who knew you were a poet??!!! Now switch to iambic pentameter

Reverse engineer it and it gets really crazy. If you are drafted at 18, that means age 17 was your draft year from a stats and scouting perspective...where are you playing and what role being huge for your NHL prospects. 16 you need to have positioned to be in the place and doing the things to have that great 17 year old season the following year to get you drafted. 15 you are proving that you should be able to play on that team next season to position you for the following season.

nope...see small and big...the big agencies don't want to dip that young, but they are finding they have to. If you go to a bantam major game in Toronto area they have scouts rooms. Think about it, the WHL drafts kids at 14/15. if they don't have an advisor leading into that draft, then they are essentially at the mercy of the league...think about NTDP 40 man camp, every one of those kids at age 15/16 for sure has an advisor advocating and advising them...at 16 they are talking to schools...In other words, the train starts to move fast at 14.

I will keep working HARDER to make LONGER posts

x1000000 and if you aren't with one at 13 you likely aren't a chippa

yeah, that happened...but man, I miss the hunt

man....we all got older...what happened : )

yes, that was fun

20% from players???? The NHLPA caps agents rips at 3%...

mine are less...they don't exist anymore....all k1s and 1099s at this point

I agree with you. The world doesn't work for culture. The world works for money. End of the day, all anybody wants is $2M liquid and a nice little house and truck that are paid for. Once you have that, you are f'ing gold. There's a great scene in the movie "The Gambler" about this exactly.

If it didn't come from a realiable number with a reference to something or someone to connect you to it, its a fraud

what did we do when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor??!

brother, my eyes, skin and nose would show you that i was closer to the guy taking his scalp!!

Another guy that did his very best for the program. I will never think of him as anything but a Sioux warrior. In 1870, the Sioux were the finest light cavalry the world had ever seen...kill ratios that rival modern SEAL teams...outnumbered and outgunned...never quit...that all came from FAMILY. Let's not forget that we are extended members of the Sioux family.

It isn't for these chippaz...there is a lot more out there....

such has always been the state of the world my friend

Can you imagine if KEM dropped $1M on Gavin McKenna???!!!!

This is a make or break moment in the history of SIoux hockey...the same way the Ralph set us up for 20 years of competitive play. Right now, we need massive NIL$ and we need to go snag the best possible guys out there. Chippas laugh at 23 year olds playing college hockey...chippas won't ever sniff the NAHL...chippas need to run and we need some NOW or else we are never getting back

and if said player is a chippa and its Pat Brisson on the phone....

I have heard the room was not a family...it was by the accounts i heard, completely F'd up

I think these boys are smarter than this...if they aren't...God help them when they have a couple million bucks