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still 2-2? im eatching highh svhool

Yep- range tends to favor Duluth...I hope the kid does well. He's got a ton of heart.

Lawson played Sioux hockey this weekend. Throw in that Herb Brooks award. Bubbs should pay the kid a visit.

Lotta good players from Minny- didn't debate that- hence the smiley face. Lotta good players outside of Minny too is my point. My hockey world was very Minnecentric until I moved around. I've been involved in USA hockey on the west coast and have seen some great players and teams. The Minnesota connection is there, however, as many of the best player's parents and/or coaches have some connection to Minny or other traditional hockey markets- New England, Michigan, Canada. LA Jr Kings PeeWee AAA team just won the prestigious Quebec tourney, beating SKA St Petersburg, Team Minnesota, and Team Czech on the way.

The 90's Moorhead team with Blake, Cullen, Kraft and Arnold should've won one, but they ran into that great Jefferson machine...The Broten, Broten, Erickson Roseau team fell short too...why I love this tourney...the Cloquet team with Langenbrunner, Petrov, Novak and Mrozik was sick too...again the Jefferson machine...

In places with better hockey players maybe In all honesty, I had no idea on level of skill and play outside the area until I left. Minnesota is probably the deepest in terms of above average players, but the top players in Minny are no better than the top players in many states that don't have robust high school programs...check out Elite or AAA players from all over the country...or just head north

I'm trying to think of the last Minnesota high school tourney to UND success transition...Oshie? Probably- and he was obviously very special

Right! Recall Brock Boeser didn't play his senior year at Burnsville- he was in the USHL in Waterloo. I will caveat the following with this: Minnesota prep is the last bastion where elite players can stay at a development path at home- albeit it must be supplemented with elite league or international. Its more rare these days for the best talent to play high school as seniors- it does still happen, but it is not the primary path, unless there is a family reason or a physical maturity need. North of the border, the best are most often off playing major junior at 16. Some college bound studs are playing junior A or at a hockey focused prep school at 16. Down here it's USNTDP or prep school or Elite AAA. Imagine Jack Hughes playing a high school schedule? not saying it's great for the kid as a whole, but if your an elite player, leaving is the default, staying is the exception.

It's now a two sided sword with this team. If you lose, you gotta oil up the hand and grab the perseco and OJ... they don't deserve the original treatment...

Remember, your RPI moves even after you are done playing games...

My guess is that JBD was trying to do too much himself, because nobody else can really create much. Bubs probably just wants him to simplify his game, give him and his head a rest knowing we need him at his very best to make a run at the NCHC playoff title.

Fixed your post

Bench a freshman first rounder for a turnover (potentially), but let Gardner slide for his penalties or the entire forward group for poor play...makes sense to me

Yes, we can. $400k per average is nothing in a budget the size of UND's...it's 4 analysts with benefits

JBD is the only NHL player on this year's team...

Says something that my immediate support is for JBD, not Bubbs...

I actually really like it. RPI is huge and should be the number one determinant, but I love that you can crush it with common opponents and head to head results. It is a solid system. Only negative is that winning percentage is still king in RPI, so your strength of schedule is somewhat discounted. All in all, it is fair.

NEEEEEEEERRRRRRRDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSS

Exactly. Its 113bps to Harvard...a miracle run without a conference title and we might find ourselves all the way up to 15 and praying for no upsets... And...if we play Western in the first round, it will be both teams' seasons on the line, most likely.

6 losses or ties giving up 2 or less 11 giving up 3 or less. should win at least 4 of the first 6, and half of the incremental 5. an average offense and pp and we have 6/7 more wins and are sitting pretty. Reality sinks in...you are what your record says you are, and we have zero offense

Wow- that big an RPI hit...incredible...

How do you come up with that? It would be an adjusted RPI due to defeating a weaker opponent...

Just splitting with Canisius and we'd have 42 maybe even 43 and be sitting 17/18 with more hope

So if by some miracle we run the table, the point is moot- we're in. The scerario you suggest would be the RPI play, which is fluid, because it moves based on the outcome of virtually every game. We have 40 PWR wins...looks like 47 gets you to number 13, 46 to number 14. If the hockey Gods favor us, and the right teams win and lose and we sweep out then go 1-1 in St Paul, I see the possibility of getting to 45.

And honestly...does this team deserve a date at the big dance???