Johnny Five

AAA hockey is not for development. It's strictly for fun. Same as Team ND hockey. None of it is good for actual development. As long as you know that, you're free to decide what you want your kid to experience. Camps are fine, IMO, depending on what you're doing. It obviously depends on what city you are closest too and who is running the camp. Sometimes it's best to just put the gear down for a few months.

Yeah that's a good goal. Whitney spazzing out on twitter is awesome haha.

WF, WFS and now Horace. Makes it a difficult split because there's no way one of those schools has enough to have a program on their own. One of the reasons Bismarck took awhile, needed the numbers to support it and somehow find the right CO-OPs. Now, next year, CHS girls will have a roster of 14-15 skaters. Gotta ride the numbers wave....

Penn State or any other school for that matter.

I get that, but let's compare Verhoeff and Carels. Where were they a year ago on draft boards and how can we really tell how it affected their draft position? I guess that was my point regarding the high-high end players.

I'm not sure any college hockey recruit wouldn't have an insane time tailgating and hitting parties after a game at the Big House, Ohio State, Penn State, etc.

I think the high-high end Canadian thing is going to be an interesting follow the next few years. McKenna and Verhoeff have been highly ranked for quite some time for their age group....it's hard to argue whether this year helped, hurt or was indifferent too be honest. There was a time McKenna was "falling" and Verhoeff was "trending" as the 1, then it kinda flipped again. Now it seems McKenna is the consensus 1 and Verhoeff could be D 2-3, which is still awesome. But what if they had stayed and crushed up north? Hard to say. McKenna allegedly got a huge bag from Penn State, but none of those high end NHLers to be really wanna open a book, do they? None of those guys take school too serious.... But many I've read already have Carels over Verhoeff. I'd have to go back and see if that was the case a year ago, but if Carels goes top 3 I can't imagine he'll want on anyone's campus, the big show is his dream, unless someone throws a McKenna bag at him. The changing landscapes of college hockey.

I don't know man. When the big boy are in town the student section is loud and fun. Don't look at this year's team or the end of the Lucia era for the answers to that one.....Motzko had Mariucci buzzing plenty during his 8 years. Ausmus has even stated plenty of times how much he loves and hates the rouser after goals... No disrespect to any of the crowds you mentioned, but Mariucci is legit when there's a buzz in the crowd and the pre-game bars within walking distance are a great time.

There is a pretty good thread on GPL regarding NIL where a lawyer attempts to break it down. It is waaaaaaay more confusing than any of us think, or just a booster handing over a check to a top recruit. The phrase "Big 10 Money" gets thrown around, but according to that thread and as you mentioned Wilbur, at the UM it's not necessarily the case (the $250K for a player, etc)...and on top of that, it's complicated as hell.

Maybe it's the environment he was in but his stats aren't eye popping. 5 goals and 18 assists in 75 games.....but he'll probably go somewhere and blow up, lol.

Straight to the advisors for first contact.

He was a done deal weeks ago.

Nice addition for UND.

Duluth is going to be a problem.

Yeah I'm not sure on the points thing either. But in relation to Harper, Smith is also over 2 years older, 3 inches taller and 15-20 pounds heavier. Perhaps more of an immediate impact. Of course he would need to officially commit, but something has to give.