fightingsioux4life

You can teach skilled players how to play defense and kill penalties. You cannot teach players with average skills (a.k.a. "grindaz") how to score goals and create offense. Recruit the most talented kids you can and coach them up on defense and other fundamentals.

St. Thomas has tremendous upside and would be a farsighted addition to both the Summit and the NCHC.

Anyone wonder if some Major Junior weasel fed him all that "we are the fast track to the pros" baloney and he bought it?

Should we hang banners for that?

Unless they all make a pact to return for one more year.

English Translation: #nattysdontmatter

We are now in 3rd place in total Natty's. But don't worry, I've been assured by many posters that this will have absolutely no effect on recruiting whatsoever.

Who cares what they were like 10 years ago? They obviously have grown a lot since then.

And how many of those studs will be back next year? Haven't they already lost two guys?

Then he doesn't have a lot of options.

Maybe Major Juniors?

Cue the whining from Altru in 3.....2.....1

Yes, I like that better. The Jasper Weather-bye! Rule it is.

We can call it The Jasper Weatherbye Rule.

Let's leave the best conference in college hockey alone. The NCHC is where it's at. Improve on it, don't blow it up.

Cool logo and name. Wish we had adopted it a few years ago.

Thankfully the title game was on TBS so those KX4 idiots couldn't preempt "One Shining Moment" with their late local news like they did last year.

Who wins the men's title tonight? I'm going with Kansas.

I'll believe it when he is still on the roster the day Fall 2022 classes start. #yesiamcynical

All that matters are the NHL prospect camps.

And other years, we do better against them. You will always have ebbs and flows with that.

Red stuck around too long. The program suffered as a result. The same may be true of Jerry York.

I agree with you 100%. Both Michigan and Minnesota have substantial upgrades at head coach (Pearson is a big upgrade from Red and Motzko is a big upgrade from Lucia). It makes sense their recruiting would pick up from what it was. The rest of that conference is nothing special. Also, hockey is 2nd or 3rd at best on the food chain at most of these schools (Minnesota is a notable exception to this). Hockey is not basketball or football. The failure of the current regional system in hockey is the direct result of trying to model the NCAA hockey tournament after March Madness (all neutral sites). Also, NIL won't be the same as for basketball and football, since hockey doesn't draw big media and corporate sponsor attention like the aforementioned sports do. Bottom Line: UND is not going anywhere, whether Mel Pearson likes it or not. We will not settle for being a plucky little mid-major.

The Oilers need goaltending help, do they not?