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$8, I believe $30 is for the season pass for St. Cloud.

At the beginning of the year it was looking like Saunders was very lucky to have the chance to start for a national contender, now its looking like UND is very, very lucky that Saunders decided to play here. What a game by him tonight.

Dang, big get for them. I was expecting him to commit here along, too bad.

http://www.undsports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?id=1089674&db_oem_id=13500 New Through These Doors. The best part is that you can see that Parks is on the ice skating, not full pads but its a good sign at least.

I think its safe to say Brock made the right choice in turning pro, he was obviously ready for that level.

He will be eligible for the second year, so don't get your hopes up on him being drafted. He had 90+ points last year, if that doesn't get you drafted I don't know what will. He is on pace for 100+ points so you never know, that would put him in Travis Zajac/Kyle Turris territory.

So how does going to the OHL get him more playing time? Barrie has the best record in the OHL right now. If he was on the 3rd/4th line for a USHL team, I really doubt he will be get much more playing time on the best team in the OHL.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AoPLTHefMmmTdGt1bWNTcUNqRm1SaUNZbG5jMi1PS2c&gid=1 2013 List

Good sign, its alot easier to skate than walk so he must be fairly close to returning.

I can see why Danny wants to shoot the puck so often though, no one can bury his fabulous setups.

I just realized neither of BU's goal scorers should have been on the ice when they scored last night. O'Regan scored the first goal, he was the player who checked Gaarder from behind and only got a two minute penalty. Oksanen apparently broke the record for fastest recovery time for a concussion in order to score his goal.

After watching the MacWilliam major multiple times this morning. I really don't think it was shoulder to shoulder, I think it was more torso to torso. Vicious hit yes, but I really don't think its even a penalty. MacWilliam worked his butt off to become a physical beast, and now he is getting penalized for it. I'm sorry UND has a good training program. Oksanen spun around 3 times because he was hit in the body, if you get hit hard enough in the head to spin your body around 3 times, I'm pretty you are no longer living.

It was obvious that Big Mac's hitting was taking effect on BU, I remember during the second period, two BU players on one shift just quit skating and turned the puck over because they were about to get their head ripped off.

I was thinking the same thing. He has a chance for #5 this weekend though, that is, if he is even in the lineup.

Rocco just retweeted Ben Rosen's tweet, so the boys know about it. Not like they needed any more motivation for this weekend, but Rosen just added a little more fuel to the fire.

I have never heard anyone saying they know better than Hakstol. As you said it is fun to speculate and discuss, which are what message boards, like this one, are for.

I thought I saw an article where he was quoted that there was no chance he was going to the OHL, I could be wrong though.

I agree, Grimaldi-Knight-Kristo might be the best line in college hockey. But whoever with Knight and Kristo is still at least a top-10 line, MacMillan-Rowney-Parks is probably a top-10 second line, and just by having Rocco on the third line probably makes it close to the best third line in the country. No other team in the country is going to have a point-per-game player on their third line.

I really didn't mind him there this weekend, he played solid hockey, but I agree that normally isn't enough to play on the top line for this team. Obviously his talent level is a step down from Knight and Kristo, but so is everyone else' besides Rocco. I really want to keep Rocco on the 3rd line, he is a home run threat every time he touches the puck. As long as he gets the puck, he does not need anyone else' help to create offense at this level. He makes whoever he plays with substantially better, but I don't think the opposite can be said. Why not have him make Caggiula and St. Clair a lot better instead of making Knight and Kristo slightly better?

Unless someone is to play their off-wing, the choices are pretty limited. MacMillan probably won't be split up with Rowney so that leaves O'Donnell, Caggiula, and Chyzyk as the possibilities as the first line LW, personally I like O'Donnell there, and I really like the 3rd line as is with Caggiula, Rocco, and St. Clair.

If it comes down to it, could the games be rescheduled for Saturday and Sunday?

Not totally correct, the U-18 rarely plays in the USHL, the majority of the USHL games are played by the U-17 squad.

Yep I saw them as well, didn't get a very good look but one was taller than Dane Jackson so whoever it was is obviously pretty large.

I followed the 2011 NHL draft (Rocco's draft) fairly closely, one tidbit that I heard that was interesting was that among many other things, Grimaldi supposedly had the best one-timer in the draft. I have never seen it, and if it is that good maybe we should incorporate it into our Powerplay a little more perhaps.

If Rocco can start burying more of his chances, he is going to put up monster numbers.