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Agreed. But he dominated last year so playing against bigger kids should challenge him more (just my opinion on development). Also, he plays all spring/summer so the reduced games aren’t that big of a deal. Seasons have flip flopped. Games all summer long train in the winter

Yeah, his positioning in the lineup is very interesting. 3 pts in 3 games is not that great given the amount of goals they have scored and his talent level. He should move up here soon. Not sure if it's the coach keeping him down because of his age or not.

Back out last weekend and our pp % is still hot garbage.

We need some guys back.

Agreed.....and there is nothing wrong with Michigan's program either. Their recruiting classes coming up are loaded.

More likely than not, the best players play in the ushl. It’s by far and away the toughest junior A league in NA. Obviously there are high end players in the BC and other Canadian leagues too. But from a depth perspective, it’s the ushl and nothing is really that close.

Eric Ciccolini to Michigan. Pretty sure we were all in on him.

Have to figure out the special teams play soon, or it was cost us come March

Ya, if not for all those pps we lost. If the calls were reversed we lose like the night before. We have too many reasonably skilled guys for the pp to be that bad.

Agreed.

Weird game to watch, pp is beyond terrible. But we won. That’s all that matters. A split is all we needed. On to next week.

Skilled players can kill penalties too

What’s Wilkie done this year with CC?

Need to grind out a W tomorrow

We’ve been losing recruiting battles for a little while now. We do have some nice ones in the pipeline. But we’ve lost a bunch too, to schools we typically don’t lose them to. Things need to turn around here soon.

A lot of his recruits played ushl as well...and had success in that league.

What?

Isn’t that what he’s saying? The issue is that without jones our senior class isn’t that productive and our junior class is terrible. You’re leaving everything to a sophomore class (that is underachieving) and freshman.

I’m comparing this team to past teams.

Sure but we used to have 12-13 draft picks on outlets team in the mid to late 2000s. Now we have like 5-6?

Then get role players that are skilled. Don’t pull third liners from junior teams. We have 3/4 of them. We have multiple players that did nothing in juniors

Their players are better than ours, top to bottom

Duluth is really good. But even with our injuries we should be able to play with them. Recruiting has to be fixed. No more role players, skilled players only.

I know we are missing some players, but this is a different age. Something isn’t right. We are average.

I get we’re missing players, but our mediocrity is emabarasing.