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I believe that game last night solidified that Crosby is the best player in the world at the moment. Blown away how good he played last night. I still remember hearing when he came to GF for his visit. Boy would that have been cool if he would have played here. He receives a ton of criticism on this forum however I think folks should just sit back and appreciate the player we are watching. He's generational for sure.

Again wasn't criticizing the team, I'm just saying the league is extremely thin on talent. The NA is making leaps and bounds every year. I wouldn't recruit in either the AJ or NA (other than goalies) unless there were some special kid there. The BC has proven to be the deepest junior A league in Canada. Also the bc and aj are tier 2 because the CHL is tier 1 there. i like that we stick mostly with pushing our recruits up through the USHL model, which is bar none the greatest junior A league in NA. I like what the BC has been doing recently as well. Top to bottom the USHL is the best league but obviously you can find decent kids in the BC as well.

I've heard they will be reloading nicely. Losing those three (plus Bellows as a soph) should sting pretty bad however keeping Greenway as a junior, Fabbro as a soph, bringing in Bowers, and having the rest of their young team age another year should help. Also, their goalie is a stud. Hank Crone, David Farrance, Logan Cockerill, Brady Tkachuk, Ty Amonte, Kasper Kotkansalo, Shane Bowers, and Cam Crotty are comming in next year (found it off some website). That's really good.

Denver plucked another one. They have a good thing going right now.

He's 5"11 190 and he could only bench 150 once. I think that's more shocking.

All in all the AJHL is a very thin league top to bottom. Now I am aware that the Brooks Bandits were a very good team last year, due in large part to Makar and Phoo (mostly Makar) however it isn't a great league. NAHL: 16% of Div. 1 freshman; AJHL: 7% of Div 1 freshman. NAHL has over 2x the amount of NCAA Div 1 commits. That's comparing the NAHL (tier 2 league) vs the AJHL. But to my initial point, shocked Makar wasn't recruited by UND in '16.

Barring injury he'll definitely be there. Top 6. I laughed when I read he couldn't do a pull up. I think he may have only done one rep on the bench press as well. Either way, he's elite though.

I just read that the other schools recruiting Cale Makar were Vermont, Denver, Bemidji St., and Quinnipiac. If he were to have went to Denver they would have had next year's season pretty much wrapped up. I wonder why UND never recruited this kid? Canadian, right handed, 1-2 dman prospected on the planet.

Signed with Tri City today.

Yeah, we'll be good too. I don't think we'll pack the punch that they will but we should be a very good team.

What's your problem with Flower? Is it just this other poster that you're messing with?

Agreed. I bet they all stay. They will dominate.

Agreed terrible news. Good thing for them is that they are bringing in a top notch (tiny) goalie and have an older group left from last year. They should still be good but to say they are national title contenders is probably a stretch.

"He is a projected late round pick for this year’s NHL Entry Draft." I was referring to the fact they talk about "this year's draft". They also messed up his points/game calc....it's .6

They note reid as a late round NHL draft pick in this year's upcoming draft....that has to be a typo. He's several year's away from being eligible.

Stockpile them. They'll hit on a few of them. The others will go somewhere else.

(beyond) Stupid rule....but it was the right call. Preds need the next one, Pit won't play that bad again in game 2.

Anders Bjork signed with Boston. This is actually a big plus, Notre Dame was bringing everyone back. This also makes sense, he had no business coming back (other than a Natty I guess), but from a talent standpoint he is NHL ready.

...Granato got the follow back, I'd put my money on Wisco too . In all seriousnous, Wisconsin does have some decent recruits in those younger groups. Also, Granato is going to flip that program around quick.

Sometimes the CHL can benefit a kid, from a confidence standpoint. Given what he did last year I doubt he'll ever be a high end NHL player and may simply toil around the minors. Kid could just be a bust. Never know. Quinn may not be overly disappointed he is reloading this coming year.

That's crazy. Talk about a panic move

True, but that happens every year, sounds like he's coming here but until they throw on the jersey I'm slightly skeptical. This is great news though. Big pick up.

Pretty sure this kid has a similar ceiling.

Ethan Bowen committed ('02 Yale Academy). That's a very big get. We'll see if he ends up here or not.

Still curious how Isaac Johnson (DM) hasn't committed anywhere yet. He must be on Bub's radar.