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Hopefully I’m wrong, but with the injuries scsu has I would be shocked if they kept it within 2-3. Gophs are going to be way too much.

Parity in college hockey huh

Boy are they fun to watch…through and through an absolute wagon. To think they lost Broz and both Lucius bros. Recruiting is a layup with all the high end talent coming out of MN lately

Great write up…makes me ever more worried about next year Besides the obvious needs…another glaring hole is the lack of upperclassman punch. Besides gaber there’s nothing. Team will be thin next year. There’s will definitely be minutes up for grabs.

I think you mean last season.

Right….ushl is significantly tougher league. But for some it doesn’t matter (I.e. Makar)

Haha I’m completely joking here…but those conversations with Kleven and Frisch had to be hilarious. With previous teams it was always more around if the player is ready or not. I’m guessing this year it was more about staying to help out the program in the short term. If Bubs can find two decent D in the portal and a solid G, we should be a solid team. Young dmen will grow but there will be pain points. Overall, our recruiting/recruit management has to improve by quite a bit. You can’t mess around with a player or two because we don’t have the recruiting depth we used to have. Time to start fixing things. It can’t be these short term solutions. I have zero expectations for next year other than we need to start pulling in some big recruits like we used to and looking towards 24-25.

Agreed. My only concern is that he was always known as a high end offensive defensemen…offensive defensemen that don’t put up points is a bit concerning There’s also an ‘06 dman QBing their PP over Ausmus…also concerning.

Just guarantee Howard he’ll be on a line with OM and Blake the entire year. First PP guaranteed.

Oh yeah way more skilled/dynamic. It’s like watching Sanderson last year. You can watch for like 5-10 minutes and you instantly notice these guys are way better than anyone else on the ice

I think Lane Hutson is my new favorite player. Watching a skilled dman just wheel all over the ice is so refreshing.

Prior to juniors he was really high end actually. Was on the 04 mn blades team that was beyond loaded and he was a really good player on that team. Got looks with NTDP early on too. I honestly think he had some bad injuries and it set him back big time.

I was somewhat thinking the same thing. Undrafted guys always get a game or two. Guessing he was ready for the next step. Obviously has a degree so can’t fault the guy. Next year, most likely, will be more of the same. He probably wanted to move on.

Well then I’m utterly confused. He was solid down the stretch last year too.

They’re changing with their new coach. 100% skill/offense

Yep I’d take him in a second…D play will be iffy but that’s not why you take a kind like this. Guessing Bubs wouldn’t touch him with a ten ft pole. Fairly outspoken kid, definitely new school.

That was kind of obvious to me. Misused a bit. Has Michigan or MN written All over him

I’ve seen some good F’s who have hit the portal…who are the good dmen?

He is not close to ready yet. Next year will be a big year for him.

Replace Makar with Morrow

I really hope not, croal could really use another year of juniors. I’ve tracked him fairly closely and while his numbers are ok, he’s really steaky. Another year would help him tremendously. If it’s between the portal and croal…I’d slightly lean Croal however.

I honestly think there was something more to it. I hate to speculate but underclassmen are going to make mistakes. This should be known and very obvious. Farmer, Moore, etc all made their fair share of mistakes. Heck, kleven and Frisch made their fair share early in this year too. Johnson’s numbers were decent and he showed a few glimpses early in the year on that second pp. Overall, tough situation and Berry has always developed dmen fairly well. Bubs is the coach, have to trust him even though it was a bigger head scratcher.

Two? Perron and Emerson? We only need two right?

Let our underclassmen develop. Thats how you smooth things over year to year. We really didn’t need the portal heading into this year. It cost us for sure.

Must be a character kid! Good for the Beavs