Agreed…we may want James to play another year to be honest. Guessing strinden doesn’t touch the ice next year. Hain and Senden should be nice bottom six players. Blake will slot in top 6 with Gaber.
I get what you/Eades meant…he’s a smaller D man that goes hard. Limited O upside it appears, which this team really needs in the worst way. We’ll have age/experience on our side though which will be a plus.
Ture Linden would be an interesting add. This portal stuff is nuts…may change the way programs like UND recruit. You may see them go after only blue chips and basically plucking everyone else from the portal. Obviously I’m m exaggerating a bit. But you get the point.
His skating was really bad and he wasn’t in great shape. I heard we went a different direction and that must have woken him up a bit. I’ve heard his skating has improved a ton. He’s always been a highly skilled/smart player. Sat in the ushl for a long time and developed. He’ll walk right into a top 6/pp role at OSU next year. I could see him going in the 3rd/5th round this summer.
Super curious about this one. Maybe he’s a good penalty killer or something. Numbers are below avg…bigger kid I suppose. Appears to be archaic thinking, some GM can’t get out of their old thinking.