COMMITTED UND Recruits

[Oldguy]

15 minutes ago, hockeytherapy13 said:

That belongs to Littler until someone dethrones him.

I guess I was thinking it might be best if Littler didn't have to play center.  He would probably be more productive as a winger, IMHO.

[scpa0305]

4 minutes ago, Oldguy said:

I guess I was thinking it might be best if Littler didn't have to play center.  He would probably be more productive as a winger, IMHO.

Littler still has to earn everything as well. I wouldn’t say he’s a high offensive guy (yet) either.

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

Google's algorithms are getting too good for my liking. They knew I'd want to see this:

[SuhakiYeahYeah]

 

[scpa0305]

15 minutes ago, SuhakiYeahYeah said:

 

Head scratcher ….someone’s hurt. In this day and age, going from Steven’s Point to Nodak…boy.

[brianvf]

17 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:

Head scratcher ….someone’s hurt. In this day and age, going from Steven’s Point to Nodak…boy.

Has to be a 9th dman, right?
Last year they only carried 8 and it bit them in the butt when too many injuries happened.
Still a head scratcher as you said.

I'll just cross my fingers that it's just to fill that 9th spot and not due to any other injury or issue amongst the other 8 guys.

[.357]

7 minutes ago, brianvf said:

Has to be a 9th dman, right?
 

...I'll just cross my fingers that it's just to fill that 9th spot and not due to any other injury or issue amongst the other 8 guys.

This doesn't make much sense. If someone's injured or left the program, you would think that the coaching staff would simply bring in someone from the CHL as a replacement. Unless a team can carry a 27th player is the only way I understand this addition. 

If a team already has 15 f, 8 d & 3 g, are they allowed to bring in an extra player or are 26 players the max a team can carry?

[scpa0305]

17 minutes ago, brianvf said:

Has to be a 9th dman, right?
Last year they only carried 8 and it bit them in the butt when too many injuries happened.
Still a head scratcher as you said.

I'll just cross my fingers that it's just to fill that 9th spot and not due to any other injury or issue amongst the other 8 guys.

Someone’s hurt for sure 

[cberkas]

So, Laurila might be hurt more than realized? 

This is a very odd move, I'd take a USports guy over a NAHL player or NCAA D3

[cberkas]

1 minute ago, .357 said:

This doesn't make much sense. If someone's injured or left the program, you would think that the coaching staff would simply bring in someone from the CHL as a replacement. Unless a team can carry a 27th player is the only way I understand this addition. 

If a team already has 15 f, 8 d & 3 g, are they allowed to bring in an extra player or are 26 players the max a team can carry?

You can carry more than 26 and they get a special designation this year. So, if you have less than 26 this year you can't have over 26 next year.

[atxsioux]

If they grand fathered in Dalton Andrew as a “cut” player they would only be at 25 players + 1 to get to 26 once Engel joins

[SuhakiYeahYeah]

Schloss confirms it's for 9 defensemen, shouldn't be injury concerns

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Thought the roster was full with Ollie?

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

3 committed and one inevitable commit listed among EP's trending list

[Scratch]

Can anyone explain to me how bringing in NAHL players can be construed as a good thing? I can’t fathom why Chyzyk would even be watching that league at all. Our August recruiting pull of this and Merrimacks scraps while everyone else is piling up first rounders seems like the berry recruiting method 

[tnt]

2 hours ago, cberkas said:

So, Laurila might be hurt more than realized? 

This is a very odd move, I'd take a USports guy over a NAHL player or NCAA D3

I am sure a lot of people said the same things about guys like Connor Gaarder and Stephane Pattyn.  I am sure this is a depth add, but you absolutely need heart and soul players.  That is what has been missing lately in my eyes.  Tell you one thing, a lot of these guys are captains, so hopefully you don’t have to use the play a full 60 phrase as much.  We had guys like Perron and McLaughlin with a ton of talent, but they would disappear frequently.

[brianvf]

16 minutes ago, Scratch said:

Can anyone explain to me how bringing in NAHL players can be construed as a good thing? I can’t fathom why Chyzyk would even be watching that league at all. Our August recruiting pull of this and Merrimacks scraps while everyone else is piling up first rounders seems like the berry recruiting method 

You're talking about two guys that will literally be the 14/15th forward (maybe last forward in?) and the 9th dman...95% of the games both of them will be in suits in the stands.
And the players knew that coming in.

Regarding the next recruiting cycle, has there been a single commit yet that was someone that UND was targeting or was potentially UND-bound?  I don't see one.
There's a huge pile of UND targets for the next cycle, including the potential #1 pick in 2027.  Let's allow those guys to all do their official visits to campus and see where they end up.  Because I have a feeling Bryn will pull in some big ones from that group.

This staff has been doing all good things since being hired IMO. 
I'm not gonna toss them under the bus because they brought in an NAHL guy for the 9th D spot.

[tnt]

23 minutes ago, Scratch said:

Can anyone explain to me how bringing in NAHL players can be construed as a good thing? I can’t fathom why Chyzyk would even be watching that league at all. Our August recruiting pull of this and Merrimacks scraps while everyone else is piling up first rounders seems like the berry recruiting method 

Yeah, why watch a league that has had players like Connor Gaarder, Paul LaDue and Tucker Poolman.  Those are only UND guys.  Tons of great college and pro players started there.

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

It is good for the state's hockey community to give the Bobcats the ability to market a player made it to UND. We've been missing on Western ND kids too.

[Scratch]

4 minutes ago, tnt said:

Yeah, why watch a league that has had players like Connor Gaarder, Paul LaDue and Tucker Poolman.  Those are only UND guys.  Tons of great college and pro players started there.

Because there are new Canadian leagues with talent that also need to be watched. Every minute watching the NAHL is a minute spent not watching 4 vastly superior leagues where nearly all our players come from 

[scpa0305]

2 hours ago, tnt said:

Yeah, why watch a league that has had players like Connor Gaarder, Paul LaDue and Tucker Poolman.  Those are only UND guys.  Tons of great college and pro players started there.

That was many moons ago my friend….ladue and Poolman both played multiple years in the ushl as well and were USA junior players of the year. Apples and oranges 

[siouxforce19]

I literally have no idea why anyone is wasting any energy at all being annoyed about a 9th D commitment. How easy do you think it is to get someone to want to come and be that? 

[cberkas]

53 minutes ago, tnt said:

I am sure a lot of people said the same things about guys like Connor Gaarder and Stephane Pattyn.  I am sure this is a depth add, but you absolutely need heart and soul players.  That is what has been missing lately in my eyes.  Tell you one thing, a lot of these guys are captains, so hopefully you don’t have to use the play a full 60 phrase as much.  We had guys like Perron and McLaughlin with a ton of talent, but they would disappear frequently.

Yes, there are D1 level players in the NAHL. Most of those layers will be going to the weaker D1 teams/conferences. But this is not a D1 level player he’s a D3/ACHA level player, should have kept Komzak instead. With how the recruiting landscape has changed CHL/USHL and top European leagues before looking at the best Tier 2 players from BCHL, AJHL, and NAHL.

[hockeytherapy13]

1 hour ago, Scratch said:

Can anyone explain to me how bringing in NAHL players can be construed as a good thing? I can’t fathom why Chyzyk would even be watching that league at all. Our August recruiting pull of this and Merrimacks scraps while everyone else is piling up first rounders seems like the berry recruiting method 

Hunter shepherd came from the NAHL. He was decent. Don’t get me wrong, that league is going to be rarely tapped for us moving forward. But if we’re are grabbing a low-down-the-pole depth guy who will almost never play, I think it’s ok to take one like this. If we would have taken a better player from a better league, that guy gets buried in the lineup, hates that he never plays, and then transfers. This guy knows he’s likely not to play and will mostly be for practice and in case of 3 injuries.

[tnt]

59 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:

That was many moons ago my friend….ladue and Poolman both played multiple years in the ushl as well and were USA junior players of the year. Apes and oranges 

The point is that coaches explore talent from everywhere and they don’t just look at stats like you do.  The problem this program ran into was moving away from their model of getting guys that are willing to work hard regardless of their talent level.  It seems to me like this coaching staff is turning over every stone to find a player, even if it is only a depth add that people are freaking out about.  
So Berry basically just had the program recruit players without doing the legwork, and now the new staff is exploring all players and people have a problem with it?