2023 Early Departures & Portal Transfers

[scpa0305]

18 hours ago, siouxforce19 said:

I mean, when they commit a lot of the recruits mention a connection with the coaching staff as a main factor so it is at least one factor. 

Huge factor 

[SiouxFan100]

You never know until you know.

[Clark17]

18 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

Person or machine?
Don't tell me he took ... both! 

It was a Sparx - pretty easy to use 

[Stack]

20 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

@bale31:
Your post says you'll have at least eleven new faces on the roster.
UND has twelve, maybe just eleven, guys returning. 
Pretty sure UND is looking at more like fourteen or fifteen new faces. 
Tell me your woes again ... 

Well let's see in 2005 North Dakota brought in 13 freshmen.  They were:

Joe Finley (D)

Taylor Chorney (D)

Todd Alexander (D)

Zach Jones (D)

TK Oshie (F)

Ryan Martens (F)

Jonathon Toews (F)

Andrew Kozek (F)

Brad Miller (F and then played D later)

Ryan Duncan (F)

Matt Watkins (F)

Brain Lee (D)

Aaron Walski (G)

That team had 6 sophomores, 6 juniors, and 2 seniors. They went to 4 Frozen Fours in a row even though a number of players turned pro early. Not sure if this is even possible now with the transfer portal but we can hope?

 

[dustnyou]

5 minutes ago, Stack said:

Well let's see in 2005 North Dakota brought in 13 freshmen.  They were:

Joe Finley (D)

Taylor Chorney (D)

Todd Alexander (D)

Zach Jones (D)

TK Oshie (F)

Ryan Martens (F)

Jonathon Toews (F)

Andrew Kozek (F)

Brad Miller (F and then played D later)

Ryan Duncan (F)

Matt Watkins (F)

Brain Lee (D)

Aaron Walski (G)

That team had 6 sophomores, 6 juniors, and 2 seniors. They went to 4 Frozen Fours in a row even though a number of players turned pro early. Not sure if this is even possible now with the transfer portal but we can hope?

 

What a haul! Who the heck is Todd Alexander? 

[Stack]

3 minutes ago, dustnyou said:

What a haul! Who the heck is Todd Alexander? 

Looked him up. He was on the team that year and played 3 games with no points. He then transfered  to St Thomas for the last three years when St Thomas was in the MIAC conference.

That team also had future NHLers in Travis Zajak, and Drew Stafford plus Rastislav Spirko went to the Europe before finishing his 4 years.  

[The Sicatoka]

16 minutes ago, Stack said:

TK Oshie (F)

...

Brain Lee (D)

Not sure who "TK" was but Lee was a brainy-smart player.  

[The Sicatoka]

1 hour ago, Clark17 said:

It was a Sparx - pretty easy to use 

< joke about had to be, it's Mankato, here > 

[jk]

I have thought of that team when looking ahead to the upcoming year, in this unfortunate way.  That team probably had the best top 6 UND has seen since the early 80s, but the young defense was not ready and as a result they fell short of a title.  This year should have a very good forward group, but will history repeat itself on the back end?

Not that this year's forwards will compare to 2005-06.  Zajac, Oshie, Spirko and Stafford, Toews, Duncan.  Ridiculous, even if young. 

[The Sicatoka]

1 minute ago, jk said:

Not that this year's forwards will compare to 2005-06.  Zajac, Oshie, Spirko and Stafford, Toews, Duncan.  Ridiculous, even if young. 

Don't forget that 7 and 9 make 16. Period. DOT. 

[crb1]

20 hours ago, Green Banner said:

This blizzard could be detrimental to UND picking up portal players. 

I hear you but there is a little thing called Zoom.
Would a campus visit be great, yes of course, but sometimes that can't always happen.
 

[burd]

4 minutes ago, jk said:

I have thought of that team when looking ahead to the upcoming year, in this unfortunate way.  That team probably had the best top 6 UND has seen since the early 80s, but the young defense was not ready and as a result they fell short of a title.  This year should have a very good forward group, but will history repeat itself on the back end?

Not that this year's forwards will compare to 2005-06.  Zajac, Oshie, Spirko and Stafford, Toews, Duncan.  Ridiculous, even if young. 

The only Toews-type college players I recall watching play were Thomas Vanek and Dany Heatley.   And neither of them played D like he did.   

[petey23]

5 minutes ago, burd said:

The only Toews-type college players I recall watching play were Thomas Vanek and Dany Heatley.   And neither of them played D.  

FYP.

[scpa0305]

49 minutes ago, Stack said:

Well let's see in 2005 North Dakota brought in 13 freshmen.  They were:

Joe Finley (D)

Taylor Chorney (D)

Todd Alexander (D)

Zach Jones (D)

TK Oshie (F)

Ryan Martens (F)

Jonathon Toews (F)

Andrew Kozek (F)

Brad Miller (F and then played D later)

Ryan Duncan (F)

Matt Watkins (F)

Brain Lee (D)

Aaron Walski (G)

That team had 6 sophomores, 6 juniors, and 2 seniors. They went to 4 Frozen Fours in a row even though a number of players turned pro early. Not sure if this is even possible now with the transfer portal but we can hope?

 

It ain’t 2005  

[The Sicatoka]

25 minutes ago, crb1 said:

I hear you but there is a little thing called Zoom.

Don't you use Teams to build teams? 

 

OK. Weak attempt. Moving snow has me off my game. 

[Green Banner]

58 minutes ago, crb1 said:

I hear you but there is a little thing called Zoom.
Would a campus visit be great, yes of course, but sometimes that can't always happen.
 

It was meant to be a joke, il insert emojis next time

[N of GF]

1 hour ago, crb1 said:

I hear you but there is a little thing called Zoom.
Would a campus visit be great, yes of course, but sometimes that can't always happen.
 

sounds weird, but young adults seem to be open to this. In the last few years, I've hired people in their twenty's that didn't set foot in the office until their first day of work.

[The Sicatoka]

< checks watch > 

No Albrecht news?
No news on a Caulfield replacement?
And don't we still need two defensemen?
Are we 100% that Hedquist is coming in as well as Persson? 

< checks watch > 

[I Ranger]

2 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

< checks watch > 

No Albrecht news?
No news on a Caulfield replacement?
And don't we still need two defensemen?
Are we 100% that Hedquist is coming in as well as Persson? 

< checks watch > 

I'm with you the longer we hear crickets the more worried I'm getting and potentially with the Strathman rumors we might need 3 more. 

[Blackheart]

2 hours ago, burd said:

The only Toews-type college players I recall watching play were Thomas Vanek and Dany Heatley.   And neither of them played D like he did.   

Yeah, Vanek was a pretty fast skater...as long as he had the puck.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

40 minutes ago, I Ranger said:

I'm with you the longer we hear crickets the more worried I'm getting and potentially with the Strathman rumors we might need 3 more. 

Perhaps the shakeup in Mankato has Berry making a few calls...

[tnt]

1 hour ago, I Ranger said:

I'm with you the longer we hear crickets the more worried I'm getting and potentially with the Strathman rumors we might need 3 more. 

What Strathmann rumors?   I think Schlossman was talking juniors as in USHL, not OHL. 

[siouxforce19]

2 minutes ago, tnt said:

What Strathmann rumors?   I think Schlossman was talking juniors as in USHL, not OHL. 

It was discussed in the Committed Recruits thread yesterday. Schlossman hinted at this development with Strathmann weeks ago also but I think everyone missed it. 

[The Sicatoka]

He'd be a one-year guy, but why not go after Ryan Siedem of Harvard. He spent a season with the Fargo Force.

[SIOUXELEVENS]

21 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

He'd be a one-year guy, but why not go after Ryan Siedem of Harvard. He spent a season with the Fargo Force.

He looks very solid, sign him up.