2025-26 University of North Dakota Hockey Season

[nascar99]

1 hour ago, tnt said:

Exactly, no way Michigan or BU get to the Frozen Four.

Boston University should be good again next year, especially with Yegorov, Hutson, & Eiserman presumably back & Boisvert coming in. Some solid recruits as well, plus the likely possibility of them adding CHLers too.

Michigan on paper looks pretty bad right now, but they're recruiting several high end CHLers to come in for 2025-26. If they can get any or a few of Gavin McKenna, Porter Martone, Ryan Roobroeck, Jack Ivankovic, Henry Mews, Jake O'Brien, as well as other high end Dub & Q guys, they're going to win games on pure talent. Their issue comes down to reliable goaltending & depth.

[GDPritch]

On 4/2/2025 at 11:57 AM, Blackheart said:

Yeah, I'm all in favor of dumping the Bemidji games for someone else.  Their style of counterpunching does not lead to a lot of exciting play and there's no upside in the pairwise even if you win.

Yup, agree, drop Bemidji as there’s nothing to gain in the Pairwise if you beat them and everything to lose if you lose to them.  This season was a Pairwise ball buster for UND with the loss and a tie.  UND must be the Super Bowl for Bemidji cus they sure play us tough (UND just 6 wins in last dozen games vs them).

[geaux_sioux]

10 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

Yup, agree, drop Bemidji as there’s nothing to gain in the Pairwise if you beat them and everything to lose if you lose to them.  This season was a Pairwise ball buster for UND with the loss and a tie.  UND must be the Super Bowl for Bemidji cus they sure play us tough (UND just 6 wins in last dozen games vs them).

New program mentality: we’re scared of Bemidji State but expect to win natties. 

[rochsioux]

4 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:

New program mentality: we’re scared of Bemidji State but expect to win natties. 

Not scared of them, just don’t see any benefit to playing them every fricken year.  Play them once every two or three years max. 

[geaux_sioux]

2 hours ago, rochsioux said:

Not scared of them, just don’t see any benefit to playing them every fricken year.  Play them once every two or three years max. 

It didn’t used to be a problem. We could just get back to mopping the floor with them

[Benny Baker]

Play Bemidji for the October exhibition.

[SiouxFanatic]

18 minutes ago, Benny Baker said:

Play Bemidji for the October exhibition.

I heard Augustana is willing to pay UND to come to Grand Forks for this exhibition game because they had so much fun the first go around.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

8 hours ago, mygarske said:

Please share the name of the dispensary where you are getting those edibles. 

No way a first year coach wins a national title at UND

[Sweethockey]

17 hours ago, SiouxFanatic said:

I heard Augustana is willing to pay UND to come to Grand Forks for this exhibition game because they had so much fun the first go around.

They will play both Augustana and the ritual of a home and away with the Beavers 

[SIOUXFAN97]

22 hours ago, GDPritch said:

Yup, agree, drop Bemidji as there’s nothing to gain in the Pairwise if you beat them and everything to lose if you lose to them.  This season was a Pairwise ball buster for UND with the loss and a tie.  UND must be the Super Bowl for Bemidji cus they sure play us tough (UND just 6 wins in last dozen games vs them).

the home and home is nice if you have a cabin around bemidji....take in a game and close it down for the winter..back to gf for the next game.

[NoDak Hockey Nation]

Are we ever going to get any news this offseason?

[brianvf]

10 minutes ago, NoDak Hockey Nation said:

Are we ever going to get any news this offseason?

I'm guessing it all starts tomorrow. 
I'm hoping that they announce the Chyzyk GM position tomorrow, and then the roster additions start rolling in shortly after that.
 

[brianvf]

Still some good forwards in the portal to fill a couple of the holes...hopefully they can grab a couple more high end CHLers once the season concludes there.
They also need to be trying to balance out the forward classes a bit.
Right now we only have two SR and zero JR forwards.  It'd be nice to add a couple to each of those classes, as we're gonna probably have 5-7 FR forwards next year.

• Ryan Conmy, so, New Hampshire, 15-18—33 (LAK 6th)
• Matteo Giampa, so, Canisius, 8-22—30
• Tyler Wallace, so, Niagara, 14-12—26
• Caidan Gault, jr, Ferris State, 15-10—25
• Josh Barnes, jr, AIC, 14-10—24
• Evan Werner, so, Michigan, 11-11—22
• Tyler Hotson, so, RPI, 6-16—22
• Felix Caron, fr, RPI, 6-15—21
• Kyle Gaffney, jr, UAF, 6-14—20
• Kyler Kovich, jr, Cornell, 5-9—14
• Raimonds Vitolins, jr, Miami, 4-10—14
• Brendan Ross, so, UAF, 3-11—14
• Luc Wilson, jr, Minnesota State, 7-6—13
• Max Dukovac, jr, Miami, 5-5—10
• Cole Spicer, so, Minnesota Duluth, 5-4—9 (23-24) (BOS 4th)
• Jack Smith, jr, Minnesota Duluth, 4-5—9 (MTL 4th)
• Matthew Perkins, so, Minnesota Duluth, 1-4—5 (VAN 4th)

[.357]

1 hour ago, brianvf said:

I'm guessing it all starts tomorrow. 
I'm hoping that they announce the Chyzyk GM position tomorrow, and then the roster additions start rolling in shortly after that.
 

Why would Jackson need to wait until the GM position is filled before he adds any transfers? He already knows who's available in the portal, what's stopping him now from adding any of them himself?

Or else Jackson already knows (for the most part) who's coming in next year & a few of these new players are CHLers who are waiting for their seasons to end. Because it's hard for me to imagine that he'd let many possibilities pass him by in the portal just because he's waiting for the GM to come onboard. 

 

[siouxfaninseattle]

1 hour ago, brianvf said:

Still some good forwards in the portal to fill a couple of the holes...hopefully they can grab a couple more high end CHLers once the season concludes there.
They also need to be trying to balance out the forward classes a bit.
Right now we only have two SR and zero JR forwards.  It'd be nice to add a couple to each of those classes, as we're gonna probably have 5-7 FR forwards next year.

• Ryan Conmy, so, New Hampshire, 15-18—33 (LAK 6th)
• Matteo Giampa, so, Canisius, 8-22—30
• Tyler Wallace, so, Niagara, 14-12—26
• Caidan Gault, jr, Ferris State, 15-10—25
• Josh Barnes, jr, AIC, 14-10—24
• Evan Werner, so, Michigan, 11-11—22
• Tyler Hotson, so, RPI, 6-16—22
• Felix Caron, fr, RPI, 6-15—21
• Kyle Gaffney, jr, UAF, 6-14—20
• Kyler Kovich, jr, Cornell, 5-9—14
• Raimonds Vitolins, jr, Miami, 4-10—14
• Brendan Ross, so, UAF, 3-11—14
• Luc Wilson, jr, Minnesota State, 7-6—13
• Max Dukovac, jr, Miami, 5-5—10
• Cole Spicer, so, Minnesota Duluth, 5-4—9 (23-24) (BOS 4th)
• Jack Smith, jr, Minnesota Duluth, 4-5—9 (MTL 4th)
• Matthew Perkins, so, Minnesota Duluth, 1-4—5 (VAN 4th)

Hey what about this guy? 

[brianvf]

28 minutes ago, .357 said:

Why would Jackson need to wait until the GM position is filled before he adds any transfers? He already knows who's available in the portal, what's stopping him now from adding any of them himself?

Yeah for sure, nothing stopping him now. And I would guess that Jax and Simmer have already been in contact with quite a few of them. I was more just saying that we need players and 2 coaches still, so knocking one off the list then continuing to move forward with players. 

[NoDak Hockey Nation]

12 hours ago, brianvf said:

Still some good forwards in the portal to fill a couple of the holes...hopefully they can grab a couple more high end CHLers once the season concludes there.
They also need to be trying to balance out the forward classes a bit.
Right now we only have two SR and zero JR forwards.  It'd be nice to add a couple to each of those classes, as we're gonna probably have 5-7 FR forwards next year.

• Ryan Conmy, so, New Hampshire, 15-18—33 (LAK 6th)
• Matteo Giampa, so, Canisius, 8-22—30
• Tyler Wallace, so, Niagara, 14-12—26
• Caidan Gault, jr, Ferris State, 15-10—25
• Josh Barnes, jr, AIC, 14-10—24
• Evan Werner, so, Michigan, 11-11—22
• Tyler Hotson, so, RPI, 6-16—22
• Felix Caron, fr, RPI, 6-15—21
• Kyle Gaffney, jr, UAF, 6-14—20
• Kyler Kovich, jr, Cornell, 5-9—14
• Raimonds Vitolins, jr, Miami, 4-10—14
• Brendan Ross, so, UAF, 3-11—14
• Luc Wilson, jr, Minnesota State, 7-6—13
• Max Dukovac, jr, Miami, 5-5—10
• Cole Spicer, so, Minnesota Duluth, 5-4—9 (23-24) (BOS 4th)
• Jack Smith, jr, Minnesota Duluth, 4-5—9 (MTL 4th)
• Matthew Perkins, so, Minnesota Duluth, 1-4—5 (VAN 4th)

You can book Conmy to BU

[The Sicatoka]

I see a roster of 6F, 7D, and 1G ... tough to roll four lines when you only have two. 

[nascar99]

12 hours ago, .357 said:

Why would Jackson need to wait until the GM position is filled before he adds any transfers? He already knows who's available in the portal, what's stopping him now from adding any of them himself?

Or else Jackson already knows (for the most part) who's coming in next year & a few of these new players are CHLers who are waiting for their seasons to end. Because it's hard for me to imagine that he'd let many possibilities pass him by in the portal just because he's waiting for the GM to come onboard. 

 

Schloss said last month they're working on finalizing a commitment from a middle tier OHLer. Really interested to see who it is since I follow the O fairly closely & then do a further deep dive

[.357]

13 minutes ago, nascar99 said:

Schloss said last month they're working on finalizing a commitment from a middle tier OHLer. Really interested to see who it is since I follow the O fairly closely & then do a further deep dive

Middle-tier doesn't sound very appealing; suppose it depends on what his role would be. UND needs fast, talented players & not 3/4 of their roster filled with grinders in order to keep up with today's game. 

[GDPritch]

On 4/5/2025 at 10:09 PM, InHeavenThereIsNoBeer said:

No way a first year coach wins a national title at UND

Certainly not this time around unlike in 2016 when the new coach then inherited  a Rolls Royce. 

[AJS]

I'd move on Spicer and Jack Smith if I was Jackson. Both played center in NCHC. They are going to be as good as it gets for Center via the portal it appears. Pencil those in as your 3rd / 4th line Centers. Bring in two of Schultz, Simpson, O'Neill. One more Portal forward (JR / SR) and one high-end CHL.

 

Note: Of the three O'Neill, Simpson, Schultz, I would start with the one you think is most ready and give them the choice. Then the second and so on. MN / ND guys. There's optics here. If all want to go back, then no worries. 

 

[nascar99]

46 minutes ago, AJS said:

I'd move on Spicer and Jack Smith if I was Jackson. Both played center in NCHC. They are going to be as good as it gets for Center via the portal it appears. Pencil those in as your 3rd / 4th line Centers. Bring in two of Schultz, Simpson, O'Neill. One more Portal forward (JR / SR) and one high-end CHL.

 

Note: Of the three O'Neill, Simpson, Schultz, I would start with the one you think is most ready and give them the choice. Then the second and so on. MN / ND guys. There's optics here. If all want to go back, then no worries. 

 

I think they'll bring in Schultz. Simpson is raw but has the offensive ceiling. O'Neill is polished in ways that Simpson isn't, but if you want his offensive ceiling to grow, you send him back to junior for another year. Some tough decisions for Jackson and the staff.

[90siouxfan]

1 hour ago, .357 said:

Middle-tier doesn't sound very appealing; suppose it depends on what his role would be. UND needs fast, talented players & not 3/4 of their roster filled with grinders in order to keep up with today's game. 

I understand your point, is WMU an anomaly to your design?  I see Bump as high end, but the rest?

[Siouxperman8]

Hearing GM announced today or tomorrow.