Non-UND College Hockey 2025-26

[Brett0909]

I definitely didn’t have Perron with the best xfer season so far, with OMac playing alright and Boisvert totally invisible. Has to be some pressure if Boisvert got a 6 figure or close NIL as some were reporting. At this rate, looking like the one big outside drawback of Berry’s departure (Boisvert’s hitting the road) may have been a net-win if the locker room reports and problems off the ice were accurate.

[hockeytherapy13]

On 10/31/2025 at 9:25 AM, Dustin said:

Image on the "Bring Me the Sports" Facebook account after last night's Gopher loss.

Aside from it hurting our NPI, we can all agree that it’s fun watching them struggle. But I think back to how much their 2019-2020 struggled while they played in front of 30 people at the John. But 2 years later they’re at a frozen four and the year after that they played in a natty game. So even though they’re down right now, they have some solid recruits coming and we might not be laughing for long. Don’t get me wrong, I think Bob has screwed up by not making more inroads with the CHL yet, but he had a decent recruiting cycle this year. 

[ND_Texan]

On 10/30/2025 at 11:17 PM, brianvf said:

UW beats UMN 5-2 and outshoots them 43-16.
Gonna be a long season for the Gophers...their Sat night win against us might end up being the highlight of their season.  

I said before the Minnie series that they have a serious lack of talent, then got trashed by someone to remain nameless on this board for saying it. Well I’ll say it again, Minnie has no talent. They may end the season at the bottom of the Big 10. Who in that league is worse? 

[beastandco]

1 hour ago, ND_Texan said:

I said before the Minnie series that they have a serious lack of talent, then got trashed by someone to remain nameless on this board for saying it. Well I’ll say it again, Minnie has no talent. They may end the season at the bottom of the Big 10. Who in that league is worse? 

They will have to either load up in the portal or get a couple of CHL guys this offseason. Their projected freshman class next year is not very good. Their LJ Mooney hype was hilarious. This was supposed to be year 2 of Logan Cooley according to many gopher fans. Maybe Bob should have spent more time in Canada this offseason instead of cruising around Lake Minnetonka.

[nodakgirl93]

1 hour ago, ND_Texan said:

I said before the Minnie series that they have a serious lack of talent, then got trashed by someone to remain nameless on this board for saying it. Well I’ll say it again, Minnie has no talent. They may end the season at the bottom of the Big 10. Who in that league is worse? 

They've been missing a few players the last few games. They've also lost so many good players the last 2 years so they will have growing pains this season just like we have. So far a lot of teams have struggled this year. 

[Godsmack]

At 2-7-1 is it time to hit the panic button in Dinky Town? Gopher fans seem split about Motzko. Off to a poor start but his resume over his tenure there is pretty strong. 

[atxsioux]

Bob seems a little unorganized with how he’s structuring his future classes etc. Just seems like the current state of college hockey has passed him by. 

 

I think most blue bloods like us and them can get away easier with firing a coach and retaining the future talent. (It’s over hyped by the media that firing a coach is THAT detrimental)
 

I just don’t see the future being nearly as good as that spurt with Cooley, knies, Faber, etc. Better to rip the band aid off sooner than later. 

[tnt]

4 hours ago, ND_Texan said:

I said before the Minnie series that they have a serious lack of talent, then got trashed by someone to remain nameless on this board for saying it. Well I’ll say it again, Minnie has no talent. They may end the season at the bottom of the Big 10. Who in that league is worse? 

Again, you don’t have 13 players drafted without talent. There are probably 8-10 players on their roster that we recruited.  Tell our coaching staff that Minnesota doesn’t have any talent they would probably laugh at you.

Did we have no talent on our roster last year when we finished the second half of the league?  Most players don’t make a huge impact their first two years of college hockey if they come in young.  Our team last year even had some of those guys that had a few years of college under their belts.  Things going on behind the scenes, lack of chemistry, and player/coach issues all played a part.  Don’t know what’s going on in Minnesota now, but I still would bet you see a handful of players at least see some NHL time down the road.

Remember how Pinto and company dominated Minnesota in Minneapolis with their young defense in 2019, then those same guys for Minnesota became cornerstones in making a run in the NCAA tourney.

 

 

 

[ND_Texan]

17 minutes ago, tnt said:

Again, you don’t have 13 players drafted without talent. There are probably 8-10 players on their roster that we recruited.  Tell our coaching staff that Minnesota doesn’t have any talent they would probably laugh at you.

Did we have no talent on our roster last year when we finished the second half of the league?  Most players don’t make a huge impact their first two years of college hockey if they come in young.  Our team last year even had some of those guys that had a few years of college under their belts.  Things going on behind the scenes, lack of chemistry, and player/coach issues all played a part.  Don’t know what’s going on in Minnesota now, but I still would bet you see a handful of players at least see some NHL time down the road.

Remember how Pinto and company dominated Minnesota in Minneapolis with their young defense in 2019, then those same guys for Minnesota became cornerstones in making a run in the NCAA tourney.

 

 

 

While talent is an innate natural ability, it needs to be developed with practice to become a skill. Scouts see that natural ability in their youth but it can (and often does) stop there. Do you see any of these Minnie kids playing in the NHL? I don’t. The skill development just isn’t there. Just a lot of very average hockey players. 

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

16 hours ago, Brett0909 said:

I definitely didn’t have Perron with the best xfer season so far, with OMac playing alright and Boisvert totally invisible. Has to be some pressure if Boisvert got a 6 figure or close NIL as some were reporting. At this rate, looking like the one big outside drawback of Berry’s departure (Boisvert’s hitting the road) may have been a net-win if the locker room reports and problems off the ice were accurate.

Don’t care how many points Perron has, he’d never fit the way this team plays. He’s not capable 

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

8 hours ago, hockeytherapy13 said:

Aside from it hurting our NPI, we can all agree that it’s fun watching them struggle. But I think back to how much their 2019-2020 struggled while they played in front of 30 people at the John. But 2 years later they’re at a frozen four and the year after that they played in a natty game. So even though they’re down right now, they have some solid recruits coming and we might not be laughing for long. Don’t get me wrong, I think Bob has screwed up by not making more inroads with the CHL yet, but he had a decent recruiting cycle this year. 

I mean, 2 years is a long time to laugh 😆 

[cberkas]

The NCAA clearinghouse is starting to become a joke 

[Johnny Five]

On 11/2/2025 at 6:30 AM, ND_Texan said:

I said before the Minnie series that they have a serious lack of talent, then got trashed by someone to remain nameless on this board for saying it. Well I’ll say it again, Minnie has no talent. They may end the season at the bottom of the Big 10. Who in that league is worse? 

 When they got hammered by Tech in the second game of the year I knew it wasn't going to be good.  Simply put, one of the worst performances I've seen in my years as a Gopher Hockey fan.  It is just not a good team.  Were they short last weekend?  Sure.  Who cares?  Next man up.

No clue what Bob's philosophy was after last season.  Moore and Kurth should've stayed (yes, every program can say that so that's no excuse).  He seemed fine with grabbing Luedtke and then Pritchard followed shortly after and then fills out the roster with some MIAC kid if I remember right.  WTF.  

When Schlossman was on the GPL podcast they talked about the 2 programs and their philosophy after last season ended.  Brad mentioned that Jackson had a nice advantage with a sh*tload of empty roster spots, meanwhile they made a reference to Bob not wanting to step on any of his recruits necks (maybe a bad way to put it but you get the point).  

Anyway...this season is dust, and that's OK.  In the new era of college hockey, it can be in the blink of an eye and any program can rebound.  Anyone thinking Bob has lost it or isn't a good coach is just delusional.  The pipeline is looking mighty fine.  Personally, I can deal with it for a year.  If it ends up rolling into a second year...then...see ya Robert.

[tnt]

1 hour ago, Johnny Five said:

 When they got hammered by Tech in the second game of the year I knew it wasn't going to be good.  Simply put, one of the worst performances I've seen in my years as a Gopher Hockey fan.  It is just not a good team.  Were they short last weekend?  Sure.  Who cares?  Next man up.

No clue what Bob's philosophy was after last season.  Moore and Kurth should've stayed (yes, every program can say that so that's no excuse).  He seemed fine with grabbing Luedtke and then Pritchard followed shortly after and then fills out the roster with some MIAC kid if I remember right.  WTF.  

When Schlossman was on the GPL podcast they talked about the 2 programs and their philosophy after last season ended.  Brad mentioned that Jackson had a nice advantage with a sh*tload of empty roster spots, meanwhile they made a reference to Bob not wanting to step on any of his recruits necks (maybe a bad way to put it but you get the point).  

Anyway...this season is dust, and that's OK.  In the new era of college hockey, it can be in the blink of an eye and any program can rebound.  Anyone thinking Bob has lost it or isn't a good coach is just delusional.  The pipeline is looking mighty fine.  Personally, I can deal with it for a year.  If it ends up rolling into a second year...then...see ya Robert.

I would think Bob has to somehow find a way to at least keep the team from becoming apathetic and giving up.  With a young team, if they aren’t at least improving, that makes it more difficult to rebound the next year if those young guys aren’t at least developing.

Then you need guys to commit to staying, when it has become all too easy to search for greener pastures. We saw with UND that the vultures from other teams are getting into players ears trying to get them to bolt.  Thankfully, other than Boisvert, the guys UND lost were addition by subtraction, but if Dylan James and Livanavage wouldn’t have stayed it could have been a mass exodus.  

Do guys like Mooney, Ziemer, Ludtke, etc, commit to stay or bolt to Michigan State like a lot of National team, among other players have?  This kind of adversity tells a lot about the coach and even more so about the players. Will be interesting to see what happens from here on out.

 

[beastandco]

9 minutes ago, tnt said:

I would think Bob has to somehow find a way to at least keep the team from becoming apathetic and giving up.  With a young team, if they aren’t at least improving, that makes it more difficult to rebound the next year if those young guys aren’t at least developing.

Then you need guys to commit to staying, when it has become all too easy to search for greener pastures. We saw with UND that the vultures from other teams are getting into players ears trying to get them to bolt.  Thankfully, other than Boisvert, the guys UND lost were addition by subtraction, but if Dylan James and Livanavage wouldn’t have stayed it could have been a mass exodus.  

Do guys like Mooney, Ziemer, Ludtke, etc, commit to stay or bolt to Michigan State like a lot of National team, among other players have?  This kind of adversity tells a lot about the coach and even more so about the players. Will be interesting to see what happens from here on out.

 

Unlike Sacha, Perron, and OMac, most of Minnesota’s core has local ties to their program. I would be really surprised if one of their core players hit the portal unless Bob is canned (he won’t be). The grass would not be greener for them, imo. 
 

Blue bloods generally do not lose players to the portal unless it’s off-ice issues or coaches being fired. Sacha probably stays if Berry is still here. With the other two, there probably was more to the story than the public is aware of. 

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

22 minutes ago, beastandco said:

With the other two, there probably was more to the story than the public is aware of. 

Their exit interview:

[The Sicatoka]

Mews (Michigan) done for the season (injury).

[nascar99]

Aiden Fink out for awhile