Prospective Recruits

[tnt]

19 minutes ago, Fratt Mattin said:

I believe his dad owns the Wheat Kings, so I sort of assume he's of the table.

It would be a hard sell to prospective WHL players, if the team owner’s kid goes the college route.

[brianvf]

25 minutes ago, Fratt Mattin said:

I believe his dad owns the Wheat Kings, so I sort of assume he's of the table.

Well that's unfortunate. 

[Sodbuster]

57 minutes ago, tnt said:

It would be a hard sell to prospective WHL players, if the team owner’s kid goes the college route.

Maybe he wants an education?

[tnt]

1 hour ago, Sodbuster said:

Maybe he wants an education?

Could be, but with all the angst the CHL has with the new landscape, it would possibly be looked at as treason by some.  Besides, they do have colleges in Canada as well.

[burd]

8 minutes ago, tnt said:

  Besides, they do have colleges in Canada as well.

Brandon Bobcats.   McGill surely has a team.   

[cberkas]

3 hours ago, tnt said:

It would be a hard sell to prospective WHL players, if the team owner’s kid goes the college route.

Littler went to UND 

[tnt]

1 hour ago, cberkas said:

Littler went to UND 

Littler’s dad grew up in North Dakota, and Wenatchee was initially in the BCHL while Cade was there. Not saying it would be impossible, but might be tough.

[Sioux90]

Oh man, and I thought this thread was about prospective recruits. Silly me…

[nascar99]

22 hours ago, tnt said:

Could be, but with all the angst the CHL has with the new landscape, it would possibly be looked at as treason by some.  Besides, they do have colleges in Canada as well.

Canadian universities are the equivalent. "Colleges" in Canada are community colleges or prep high schools.

[thUNDer]

Gonna try this again. Want any enlightenment why crickets as to Fitzhenry? Injury or something else?

[brianvf]

3 minutes ago, thUNDer said:

Gonna try this again. Want any enlightenment why crickets as to Fitzhenry? Injury or something else?

It must be an injury but I couldn't find any info posted if that was the case or not.

[brianvf]

This kid already plays Sioux hockey.  Get him on board, Chyz!

 

[burd]

6 hours ago, brianvf said:

This kid already plays Sioux hockey.  Get him on board, Chyz!

 

The quintessential Sioux hockey player—even grew up in rinks in southern Manitoba.   

[atxsioux]

Blake Fiddler to Denver it sounds like per Schloss's article this morning. With that being the case they have 2 righties incoming now.

 

Really when you look at the Western blue bloods + Michigan State, I'd say outside of Michigan alot of them have pretty relatively full blue lines currently. Think that helps UNDs case as playing time is likely going to have to be spread out no matter where he would go. (for no reason other than vibes I'm eliminating BC and BU from the list of schools that can get Dupont). 

[scpa0305]

On 4/24/2026 at 5:28 AM, nascar99 said:

Some will agree, some will disagree, but I'm hoping the NCAA's proposed eligibility changes either don't go through or men's hockey gets an exception to remain as is. The junior hockey development structure (& thus NCAA Hockey structure) would be knocked off its axis if you forced the NCAA eligibility clock to start at age 19. You'd limit careers quite a bit IMHO

It’s absolutely awful. Canadian kids have birth year schooling, many graduate at 17. Terrible terrible rule. And I’m afraid it’s 100% going to pass because no one cares about hockey. Only football and basketball.

[brianvf]

1 hour ago, scpa0305 said:

It’s absolutely awful. Canadian kids have birth year schooling, many graduate at 17. Terrible terrible rule. And I’m afraid it’s 100% going to pass because no one cares about hockey. Only football and basketball.

Agreed that it's going to pass because of FOOTBALL!!...I'm really hoping that the NCAA works with hockey to make some slightly different rules or exceptions.

[scpa0305]

11 hours ago, brianvf said:

Agreed that it's going to pass because of FOOTBALL!!...I'm really hoping that the NCAA works with hockey to make some slightly different rules or exceptions.

They won’t.

[atxsioux]

Guessing that UND along with other schools are telling current recruits to hold off on graduating to be safe?

Seems like everyone is still very in the dark on the full ramifications of this. its nuts. (are incoming recruits affected, IE like a brock schultz. I think he'd have 3 years of eligibility starting this fall assuming he graduated at age 18) 

I think grand scheme of things UND isn't too harmed by this but man feel for the CCHA schools that "could" have half of their players lose 2 years of eligibility with the snap of someone's fingers...

 

 

Who knows though. There's probably a lawsuit being drafted right now that will put this on hold right after it's announced

[scpa0305]

4 hours ago, atxsioux said:

Guessing that UND along with other schools are telling current recruits to hold off on graduating to be safe?

Seems like everyone is still very in the dark on the full ramifications of this. its nuts. (are incoming recruits affected, IE like a brock schultz. I think he'd have 3 years of eligibility starting this fall assuming he graduated at age 18) 

I think grand scheme of things UND isn't too harmed by this but man feel for the CCHA schools that "could" have half of their players lose 2 years of eligibility with the snap of someone's fingers...

 

 

Who knows though. There's probably a lawsuit being drafted right now that will put this on hold right after it's announced

This is a bigger than allowing CHL players 

[brianvf]

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Landon DuPont
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Daxon Rudolph
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Next game: Apr 29, Medicine Hat leading series over Prince Albert, 2-1

[nascar99]

16 hours ago, atxsioux said:

Guessing that UND along with other schools are telling current recruits to hold off on graduating to be safe?

Seems like everyone is still very in the dark on the full ramifications of this. its nuts. (are incoming recruits affected, IE like a brock schultz. I think he'd have 3 years of eligibility starting this fall assuming he graduated at age 18) 

I think grand scheme of things UND isn't too harmed by this but man feel for the CCHA schools that "could" have half of their players lose 2 years of eligibility with the snap of someone's fingers...

 

 

Who knows though. There's probably a lawsuit being drafted right now that will put this on hold right after it's announced

It basically means your Cody Croal types are only 3 year contributors if not only 3 year players. That's the problem.

Also, university is 4 years, we should just keep the eligibility rules as is, 5 years of eligibility seems so random & weird, Rules attempted at being rammed through because some basketball & football coaches complained., sad