Prospective Recruits

[gfhockey]

1 hour ago, Sioux90 said:

Since when did State become the place to be for Chippas? This is crazy.

$$$$ they have nil

we dont

[yzerman19]

Nightingale and a Munn Arean upgrade...then chippas like to play with other chippas.

[gfhockey]

2 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

Nightingale and a Munn Arean upgrade...then chippas like to play with other chippas.

But per most on this board we don’t want chippaz

[yzerman19]

chippaz beget more chippaz.  I take 10 chippaz on my roster every day of the week

 

[cberkas]

I'd like to stop getting 3rd and 4th liners from the portal and get more top line finishers. Talent wants to play with talent, when we got Verhoff talent wanted to play with him. 

Portal is for rebuilding not reloading, UND should be reloading not taking a rebuilding approach. 

With Ulmer being a scout for the Pat's, have to think Bryn talks to him about what they are looking at. 

[AJS]

Is Michigan State going to win it all next year? Probably not. That also goes for every other team in the country. Only one can win and it probably won't be your team. They are going to win a lot of games and put themselves in as good of position as any. How much fun will those fans have though watching all that talent, not only next year, but following those careers moving forward in the NHL? 

 

 

[tnt]

14 minutes ago, cberkas said:

I'd like to stop getting 3rd and 4th liners from the portal and get more top line finishers. Talent wants to play with talent, when we got Verhoff talent wanted to play with him. 

Portal is for rebuilding not reloading, UND should be reloading not taking a rebuilding approach. 

With Ulmer being a scout for the Pat's, have to think Bryn talks to him about what they are looking at. 

Disagree.  Portal is to get experienced guys that can help put you over the top because they have proven skills and compete level that you aren’t positive you can get from a first year forward, even if he has NHL potential.  You’re not always going to get a guy that produces like Martone and Reschny.  

[nodakgirl93]

22 minutes ago, cberkas said:

I'd like to stop getting 3rd and 4th liners from the portal and get more top line finishers. Talent wants to play with talent, when we got Verhoff talent wanted to play with him. 

Portal is for rebuilding not reloading, UND should be reloading not taking a rebuilding approach. 

With Ulmer being a scout for the Pat's, have to think Bryn talks to him about what they are looking at. 

We really need to balance out the classes too.  Berry left a disaster. You want the team to be full of freshmen and sophomores who will be here for 1-2 years at most? 

[cberkas]

9 minutes ago, nodakgirl93 said:

We really need to balance out the classes too.  Berry left a disaster. You want the team to be full of freshmen and sophomores who will be here for 1-2 years at most? 

You actually don’t need to balance classes and Denver proved this multiple times. 

[tnt]

1 minute ago, cberkas said:

You actually don’t need to balance classes and Denver proved this multiple times. 

…and how many of Denver’s recruits plug in to their first and second lines right out of the gate?  Denver isn’t generally stocked with first round talent.

[cberkas]

5 minutes ago, tnt said:

…and how many of Denver’s recruits plug in to their first and second lines right out of the gate?  Denver isn’t generally stocked with first round talent.

And Denver wins with big freshman classes.

Does UND need to be like MSU, no but you need to still get 2 to 3 high end forwards for the top two lines. At least we are getting away from portal goalies.

Also Denver gets 1 maybe 2 players from the portal a season. 

[tnt]

17 minutes ago, cberkas said:

And Denver wins with big freshman classes.

Does UND need to be like MSU, no but you need to still get 2 to 3 high end forwards for the top two lines. At least we are getting away from portal goalies.

Also Denver gets 1 maybe 2 players from the portal a season. 

Who were the high end forwards on Denver last year?  We have Cooper Simpson coming in, and he is probably drafted higher than many of Denver’s forwards were. We probably will just be getting our elite guys on defense, which could possibly be why they went with more experienced forwards.

[brianvf]

12 minutes ago, tnt said:

We probably will just be getting our elite guys on defense, which could possibly be why they went with more experienced forwards.

This.
If we have four FR dmen next season, they'll all be highly skilled, but FR nonetheless.  They'll make mistakes, so it'll be good to have experienced 200ft forwards to help out until they get up to speed.

[yzerman19]

good point.  Michigan, Michigan State, BU, BC, Minnesota seem to draw the most forward chippaz.  Perhaps the focus is D chippaz with maybe 1-2 forward chippaz per year

[yzerman19]

The 5/5 rule is also going to make things very interesting...

[atxsioux]

3 hours ago, tnt said:

Disagree.  Portal is to get experienced guys that can help put you over the top because they have proven skills and compete level that you aren’t positive you can get from a first year forward, even if he has NHL potential.  You’re not always going to get a guy that produces like Martone and Reschny.  

Example - Tyler Young was pretty close to being just as impactful as Eric Nilson or Cayden Lindstrom.

[atxsioux]

2 hours ago, brianvf said:

This.
If we have four FR dmen next season, they'll all be highly skilled, but FR nonetheless.  They'll make mistakes, so it'll be good to have experienced 200ft forwards to help out until they get up to speed.

Helps your D out so much when your forwards aren't constantly turning it over at the blueline and feeding a team's transition going the other way. IMO that was the bigger issue at times in 2024-2025 when our defense was struggling. They had normal growing pains +++ were put into defending way too often when they never should have been from the jump