Prospective Recruits

[brianvf]

Confirmed that Heise and Pridham are both heading to DU this fall.

 

[beastandco]

Rudolph to Denver

Minnesota out on DuPont. MSU and Michigan will get visits 

[Fratt Mattin]

7 minutes ago, beastandco said:

Rudolph to Denver

Minnesota out on DuPont. MSU and Michigan will get visits 

Denver's right side is loaded. Lin, Rudolph, and Fiddler. Not to mention MacBeath and Jameison on the left. They'll be young, but wow is that a lot of talent.

[brianvf]

24 minutes ago, beastandco said:

Rudolph to Denver

Minnesota out on DuPont. MSU and Michigan will get visits 

Insane on DU.  I still like our forward group and depth better than theirs, but UND and DU both will have some of the best d-corps in the entire nation.

-Rudolph, Lin, Fiddler, MacBeath, Jamieson
vs.
-Carels, MacKenzie, Verhoeff, Emery, Laurila, Lindberg

UND has the edge on both high end skill and overall depth IMO, but those are both insane groups.

[scpa0305]

36 minutes ago, beastandco said:

Rudolph to Denver

Minnesota out on DuPont. MSU and Michigan will get visits 

Denver is loading late. D core is super fun on paper, they’ll be young though.

[I Ranger]

21 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

$100k seems to be the going rate for a chippa

Or option B, have David Carle as your head coach apparently. 

[beastandco]

1 hour ago, brianvf said:

Insane on DU.  I still like our forward group and depth better than theirs, but UND and DU both will have some of the best d-corps in the entire nation.

-Rudolph, Lin, Fiddler, MacBeath, Jamieson
vs.
-Carels, MacKenzie, Verhoeff, Emery, Laurila, Lindberg

UND has the edge on both high end skill and overall depth IMO, but those are both insane groups.

MSU/UND and Denver/UND will be some of the best games in college hockey this year.

UND and Denver are loaded with NHL talent on the back end.

[tnt]

36 minutes ago, beastandco said:

MSU/UND and Denver/UND will be some of the best games in college hockey this year.

UND and Denver are loaded with NHL talent on the back end.

I think Duluth will be favored to win the league though.

[brianvf]

9 minutes ago, tnt said:

I think Duluth will be favored to win the league though.

UMD, UND, and DU should finish 1-3 in the league.
UND and DU with the stacked defense...UMD with the stacked offense.

Will be some good battles.

[TwamleyShuffle]

Gotta feel bad for UMinn for not getting DuPont. Jk 

[Blackheart]

1 hour ago, TwamleyShuffle said:

Gotta feel bad for UMinn for not getting DuPont. Jk 

[hockeytherapy13]

1 hour ago, TwamleyShuffle said:

Gotta feel bad for UMinn for not getting DuPont. Jk 

Unfortunately they’ll be just fine. They are going to have a scary good top 6 that will make for 2 dangerous scoring lines. I’m also jealous they got Evan Murr because that guy is unbelievable and has a ton of college experience. 

[tnt]

9 hours ago, TwamleyShuffle said:

Gotta feel bad for UMinn for not getting DuPont. Jk 

 

8 hours ago, Blackheart said:

I’ll wait for the official announcement before I “feel bad” for Minnesota. 

[Johnny Five]

7 hours ago, hockeytherapy13 said:

Unfortunately they’ll be just fine. They are going to have a scary good top 6 that will make for 2 dangerous scoring lines. I’m also jealous they got Evan Murr because that guy is unbelievable and has a ton of college experience. 

I like what Larson did to revamp the Defense.  I mean it's not UND/DU on the back end but he does have a real nice set of 7 to work with.  Talk is we're lacking at C at the top and I can't argue with that.  Maybe Larson has one more move this summer up his sleeve as he has plenty of roster room to make a legit move.

I think the DuPont think was smoke and most Gopher fans knew it was wishful thinking.  UND, Denver, MSU and Michigan appear to be loaded for next year.  It should be incredible hockey.

[tnt]

7 hours ago, hockeytherapy13 said:

Unfortunately they’ll be just fine. They are going to have a scary good top 6 that will make for 2 dangerous scoring lines. I’m also jealous they got Evan Murr because that guy is unbelievable and has a ton of college experience. 

Yeah, many thought that Minnesota would be devastated and decimated after their horrible year, but in today’s college environment, you can turn things around fast.  
 

They still will have their hands full with the Big Ten, but with the transfer portal, another year under the belt of some of their young talent, especially on defense, and hanging on to Ziemer, they are in much better position to compete. 

No doubt Minnesota will be looking to get off to a better start this year, so we better get up to speed fast.

[tnt]

1 hour ago, Johnny Five said:

I like what Larson did to revamp the Defense.  I mean it's not UND/DU on the back end but he does have a real nice set of 7 to work with.  Talk is we're lacking at C at the top and I can't argue with that.  Maybe Larson has one more move this summer up his sleeve as he has plenty of roster room to make a legit move.

I think the DuPont think was smoke and most Gopher fans knew it was wishful thinking.  UND, Denver, MSU and Michigan appear to be loaded for next year.  It should be incredible hockey.

But all of them will have young talent in key positions which may give them some growing pains, especially early, which we know is huge because of head to head conference matchups.  

Duluth has their big line back, plus added Victor Plante, and also Barrett Hall from St. Cloud, plus a veteran defense with Hanson, Kleber, Cleveland, Pionk, and Siepmann, and added Carter Murphy.  They will need to replace Gajan though.

 

 

[atxsioux]

1 hour ago, Johnny Five said:

I like what Larson did to revamp the Defense.  I mean it's not UND/DU on the back end but he does have a real nice set of 7 to work with.  Talk is we're lacking at C at the top and I can't argue with that.  Maybe Larson has one more move this summer up his sleeve as he has plenty of roster room to make a legit move.

I think the DuPont think was smoke and most Gopher fans knew it was wishful thinking.  UND, Denver, MSU and Michigan appear to be loaded for next year.  It should be incredible hockey.

Wouldn’t be surprised at all if yall are battling it out with Wisco for 3rd in the big 10 and hell if some breaks go Minny’s way who knows maybe even compete for top 2. Not as likely but never know with injuries + hockey can be random as we all know.

[The Sicatoka]

Re: replacing Gajan … somehow Duluth, and Denver, seem to always pull that off.

[hockeytherapy13]

2 hours ago, tnt said:

But all of them will have young talent in key positions which may give them some growing pains, especially early, which we know is huge because of head to head conference matchups.  

Duluth has their big line back, plus added Victor Plante, and also Barrett Hall from St. Cloud, plus a veteran defense with Hanson, Kleber, Cleveland, Pionk, and Siepmann, and added Carter Murphy.  They will need to replace Gajan though.

 

 

Yeah I feel like some of the way too early season rankings don't have Duluth in the top 2-3. They are going to be a wagon this season.

[tnt]

1 hour ago, hockeytherapy13 said:

Yeah I feel like some of the way too early season rankings don't have Duluth in the top 2-3. They are going to be a wagon this season.

I’m hoping that we will be tougher to play against though with the portal guys and returning forwards, and if our defense can get up to speed fast it will be quite the league race.

[tnt]

19 hours ago, brianvf said:

UMD, UND, and DU should finish 1-3 in the league.
UND and DU with the stacked defense...UMD with the stacked offense.

Will be some good battles.

Still think if Ferschweiler is at Western they will be in that conversation as well. Fiddler, Rudolph, Lin and Macbeath will be good, but I would imagine all 4 will develop at different rates, so who knows if they get up to speed before they play important games against other top teams.  Western should be steady from the start.

[brianvf]

Kind of expected, but looks like the Ruck twins heading back to MH for another year in the Dub.
Wouldn't be surprised to see them playing NCAA hockey in their D+1 year though.

 

[Fratt Mattin]

54 minutes ago, brianvf said:

Kind of expected, but looks like the Ruck twins heading back to MH for another year in the Dub.
Wouldn't be surprised to see them playing NCAA hockey in their D+1 year though.

 

Great news for us as we obviously weren't getting them if they played college this year. Hope we continue recruiting them hard throughout next season

[cberkas]

Miami get Yegor Yegorov from Russia to help in goal.

Very interesting pick up by Miami. Coming from the MHL and played 4 games in the VHL (KHL's AHL) and was with a KHL team but never played.