That would be vastly improved from last season.
I am glad to see you are coming around to that bringing in a stop gap player like Murr would indeed be a move that would greatly elevate the D core. Would say the above d core is tournament caliber. Obviously nowhere near our peak groupings, but that’s a capable group.
Are you just referring to the 3 st cloud guys, Huff, Murr, and possibly a CHL defender or two? Or do you know something else that isn't already circulating?
It’s possible for a surprise pickup. We seem to be way more in the mix for good names.
Would be huge, but I feel like he’ll want to play consistent minutes in college next year, and we’re really jammed up currently. But who knows
Well I guess, jammed up assuming that we get Tarin Smith
is this what you're meaning? you 1000% take Laylin over him based on trajectory and production to this point. We've got a lot of big bodies who can't score.
does he? I guess he'll be 19 this winter but it's just his draft year and he's a mid-late round pick. feel like he'd come in a lot more polished next year playing top minutes and pp/pk, rather than mid pair and pp2 somewhere. would seem rather odd to decommit from UST if he was set on playing next year
That’s true, I might be sounding a bit pessimistic. I think another year of juniors before going to a top college team would do him good, but was just thinking if he was nominated for USHL defensemen of the year already he might be thinking it’s time for himself to move on.
i took it more as the staff has said we're seeing (I mean his dad is on staff lol) and then we may have a slot for you. Would imagine they may, as a family, want to give it a little time and space away from dad just being announced to commit here. I guess he could've decommitted from UST as the staff there wanted to be petty?
Feel like I’ve hardly heard anything about Willis and he’s putting up great numbers. Hopefully he looked up to Matty Knies even though they’re completely different types of players lol.
other takeaway, pretty ugly looking MN class (in terms of quantity of high end guys, including people Gopher fans were initially really high on like Berchild, Trottier, etc). Hopefully Larson can find his way in with some of the remaining uncommitted guys
kind of interesting. Think it speaks to the leagues a little bit with the O being lower scoring by a bit comparatively, so you're going to have a little higher intrinsic point "retention" because your number is lower. also the aspect of where you're getting your "grinders" from who in theory should retain scoring better because of that lower overall number.
This wasn’t a knock against all the CHL players, just a look into player performance between leagues. Like I said multiple years of data is still needed but it will be interesting to see. Also shows USHL was still either right on par or above the other leagues last year.
Interesting tidbit is he didn't separate the F and D, which I think is problematic, particularly given roles changing (top scoring F in the Dub probably keeps a PP slot, but the defenseman may not). Either way, fun to look at. Still think the 4 FF teams showed that the college game itself still is not changing too much in that come March/April, defense is what wins titles