Mooney is more likely to be a 6th rounder than a 2nd rounder. I think expectations of the impact he can have as a freshman have come way down, as well.
fine with me if they overlook and take him late and he plays for us for 4 years. More and more I've seen, more and more it looks like he'll contribute. It's hard to know how much impact he'll have true, part of that is the NTDP was just not a very good team this year. He looked great at the WJC this year and certainly seemed better and better as he recovered post injury.
I will retract my statement that you are not a fan BUT you are absolutely the worst Gopher fan I and many others have seen. All you do is bitch and bitch about the program even when the team is doing well (This is why you were banned from Gopher Puck Live). A good fan is a fan who supports a program in the good times and bad times but you can't even support the team when times are well. In 2022-2023 when we had one of our best teams in quite awhile all you talked about was how great Michigan was and complained about the Gophers (this is when you were labeled Eyeore).
You want quality B1G hockey, then dropping the CHL ban is a great step. I live in the heart of CHL’s Western Hockey League and seeing some of those players move on to college hockey is going to be great.
Because the MN schools aren't getting any of them...
I have said it before... the 'ignore' function is a beautiful thing. Bonin made that list for me several weeks ago.
It’s going to make some parts of college hockey get older which to me is horrible for the game. I don’t need to see 22-24 year olds grinding clutching and grabbing their way through a postseason. This is where hockey has generally gone in a bad direction at the ncaa level is more almost everyone is expected to play juniors because of the discrepancy in body size and physical maturity. Theres a reason the ccha and aha have been very active in recruiting chl
You have some weird obsession with Bonin and expressing how he doesn't fit your mold of what a fan is expected to be. As another poster mentioned, you might be better off putting him on ignore because his posts seem to really affect you.
i just don't see any way restricting athletes coming in would work unless they're going to shut down visas all over (which would be a very bad look) or try to flip the court ruling that's been pretty explicit now that you can't deny them coming in just because they've gotten paid elsewhere as an amateur. won't be surprised to see more and more legislation trying to shut down how NIL is used, but as far as restricting sports players I just don't see it (I think mostly they like that people want to come here and play our sports because our leagues are best, in simple terms).
MN HS hockey will be fine. The only U18 kids going up will be the ones with crazy parents sending them all over the country already (the Shattuck and Sioux Falls kids today) and a handful of 12th graders that would have previously gone to the USHL.
hopefully. hearing a lot of rumblings from up in my neck of the woods (218/701 area code) about it. WHL priority draft this year had 19 Minnesotans taken this year versus 10 last year (and 9 the year prior). Shit you go back 15 years or so and it was rare any kids were looking elsewhere and now junior programs have exploded in the states and there's more and more young players joining national teams (Little Caesars, etc.) to travel and play.
On Ritchie (Wild 2nd rounder), it would certainly be nice if our local team would sack up and push a guy to play locally where they can watch his growth and development like they do out east.
He was a beast at the WJC though. Toronto inroads for MI once again would be paying offOr maybe they see that BU is a way better place for him to be...
The U has a pretty good track record of developing players and the Wild have been on record they were very happy with how Faber developed here and other GMs/aGMs have been happy with keeping their guys here for extra seasons (Lacombe, Snuggerud are 2 other recent ones that come to mind). As far as BU guys, we have Boldy rostered but that was prior to Pandolfo's time. So no, I really doubt Guerin would prefer to have him out at BU
I think it’s August 1st that NCAA schools can start signing CHL players. So how do you know we aren’t getting any of them to come to Minnesota? I’m sure it will come down to NIL funding so start making your donations.
Thank you for the NIL and visa reminder. I completely forgot about that.
I hope you realize us "little guys" don't make a difference and that's why the U NIL is so far behind. No Pegulas, no Magic Johnsons, etc.
The top CHL players have been committing elsewhere for months.
top flight guys if they're going to come (McKenna, Bear, Lakovic, etc). But you also have the pool of guys who are going to exhaust their junior years and be looking to keep going, who may not want to (or be able to) play ECHL. You won't see this in the B10 as much as we don't take as many of those guys, but for example to use the team that took a ton of CHL guys in Bowling Green. we'll see if all these guys hit campus, but these are their incoming Fr commits from the CHL
My only obsession with Bonin21 is that he/she is the worst possible fan out there. It's sad he/she uses Bonin21 as his/her moniker. One of the best players ever to wear the M.
I think the general issue with Bonin21 is that fact he is ALWAYS negative. He complains about everything around the Gopher program from parking to the merchandise they sell. He seeks out the negative and finds any little thing to complain about. At the same time he gushes about BU, BC, UND, UM, and MSU. It is not a good thing when you mention his name and everyone has a strong negative reaction. BTW, I don't mind if fans criticize the program, but most fans will give credit when credit is due, but he doesn't.
i think he was excited one time last year when we swept UMD. it will be exciting to see him possibly rapture the year we finally win a natty again
You talk about Bonin being negative and Eeyore like, yet all of your posts over the last several weeks are similarly negative complaining about and focusing on what you don't like about Bonin. Just block him and move on.
Thanks for the advice. Still wondering what you consider a good fan to be?
would imagine he's going to figure out what he's doing after the NHL draft but everything written has said he's not going to MN and is considering ND, MSU, WI, and BC for visits which is a really confusing set of choices given stylistically they are grossly different. Now maybe he's already visited the U and knows so that's why not mentioned, but would doubt it. Seems like he screams ND to me and you can thank Anders Lee for that one