We get it. You hate bobs recruiting. This is the same draft as zeimer, Javon Moore, and whipple and he went after them all. He grades out as very similar to Zeimer. Again, you’d take him, but I guarantee PSU had to pay him to come and I don’t think he’s worth high dollars without his brother the same as a guy like Perron probably wasn’t worth the 100k he supposedly got at Michigan
PSU cornered the market in college wrestling and they're in the process of making the same play in college hockey. I fully expect them to be a Top 5 program moving forward.
Joy of your large donor being a hockey guy and sabres owner. Maybe if they didn’t suck he’d spend less of his money at PSU
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Got to like that he delivered the biggest non-Brady Martin hits of the tournament. For a small player thats even more impressive.This article hypes up Mooney a bit (and a sentence about Kvasnicka looking like he’ll be a solid college player):
2025 U18 Worlds standouts and disappointments: Martin, Stenberg impress, Frondell falls flat
A breakdown of the tournament's standouts and risers and disappointments and fallers after 29 games in 11 days in Texas.
It’s behind The Athletic paywall.
Crazy that the smallest kid on the team will probably be the most physical... Unfortunately he hurt himself on a check it sounds like.
6 1 with mediocre numbers in the ohl. What exactly excites you about this commit?
On the World Junior team, obviously is a decent prospect to have in the mix for four years.
Don't argue with the world's smartest scout. Bonin21 is never wrong.
He dressed once. The third goalies they have been entirely unremarkable for a long time and include guys like stein for Mich who was bad and Andrew oke who is now at lssu after being mediocre in the ohl.
The 'ignore' function works really well.
People on this site are seeing why Bonin21 got banned from GPL because of all his negativity. He is still being laughed at in GPL. The guy is a completed fraud as a Gopher Hockey fan.
If you bring in Ben Barr next spring as you could have this spring, you will.
would be very interesting to see what he'd bring in here with the resources. He has one draft pick on his Maine roster and seemed to skew much older/heavier (their highest scoring Fr had 7 points) with a very Canadian and international flavor. Obviously wildly different access to players here, but would imagine he would not be quite so "heavy" on MN prospects alone which may ruffle some feathers (don't think this is necessarily a bad thing).
This would be REALLY hard for me to get over, as I get way more happiness when every player in the starting lineup is "from X, Minnesota". That's part of pride on ice.
What makes Ben Barr a better coach than Motzko?
It's not just about coaching... It's very hard to say one coach is significantly better than another but of course we've seen more of Motzko and his lack of adjustments sometimes. But he obviously can coach as his teams with few superstars have put themselves in good pairwise positions.
It isn't his record, since he has a .476 winning percentage and has not won a game in the NCAA's. His team got blown out by Penn St in the regionals.
Idk how much connection Barr has back here any longer. Left right after Shattuck and hasn't coached near the state since (capital selects, Renssalaer, Union, Prov, WMU, UMass and finally a HC at Maine since 2021).
so a guy who's old and was 65th in scoring in the WHL (and 4th on his team) is your target?
The point is he getting solid players at Maine so he could obvious pull bigger guns at U... And he's pulling draft picks (and this guy has AHL experience...). He will have a bigger impact this year than a guy like Kvasnicka, Nevers, and probably Moore.