An NHL goalie would be great but I care more that we have had solid to really good college goaltending. Laffer won a Richter award btw.
McKay won a hobey, perets is in the AHL, Matt Davis ain’t making the nhl. Devin Levi has just barely cracked a lineup and is looking rough for Buffalo. There are very very very few NHL goalies in any league. There are only 60 or so rostered a year and they play a long time. For whatever reason, the goalie making the NHL somehow decides if they’re good enough or not despite the fact it’s less than 1% of college goalies that ever make it given there’s an awful lot of leagues and very few goalies who get to play. Very different than your skaters. There’s about 4 guys being seriously talked about for the NHL now with Fowler, Augustine, Gajan and Slukynsky with Slukynsky I think already being rather a shocker if he has a meaningful career in the NHL because of the change towards having bigger and bigger tenders (some of the same that’s being said about Augustine now). Everybody wants these guys and they want to start from the get go of arriving. We’ve had some older goalies recently and close sticking around which is going to limit that. There are multiple ways to do the goalie approach and going with a little older/seasoned guy is not a problem as these guys can all be outplayed in a one and done (Augustine was not great last year when MSU was bounced either).
We all hope for great, and I don't even disagree with your point about winning a title or two with an elite goaltender.
we'll see how many guys we're actually replacing next year. Koster for sure. The rest we'll see. would guess theyll push some for chesley. rinzel i think they leave in college. Whipple and Gruba will be looking to move into bigger roles and Thomas and Mittelstadt are back for sure.
You have 9 with two guys you don't really like to play. You want them to be your 8 and 9 again next year.
I don’t disagree with you that there’s a chance you need 3. Bob has used the portal as you cite and none of us know exactly how it played out. Again we’ll have to see who all is coming and going. Bob did pretty well filling this year yet again at the areas of need
Color me shocked the people of the western suburbs don’t like the direction dinky is headed when all that’s ever publicized is any crime. If you wanted a smaller private school that’s fine with truly excellent hockey, Denver is the best place in the country. Denver is going to be every bit as liberal as the U of M (hence the whole them creating a big shit storm wanting to get rid of the Pioneers moniker because it “endorses violent colonialism” a few years ago). Regardless, it’s a beautiful city in a great state with lots of outstanding outdoors things (random aside, I wonder if they allow their players to go skiing?) and the best coach in the nation. I wouldn’t try make a mountain out of someone choosing to go there, especially someone who went Minnetonka—>Shattuck—>USNTDP
For sure. And unfortunately the kids that come from money are often the ones that excel at hockey these days because of the advantages that come with that. Berchild's family is loaded.
Yep.
We’ll see if it works. Lot of scholarships to eat up but with B10 likely expanding rosters it won’t really matter by the time he hits campus
Lots of U of M kids go out of Dinkytown to drink and party now. Neighbors kid says NE or STP are destinations. Maybe better bars, cost, or safer, probably different reasons for everyone.
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A random prior 4th round draft pick committing to Vermont is your big call to action? He’s cited as being at best an AHL player in their system to the point where they relinquished his rights and who is doing well in the OHL this year as an overage player. I hope we’re generally aiming higher than winning recruiting battles with vermont for guys with debatable long term futures.Flood gates are opening. Time to wake up Bob.
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These guys are going to have a big impact on college hockey considering they're coming in as 21 year old freshmen. Which I don't like but you have to adjust to the times. This is one of the better unsigned 2004s in the CHL. He'll likely put up some points and my point is the caliber of players committing is ramping up and you don't want to be too late to get in the mix.
He’s 18. We don’t have room for next year which is not when Reid is coming in. This kid wants to come in next year and is trying to land in the pros asap and has said as much.
Much Much Much rather be in the portal for someone (which you can get better players than he is) once you know what you have back.
You already know... Snuggerud is gone. You're only waiting on Wood and Moore and I highly doubt both go. With the portal you get 3 or fewer years out of the guy. College coaches are going to like getting 4 years out of these way too old for college hockey Canadians.
He’s not staying for 4 years. He has said he wanted to sign a nhl contract. Yea Bob should recruit the OHL. This is not the guy to die on that hill and I am talking about this specific recruit
I'm not either about this kid. I'm just calling out that it's ramping up and you're going to start seeing the NCHC teams and Big Ten teams getting a handful of impact players to commit.
Yeah and that’s totally fair he should recruit the OHL. You also said the floodgates are opening and he needs to wake up in response to this kid committing. It’s not that dire