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upnorthkid said:
Anyone we want to target from Harvard?
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I watched a little bit of Harvard last year since a buddy of mine played in the conference. Heikki Ruohonen was a good player on a below average team, 200 foot game, good size. He was a monster at World Juniors this year playing with better players (leading scorer). Just a freshman last year. I’d take him for a center for sure, but would be a long shot that he’d be available.
 




yeah i'd assume he'd produce better than I'd expect Nevers to up front. still have a hard time with Q stats and how they'll translate out here, but certainly semes a better finisher on paper

Is Jacobson not just playing in the dub again? Very talented kid but that would be a heavy ask for a guy who's probably a 1 and done next year but comes in ready to go if you took him for 27-28. Would assume everyone would be after him if he wants to go the NCAA route
 

bonin21 said:
If you call this guy there's no way he'd still want to go to BGSU.

Him as an older C and Jaxon Jacobson as a draft eligible C
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I mean I know nothing about the kid admittedly, but he is from Cleveland, it's not too crazy to think he wants to play close to home.

I get what you're saying with some of these guys but it's not as simple as just calling them and offering a scholarship.
 

Gophers1992 said:
I mean I know nothing about the kid admittedly, but he is from Cleveland, it's not too crazy to think he wants to play close to home.

I get what you're saying with some of these guys but it's not as simple as just calling them and offering a scholarship.
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If it's Nevers rounding out the forward lineup and that's it, the team ain't going far. I'm looking for options this late because of what Motzko did to the pipeline.
 

I think now starts the time frame that we’ll see the last of the CHL guys commit. As long as Souch remains uncommitted I have to think we are actively looking for any remaining top options but I haven’t gotten any lick of insight of who. Will have to watch closely over the next couple weeks
 



cheeseburgerphil26 said:
I think now starts the time frame that we’ll see the last of the CHL guys commit. As long as Souch remains uncommitted I have to think we are actively looking for any remaining top options but I haven’t gotten any lick of insight of who. Will have to watch closely over the next couple weeks
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Tbh I think you're early. You'll see them start to, but the really top guns (at least some of them) are going to go through the draft process and see.
 
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upnorthkid said:
Tbh I think you're early. You'll see them start to, but the really top guns (at least some of them) are going to go through the draft and see.
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Might be remembering wrong, but I thought we saw a bunch the last couple weeks of May last year? After the draft is super late but that could be the new landscape.

Don’t remember a bunch of players committing in July last year but then again it’s not necessarily fresh in my memory considering we were never going after any of those CHL guys lol
 

cheeseburgerphil26 said:
Might be remembering wrong, but I thought we saw a bunch the last couple weeks of May last year? After the draft is super late but that could be the new landscape.

Don’t remember a bunch of players committing in July last year but then again it’s not necessarily fresh in my memory considering we were never going after any of those CHL guys lol
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think of the ones we'd be looking particularly at, they would be those kind of guys. You'll see midtier guys who are not NHL risks committing.

Was more referring to I think you're going to see guys like the top flight D guys and the upper tier centers wait a bit longer to give it at least a couple weeks. I edited my above post as missed the word process. I think they'll go through the scouting combine, see what scouts are telling them, etc., and then they'll get steered post draft much more so than what they were prior, particularly given we say Schaefer step in super well straight from the OHL but McKenna and Verhoeff both had their struggles (obviously other guys who did well from the jump). Same as even if some of those guys commit, they may about face pending how camp goes for them this fall and go to the NHL (steam about Misa all summer and then he just went to the NHL for example).
 

bonin21 said:
D rankings
2: Reid - MSU
3. Carels - TBD
4. Verhoeff - UND
5. Rudolph - TBD
16. Lin - DU
17. Bleyl - MSU
18. Villeneuve - TBD
22. Macbeath - DU
31 . Vanecek - TBD
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Villeneuve to BU. Great get for them but another of the big names off the board
 



Gophers aint getting Dupont, Carels, or Rudolph so now it's just waiting to see which of the usual suspects they land at.
 

bonin21 said:
Gophers aint getting Dupont, Carels, or Rudolph so now it's just waiting to see which of the usual suspects they land at.
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if you're playing percentages, I would guess not either. Way too many variables overall until any of these guys go through the NHL draft process, are drafted and for Dupont that he he decides what he wants for next year. They'll all have their pick as any school would make room for any of them.
 



No reason to commit a coach's kid before the Christmas break
 

Didn’t see that Bergeson signed with Penticton today. If he puts on a show next season (which I think there’s a chance) I’m sure he’ll start thinking about playing in maroon and gold once Cullen comes calling. Pretty dang impressive what he did in Madison after his high school season ended.
 

Tarin Smith: Everett —> Gophers
Bode Laylin: Everett —> Gophers
Henry Meier: Everett —> Gophers
Landon DuPont: Everett —> Gophers
 

cheeseburgerphil26 said:
Didn’t see that Bergeson signed with Penticton today. If he puts on a show next season (which I think there’s a chance) I’m sure he’ll start thinking about playing in maroon and gold once Cullen comes calling. Pretty dang impressive what he did in Madison after his high school season ended.
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this is a highly ideal situation for MN. If he continues to excel, can take him but saves the awkward pushing them out if not. Would assume that's what he's thinking as well if he's not going to Augie this fall that he's willing to chance it for a bigger offer the next year
 

cheeseburgerphil26 said:
Tarin Smith: Everett —> Gophers
Bode Laylin: Everett —> Gophers
Henry Meier: Everett —> Gophers
Landon DuPont: Everett —> Gophers
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deal.

You do kind of wonder if some of these teams in the WHL/OHL who are a little more forward thinking may start to try to develop pipelines with college teams with idea they'll get their US kids they may want to push out a few years which would expand their talent pool in the US a little further.


That all said, I will be surprised if Dupont is here, though if he decides to stay in Everett another year (which he'd not be wrong to do given he turns 17 in a week), I do think the chances go up if he sees guys he played with this year enjoy it and have multiple teammates who end up Gophers.
 

upnorthkid said:
deal.

You do kind of wonder if some of these teams in the WHL/OHL who are a little more forward thinking may start to try to develop pipelines with college teams with idea they'll get their US kids they may want to push out a few years which would expand their talent pool in the US a little further.


That all said, I will be surprised if Dupont is here, though if he decides to stay in Everett another year (which he'd not be wrong to do given he turns 17 in a week), I do think the chances go up if he sees guys he played with this year enjoy it and have multiple teammates who end up Gophers.
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Us and Penticton definitely have something like that going on already. Just thought it was interesting that Bode went to Everett with the Smith connection already and also Meier being a legacy guy that I’ve heard we are likely to land come August. Would be great if we can build another pipeline deal there.

While Dupont is unlikely, it is true that they have been in contact for a while and there is interest there. I’m sure Larson is trying to convince boosters for as big of a package as possible to push, and that’s something that Motzko wasn’t really doing.
 

Even if you pull together a ton of money and snag Dupont, you need centers still.
 

bonin21 said:
Even if you pull together a ton of money and snag Dupont, you need centers still.
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think its the interesting part of the money aspect. Dupont is supposedly getting big offers, but think it also depends on what guys want. Supposedly that was part of the deal with Carels was that he didn't really care all that much (obviously you have to at least be competitive). Imagine for a guy like Dupont, who knows he's going to be a top 5 draft pick, the feeling may be similar, at least based on what I've read about the kid. McKenna you had the vibe it was going to be who threw out the biggest/splashiest offer.


Agree 100% on the centers side. Even if you're great on the back end, if you're chasing constantly and those defenders are having to help out your centers more, it's going to limit their impact.
 
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bonin21 said:
Even if you pull together a ton of money and snag Dupont, you need centers still.
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True, but to be honest if we landed Dupont I wouldn’t care too much about the center problem anymore. Throw Souch in there and see what happens.

That would be such a huge turning point for the program to show we are fully in the mix for all the big Canadian prospects. The excitement around the program would be unreal to start the year, which will only lead to more money in the future. I’d 100% take that for year one Larson and just hope the centers steps up.
 

After that couple hours last year where it seemed like McKenna to the Gophers was possible, I will still wait until I see it to believe there's any actual smoke or chance of it happening.
 

bonin21 said:
After that couple hours last year where it seemed like McKenna to the Gophers was possible, I will still wait until I see it to believe there's any actual smoke or chance of it happening.
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I think with McKenna it never seemed like there was any real information that we were continually talking or that there was any interest from him. I believe the Dupont interest is true with where I heard it from, but it certainly does not mean a commitment.

Just based off the moves teams have made, it seems like it should be Michigan, Denver, Penn State, and Gophers as the strongest candidates, it doesn’t seem like he wants to go to hockey east. But that’s just straight speculation, who knows the extent of schools he’s deciding on.
 

Hockey East sucks. Big Ten and NCHC have left them behind. BC and BU will start having trouble keeping up.
 

bonin21 said:
Hockey East sucks. Big Ten and NCHC have left them behind. BC and BU will start having trouble keeping up.
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think BU opting into revenue sharing may change things for them and they also have a very solid, wealthy alum base. They'll do fine resource wise. BC could be interesting but also has a wealthy hockey alum base. Think they'll both be just fine and their commit rosters would show that. Still a game where your top tier are viewing it as the next step as the dollar amount hasn't gotten that high, and I don't think it will in any near future. Football is very different as guys who have never played a down are signing deals that can make you set for life if you're not an idiot. Couple hundred K is great, but you need to make the league and BC and BU both have done that consistently.

Think rest of HE is in trouble though as far as keeping up consistently goes, but just means we once again recycle back to the prior "older" approach (overall where top tier talent is going still really hasn't changed other than you've added PSU spending money)
 

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