Way too many people are caught up in the CHL players. Yes, they’re good but top end guys like J. Moore, Mooney, Moe, and on and on and on we got coming in, why ????? This team is fine. Gonna have e to grow as season goes on but my god we are bringing in top end talent!
Moore, Mooney and Moe are great recruits. My concern with the lack of CHL players has nothing to do with those players, but has more to do with the fact the Gophers had so many departures following the season. Likely more than expected. So they need an additional experienced player or two to fill the gaps, rather than hope some of last year's healthy scratches.
We are now bringing in Finn McLaughlin, who Denver wanted to develop with another year in the Juniors. Which shows we did have a need. Denver went out and got a CHL player. But instead using the CHL to bring in that more experienced CHL player we are brining in a player that Denver thought would benefit from a year in the juniors. Glad to have Finn on the Gophers, but it feels like we're lagging behind other Blue Chip teams.
I don't know anything about Finn, I am not doubting him. With defensemen, I know we can't go off scoring stats. I like his size. I am just curious about the moves the Gophers are making lately relative to their competition.
Those are good recruits, not great recruits. The type of recruits you need to build your full team. But they are not top level recruits that can be the best players on a national championship team.
And while McLaughlin and Pritchard are both good recruits, we cannot rely on other teams 2nd choices to build a competitive team.
And it is a fact that we are lagging behind other programs in recruiting the top talent. Normally the Gophers have the recruiting pipeline stacked over multiple years (I get there are changes in commitment rules), but in the last three classes (last years, this years, and next) there isn't a single All-American prospect. Instead, we have a lot of 2nd-3rd line potential forwards and bottom half defensemen.
And, we have not had a goal tender in our recruiting commitments for more than a decade.
Well the students will once again be back in force! They just announced that student section tickets have sold out.
Minnesota Men's Hockey posted on FB that tix sold out in 16 minutes.Well the students will once again be back in force! They just announced that student section tickets have sold out.
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Way too many people are caught up in the CHL players. Yes, they’re good but top end guys like J. Moore, Mooney, Moe, and on and on and on we got coming in, why ????? This team is fine. Gonna have e to grow as season goes on but my god we are bringing in top end talent!
Moore, Mooney and Moe are great recruits. My concern with the lack of CHL players has nothing to do with those players, but has more to do with the fact the Gophers had so many departures following the season. Likely more than expected. So they need an additional experienced player or two to fill the gaps, rather than hope some of last year's healthy scratches.
We are now bringing in Finn McLaughlin, who Denver wanted to develop with another year in the Juniors. Which shows we did have a need. Denver went out and got a CHL player. But instead using the CHL to bring in that more experienced CHL player we are brining in a player that Denver thought would benefit from a year in the juniors. Glad to have Finn on the Gophers, but it feels like we're lagging behind other Blue Chip teams.
I don't know anything about Finn, I am not doubting him. With defensemen, I know we can't go off scoring stats. I like his size. I am just curious about the moves the Gophers are making lately relative to their competition.
Those are good recruits, not great recruits. The type of recruits you need to build your full team. But they are not top level recruits that can be the best players on a national championship team.
And while McLaughlin and Pritchard are both good recruits, we cannot rely on other teams 2nd choices to build a competitive team.
And it is a fact that we are lagging behind other programs in recruiting the top talent. Normally the Gophers have the recruiting pipeline stacked over multiple years (I get there are changes in commitment rules), but in the last three classes (last years, this years, and next) there isn't a single All-American prospect. Instead, we have a lot of 2nd-3rd line potential forwards and bottom half defensemen.
And, we have not had a goal tender in our recruiting commitments for more than a decade.
While I share the overall sentiment a lot of this post is off. Pritchard was Kato’s second choice? Not at all he was their most prized recruit. No goalie in our committed recruits in a decade? Maybe this was just hyperbole but if you’re being literal that’s obviously way off, they recruited Airey, a highly sought after juniors player, during the juggernaut 22-23 team.
Also the no All-American players bit is weird. Ziemer is elite and Gruba was a stud in juniors. Mooney, Moe and Kvasnicka are tops of their age group players. Rombach might realistically go top 50 in the draft although I understand defensive defensemen not really moving the needle for some.
But yeah overall I do agree recruiting has dropped a bit.
Minnesota Men's Hockey posted on FB that tix sold out in 16 minutes.Well the students will once again be back in force! They just announced that student section tickets have sold out.
That’s awesome! You love to see it.
The students must not have received the email that the Gophers are going to be bad this year..( sarcastic )
I was recently informed by a GPLer that I'm related to Airey
but in the last three classes (last years, this years, and next) there isn't a single All-American prospect.
This is a new one. Do they give out the “All-American prospect” awards at the same time they present the pre-season championship trophy? Michigan and BC must have full trophy cases after the last few years. 🤔
Also, I’d love to know which “All-American prospects” won WMU the title last year.
Minnesota Men's Hockey posted on FB that tix sold out in 16 minutes.Well the students will once again be back in force! They just announced that student section tickets have sold out.
That’s awesome! You love to see it.
The students must not have received the email that the Gophers are going to be bad this year..( sarcastic )
Gosh, I must have missed that email too
@rau4skiumah2-0 this roster is bad. We need some high end players added to the roster.
@rau4skiumah2-0 this roster is bad. We need some high end players added to the roster.
I’d love to hear your input on WMUs roster from last year that had 8 draft picks, the highest of which was a 3rd rounder and what you thought their title chances were. Or Quinnipiacs? And before you turn into Bonin and say they had slukynsky in net, he and Rowe split time and Rowe played every bit as well. Nobody was “excited” about Bump until he started playing.
Would it be super fun if we signed McKenna and misa and Lakovic and put together a juggernaut Canadian first line? Sure. Does this team still have enough talent to win games? Absolutely
hockey is a team game and sometimes that team is a hell of a lot better than the sum of their parts because of how they work together. We all like to get caught up in draft pick watching because we’re the Gophers and have been spoiled in talent, but this team as a college hockey team has plenty of skill to win and may for once have a little more sandpaper than we’re used to seeing to go with it. Describing the roster as “bad” when most of college hockey coaches would love to have this amount of talent is just ridiculous
@rau4skiumah2-0 this roster is bad. We need some high end players added to the roster.
I’m going to echo what others on here have said. Just because we don’t have the high end draft picks that are on other teams or were on Gopher teams past doesn’t mean that the roster is bad. Is the team and coaching staff pardoned from any healthy criticism? No. Could there be some bumps in the road? Especially early on? Sure. But to be all doom and gloom in mid June and just saying that the “roster is bad” is pointless. I for one am looking forward to some more sandpaper and grit on this Gopher team. I certainly have my own thoughts and questions going into the fall but let’s at least get there before we write the whole year off.
Western was obviously a good team but they also build their team quite a bit differently with older players being their best guys. On average they weren't that much older than the gophers but their top 6 scorers were more like 21-23 years old and defensemen who are like 22-24. Where as the Gophers typically have 18-19 year olds filling those spots in which case it's kinda more imperative that the Gophers have high end NHL caliber players.@rau4skiumah2-0 this roster is bad. We need some high end players added to the roster.
I’d love to hear your input on WMUs roster from last year that had 8 draft picks, the highest of which was a 3rd rounder and what you thought their title chances were. Or Quinnipiacs? And before you turn into Bonin and say they had slukynsky in net, he and Rowe split time and Rowe played every bit as well. Nobody was “excited” about Bump until he started playing.
Would it be super fun if we signed McKenna and misa and Lakovic and put together a juggernaut Canadian first line? Sure. Does this team still have enough talent to win games? Absolutely
hockey is a team game and sometimes that team is a hell of a lot better than the sum of their parts because of how they work together. We all like to get caught up in draft pick watching because we’re the Gophers and have been spoiled in talent, but this team as a college hockey team has plenty of skill to win and may for once have a little more sandpaper than we’re used to seeing to go with it. Describing the roster as “bad” when most of college hockey coaches would love to have this amount of talent is just ridiculous