Potential Future Recruits

I’ll take skjei, faber, Lindgren every time. Reedy was solid his last year and a half. Collins would have had a solid senior year.

The gophers haven’t won a title in 20 years, and I can’t attribute that futility to NTDP.

I never said NTDP didn’t have good players come thru it. It’s often looked at as a sign of who is recruiting well. I was a bit surprised that not many NTDP alums are National Champions. Greg Carvel said he doesn’t even look at NTDP kids, could burn him, but looking at the last 10 years he could be right. The teams that have a lot of NTDP kids have often been the ones that have dissapointed.

Potential next Eichel leads Shattuck U14 to natty with 5 goal game.

https://twitter.com/PuckPreps/status/1389261179244093444

I never said NTDP didn’t have good players come thru it. It’s often looked at as a sign of who is recruiting well. I was a bit surprised that not many NTDP alums are National Champions. Greg Carvel said he doesn’t even look at NTDP kids, could burn him, but looking at the last 10 years he could be right. The teams that have a lot of NTDP kids have often been the ones that have dissapointed.

To be fair I don’t think NTDP kids were looking at him either until the last 2-3 years.

Fair, but he found a way to land Makar, and Ferarro….

Chris Peters is very impressed by Stramel:

“He’s this massive human, but he can skate and has great soft-touch skills including a killer release. Then he’s impossible to move off the puck. The only time I’ve seen a player truly plant him was with a trip. There was one play where a German player attempted to hit him and bounced right off of Stramel, who barely moved. The Minnesota native still hasn’t picked his NCAA destination, but this guy is one of the most unique prospects I have seen come through the NTDP.”

Worth watch HockeyTV this month to get a glimpse.

https://twitter.com/evegoe/status/1389291368502022146

Interesting that in last 6 NCAA championships teams I think only 3 total NTDP alums: Joey Anderson, Shane Gersich, Will Butcher. Michigan has historically recruited program best since in their backyard. Only championship team was 1998, which I think was mostly Canadian and not yet heavy on NTDP. Maybe loading up on those kids isn’t a good idea, as tempting as they are.

This assumes:

1. The best team is the one that wins the national championship

2. The issue with those teams is the relatively small percentage of NTDP players they have and not the majority of players that make up the rest of the roster.

I’d say both of those assumptions are rarely true.

I remember hearing someone say that Stramel would come in fall 2023. Does that mean he can’t commit until August 1st? How old is he?

I remember hearing someone say that Stramel would come in fall 2023. Does that mean he can’t commit until August 1st? How old is he?

To answer the question yes, unless he accelerates to be a senior in the fall before then.

I remember hearing someone say that Stramel would come in fall 2023. Does that mean he can’t commit until August 1st? How old is he?

To answer the question yes, unless he accelerates to be a senior in the fall before then.

Ah, so he hasn’t received any offers yet then…………..wink.

Kids gonna have a full voicemail on August 1st that’s for sure.

Plante got the invite over Clark?

Get the Hendrickson kid, Bob!!

Carsen Musser (G) and Cameron Briere (apparently played at least mites for Stillwater) also marked as Minnesotans on the list.

Musser played at Fairmont through his freshman season, then moved to play AAA.

Plante got the invite over Clark?

Clark got to play some USNTDP games at the end of the year — I don’t have any steam on it, but you’d think he’d have a spot waiting if he wanted one.

Can you share where you are reading the news about Plante’s invite? I’m not finding that info anywhere. I’m also now wondering how many times it has happened where someone joins the U18 team after not even receiving an invite to the U17 evaluation camp with their birth year.

NTDP evaluation camp roster: https://www.usahockeyntdp.com/news_article/show/1160303

Select 17s moving on to national camp: https://www.minnesotahockey.org/page/show/797839-boys-hp-17-national-camp

Select 16s moving on to national camp: https://www.minnesotahockey.org/page/show/797923-boys-hp-16-national-camp

YHH article with a little info on each of the 11 players with Minnesota ties at the NTDP tryouts.

https://www.youthhockeyhub.com/news_article/show/1163347

https://twitter.com/usahockeyntdp/status/1395771392797327363?s=21

I think we have a solid chance at landing at least a couple of the MN forwards.

I’m always a sucker with a “road less traveled” story for a player to be noticed. I think it will be interesting to follow the development of goalie Carsen Musser from Sherburn. Played at Fairmont high school and then headed to Detroit to play midget hockey. Stumbled across this ARTICLE with a lot of information on the kid.

For lack of a better thread, the YHH did some research on select birth years with respect to playing/not playing for the NTDP. Nothing earth shattering came of it but here you go: https://www.youthhockeyhub.com/news_article/show/1163772” class=”bbcode_url”>https://www.youthhockeyhub.com/news_article/show/1163772

Among a few other items:

The following are a few numbers of note detailing data found from the 1995 to 2002 classes of Top MN players that played/did not play for the NTDP.

TOTAL # MN Invited – 66

AVG # MN Players Invited Per Year – 8.25

TOTAL # MN not Invited (Drafted/UFA) – 59

MN NTDP Players World Juniors U20 – 18

MN Non-NTDP Players World Juniors U20 – 12

I believe Grant Potulny’s son was drafted by Fargo in the USHL Draft last night. Jackson Potulny.

Must be, ninth grader this past season at Marquette high school.

https://www.mihshockeyhub.com/roster_players/42789758?subseason=712331

If you want a little more info on these players…..

https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2021hlinkaroster

Clark is the big one imo. In the unlikely chance that the bulldogs don’t get Plante, that would be huge.

Interesting read from Schlossman.

”College hockey’s commitment period for high school juniors opens on Sunday”

Whitelaw seems like he’ll pick Wisconsin.

Rinzel and Moore would be top of my wish list. Well Zam Plante would be #1 if it was at all realistic.

Zam to UMD as expected.

Inside knowledge or just confidence in Bob’s recruiting?

Confidence no inside knowledge. I can tell you with 100% certainty that Bobby Brink is going to transfer here though :ahhh: :wink:

Let’s get Clark and steal Shaugabay from hawk country.

Looks like someone else stole him

It would be nice for you to provide the information rather than just throw the statement out for everyone to guess and research independently.

Jayson Shaugabay to UMD

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/hockey/7136175-UMD-mens-hockey-Warroads-leading-scorer-Shaugabay-commits-to-Bulldogs

I’m surprised the likes of Clark and Whitelaw are taking this long to commit. I’m all about taking your time and talking it through with parents and whatnot, I think it’s the most prudent way to go about it, I’m just genuinely surprised. I figured Clark, Rinzel, Moore and Whitelaw would be off the table after August 1st or 2nd.

That was my assumption as well. If they were considering the gophers at all, I can see them being respectful and waiting a bit longer for their conversation with tBob as he handles an unbelievably tough situation.

I’d take it as a good sign that we are in the running for a least a few of the players mentioned.

Im sure the coaches have a very good idea of who is committing, maybe they just are holding off on announcement.

Last year was very different because some kids had committed prior to change. Who was our first commit last year? Brody Lamb in October?

Sam Rinzel to the U, per his Twitter

Sam Rinzel to the U, per his Twitter

What do we know about him?

Big defenseman out of Chaska, looked solid recently at the Hlinka, good development trajectory

I am not a follower of high school players. But it seems like the Gophers have missed out on most of the big names listed as potential early commits.

That’s not a good sign.

Still early in the process. Plante and Shaugabay were also long shots. Imagine the staff is also not going too heavy on young commits given their desire to mix and match with more seasoned late bloomers.

I am not a follower of high school players. But it seems like the Gophers have missed out on most of the big names listed as potential early commits.

That’s not a good sign.

Shaugabay and Whitelaw are the only two “misses”. I’m not worried at all. The guys I believe we’re likely after (Clark, Moore) are still available plus we got Rinzel. Very confident in Bob.

Also not counting Plante and Hanson as misses because, well, obvious reasons.

I agree. shaugabay may turn into a stud, but I wasn’t upset that we didn’t land him. Whitelaw is more of a “miss” at this point but like others have said, it seems like we likely never had a shot.

For the last decade under Lucia the Gophers got almost every early commit possible, and where did it get them?

For the last decade under Lucia the Gophers got almost every early commit possible, and where did it get them?

Right with you Cardinal Country Clomp… I think the key for Motzko is clearly finding the balance between landing the fancy Cadillacs and slightly used F-150s. This year’s incoming class has the fancy young 18-year-old players like Lucius, Knies and Broz. It’s also got a player who has patiently developed in Pitlick and someone who has had to battle a lot of adversity to get back to playing at a high level in Huglen. Boyton is the perfect type of goalie recruit as the top uncommitted 20-year-old USHL goalie to sign midyear.

As impressive as Michigan’s freshman and sophomore class is for this season, they are still going to be a roster dominated by younger players and that has rarely worked out to NCAA Titles. Now it’s a lot of fun to watch, but if someone can find the last team to have a roster like that and win it all… please let me know.

I was kind of doing a brief look at the Gophers roster this year to see how their average age compares to past rosters and their defensemen are still so young compared to the rest of college hockey, but at least they’re experienced. Their top D Johnson, LaCombe, Koster. Faber. Staudacher and Brinkman are still just going to be an average age of 20.5 years-old when puck drops in October. Keep in mind the oldest college hockey rosters are usually like 22-yr-olds and the youngest average are 20-yr-olds at the start of the season.

The forwards look like they going to be an average of around 21-year-olds in October — so things are getting a little more mature there.

Exactly. Michigan is built to win hockey games but not playoff games. With that much skill though they’re obviously more than capable of making a run. It will be interstate to see…

Can’t wait to see if they take too many TOs in the NCAA final game which will cost them a championship.