Can someone explain how WMU has tied the most transfers in out of NCHC teams with 4 while they’ve been playing this whole time?
LOL That was going to be my question, who’s left on the team this semester to show up? I guess I could put on a old jersey I bought at auction and wonder over, may fool a few people
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Maybe the graduating seniors?
Most of them are playing pro…
Maybe the coaches will step in and help behind the grill😂
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I don’t understand the question. Are you asking how they’ve been able to draw players from other NCHC schools?
If so, I’m not sure. I heard they were bragging about spending $0 on NIL, so if true it certainly wasn’t that.
Laursen is a third goalie. Don’t want to speak for Drazner but I’m sure he wanted a chance to win his final season.
He’s asking about the 4 players they have secured for next season through the portal.
The answer is likely either they had connections with these kids from prior recruiting or lots of sleepless nights for the coaches working the phones and preparing their team for the frozen four or a combination of both.
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Time management I suppose. Anthony Noreen secured commitments from Fillion, Choupani, Ambrosio, etc. while coaching his team in the USHL playoffs and doing much more.
Plus if I’m a player in the portal and I’m watching WMU make this playoff run that’s somewhere I want to go and commit to asap
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Oh, I didn’t read it that way.
Yeah, these teams aren’t supposed to meddle with other teams’ players, but everyone knows that’s exactly what’s happening.
I can’t even imagine how insane this process must be for football, where teams have four times more players and 100 times more NIL.
What’s the timeline for potential new CHL guys? I’m not familiar with their playoff schedule
Me and a lot of others have been asking the same question.
I thought last week would be big since half of the teams lost in the first round of the playoffs, but we’re well into the second round now and there haven’t been a lot of signings.
HFboards has several smart people saying Michigan is sitting on a lot of high-profile CHLers.
The best I can come up with is 1) maybe CHL scholarship agreements don’t end when a team gets eliminated (sort of like Coach Cisek is under contract until May even though he’s not returning), so players with CHL eligibility remaining aren’t leaving their respective programs and potentially forfeiting scholarship $$, 2) there’s an NIL bidding war going on, since apparently teams having figured a way around the foreign-born-kids-can’t-NIL rule, or 3) NCAA schools are trying to work through their rosters and figure out how to make a 15-8-3 or 14-9-3 roster work (who to hold back to not invite in, etc.) if CHL players come in.
With this being a brand-new process, maybe NCAA teams are just being extremely cautious. While we’re all eager to see who is going where, there’s not really a difference for those teams if players are announced today or two weeks from now.
One signee is having surgery…is he going to be ready for October? Does Morozov come in or spend another year in Tri-City?
There are still a lot of moving parts for Miami (like the portal!), so I’m sure other teams are dealing with those same issues.
I’ve seen this posted a couple of times so I thought I’d chime in. Ferschweiler said in his presser that the University is not paying NIL money to Western’s players. What he left unsaid, and has since be confirmed, is that a number of Western’s players, like Bump and the Slukinsky’s (not sure I spelled that right, don’t care to look it up) are in fact receiving NIL cash from outside the official Western collective - which is perfectly within the rules.
tl;dr - Ferschweiler is full of crap, his kids are getting paid, he just wants everyone to think they aren’t and that he’s a genius (well, he is a genius, but that’s different).
Back to lurking.
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They have a handful that do it through the ROY app. I downloaded it when they were in town last month because I was curious- it’s not super fleshed out… Hampton, Nehring, and Henricks are also signed under Nilsson Sports.
Tri-City Storm just went down 5-3 in the 3rd period in a must win game. McEwen and Nizameyev have goals.
Lumberjacks choked away a lead and lost- Shika was not in net so hopefully he starts next game and gets them a win to move on
Both teams they’re playing have Miami commits as well so we win no matter what I guess😂
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Yeah, I’m thinking Shika plays tomorrow too. Three games in three nights is brutal for a goalie, and he just let in four on 26 shots.
Plus he’s a Michigan commit. Ewww.
Deputy took a 5-and-10 early, so I’m definitely glad I didn’t travel to see that game.
6-3 Waterloo now.
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7-3 final. Tri-City’s season ends.
The extra point from Stupka is good!
https://x.com/musketeerhockey/status/1912327319839977753?s=46&t=iks34uxihN5C4hJJ57kxog
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I too agree that it’s a little silly to have a bbq with the couple players left but what I don’t understand is how people are shocked/upset at Noreen’s choice. We’re on a 26 game winless streak, haven’t won an away game since 2023, and are coming off 1 and 0 conference win seasons- how do you not expect cuts??? The roster proved they can’t win multiple years in a row and genuinely if the coach didn’t get rid of everyone what would our record realistically be next year? We’d just be asking to break the record for the worst season in conference history for the THIRD year in a row. I love the players that are leaving and I’m sad to see them go but I understand why it was necessary.
Rant over but it just drives me nuts when I see comments like this coming after the coach and the turnover of the roster (this is not the only one I’ve seen). Maybe they’ll understand after we win the natty next year with the new guys😂
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I mean he’s got a point… how are we going to replace the checks notes 3 total wins from last year. Those guys worked so well, should’ve brought them all back!
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I take back what I said about the grill event being silly they’re going to have to use those funds they raise at this cookout for NIL to get some better players so we can get more than 3 wins
Our season depends on how good these burgers and dogs are 
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