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Size typically wins out if you want a long hockey career. So, I'm going with Gardiner with Bjugstad a close second...

Brock Nelson

blueblood wrote:Size typically wins out if you want a long hockey career. So, I'm going with Gardiner with Bjugstad a close second...

I agree with you blueblood...... although I just have a gut feeling Max will be injury prone.

I like Bjugstad #1 and because of a parent who I respect an awful lot, has told me that Nelson was the most impressive player in the Elite I league. Nelson #2.

There's something to be said about the pressures of media attention in the Cities/Gophers. Will these youngsters being able to live up to their billings/expectations?

Because of that, I think Nelson will thrive in Dakota.

Just imagine what THE DON could accomplish by signing Rau. Gardiner, Rau, and Bjugstad on 1st line!?!?!?! Who would stop them?

UND is a great program to grow your talent under Hakstol and co. Nelson will do well there.

The NHL also has a thing going for brothers and families (Stahl's, Statsny's, Sutter's, Suter's; just to name a few). That's another indirect reason to like Gardiner and Bjugstad...

blueblood wrote:UND is a great program to grow your talent under Hakstol and co. Nelson will do well there.

The NHL also has a thing going for brothers and families (Stahl's, Statsny's, Sutter's, Suter's; just to name a few). That's another indirect reason to like Gardiner and Bjugstad and Nelson...

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Dan Fick Forest Lake

^That's the kid going to Harvard right?

Also, Casto at Duluth?

Harvard does not award athletic scholarships. Fick, like everyone else in the Ivy league will find a different path to pay the bill.

interesting that Christian has not received a single vote.

No Max Gaede(MNSU) on this list? The kid is a play maker and i wouldn't be surprised if i saw him in the NHL eventually.

I'm going with Decowski... mostly because he's my friends cousin but also because he is a great player

HockeyMN1 wrote:Just imagine what THE DON could accomplish by signing Rau. Gardiner, Rau, and Bjugstad on 1st line!?!?!?! Who would stop them?

Holy Cross maybe?

Decowski

auld_skool wrote:

HockeyMN1 wrote:Just imagine what THE DON could accomplish by signing Rau. Gardiner, Rau, and Bjugstad on 1st line!?!?!?! Who would stop them?

Holy Cross maybe?

Lee

HockeyMN1 wrote:Just imagine what THE DON could accomplish by signing Rau. Gardiner, Rau, and Bjugstad on 1st line!?!?!?! Who would stop them?

If that is the first line for the Gophers there is trouble for years to come. THE DON should have gotten the other two big edina boys from last year. Everson Lee Budish would've had a lot of size and talent in the WCHA. look at budish's already impressive freshman season.

Bjugstad has a tremendous amount of atheletic ability as well as class. He comes from a great family. I can see him playing as an NHL star in 2-3 years, just like Wheeler or Kessel.

peni0804 wrote:Bjugstad has a tremendous amount of atheletic ability as well as class. He comes from a great family. I can see him playing as an NHL star in 2-3 years, just like Wheeler or Kessel.

I would agree with this.

hockeyboys wrote:interesting that Christian has not received a single vote.

thats because if you watch him play he never does anything, his team is just good thats why he gets points

Hokie Parent

[quote="HockeyMN1"]Just imagine what THE DON could accomplish by signing Rau. Gardiner, Rau, and Bjugstad on 1st line!?!?!?! Who would stop them?[quote]

That would be nice. Make the Gophers have a strong second line too with Cepis, Schroeder, Birkholz/Hoeffel

Where is Marshall..????

Where is Zane Gothberg on this list? Shut down goalie that will absolutely be a gopher killer (and I am a gopher fan)... Watching him play a couple years ago against Warroad in finals, making 56 stops on 58 shots in 2OT loss was so impressive...