Random Business

The Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks suffered a huge blow today when goalie Chris Holt signed with the Rangers. This is a huge blow to an Omaha team that was looking to possibly make an NCAA tournament run this season. Omaha is left with Kris Tebbs and Eric Aarnio who have appeared in a combined total of 19 games at Omaha, and their stats weren't pretty. Omaha is going to have to rely on their talented offense to score a lot of goals for them this year.

In a blatant attempt to mock my efforts to stay ahead of the game in recruiting, Michigan has received the first two verbal commitments for the class of 2008 in Robbie Czarnik and A.J. Jenks. Both were teammates for Detroit Honeybaked. Czarnik looks to be a small playmaker-type, while Jenks is a very raw power forward who has the potential to be a big-time player. These commitments may seem early, but they might be necessary for Michigan as a way of saying "Back off" to the OHL. Some scouts think that Jenks especially has the potential to be a first round draft pick in the OHL entry draft next June. Michigan fans will once again have to watch next year's OHL draft, like they did this year with Tristan Llewellyn, to see whether or not these guys will actually ever make it to Michigan.

Now that these guys have committed, I suppose it's about time for me to start a 2008 Top Prospects list. I've been working on adding updates to the 2007 Top Propsects list. Those updates should be published in the next week or so.

Finally, there's been another edition to the links on the sidebar. The DECC is Stacked! is a pretty good blog maintained by a Duluth fan. It covers a relatively wide range of topics but seems to focus more on college hockey. Again, if anybody else would like to be linked on the sidebar, just drop me a line and I'll make it happen.