McGroarty back for junior year
Hearing Rutger McGroarty, Winnipeg’s 2022 first-rounder, will return for his junior year at Michigan. Jets and his advisors discussed today, and team supported his decision.
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) April 15, 2024
Shows how much I know. The two I felt most likely to come back (Nazar and Brindley) are gone and the one I though was gone for sure is back.
Michigan has a projected first rounder and a second rounder coming in at forward. Hoping Hughes doesn’t get too much free agency interest from the NHL and Duke comes back(edit: welp, missed that he signed too). Coupled with the return from injury from Hallum, and another year from Moldenhauer and Schifsky, we should reload pretty well offensively.
Defense is a bigger question mark as we wait to hear on Casey (NJ is pretty stacked defensively so I can see him back, but could also see him biding his time in the AHL).
April 16th, 2024 at 12:53 PM ^
Casey would be huge coming back!!
(from Beverly Hills Cop)
Yay!
Go, Blue!
Stay, Blue!
"Hearing he's back" and Rut announcing himself that he's back are two different things. Lol.
It's social media official from him with a graphic and everything
Saying "I'm back" on April 15th, doesn't guarantee the same on August 15th. Michigan Summers have fallen for that trick before!
I'll wait to hear it from McGroarty. Ever since the USMCA dairy importation dispute of 2022, I don't trust Canadians.
How about word from Michigan Hockey and from Rutger himself?
A nice return given a couple of guys departing earlier than expected.
They've got recruits coming in who are talented but obviously nice to have some veteran top-end talent as well.
Well that settles it then . . . it's time for announcers to learn how to pronounce his name.
Hearing them mispronounce his name over and over again was so irritating in the tournament. I figured, maybe someone will tell them, but continued for all 3 games.
This is huge news. Now we just need a defenseman or two to stay. And I keep forgetting Jackson Hallum was a good looking player who was injured very early this season. I assume he’ll be back and hopefully 100% healthy.
So top line is McGroarty-Hughes-Hallum with Eernisse-Moldenaur-randoFroshRecruit, and Draper-two frosh?
Incoming first round pick and early 2nd rounder that are likely factoring into those top two lines. Hallum’s role is probably best as a 3C
April 15th, 2024 at 10:13 PM ^
You forgot Schifsky and Estapa, so there's actually a lot of line combos that could work for the top 9.
Great news!!! Also picked up Ferris State goalie with 0.91 save % and 2.9 GPA for 59th ranked Pairwise team
Welcome back Rutger
Finally some good news...
1:17 from elimination, the Wings tie it 4-4 to send the game to overtime and stay alive for another night. 90 pts is the bare minimum. Also, they need the Caps to lose to Philly tomorrow night.
Edit: Wings win in OT.
Now they need to gain a point tomorrow night on the Caps and not lose a point to the Pens. (And gaining a point on the Caps would eliminate the Flyers.)