Christmas season is one of my favorite holidays of the year; it’s a great time to hang out with hockey before the second half of the season begins. It’s also gives a person time for some reflection on the past year.
This holiday season, the UND hockey team got two very nice additions to their future line ups.
Personally, I don’t usually follow a player until they gets to UND – this is based on some of the recent string of decommits that UND suffered from pretty high end recruits, the past two seasons – this week’s commitments are rather large gets for UND and I don’t think we will have to worry “too much” about them bolting to the CHL either.
I would also say that the commitments of St. Cloud Cathedral Junior Austin Poganski and Holy Family Catholic Sophomore Shane Gersich have UND fans pretty euphoric.
Here are some of the recent Minnesota High School Division I recruits.
2012-13 Minnesota High School Division I Recruits
Name
|
High School
|
Year
|
Pos.
|
College
|
Verbal Commit
|
Grant Besse
|
Benilde-St. Margaret's
|
Senior
|
F
|
Wisconsin
|
Yes
|
Jake Bischoff
|
Grand Rapids
|
Senior
|
D
|
Minnesota
|
Yes
|
Travis Brown
|
Rogers
|
Junior
|
D
|
Michigan Tech
|
Yes
|
Shane Gersich
|
Holy Family Catholic
|
Soph.
|
F
|
North Dakota
|
Yes
|
Connor Hurley
|
Edina
|
Junior
|
F
|
Notre Dame
|
Yes
|
Jake Jackson
|
Tartan
|
Senior
|
F
|
Michigan Tech
|
Yes
|
Adam Johnson
|
Hibbing
|
Senior
|
F
|
Minnesota-Duluth
|
Yes
|
Teemu Kivihalme
|
Burnsville
|
Junior
|
D
|
Colorado College
|
Yes
|
Karson Kuhlman
|
Cloquet
|
Junior
|
F
|
Minnesota-Duluth
|
Yes
|
Dan Labosky
|
Benilde-St. Margaret's
|
Senior
|
F
|
Colorado College
|
Yes
|
Matt Nelson
|
Edina
|
Senior
|
D
|
Princeton
|
Yes
|
Neal Pionk
|
Hermantown
|
Junior
|
D
|
Minnesota-Duluth
|
Yes
|
Austin Poganski
|
St. Cloud Cathedral
|
Junior
|
F
|
North Dakota
|
Yes
|
Jack Ramsey
|
Minnetonka
|
Junior
|
F
|
Minnesota
|
Yes
|
Parker Reno
|
Edina
|
Senior
|
D
|
RPI
|
Yes
|
Jimmy Schuldt
|
Minnetonka
|
Senior
|
D
|
St. Cloud State
|
Yes
|
Luc Snuggerud
|
Eden Prairie
|
Junior
|
D
|
Nebraska-Omaha
|
Yes
|
Steven Spinner
|
Eden Prairie
|
Junior
|
F
|
Nebraska-Omaha
|
Yes
|
Tommy Vannelli
|
Minnetonka
|
Senior
|
D
|
Minnesota
|
Yes
|
Hunter Warner
|
Eden Prairie
|
Junior
|
D
|
Minnesota State
|
Yes
|
