Justin Poirier

And you also nagged a couple guys out of the transfer portal.

You got Caden Harrington from Vermont, the defenseman, and you also got Justin Poirier, the forward from the University of Maine.

Justin is especially interesting to me simply because, well, I mean, they're both coming from Hockey East, but it seemed like Justin had a huge year, but that's not to throw shade on Caden either.

He is an LA Kings prospect.

So Miguel Marquez is one of those guys.

Talked about him already, but the big loss for them is Justin Poirier, who ended up going to Penn State.

And, you know, I think... what Ben Barr, I'm curious about how they come out this year, because I think we saw the year before, and really even the year before that, that Maine, kind of like UMass, is at their best when they're a little bit older, a little bit more of a cohesive unit.

They also, I thought, had some tough goaltending last year, probably much worse than expected from Albion Boya.

Yeah, but have you seen how much of a joke the NCAA is right now?

No, I guess you could argue Justin Poirier in his first year went to...

Didn't he go to the

showcase? Okay, so that doesn't matter now.

Previously, the reason why NCAA prospects weren't allowed to be at these types of events is because it was tied to an NHL camp.

So,

again, that doesn't mean anything for, like, again, Poirier or Federoff or Birdchild.

Because they're going to college now.