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Weekend Flurries: Sampo Ranta’s situation

It’s still unclear what the admissions snag was that forced Avalanche prospect Sampo Ranta to start looking elsewhere to start his NCAA career this fall.

Earlier last week, though, Mark Divver of the Providence Journal broke some tough news; with nearly every NCAA Division I roster already all but set for the upcoming year, the 18-year-old Ranta was having trouble with admissions at the University of Wisconsin after committing to the school back in 2016. [Mile High Hockey]

Initially, it was believed that the obvious choice for him to land would be at Boston University, who had scholarship funds open up when Ottawa Senators prospect Brady Tkachuk left the Terriers to sign his entry-level deal with the Sens.