Amid all the rage over recruiting — with players committing too young, and teams stealing each other's players — it should be noted that, this year more than ever, recruiting blue chippers is far from a guarantee.
Of the eight teams with the most NHL Draft picks on their roster — between 8 and 13 draft picks — only Providence (with 10) is currently in position to make the NCAA tournament. The other seven programs are the true college hockey blue bloods — Minnesota, Boston University, Boston College, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Notre Dame. Between them, those schools have won 38 national championships, and that doesn't include Notre Dame, which has zero but whose coach has won two.