Hockey's Future Breaks Down WCHA Teams

(left & above) Patrick Wiercioch notched the game winning goal against the University of Alberta on Saturday night

Hockey's Future breaks down the ten WCHA teams and has a nice profile on the Pioneers.

Of particular interest was Coach Gwozdecky's explanation of Patrick Wiercioch's commitment to DU.

“Patrick had called Wisconsin and said that he wanted to go to school in ’08 and if they decided that they didn’t want to bring him in until ’09, then he was going to see if anyone else needs a defenseman for ’08. And obviously with the relationship that he had with us, that was the first call that he made after he called Wisconsin. It just so happened that we wanted to bring in another defenseman to be able to fit into David’s [Carle] role, but realized that it was going to be next to impossible to find a quality defenseman like David to play that kind of role. It was going to impossible at that time of the year. So then all of a sudden, Patrick calls and the rest is history.”