College hockey transfer portal take: it has impacted competitive balance, but not for the reason everyone said it would.

In terms of who is transferring it's mostly middle tier players who have underperformed at big programs, or overperformed at small programs.

There have been new recruits, 2025, and 2026 draft rankings since the last public refresh of the chart.

Here is my update:

Big pickup for BU

Challenge: Notre Dame fans fly to a hockey game in Belfast and a cathedral in Paris and cause an international incident at both due to poor outfit choices.

Notre Dame is still more welcome in Belfast than BC is!

It is funny enough on its own that they needed to make this list.

Next level to the hilarity is Notre Dame already made special jerseys for this weekend that are in violation of these rules.

I watched that with multiple people who are brand new to college hockey.

Explaining to them that the shootout sort of counts in the standings for the regional tournament, but does not factor at all in qualification for the national tournament was an impossible task.

Was trying to quickly count the number of key PK guys BU lost to graduation/NHL this offseason, but I kept losing count because it was so many.

On a TOI basis the guys lost must be 80%+

While I am the preeminent college hockey advocate of "actually home ice doesn't matter as much as you think it does" a game at Maine might be the exception to that, even beyond North Dakota.

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