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https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=260540 Similar numbers to Adam Gajan and he is going to be playing in the Olympics. Not saying he will or won’t be good at the collegiate level, but as we have seen with judging guys solely by numbers, there are a lot of outliers and different development paths. I would be more worried if the coaches are having concerns, because they are evaluating the play of all of our prospects, but I trust they will do what is best for the program. Don’t want to move on from someone like we did with Stephen Halliday and then regret it.

Why?

Heil is goaltender of the week in the USHL.

But while depth is great, sometimes individual performances can be a deciding factor, especially when sometimes 2 goals can win tournament games. I think we have guys that can elevate their games in the post season.

To me, if he was trying to injure him, he would have stayed down and just torpedoed him. It looked like he came back up in an effort to slow his momentum. Who knows?

We saw that pay benefits last night with Zmolek getting a huge goal on the rush and Wiebe scoring a nice one as well. I will say there is a time and place though. No need to go all in when up by 2 and under 5 minutes left, and better know if someone is in position to cover you. We gave up a ton of odd man rushes last weekend which teams with elite talent would have exploited more. Hopefully guys become better at situational awareness when jumping into the rush. Zmolek’s mantra should be that of the Dos Equis guy, “I don’t jump in the rush often, but when I do…”!

Much prefer the guy who did the game on Friday to Landau. “Where Grandma keeps the peanut butter” is old and be reserved for the guy who actually created it.

Denver is #11 at 12-9 record. If we sweep and St. Cloud sweeps next weekend, Denver and St. Clouds records would be almost the same.

St. Cloud has a huge opportunity next weekend to get in the NPI mix, as they are 19 and play #4 Duluth in St. Cloud. Would love if they knock Duluth down a peg.

Huge opportunity to put a rival in our rear view mirror for the most part, as a sweep would put us up 11 points. Really, winning the series would be huge in any capacity.

Yeah, if you review for a major Ben, you can’t give a minor.

So let me get this straight, Minnesota’s penalty killing is 62nd in college hockey, yet Motzko chose to use members of that unit to represent the United States in the same capacity? You were able to pick the team so every aspect of your team would have people who could do that specific job. Mindblowing

If there are that many, it would be because Minnesota doesn’t want them around, or they haven’t been playing much. Don’t think they lose very many that have big upside.

Yeah, if you’re not engaging your defense in the rush in today’s game, you could struggle to get to the magic 3 goals. Goaltending is so good, and defensive systems make it hard to score much without activating the defense. Probably one of the reasons we are one of the top scoring teams in the country without having a bonafide star.

That’s been college hockey forever. That is why the sweep at home, split on the road was always a standard to try win the league title. There isn’t a team like the Miami teams of the past 4-5 years this year. So many good hockey players that aren’t separated by much from night to night. We don’t have a stud like Oshie, Parise or Toews on this team, and they lost to questionable teams. We have guys that will be elite players, but they need a little more experience and consistency in their game.