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Hopefully Hak noticed today what can happen to coaches. There is something about Hak's system that is not working and he never has been able to recognize and recruit Grade A goaltenders.

Forgot to mention the lack of "skilled play" leading to any odd man rushes or grade A chances. That just didn't exist on Sat night.

I was at the Saturday night game in Omaha. Have been following closely the past several years when UND still had TV contract and have seen some poor performances, but Saturday night took the cake. Badly outshot in period 1, Gothburg gave up a ridiculous goal from somebody shooting it from the corner. (I would have taken him out and told him to get his act together.) They started to finally get a little physical in the second and that gave UND a little momentum. Worst part of the performance was D-Men constantly getting mesmorized by the puck and the poke check and then watching guys dance by them. Haven't learned to take the body at all. This is what led to the 3rd and winning goal by Omaha. They lost a lot apparently when they dumped Eades to go with Berry.

Any get togethers in Omaha this weekend? I am coming out from Denver

UND should have never been a party to this league TV deal and should have stayed in the WCHA if this is the way this new league wanted to do things. The people who run UND these days don't seem to have a clue about what a loyal alumni base they had and were growing because of UND hockey.

I am no fan of Gwaz, but have to admit he is a very good college hockey coach. We have had quite a rivalry with him over the years. I remember seeing a video of him on this website presenting at a Sioux boosters lunch in Grand Forks prior to a Sioux - Pioneer series and running into him one time during the 2007 regional tournament in Denver. He was always nothing but complimentary to the Sioux hockey program, although it may not have seemed that way during the heat of battle. DU is going to miss him - I hope he stays in the WCHA somehow. He is good for the league and good for hockey.

Seems like it would be hard for the WCHA to argue Bemidji isn't good enough to play in their league at this point in time.

There was a big feature story in the Denver Post this past week in connection with Denver opening up in the national tournament. The gist of the article was the fact that DU has employed a goalie coach for the past several (like 10) years. They also quoted some of the goalies who have gone through the system as essentially saying they learned more about goaltending at DU than they had in their pre-college years or during their pro careers. Gwozdecky said he would always keep a goalie coach on staff. Gwoz maintains that the national tournament is a goaltending tournament. It is hard to argue against that year in, year out DU has had the best goaltending in the WCHA for several years. Dubawitz, Mannino, Berkhoel, Cheverie and others have been very good for them. I think Sioux have had suspect, inconsistent goaltending ever since Goering graduated. I would be curious to know just what kind of coaching the goaltenders at UND get or for that matter what kind of expertise the coaching staff has in picking goalies. I didn't have much faith in Parise or Lammy ability to steal a tournament like some of the DU goalies have done.

Everybody recheck your cable schedules. The DU - Wis game will now be shown on Fox Sports Rocky Mountain in Colorado and also on FCSC channel 414 for those who have the sports tier package. The other semifinal game with Sioux will also be shown tonite on FCSC as well as the championship game on Saturday. Don't know if this is the result of my badgering Fox Sports in LA, but they have updated the schedule to include the remainder of the tournament.

Same deal here in Denver although now they've added some of the tournament on a delayed basis. I've contacted Fox Sports in LA and they say they will respond to me, but so far nothing. Looks like I might have to switch from Comcast to a satellite service in order to get Fox Sports North directly rather than a feed from one of the other Fox Sports affiliates like we've gotten in the past in Denver.

For the past several years in Denver I got every WCHA Final 5 game on one of the college sports tier channels. Just checked ahead on the guide to set the DVR and don't see any of the games listed. Anybody know what's going on with TV this year?

webcast up in Denver now too

won't work here in Denver either. their server must be overloaded or messed up

Even better. Thank you.