The Sicatoka

@UNDFootball just Tweeted a reminder to buy tickets to the game.

So, .... a 1987 Ed Belfour-esque scenario. I'd be good with that.

Pssst ... dude ... she can hear you ...

They enjoy it! They are Chaos Masters. What's a Chaos Master? One that thrives in chaos, and they derive their power from it. And knowing that, they make more chaos because they know they thrive and others are thrown off by it. (I've worked with a couple people that behave that way and it's no fun if chaos is not your thing.)

I'd say the focus has to be a third goaltender right now because the rest is reasonably in focus. Schlossman in a recent article "speculated" that Johnson and Hedquist each need another year in juniors. (He also speculated on interest in Calder so he seems to "speculate" well.) The question is are they looking for a two or a three. I say that because all season Karl Goehring was saying that Harrison Feeney would be ready if disaster (goalie-geddon?) came and he was needed. Might Feeney be the projected two in the staff's mind? If that were the case the staff would be more willing to bring in Johnson as the three I'd think. So that leaves me to wonder ... and wait. Should be fun.

This again remains "best guess" based on Schlossman articles and what else we know. Forwards: Portz Schmaltz Ford (BGSU portal) Calder (LSSU portal) _______ (Kunz) _______ (Constantini) Defense: Bast, L Ferner (RPI portal) Jandric (UAF portal) _______ (Morrow or Johnson or portal) Goaltender: Driscoll (BSU portal) _______ (late recruit or portal)

A whole bunch (couple dozen!) updates since Cruikshank to UMn here: https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/playerMoves/

At Q'pac has "trap games" written all over them given they are right before at PSU (at Nashville).

MasseyRatings.com would disagree with the Missouri State sports writers. They have UND at 9 and MoiSt* at 12 for defense. *Missouri State

That another goalie hasn't been named yet (portal or late recruit) tells me there's a rabbit to be pulled out of a hat, and Karl Goehring is the magician.

When Cruikshank was in the portal and rumored to BC, which he quashed on Twitter, I scrolled his Twitter timeline. There are no fewer than three Jackson LaCombe highlights in there. That was my clue where he may be heading but I held out hope. When Schlossman started talking up other forwards it was the final clue.

Massachusetts junior Marc Del Gaizo signed with Nashville.

This again remains "best guess" based on Schlossman articles and what else we know. Forwards: Portz Schmaltz Ford (BGSU portal) _______ (Kunz) _______ (Constantini) _______ (portal) Defense: Bast, L Ferner (RPI portal) Jandric (UAF portal) _______ (Morrow or Johnson or portal) Goaltender: Driscoll (BSU portal) _______ (late recruit or portal)

Red Wings versus Space Ghosts

So WMU, SCSU, and UMD are keeping their "extra year" seniors. Tell me how that works out when their freshmen don't get playing time and are still effectively freshmen as sophomores.

I'm tired of chatter about a name I will no longer speak. How about we talk about an upcoming game. What's the book on MoSt? Are they still short their main QB due to concussion? Stats look like they are RB by committee. And it looks like you can run at them.

Wrong comparison. Compare Johnson/LaCombe/Faber/Koster (and Staudacher and Brinkman) with Frisch/Sanderson/Kleven/Moore (and Jandric and Ferner).

The B1G regular season style of play does not translate to post-season play. For reference: See the years the Washington Capitals won the President's Trophy but were bounced in round one or two of the playoffs.

Bucci meets the B1G

After Saturday he'd have to re-find it first.

If he was in the < ahem > correct shade of green, would he be slot and used more jet sweep action?

Cruikshank to Minnesota. So now we beat him non-conference.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/8c421e45-3c39-43da-b978-b9eda4f9ffd1

Otis is one of two sophomores of the sixteen total on the list.

Well, the NCAA can claim it's not money this year. They're capping all sites at 25% capacity. They're losing money at Alerus and Fargodome because those facilities could go over that by local health guidelines.