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Gardner with another poorly timed penalty. When will he be sat to make a point? Ridiculous

Thank goodness they were at least able to nab Johnson.

Rahauser, Spooner AND Morelli all have more points than ANYONE on UND’s entire roster this season. Great recruiting

Gardnerism

Other than the most valuable one...Boeser. That was Hak’s boy

I can’t even get excited about this. It’s already too late

Was he ever a HC before this? Any level?

Also Jost left 2 seasons ago, not last year

Not to mention the other 85 red flags

Okay gotcha. Yeah transfer was the wrong term...more like leave, or not going to be around next year. Next weekend will most likely give us our answer.

Transfer to a different school, or just any other league in general. If guys like Rhett aren’t being sat for horrible decision making and guys aren’t being sat for just being horrible like Johnson and Reuter, JBD must’ve done something REALLY bad after the game out of frustration. Being sat like this at the end of a really bad season with plenty of age left to develop...not a good sign. I’d be more worried than you seem

Bye bye business suit tradition and bye bye JBD, I smell a transfer of UND’s best player.

3 straight years of playing pu$$ cake brad berry hockey. #soft

This will be the ELEVENTH time UND has scored 1 or less goals this season. WOW

100%. Between the president controversy, the budget problems, the cut programs and all the remaining programs failing...its not a good time to be a UND fan. This is the worst Coached UND team I’ve ever seen.

So much discipline with this team. Great job mr brad

They better do something soon

But that weekend happened, and this team let it happen...and some other unprecedented weekends happened on top of it. One or two bad games a year are going to happen to everyone, but these bad weekends have been stock piling over the past 3 years. Dropping a game to lower rated teams happen all the time because hockey is a crazy game, but dropping multiple games in a row and consecutive weekends in a row to bad teams essentially means it's because they're just not that good of a team.

Yes absolutely I would've brought some of those guys in to give them a shot to see if they could produce. I'd much rather have a kid who could possibly produce vs a few guys I KNOW cannot produce and never will. This isn't hindsight, it was pretty clear for Johnson, Yon and Reiger right off the bat. Not cutting the 2 of them after 2 years is a poor decision and not cutting Reiger after this year would also be a poor decision.

Not sure anyone is saying they're absolutely miserable, but the perspective I see is that they're on pace to notch more Ls than they have in the last 19 seasons(only as far as I looked back) and miss the tournament 2 years in a row and nearly 3 in a row.

The 3 skaters were the main part of the discussion and Bob was just added in. I thought they decided to give him a scholarship this past off season?

Every year there are recruits that are ready to come in, but are held away from campus for an extra year solely due to roster limits. It's impossible to perfectly time out all of these recruits because of guys leaving early for AHL/NHL, leaving for another team or not leaving as early as expected. That always leaves a few guys on tap, so instead of holding them back an EXTRA year, bring them in and replace Johnson, Rieger and/or Yon depending on what positions are available. Much less likely, but always a decent backup plan is to find an older transfer kid or even a recruit they've been on the fence about offering. Anything would be worth the risk in my opinion since they wouldn't really be losing anything by dumping any of these 3 current guys. You've obviously watched 'Miracle' recently, so yes...thank you...it's very well known some players are brought in for reasons other than to score a lot of goals. All 3 of these guys were brought in to be role players, or good defenders...and none of them have really panned out. It happened in the past and it'll happen in the future, but the only difference is that Berry has continued to hold onto them instead of shuffling them out. UND already has a large number of role player types that do it much better. Additionally, Johnson was brought in to be a dman, but was clearly the odd man out due to lack of skill, but was able to fill an empty forward role to keep a spot on the team. He literally was just a body to fill the spot and should've appreciated the opportunity to get some extra ice time during his last season at UND...but for some reason he's still there and sticks out like a sore thumb when he's on the ice. Same exact thing should've happened with Bob Anderson. The decision to hang onto him has been pretty close to really biting UND. The connection between those types of players still being on the team and being 2-3 players away from being a top 5 team is obvious now isn't it? Cutting Bob, Johnson and Yon 2 years ago and Rieger last year would've caused a positive domino effect. Some of the freshman who are taking awhile to adjust would've been fully adjusted sophomores right now and the Rieger cut could've given another guy who's playing USHL somewhere right now a shot at at playing this year, again fast forwarding another player's development. NO I'm not saying bring in guys who aren't ready and ruining their development, I'm only talking about the guys who are ready, but just don't have room for yet. Keeping the guys who didn't pan out is really putting kinks in the chain of development and is screwing up the flow of incoming players. It has a much larger impact than most might realize.

Wait, THIS team with a lot of skill up front but less at defense? That perfectly describes the opposite of this team, so maybe you typed that backward. I don't believe Brad Berry has driven (or is) driving this team into the ground, but I do believe it's obvious that he's out of his realm as a head coach at this level. I think his coaching style and personality are PERFECT fits for being a fantastic assistant coach, but he doesn't fit the bill as a Head coach. 3 seasons in and he still seems uncomfortable and hesitant a lot of the time. More importantly he's not making the hard decisions of cutting kids who didn't pan out, and that dead weight is holding this team back from competing at the normal high level you see from UND. Depth is tremendously important at this level due to the long hard season full of injuries and sicknesses. This team really might be 2-3 guys away from being top 5 in the country, but we'll never know with guys like Johnson, Yon, Rieger and Bob Anderson on the team. Great kids I'm sure, but they're dead weight to this team and could've been replaced by others either 1 or 2 years ago but were not. The Jr. class has been a failure to this program, so maybe things will start panning out after they get worked through. The other big traditional hockey rich schools around the country are all struggling as well, so that gives me some comfort in knowing this isn't an isolated situation at UND, and that some of the blame goes to the changing landscape of college hockey. With that said, I think it's obvious UND has the facilities and campus+community support like no other hockey program in the country and should have an advantage over everyone for recruits, and it just hasn't been happening. I'm glad to see the pipeline coming in looks strong, because it makes me hopeful things are turning around after this long drawn out break-in period. It makes me glad because I know Berry is locked into a 5 year deal so he's probably not going anywhere. Pretty much every college team everywhere is going to have off-ice issues, so that's a given, but I feel like it's going to keep getting worse and will have repeating offenders under a soft coach. I would've been scare to piss off Hak or Blais, but I'm not too sure I'd really be too scared of messing up under Berry. So again, I don't think Berry is driving this program into the dirt, I just think he's going to do a good job at keeping the team about where they're at right now and where they've been the last few seasons: Middle of the pack, average, just missing the cut type of team with a good mix of a few highly skilled players, a larger amount of lower skill grinding style players, and a handful of good locker room style nice kids that bring nothing to the table and that'll hang around all 4 years providing no depth.

From what I've seen it appears GF was significantly larger in the early 1990s. Hung around 15,000 larger.

3rd to 4th you mean? Unless you're talking about way back into the 1970s when Grand Forks was larger than Bismarck. Plus Minot has actually seen a population decline since 2015, but is starting to turn around again. Still over 10,000 behind Grand Forks.