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This 4on4 looks like a Duluth PP. I honestly forgot it was even even strength

Und isn’t even in the same league as Duluth

Probably still better off with Johnson in the box for 5 mins.

Run into each other, get lit up, get a penalty, get tossed around in schuffle x2. All while down by 2 already early on. These boys are not UND hockey players.

UNDs only possible true goal scorer just took that shot....quick chest. Miserable

Bubba musta had a good period break pep talk!

EDC 1. Central- by a long shot unfortunately. I'm ready for the title to be up for grabs by at least 3-4 teams again one of these years. This year, we all already know what's going to happen, and it's not even a question, which makes it boring in my opinion. They just beat defending 1A MN State Champs Orono 10-0...WOW. I'm pretty confident this team would hold their own and break the top 15 in AA Minnesota this year. I'm blown away that they were able to keep Kanta and Hanson (and probably a few others) from leaving early to go play at the next level. I hope that trend continues for other teams around ND (cough RR and BISMARCK). 2. Davies- Davies is turning out solid hockey programs year in and year out. Recently they've seemed to be one step behind both GF teams but they had a little success against RR at EDC last year, and I see them building on that success by sweeping RR this season. Watch for Cade Stibbe and Austin Schmidt to be top 10 scorers in the state. They will be the only team to stay within 3 goals of GFC this season. 3. Red River- Would've been at least watchable against GFC with Montgomery and Kunz still there, but they're gone so it won't be much of a matchup. BUT RR is still loaded with talent as always, but just not an elite amount like Central has this year...again. 3rd place champs written all over them. Easily would've been my #2 pick again if they weren't drained of their talent. Both kids who left had very legitimate reasons for once. 4-9 is shaping up to be a complete crap shoot all season long. I bet we'll see many game results that seem backwards from expected. I think we will see teams shuffling from 4 to 9 and back up pretty fast with each win and loss. LOG JAM...pretty much a guessing game for me at this point 4. West Fargo- Going on a long limb here following a 3 win season last year. They seem to be surprisingly solid and will capitalize on the EDC having a weaker middle of the pack group this season. They have a good group of young skilled forwards that seem to be off to a great start already this year. I'm just really hoping the Bismarck teams didn't provide me with false hope and make me look like a Jack-Wagon on this one. 5. Fargo South/Shanley- They return the bulk of their skill from last season and will also capitalize on a weaker mid-pack EDC this season. Sandy boys seem to be the real deal there. 6. Devils Lake- Tendy, Tendy, Tendy. That kid has been impressively solid the past two seasons, and will most likely be even better this year as a SR. He again has a very young squad in front of him, but I think they will continue to get better as the season goes on. I'm guessing he's going to keep them in enough games to allow them the chance to steal a few by only needing a goal or two to win it. It seems like DL is a goaltender factory 7. Grafton- Grafton's tradition seems to be creeping back slowly but not quite all the way this season. They're returning some fire power and will bounce up and down the EDC standings as the season goes on, but they seem to be only a few injuries away from having a tough second half. I see them climbing to top 5 NEXT season but will have to chalk this one up to a rebuilding year. Is everything cleaned up in the Grafton+PR relationship? That has hurt them bad the last few seasons. 8. WF Shyenne- They will be in a fight with North for the 8 spot all season long, but I bet they will have a slight upper-hand. Similar season to last for these boys, but with their high enrollment, they'll probably come around in the upcoming years. 9. North- They seemed to have a tough time scoring last season but had a tendy in net helping them steal some games. This season they're going to have an even tougher time scoring after losing 62% of their scoring production...and now they don't have as solid of goal-tending either. This looks like a rebuilding year for the Spartans. 10. Mayville- Portland- Exciting to have a new team in the mix! I hope they continue to get some marks in the W column against some smaller Minnesota schools and the ND JV teams. Hopefully some success at the top will keep their youth programs growing. Any chance Whap/Breck makes their way back to ND? WDA 1. Century- I see them being down this year, but still strong enough to finish off the season as #1 out west. I was pumped to see how well they would do this year by returning so many of their top players, but instead I am once again disappointed to see how much great returning talent they lost to JRs! They will drop a few random games to the likes of BHS, DHS and maybe even Minot/Mandan but will finish #1. I think Dickinson will give them a run for their money, and wouldn't be surprised if they end up #2 behind Dickinson if Dickinson can stay healthy. I don't see anyone from the west doing any damage this year unfortunately. Not even Century. 2. Dickinson- Strong season last year, followed up by a rare state tournament appearance. They played poorly and looked out of place at State, but they got that experience under their belt and returned EVERYONE. If they stay healthy I see them taking the #1 spot, but with that said, they're relying pretty heavily on 4-5 guys, so one injury is going to put a major blow on their productivity. I see a lot of high scoring games if they stack their first line and leave their 2nd line out to dry. 3. BHS- Definitely down but BHS is BHS and they will figure out a way to stay in contention. I thought Mike Peluso was out as Head Coach? Anyone know the story on what happened there? Personally I think the guy is kind of a dweeb, but was admittedly a little sad to hear he was out, but apparently that's not the case anyway. They seem to be solidly stuck at the #3 spot as DHS and CHS battle for #1 and Minot and Mandan battle for #4. 4. Minot- I know they already lost a game to Mandan, but Minot always seems to have a few fluky odd losses like this evvvvvery season. BUT evvvvery season they find a way to win and end up top three. Nothing special here, but good enough to end top 4 in the west. The coaching staff does a great job at shaping them as the season plays out. Watch for Mason Morelli's younger brother Aiden to be the top scorer out of the West as a Sophmore. I don't think he quite has the skill set of Mason, but he's not close behind. Fun to watch 5. Mandan- They have upped their hockey appeal with new facilities, with enrollment and with youth numbers. Has anyone been inside their new rink? Does their varsity play games there, I'm assuming? Mandan has seemed to hang around 5th and 6th place for quite some time, and I think this season will be a big turning point for them. I'd love to see them beat someone out and make a trip to the state tourney. I oddly want them to return back to the Charlie Bear days (anyone?) and destroy some teams. It's great to see new teams at State, and I think Mandan is due. End in 5th for the season, but win an elimination game at WDA to get in as the #4 seed. 6. Jamestown- They don't seem to be struggling with numbers but they just continue to be a non-hockey community. Does anyone know if they still have kids coming over from VC to be on the team? Baffles me they don't have stronger hockey teams when they're getting kids from 2 Class A schools. Same goes for South/Shanley, but even worse for Jamestown and VC. They seem to produce some single studs every now and then, but haven't been very competitive recently that I can remember? When was the last time Jamestown made the State tourney? They've been in the West since 06-07, so I'm hoping they've made it a few times in that span? 7. Bott/Rugby- Are there any kids from Rugby still making that ridiculous drive? Or is this like the Devils Lake/Cando co-op that stuck around with only 1 cando kid every 4 years? Bott will get beat up for the most part but will steal a few wins this season. It seems like about every 5 years Bott has one kid putting up damn-near 100 points in a season and making a run for Mr. Hockey. It looks like Ian Amsbaugh might be the next one on that list. Wasn't there another Amsbaugh recently from Bott that tore it up? Bott is 100% a hockey community, they just don't have the numbers to produce. Especially this season! According to their roster, it appears HB has more kids out this season. Hopefully this is just a down year for them. 8. Williston- They have some younger skilled kids on the team and seem to be hanging in there. Williston used to be surprisingly good in the west every few years, but it seems Dickinson has stepped into that role in recent years. With Tyler Jundt running the program, I won't be surprised to see Williston back in the top 4 mix every few years, but it just won't happen this season. Give them a few years and let some of these younger kids get some experience and we can talk! How are their youth numbers, anyone know? 9. Hazen/Beulah- Their numbers seem to be climbing so that's always encouraging! I also see they've whooped up on some JV teams this year as well. I believe both of those communities are shrinking, so unfortunately I don't see HB climbing out of this JV type schedule anytime soon. Hopefully the kids play hard, have fun and continue getting some Ws this season!

Haha, you're such a pud

Good for AA for turning around their scoring problem

I’d take the all start ND HS team over this at this point. Sooooooooooo sad

Do we have to be fans anymore at this point? This is only the Second time this entire season AA has scored more than 2 goals!

I think my men’s league team could beat UND this year

Down to $20 each

2 tickets for Friday 23rd against AA. Front row upper bowl section 303. $25 each

This day and age I don’t want an OC with a certain “style”, I want a guy who has proven success with being flexible and intuitive. I want a guy who knows how to adjust his playbook to fit his weapons each year and who adjusts it each week to capitalize on team’s weaknesses. Obviously in game adjustments are very important too so showing some proven success of that would be great as well. Football is a game of matchups, and an OC needs to be on top of that just as much as a DC.

I'm not trying to kick a dead horse but I honestly think anyone will be better than what we had this season.

OMG what if Bubba steps down and goes into retirement and they promote Rudy to Head Coach.

I would be pretty pumped for next season if the house was cleared. Even if Bubba was the only man left standing I would be pretty happy. Although the "nice guys finish last" quote constantly seems to float above his head when I look at him.

Holy crap that's even worse than I was thinking it was.

Not to mention this exact same thing happened last season after the Misery State blow out win. But that was somehow even worse. Woof

Look at the regression of Johnny from his freshman year to SR year. Remember how many long runs he busted that season? Year by year we saw those go away. Whether it was training, play calling or the players around him. I feel bad that he didn't turn into more than what he ended up. Don't get me wrong, he had a spectacular career, but you'd be lying if you don't think he had potential to be on another level. Think if he would've improved a little each year after his freshman season. WOW. Say all you want about being keyed on and all that bogus because all great players have that problem and continue to be successful. Look at what happened to Kett slowly over the season. Compare his first 5 games to his last 3. He went from a confident risk taking gun slinging mobile QB to a scared puppy with concrete feet. Unreal

You constantly hear people commenting about how Siouxsports users overreact about coaching and about UND teams. But I couldn't disagree more Grand Forks and UND hold their teams to high standards because it's a winning community. This is great tradition to have and be involved in. If people weren't pissed, then that's when you should start worrying. We care and have high expectations and that's a good thing in my opinion. UND ended the season 6-5 which on paper doesn't look glaringly bad, but it absolutely does not tell the story of the season. This season very clearly exposed the worse than poor coaching UND has and something needs to change immediately. The same team at the beginning of the year that was giving a very good FBS team Washington a run for their money into the 4th quarter, was unable to run or throw the ball against a very very poor NAU team that had already curled up and died for the year. The HUGE regression this team took week after week after week is 100% on the coaching staff and is absolutely inexcusable at this level. To cut them slack I would love to say that a lot of the other Big Sky teams got better as the year went on and UND just stayed flat, so Bubba needs to clean things up...but that is absolutely NOT true. NAU was a poor team to begin with and they were at the lowest point of their season and they STILL piss pounded UND. That just shows how badly UND back-peddled. I have never seen anything like it. I legitimately think that whatever coaching style they're using somehow actually made every player worse, especially on offense. Everyone seemed so scared to do anything out of the ordinary. The offense looked slow, predictable, scared, tentative and indecisive. Thinking about the QB and OL showing on Saturday just makes me sick and I don't even want to get started on that. Having that many weapons on offense and having that poor of a showing is unreal. It seems like there is a giant bottle neck at Rudy and Bubba that is letting all this talent rot away. I feel bad for the SRs that had to play for this team as they were all made into slightly worse players over their years at UND. I feel even worse for the players still stuck there now. I wouldn't blame them for leaving to another school where they want to develop forward and not be sucked backward. It's 2018 and UND needs some new younger energy that's up with the latest and greatest training strategies and play calling philosophies. I will have very minimal support for this team if no changes are made this off-season. These coaches are pathetic

I wish I would’ve given up on this team legitimately 3 weeks ago

NAU is trying to hand UND this game and they won’t take it

Is that bad that I’m worried about the offense letting up points more than I am the defense?!