I think the win over AFA should go to Hak and Mario. In the 2nd period the all freshman line was not skating and was responsible for a goal against. They had done nothing all night so Hak switched it up mid game and put Mario with some of the freshman. The change was almost instantaneous. I understand that there will be growing pains, but the fact that MacMillan and others didn't skate to back check is absolutely inexcusable at any level. I think the best looking freshman was Mattson, yet again. I also think that the freshman maybe developed some bad stickhandling habits against Regina. NCAA is much faster and the cute stuff doesn't work so well.
I can't emphasize how much it would help to have Rocco back. Dickin is not a 2nd line WCHA forward at this point. With Rocco we should instantly have 2 threatening lines instead of 1. Forbort was a little off, wondering if he is dinged up?