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We have to fly in for games so it’s 3 years since we’ve been to the Ralph, but our pro team wonders why the crowd isn’t more involved. Every time play stops they blast insanely loud piped music until play resumes, squelching every attempt the crowd makes to spontaneously get involved. It’s like the people in charge have no idea what a fun arena looks like and think the fans are too stupid to figure it out on their own. You can’t constantly pipe in fun, it’s exhausting. The band is way more effective. I was at UND 78-82 and I’m good at getting a section rocking, but with the electronic wall of sound all you can do is surrender and sit on your hands or cover your ears.

Shaw asap and get someone recruits can believe in. If Brad replaces Shaw I’m back in his camp, it shows he has the backbone to put the program above loyalty to an assistant.

Mark? 24 years as strength and conditioning coach. It may be time to bring in some new blood, things have changed dramatically in strength, conditioning, and nutrition; sometimes old dogs refuse to get outside their comfort zone. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard

Thank God the power play is over

It’s not a power play. Not sure what it is but I’m sure it’s not a power play

Does Brad have the stones to make this staff accountable. Someone needs to go.

I get what you are saying, Joe Morgan once said ‘you can’t win a championship at any sport without having at least one player who is best in the nation at his position’. I’ve found that to be mostly true. But I don’t think the coaching is defensible regarding the panic play. It’s mostly just 5 guys without a plan

Problem is we can outskate them all game and all season but the worse than anemic PP is killing us.

Seems we are one pass short, instead we shoot at numbers

This is a reason we should have an edge recruiting Minnesota

Good enough

Are you kidding or did he really say this? It’s really disappointing because I’ve tried to be in BB’s corner. If there is no sense of urgency and a lacking of respect for the opponent that is 100% square on the coach’s shoulders. This is supposedly big time college hockey. Millions of dollars are being spent by fans, boosters, and taxpayers. If Brad and the staff don’t take this seriously then why should fans or anyone else.

There is something not right about Gardner and all the penalties—he surely realizes it’s out of control and hurting the team, and also something not right about coach’s inability to do deal with it.

It seems more like we are out of gas on Saturdays. We’ve won 5 times on Saturday this year not counting exhibitions and single game series with Minny.

Hard to believe a head coach can’t control his team. I understand things happen in hockey game but this is a pattern.

“Discipline” I believe was the key word from Brad. I’ll give it to our boys, they played hard and disciplined. Minimal mistakes or turnovers and they blocked shots. Heads were in the game. Hopefully we have the jam to do it twice.

Always the optimist but my faith is running thin that we can get the puck up the ice on the PP. I’m out of ideas and down to wearing one sock inside out and switching chairs in the man cave.

This is true. We can’t afford another down yr with the way the landscape is changing regarding $ being spent on programs. I think everything needs a fresh look to see what we can be doing better from recruiting, conditioning, coaching, marketing, operations to the smallest detail. We are either in this to be a giant or fall to the wayside.

We got a lot luckier when we shot to where we were aiming. There were a couple of highlight reels tonight .

Me Too

Teams with a low shooting % are often playing 5-on-5 mostly high in the zone. Unless you are #87 or #8 it’s as important where the assist is coming from as where the shot is taken. NHL charts consistently show a high correlation between shooting %, and assists from behind or parallel to the goal. One successful pass behind the net before the assist pushes the shooting % even higher. I guess we all know this, but I don’t know what our charts say about where the passes are coming from. Sucks to be a defenseman facing the glass, or a goalie looking over his shoulder while shooters cycle in front of the net.

Something happened last week and we grew up a little. This will be an interesting game. If we win tonight we will win Saturday

Is Berry close friends with his staff , or is staff hiring a pure meritocracy? Wondering about nepotism and how he would handle things at the end of the season if he deemed a shake-up as positive for the program. Some great coaches have gone down with the ship rather than put their friends on the market.

Well, they get chased because they ate their babies, so that’s kind of badass.

This should be on the wall at the REA