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  1. On 3/21/2019 at 11:47 AM, Irish said:

    Finally, have someone who knows and enjoys hockey run the Ralph game day and PA system.  The crap that comes over the system every time play stops is a real mood and cheer killer.  Many times the crowd is really into it only to be interrupted by some ad over the loudspeaker.  Same with the music.  We need the crowd cheering at the breaks. 

    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. 

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, Cratter said:

    Berry thinks Poolman is coming back.

    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 

  3. 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 

  4. 10 minutes ago, Goon said:

    From Brad Schlossman's Monday morning blog

    UND coach Brad Berry on scratching Jacob Bernard-Docker for the series finale: “You know what, it was one of those things where we watch a lot from the bench and we scrutinize a lot of video. We want to set players up for a chance at success. Jacob is a young man that cares a lot. He has a bright future ahead of him. But it’s one of those things we do here at North Dakota where we pull the layers back and we try to do what’s best for the team and also for the individual. It was just a night he wanted to watch a little bit from the stands and he’ll be back in the lineup on Friday again.”

    Good enough 

  5. 7 minutes ago, Cratter said:

    Berry: "For a team playing for their lives, there was no urgency."

    "Didn't respect opponent. Easy to get up for the UMD's and SCSUs."

    "Urgency didn't come til CC was ahead." "Our PK or PP surely wasn't good."

    "Thome gave us a chance to win the game."

    "Unfortunately nobody to put in the lineup if taking people out of the lineup for players taking undisciplined penalties, but this is a tryout for the rest of this year and next year."

    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. 

  6. 3 hours ago, Cratter said:

    Two OT wins vs CC at home.

    "Not your grandfather's CC."

    I have a hard time seeing anything other than a split here.

    UND likes to win on Fridays.

     

    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. 

  7. 3 hours ago, Blackheart said:

    This cracks me up...the guy's a flipping Senior Captain and he still hasn't figured out that stupid penalties hurt the team...

    Paraphrasing from Brad Berry in today's Heraldo:  "If there's one thing with Rhett that we have to keep working on, it's the discipline side," Berry said...  Sometimes, he gets caught up in the game. That's where I think some composure has to come in."

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

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  8. 6 hours ago, oldSioux said:

    We cant afford to slide at all... if we are being brutally honest, college's across the country (Western Michigan) and more, are starting to invest more in their hockey programs. Better gear, facilities, ETC. We sell facilities, a chance at a ring, and NHL-like experiences. What happens when we lose "ring chasing" and others get more high-tech facilities. OK, yeah its extreme but its a potential reality. A couple bad seasons and a couple bad classes and now everyone is playing at the U of M.. gross. 

    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. 

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  9. 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. 

     

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  10. 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. 

  11. 4 hours ago, zonadub said:

     

    4 hours ago, zonadub said:

    And then, if it had to be a hawk, why the modifier "fighting"? Hawks don't fight, in real life hawks are often chased and harassed by little birds. They try to get away.

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

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