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Maybe goalie contact...but would expect a penalty.

No real way to conclusively tell and overturn the call...wow, no goal.

Too many men is fitting for a team that's not playing with their heads.

Flat is the new normal, scpa.

It's easy in Hak's system: their role goes from "dump" to "chase!" IALTO

Which is exactly what they did 5 years ago before we had any sort of national TV deal at all. Seems the team did OK despite that.

Exactly...there is quite a double-standard in play here.

I was at the game, and while I wouldn't use the word "dominated," I would definitely say they had the better of the chances in the last 40 minutes of the game. It would have been interesting to see how the game had played out if UND hadn't jumped out to a 3-0 lead after the first. I think that really changed the style both teams needed to play for the rest of the game. UND didn't spend as much time on the attack as UM, obviously, in the 2nd and 3rd, but from what I saw they did a great job of keeping everything to the outside. Minnesota found it to be pretty tough sledding in the middle of the ice.

Looks like they're linked based on the article posted in the former players thread.

Actually, "stooping to the level" of Giroux would be answering the bell and dropping the gloves before the officials get involved...like most other self-respecting hockey players would do. Stooping to the level of Sid the KID (emphasis on the word kid) involves doing exactly what he did - throw punches under the veil of safety that is an intervening official.

Dave - what is your opinion of Crosby throwing uppercuts after the official engaged the two to break the scrum up?

They certainly let a lot of stuff go in the last 5 min of the 2nd. Should be a very entertaining 3rd.

A tad bit of scoreboard reffing happening here at Ridder. 3-2 another PPG for MN on a lengthy scrum in front of the UND net.

But is it a trend or a mirage? Seems like it's heading toward trend. When have we ever ranked dead last in scoring D in the last 10 years... And we're not even close to 7th. We aren't spending a ton of time on the PK, so this suggests to me that we either have terrible goaltending or we just don't possess the puck very much. I lean toward the latter.

The remainder of this season hinges on this JR forward class.

This is exactly why goaltending should not be the topic of conversation. There are greater deficiencies right now. But, when you need to limit your GA to 2 or less to win it's easy to criticize the mistakes by the net minders.

I'm just saying why throw him to the wolves? It's a team game. The rest of the team needs to step up and take some pressure off the tender once in a while.

It has nothing to do with goaltending. Why ruin the freshman?

The only reason you say this is because we have nobody up front that can do ANYTHING.

Thanks...I knew Kober and Fargo for sure. That was enough to get me rolling. Thanks for the rest!

PC looks good now that it's up. What's the Hammer drinking game word list?

Connection error here too on PC, but iPad works.

How about brother duos that were 1st-rounders and played college hockey? I'm assuming that may be the context of AZSIOUX's question.

He really should've been fired after the first time his team blew a two-goal lead in the third...whenever that was. ;-)

They didn't need any other view than the mandatory overhead, so it shouldn't have taken nearly that long...unless they were trying to figure out how much time to put back on the clock.