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Now we are just being stupid.

Likely a little of both. They aren't scoring 5x5 either. Nine periods without a goal by a forward.

I sense some sarcasm, but this sure as heck isn't your father's UND team.

But....depth. Remember that talk? Code for zero bona fide offensive threats.

Goehring or no Goehring, I just don't see goaltending as the major issue given the lack of goal scoring and poor special teams play lately. That said, Karl leaving certainly could be a noticeable effect down the road, but right now it may be too early to tell the impact given Cam's a veteran.

Yep. Seems like we were a little less prepared for the early departures than in years past. The easy solution would be to over-recruit like some teams, but then we wouldn't be able to rip on them for it, so....

I'm very likely reading too much into this, but during his mid game interview, Wolanin made mention of Omaha being a hard working team "regardless of their skill level." That struck me as a bit condescending to Omaha, and made me wonder if there's some sort of belief that the boys can just show up and win on their perceived talent. That's certainly not the case with this team! Then again, I'm probably nitpicking, but I'm trying to understand why they seemed so...as Ben Holden put it...disinterested.

We seem to go though this every season. The staff tends to build from the net out, so we generally have issues scoring in the first half of the season. As the guys improve on and learn the details of the defensive side, they start to open it up a bit in the second half. It's a heck of a lot harder to fix a leaky defense and win games in February and March.

Oh God no!

How many more next gen record stats can we see for the huskies? They're 8-0-1 when Jim Rich mispronounces a name.

We aren't playing bad. Relax people.

The goal was legit....the penalty on Kiersted was a tad questionable.

Looks like he intentionally sauced and knocked down the puck in one motion to fake the pass to the middle before undressing the defender. Sick.

I've always seen our PP "struggles" as a result of the types of players we recruit. We've always had kids who are good to great two-way players...not the flashy ice-wipers who rack up points in the PP. Our PK is a direct beneficiary of that. Although we don't clip at a steady 30% on the PP, our PK is often a strength. Overall, our special teams grade out pretty well.

The way they start games it's every first intermission.

So if they salvage a tie tonight will they still have the annual players only meeting?

Oh, I'm aware he didn't play, but he needs to be better when he does.

You guys beat me to it. 19, 14, and 25 simply need to be better. We've managed to get by on defense and newcomer scoring, but the supposed big knockers better start knocking.

Nah...He was half the player Matt Frattin was.

An argument could be made for Lee Goren on Dave's 90s-2000s team. Travis Roche was pretty good too.

Based on time at UND, I'd definitely have Jeff Panzer in your centers list over Brock Nelson.

I keep thinking of the football adage "If you've got two quarterbacks you've got zero quarterbacks." I hope this year's "depth throughout the lineup" mantra doesn't end up meaning "zero legitimate scoring threats." Its still early though.

Yeah, bad call

I thought they started a tad slow, but really picked it up after the first. I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt being a mere two weeks in and on a long road trip. It's not like they didn't learn anything last night, and if they (and we) trust the process they'll be fine. I would've liked to see a PPG or at least less perimeter play and more of an effort to get the puck down low. The 5 on 3 PK with the game on the line was a pretty big moment and they passed that test. AA had all the momentum after tying the game just minutes before.

Kronwall and Hagelin are others that come to my mind on this.