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He really has been the difference. I think Dunc's shot would have went in on O'Connell, as well as a couple of those other close one-timers. Pretty much everyone said that Bachman was the better goalie, but Owens didn't want to have him play the whole weekend, since he's only a freshman (20 years old, but a freshman).

Well.....hard to say we played lousy that period. Good period, just need to watch the odd man rushes, keep generating scoring opportunities, and find a way to solve Bachman.

Wow! SOG Sioux 16 CC 4

Keep firing boys!!!!! He can't stop them all (or at least I hope not!!!)!

Knew it was only a matter of time before those odd man rushes killed us.

Jean-Phillippe with a nice save.

OMG!!!!!!!!! Oshie with the moves!!!! Dunc can't get it in!

Bachman with a nice save on Kaiper there. Good chance.

Had that nice play where he got back and broke up the 3 on 1. Great stuff!

What the heck, last night at this time, we were winning 2-0! What's up tonight?? Okay, in all reality, it is a really good game thus far.

Sioux getting some chances early. Gave up a 3 on 1 there though.

Trupp with a great chance.

Just have to play our game, and play it with energy. If we do that, we should be okay.

Should be a lot closer game tonight, though we can hope for a similar game to last night's game.

Never run out of hockey topics. Just love my country. Try it some time.

As long as it's better than the football game this afternoon, I'll be happy.

Finally, someone who can sing the National Anthem!!! These guys are good!

Yep.

Scotty's always been a class act. I don't ever remember him making excuses for his teams poor performance. It's tough to not like a guy like that. Always easier to dislike coaches like Lucia, Eaves, Woog, Dahl, etc.

I made that prediction yesterday!!! Man I'm good!

Owens comments: The problem was the tempo of the game was set early, and we weren't ready. I can't really fault O'Connell for the first few goals, but that sort of set the tone. We had a few more chances than what it looked like. We had a chance on the PP, and we didn't score. We had a holding and a clipping (we've had a couple of those this year). We killed most of it, but then Duncan showed up with unbelievable poise. Oshie looked like a man among boys. Some shifts, I was asking myself, "Why's he even here, he should be in the NHL." He's got a great cast around him. What the North Dakota team is doing so well is moving their feet well. Prosser is doing okay, a mild concussion. Bachman in tonight. ***Lost the audio feed***

Hak pre-game comments: Want to come out of the gates hard. Need the same intensity out of the gates that we had last night. Hopefully, it's something we can have ingrained in our game. If the label is on us, we need to go out there and live up to it. Oshie set the tone last night. Not only physical play, but his playmaking and energy every shift. Just endless. He's a guy who loves competition. Take everything else and throw it out the window. Not many who are more competitive. Special teams took advantage last night. Great PK in the 2nd, and scored a great 5 on 3 goal. That when a long way to solidifying things. Same thing tonight. Have to go out and win those battles. Obviously, CC's a good/veteran team. They've been sitting around the hotel all day, and they'll come out hard. I'm more worried about how we do. We just need to come out of the gates hard. I'd like to see us tighten up a bit. We were a bit loose at times. They're good enough to create plays, we don't need to assist them. Radke and Marto in tonight. Forney out, nothing against Forney, Kyle deserves to go back in. He's battled hard and deserves the opportunity to go back in. Same with Marto. He deserves to get in the lineup. Jones comes out. Tough position to pull Jones. He's a heart and soul guy. LaPoint played well last night though and can't pull him out right now. Jones hasn't been at the top of his game. Sometimes it takes a game to get it out of your mind. He'll play next weekend against Wisconsin. Great thing to have the Alumni back. Need to take advantage of the crowd and atmosphere, and having these great people around. Players had a few minutes to spend with these Alumni, and it tells you how important this program is to so many people.

So, in other words......he's on an all weekend bender!

I don't know about Grieco tonight, though I wouldn't be surprised to see him sometime in the next month. Hard to say though with the way Jean-Phillippe has been playing. I know coaches like to try other goalies earlier in the year, rather than later, but it would still be hard to bench Phil right now.

I don't know if he's the worst. He's no Doc Emerick or anything....he's simply Sweeney. Maybe I got to accustom to him over the years I lived in GF.