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He was the easiest to stick check on the entire team. Hopefully he's replaced with some muscle.

He's also a pipsqueak. His career is going nowhere.

Boisvert and OMac are both eastern kids. UND should focus their recruiting efforts on western US and Canada.

The problem I have with the non-conference schedule is that it's at the beginning of the season. This disadvantages teams with new players who improve drastically as the season goes on.

Light years? ASU beat Denver 3 of 4 during the season, including both games on Denver home ice. Let's see, UND beat Boston U, Minn State, Providence, Denver and Western Michigan during the season. There's that. And I don't believe the Big Ten played anyone from the NCHC during the season other than in the Great Lakes Invitational. Yeah, I'm not sold on the PW formulation. College Hockey can do better.

So the mighty vaunted Big Ten went 0 for 3 yesterday, and will likely go 0 for 4 after Penn State get taken down later today. Maybe the PW strength of schedule needs a reevaluation. Sending just two NCHC teams to the nationals looks rather flimsy right now.

And Carle had a lot to do with it, which is why he was given the job.

Hmm...four and half years under Montgomery, yet he turned the DU ship around and proved to be possibly the best recruiter in the land. I'm throwing my hat in the ring for Dane. The players like playing for him and have confidence in him (meaning they won't bail) is all I need to know.

How did Carle get the job at DU, and how has that worked out?

Spoken like a true dipsh*t.

I'm confused. How hard is it to coach a team to park a couple guys in front of the net and shoot from inside the blue line? Both teams scored that way last night. And it tends to draw penalties as well. Western and UNO are really good at it.

I'd love it if the boys went on a roll like that, then faced the Goobers.

Right you are! Thanks.

Oops, right you are.

I see it finishing like this: 1 Western, 2 ASU, 3 Denver, 4 Sioux, 5 Omaha, 6 CC, 7 Clowns, 8 Miami. Plan for 4 or possibly 5 games in a row with Omaha at the Ralph. Then on to play Western in first round of Frozen Faceoff for 5th time this year. If we win that game it'll likely mean playing Denver for the 5th time for the championship. Rough row to hoe, but it can be done.

Need to play well enough to get Omaha at home in the playoffs...whatever that takes.

Duluth is a very well coached team but with far less talent than UND. We'll see which matters more this weekend. I'm nervous.

Good things happen when you play strong net front hockey. That had been missing all year. TJ played well but he had open sight lanes all night. On the offensive end strong net front hockey got us a goal from Strinden. Watch the films over and over, boys.

6 out of 6

The boys stepped it up with a key trio out last night. The key was their work in the net front. DU plays a low to high game and we were ready for it. Nice shot blocking and clearing their guys out. Also helps that TJ had a strong game, but the boys gave him a sight lane all night. Hopefully we can build on that.

And yet it did zilch to our PW rating.

So what if that split includes a sweep of Western?

Important update: the online version shows UND's tournament probability at 4%. Now we're talking!

So now the Pairwise ratings are showing UND with a 100% probability of making the NCAA tournament (on the PW mobile app). What's up with that? Computing error? Carryover from last season? Heartless prank?

Not sure Hedquist could have stopped that one.