ND_Texan

Just doing a little math here. A win tonight gives us a 5 point weekend and shoves us all the way up to 25 in the PW. This would put our odds up to about 1 in 30 of making the national tournament. On another note it's looking very likely we end up playing Denver in the first round of the NCHC playoffs, meaning we lose to them 6 times in a season. Has any team had that honor before?

Well hell, since it's the same team with or without the black, go with the black. May as well look your best while losing.

So basically UND could sweep the clowns and it wouldn't do jack for our PW rating. Beautiful....just beautiful.

The pick for goalie for the rest of the season is a no brainer. TJ has no skin in UND hockey. Don't think his heart's in it now either. He's bounced around D1 hockey like an unfrozen puck. Hobie wants a starting spot on the team next year. He needs to be the guy.

27 in the PW. We is toast.

He does seem to be a nonfactor at wing. His strength is his passing and I think you are on to something in that he'd better suited to being back at center, perhaps 4th line.

What frustrates me most are the goals scored by opponents in scrums in front of the net and the lack of those kind of goals by this team. It's not puck luck at this point, it's beyond that.

Watched the MU/MSU game tonight. Very sloppy game, lot of hitting, poor goaltending, not much skill on display. Wasn’t impressed with either team. Not NCHC caliber.

CC out. Too bad.

No. 6th.

Sioux 4, Mavs 1. Persson in goal. Another 3-pt night for Blake. Snipes by Berg, Blake, OMac and the Captain.

We can’t let up tonight or tomorrow, as a loss would hurt Pairwise ratings immensely. We need to maintain a top 4 rating through the playoffs to preserve home ice in the national regionals.

Starman stated it well. Western throws a lot of shots at the goal but few are grade A chances. Sioux shots are quality shots from close in between the dots, the kind that result in goals. Sioux also have more snipers than Western. Western seems to rely on greasy goals and rebounds - that’s their style of offense. Persson wasn’t tested to the degree the number of SOG’s might suggest.

Western still above the cut line after this loss. A win tonight gets them in I think for certain. Even another loss tonight they’ll be better than 50% odds to get in. They stand at 74% probability now.

Goals from all four lines last night. Gotta love the relentless balance in this squad. Something you don’t see with Boston C or Boston U.

I don’t even know what that means.

Maybe I’m being overly optimistic to counteract all the bed wetters on this board.

If the playoffs started today we’d breeze through rounds 1 and 2 and into the FF. #3 in the PW ain’t too shabby. Just sayin’.

Nice seeing DU getting smacked by Western. Pretty much shoves them out of Penrose competition.

Wong Hung Lo

Whatever Dillon Simpson had the D boys doing against DU needs to happen again tonight. We sucked in center ice last night.

I agree. Seemed like a lot of shots were targeted just inside the post or trying for bar downs but were off the mark. This team has a lot of snipers but twisted wristers from close range don’t always need that kind of precision to beat a goalie.

Exactly what I said about Blake. Winners have higher expections than last night’s performance. Sometimes a win isn’t win.

I think Blake was disappointed in the team’s play as well as his own. His expectations are high, as they should be.

Hoby needs to play on Saturday.