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Random stat that I stumbled upon. Strinden hasn’t taken a single penalty since the Saturday game against the gophs (10 games played since then). We’ve been rightfully admiring his production but having played the last 140ish minutes without a penalty shows unbelievable discipline. Quite the leader we have there and it’s safe to say Jax helped him find another level he’s had lying in wait.

We badly needed a special teams night like this one. Love it

Phew

I’d rather we play them as an exhibition game instead of Toba. But I know that’s a little unfair to BSU since they likely wouldn’t be getting a home game

The crumminess of that picture is the perfect symbol to represent how crummy their rink is haha. Although I’ll admit it’s a solid college atmosphere. I’ll be there as well; bringing my 6-year old to his first away game so really hoping for a win. Series there are always fun because of the big green contingent and the hatred St. Cloud fans have for us.

Feels like it's been quite a few but 2018-19 was brutal with how they couldn't finish the job getting the puck in the net. But I think Shloss started bringing up xG during 2022-2023 season but I can't say for sure; it was within the last few years.

Jax has mentioned some of the analytics in interviews, so you know they are looking at them to guide a few things. So the analytics have value and definitely relevant, despite what some people feel. I'm guessing some people got annoyed with it getting talked about so much by Schloss (while we were never reaching our full potential multiple seasons) that they decided to ignore it's value altogether.

You hate to see it

Good teams with astute coaches drop games too. I was in the building (I’ll bet a lot of us on this board were there) for the 2011 game against Shawn Hunwick (barf). Incredible team with great coaches, shots 40-20, and we know how that one ended. We are 6 weekend into the season with 10 freshman, pretty good start so far. We all knew coming into the weekend that they were going to rotate goalies like last weekend. It went very well last weekend and tonight it didn’t. 2 of those goals Homer had zero chance as he was hung out to dry. One of them will take the reins.

Step away from the ledge, you’re acting like we got outshot 40-20 and lost by 5. We had some bad defensive breakdowns that ended up in our net and the power play was rough. But 5x5 play was heavily in our favor and we dominated them most of the weekend. This isn’t one of those times where we blew a 3-goal lead in the 3rd period like 2 seasons ago. We almost tripled a team in shots and some didn’t land. This team is well coached but some nights just won’t always go our way.

At least for once it won’t be complete NPI devastation if we drop a game haha

Wonder if it’s partially because of the gaffe he had last night that resulted in us taking a penalty. Not that I think young players should be punished for making mistakes, but with Rickwood out, having more experience and solid defending will be a big deal.

I was just saying last night how much different our 3rd periods are compared to the pervious 4. What a fun team to watch

Reschny’s line was on fire tonight and was the clear top line. But that Rickwood line looked even better with Young than it has with Kernan. What a pleasant surprise that he was and yet another display of this team’s forward depth.

This is a good time for some to prepare themselves that whichever goalie we see tonight, is probably not the one we see tomorrow. No matter what the results are. Assuming that going into the weekend could help avoid the meltdown at 4pm tomorrow night