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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

Random info: The guys from USCHO podcast this week were noting that looking at the NPI at this point in the season is even more useless than looking at the pairwise was at this point in prior years. Connelly said it’s more volatile this early because it goes only off of win percentages instead of comparisons with other teams, so the fluctuations will be even bigger than the pairwise was. FWIW to those that are using brain power worrying about or praising the NPI.

This statement is a little over the top. Berry didn’t know we’d have have 2 guys playing in Spengler because it wasn’t even certain NCAA guys would be playing. Plus our roster was t built in such a way that we’d be missing this many players for WJC Jax is ensuring that Wiebe and Liv get to play in a special tourney that few players will ever get the opportunity to play in. That’s a big sell for snagging future recruits. Barring injuries, We’ll have just barely enough to scrap together a full lineup Friday and those players aren’t scrubs. (And maybe 25 and 4 will get a few reps in that night). I’m guessing Wiebe and Liv get back to business for the Saturday game

I see where you’re coming from, but they could play up to 4 games in 6 days, have 1 day off, and then deal with a 7 hour time difference with the travel being on game day. That’s tough even for strong young athletes. The “so what” is one or both of them getting injured from playing while over fatigued. If they make it back in time, I’m Guessing they’ll be on the bench as needed playing limited minutes, but assuming they’ll be good to go for full game mode could be reckless.

I know we only got to see him in the exhibition, but I don't feel worried at all about Engel having to jump into that series. I'm more worried about having only 4-5 defensemen that will get way too fatigued.

I think the article said those guys fly back on Friday the 2nd. So I'm guessing they sit that one out, then (hopefully) play Saturday, even if it's limited minutes.

I don’t know what everyone else thought, but even though UNO had us on our heels for a while in the 3rd, we didn’t go into prevent turtle mode like we used to. We still sent 2 guys in on the forecheck instead of just 1 and keeping everyone else back like we used to do when we’d just let teams walk back into the game.

This keeps getting brought up and I think it’s safe to say that going into the weekend the coaches told them they’d both get a start no matter what the Friday result was. You know this staff has communicated with the goalies even; it’s not how things were before,

The first 19 minutes were reminiscent of last week’s Saturday 2nd period. Very solid overall.

Hoping for 3 things this period: 1) green team to kill the penalty 2) green team to clean it up and get some 5x5 O zone chances 3) the broadcast doesn’t get fixed so that we can just watch without the UNO homers

That lady blocked me on Twitter 2-3 years ago for saying UNO was too talented to be missing the tourney. Methinks she is a wee bit sensitive when it comes to the Kelly green.

I love your optimism and sweep mentality. I think we are the better team in both games but get goalie’d by Latkoczy one of the nights- split