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If you can believe it, it was worse than normal.

Never thought I’d be happy to return to NCHC reffing. This weekend was beyond a gong show for officiating.

Not sure it will be any softer than what we saw in the Ralph this weekend haha

I’m not saying anything new but I’m going to sum up the overall feelings. -The play on the ice Saturday was poor overall but there were still good things to build on. -Strinden dragged us down with his bad game and it didn’t improve as the night went on. Idk what needs to happen with him but this staff will make a calculated decision: if he’s in next Friday, I trust them, if he’s out next Friday, I trust them. I don’t think this will a Bubs mentality where upperclassmen get free passes all season long. I think he’ll play but will have a shorter leash. He’ll get instruction behind closed doors that we won’t know about and that’s ok. It’s a good reminder that we don’t see it all. We are a very young team and still Managed to go 3-1 against 2 good teams this early on. We’ll see his next weekend goes but I’m very happy with our record at this stage in the young season. This smells like a Hakstol team- struggle a bit while learning and then start going on long winning streaks in the 2nd half of the season.

Our inability to convert on the PP will be the train we lose if we don’t get it done tonight.

We are tied but you know the refs are going to even out the power plays. That’s what we get for not taking advantage of having a 3-1 PP advantage

Gophs haven’t taken many penalties at all, they seem to be very disciplined so far. Guessing power plays will be in their favor as our young forwards may feel the pressure and cross the line. Grand forks, our fans and everyone has hyped this series so much that I think it will get into the heads of our younger players and throw off their games, forcing mistakes. It’s a big series but the pedestal placed on it this year doesn’t favor us. Hope I’m proven otherwise Tonight: 3-2 gophs Saturday: 5-1 good guys

Yeah it’s way too early to even hover the cursor over those numbers lol

Players like Mooney, Ziemer, and Lamb are not to be taken lightly. Crazy stuff can happen. When we split with them at Mariucci in 2022, it was a borderline miracle with how insanely stacked that gopher team was. Do I think we are the better overall team going into this weekend? Yep. But would I be surprised with a split or a sweep either direction? Nope. We have zero clue. I badly want a sweep of course, but given the fact that we swept the Tommies, I’d be content with a split.

We wouldn’t have landed Rickwood. At the time we got him, we didn’t have a top 6 center at all. He mentioned that he and his agent recognized how big of a role he would get if he came here. Sort of sucks not having Boisvert due to his elite shooting. But at the same time, this team’s identity (or what it seems to be after 2 games) might not be built for someone with prima donna tendencies.

They’ve made the frozen 4 twice in the last 4 years, including making the national championship game. Combine that with having a really good recruiting cycle so far and a new hockey-only NIL collective, I don’t anticipate them being in bad shape. But man I hope they bring the same game they played last weekend to the Ralph this coming weekend

I see where you’re coming from, but I’ll respectfully disagree. The 2019-2020 team was on a different level of intensity and skill as well. Guys like Colton Poolman and Cole Smith brought so much soul to that team that it bled through to the rest. It even carried into 2020-2021 as that team may have been even better in some ways.

He probably worked as part of St Cloud’s hockey broadcast team at his previous job.

Love the picture with James finishing his check when the play seems to be going the other way. Leadership in still frame.

Love the statement win for Hobie, super happy for him. But that is a rough loss for our league

Verhoeff and Laurila are going to get some good reps in early. Plus with guys like Strathmann and Jubenvill who are already proven at the college level, we can afford an injury like this to let guys fully heal up.

I’ll be reppin 105 as well, woop woop

The answer is "yes"

St Thomas is the home team and will defend the side as the Wild. The note that pops up after you buy tickets about UND/Shoots twice on this side is actually backward. Not sure how TM screwed that up but I’m not terribly surprised

I mean they have to go off of what they saw and Penn State deserved to win both nights this weekend as they were easily the better team. A road sweep against an NCHC team isn't an easy thing to do. I watched 4 of 6 periods this weekend and they are legit. They were better defensively than I was expecting.

What I’m saying is that they’ll probably try to have a right D-man on the ice any time they can when 5x5. We have 3 RHD so the likelihood of 2 being on the same pair for a full game is lower.

Aside from the @brianvf committed recruits stats updates, 100% we say here is subjective. We’d have to shut the site down otherwise lol

Yeah offensively he didn’t bring a lo but that wasn’t his job. EJ without the puck is an unreal defenseman; he is a top 4 guy on this team for shutting down opposing players.

I don’t think they’ll put 2 of our right handed defenseman on the same pair.

110% I just re-read that one yesterday to get jacked up for this season