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  1. Good point, I agree that’s as critical as I’ve heard them too. I just think their harshest opinions are far too charitable. How has the fact this season happpens half the seasons with Berry never been discussed. They know what the fans are talking about and dance around engaging with it in my view
  2. Update on second half of schlosscast- basically recognize this season is over by talking about how good this team could be next couple years with current commits. Say Zellers will be good, but every other forward recruit either doesn’t score or isn’t close to ready for college lol. Hammer portal hard per usual.
  3. Half way thru this week's Schlosscast. So far its another week of "if I cherry pick a couple power play goals and pretend they didn't give them up, they would be 16 in the pairwise right now." Then bringing up UND's history of going on second half runs in the second half "over the last 20 years" while leaving out that all of those runs were between 10 and 20 years ago with a different coach. Groundhog day for the team and the media apparently. At the end of the year I'm sure we'll here about how the the champion team had 0 first rounds picks while omitting that, like every year lately, the other frozen four teams were a combination of BU BC MN and Michigan.
  4. I disagree that UND looks great even for moments. The only skilled plays UND makes are Swanson and Perron occasionally toe dragging a guy 50 feet from the net
  5. All but impossible
  6. Unfortunately the season pretty much certainly is over though. An at large bid is all but out the window and we know how well Berry teams do at the conference tournament. Sucks knowing that half of the time under Berry the season is going to be over in November. This season is a spitting image of the 18-19 seasons with zero offense and zero talent on the team.
  7. Apparently we already have Bemidji on the schedule every year through 2031 (its the only series booked for both the 29/30 and 30/31 seasons so far). On the podcast last week Schloss said UND's top priority is to get MN and Bemidji on the schedule every year. Does anyone know why? Do the decisionmakers all have cabins there? As a fan seeing Bemidji on the schedule does not spark joy.
  8. First time hearing Berry? Said shots on goal total showed improvement the night they were swept by Canisius
  9. @brianvf Why do you think the upcoming recruiting classes look solid? Respectfully, to me they look much like the usual Berry. Some good junior players with talent similar to those that chronically underperform once they arrive and some mediocre players. Zellers looks like the best one and I'd guess he's a second/third rounder. I'm not aware of any bona fide studs like the other blue bloods are bringing in every year other than potentially McKamey.
  10. How people accept this standard instead of competing for championships every year while we've watched BU, Michigan, and Denver get new coaches that go to the frozen four with Hakstol frequency I'll never understand.
  11. It seems to me Berry has developed a Mike Eaves-style rotation of sucking for 2-3 years then being decent to very good for 2-3 years, with the peaks and troughs being less dramatic for Berry. I think we're currently in the beginning of that cycle much like the 17/18 season. UND's stat website appears to only go back to the 18/19 season, showing Kawaguchi was the highest scorer with 26 points. Our highest scorers, Boisvert and Livanavage, are about on that pace right now. Only ways I can think to explain how its possible we don't have a single player on a 30-point pace is either we don't have any scoring talent or that talent is suppressed by our system. Seems Perron, McLaughlin, Strinden, and James's output compared to junior point toward the system. Boisvert might be talented enough to score despite it, too soon to tell. But then every one of our aforementioned best offensive players is only talented enough to be a 3rd or 4th liner on a good (2005-08, 2011, 2016, 2020) Sioux team. Both recruiting and system are so bad its hard for me to tell which is worse. The only bluechip potential gamebreaking offensive talent in the pipeline is 15 years old and I doubt 60 year old Berry is about to change the system. Might be in the trough a while.
  12. I think Schloss often makes good points in response to criticisms of the program, but then on the podcast he said Strinden was "the best player on the ice" on Saturday. Difficult to believe anyone could think that after watching Buium effortlessly cycle the o zone all night.
  13. How could a person watch these games and think that there’s a net gain here. Siouxwhatever is gonna say I’m a Debby downer and he’s right but this team is not a step away from putting it all together they are on home ice getting swept by a denver team that is more talented and works harder. “at the end of the day” being unable to do anything about zeev buium skating laps in your end means you just suck
  14. Denver literally toyed with them. Zeev is almost as good as Sanderson it seems like. this team absolutely sucks. We’re back to 2018. Tournament isn’t happening and our strength is “depth” aka this is just a !@#!$ team. If I’m wrong who is the game breaker
  15. How can anyone here entertain the idea that the NCHC might be harder to win than the WCHA? The NCHC competition is Denver and St Cloud-the WCHA also had that plus the gophs who won the conference all the time. How many NCHCs do the Sioux have if they’re in the same league as the gophers who won like every big ten title at the same time? Undoubtedly fewer
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