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A little interested to see how many undersized players this staff will go after in recruiting. I think they'll be okay with a couple on the roster as long as the player shows good compete in battles etc.

If I’m a coach with some pressure on me like Bob, I just don’t understand the rationale for not going after a couple of players from the CHL. To give some credit to the big 10 I don’t know how the Gophers can expect to be competitive while a lot of their peers went out to get a CHL players to improve their own rosters. I don’t think below .500 is out of the question for them, so he’s really going to have his ass in the jackpot if that happens

From watching the highlights of them vs the Gophers I have a hard timing seeing our PK look as passive as the gophers did last weekend. Hopefully we minimize time in the box overall but I think we'll fare better from a PK perspective. I don't think its crazy to say we're the best team by a good margin that Duluth will have played this year as well. We've had some growing pains the past couple of weekends but based on last Saturday (yes it's just 1 game) we applied some good lessons learned with how they defended. Think that's what alot of us have griped about the past few years is not seeing enough improvement to show the team is actually learning from past mistakes. IMO we saw that last Saturday. It'll likely be a split but if this team goes out and makes a statement with 2 wins I won't be surprised either.

Granted Guy Gadowski has reasons to be rolling his top 2 lines but I do think its a benefit to be a team thats typically trying to roll 4 lines like we appear to be so far this year. Pretty sure neither of those players are suited to play penalty kill based on those minute totals too so not the smartest roster building from Gadowsky and Co.

Think the biggest takeaway from last night is the team was willing to sacrifice some offense to go out and find a way to win a pretty meaningful game from the pairwise perspective. Considering the group of forwards being relatively young they overall did a good job of picking their spots with dumping the puck and forechecking the hell out of their D vs when they realized they had a transition opportunity and could carry the puck.

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That’s an awarded goal all day every day Didn’t see it but sounded like Dane was (rightfully so) hot about it not being called

Props to Michigan they actually look pretty legit that was an impressive win This is kind of how I viewed Western pretty much every year until last year. Solid team but never really considered them a threat against contending teams in the top 10. Will be interesting to see how the next few years shape up for them

Before the year I didn't think it would be a conversation between McKenna and Verhoeff going number 1 Unless things drastically change it'll definitely be a discussion once this summer hits IMO

In similar news - Noticed last night that Aden Bouchard and Ludovic Pearault now follow UND hockey on instagram.

Agreed, don’t envy what he’s had to go through the past few months. (Guessing) that all 3 of the coaches have likely sat down with him this week to make sure he’s doing alright mentally as a person first before even getting to hockey.

The NCHC app not being on samsung TV's app store yet is pretty frustrating as well while we're at it

I think they’re gona be a little offensively challenged maybe this year. They seem to not have too much depth outside of Potter and a couple others Did see a group of their fans don’t seem to be opposed to moving on from Powers (it’s a cool story that he’s the coach from the club team. But on the flip side he’s a club hockey coach) would be interesting to see who they bring in if they moved on from him.

Good catch. He definitely has a grounded family that isn’t concerned with him making it to the show as fast as possible

That would check out with Michigan. I'd like to almost throw BC in that group too. It has to be 20 years+ since they've come to Grand Forks? We visited them last during the "Fog" game in Boston. (I'm not counting the ice breaker in my view because they're coming more for the tournament since they got invited, not because they went out of their way to work out a scheduled visit with UND)

Our apologies for letting Hobie hit the portal as well lol.

Yeah good to call this out. But more or less shows just how young the Dub has already gotten in 1 year. Not nearly as many 19/20 year olds for these draft +1/2 players to play and develop against. (Reschny and Verhoeff left last year due to wanting to play against older players and now that point is almost 2 times as true for players currently coming up in the Dub.)

Looks like McKamey is close to healthy since he made the team? (Tourney starts November 2nd) Noted Sioux game attendee Brock England is also playing for team Red

Still early in the season but if you sort the NCAA top scorers to U20 ages and the WHL it tells the tale pretty quickly I think every player outside of 1 was drafted in the NCAA in the top 30 (meanwhile it was around 5 in the top 30 for the WHL) Would assume this makes the decision pretty straightforward, just follow where your drafted peers are going.

If the team keeps building on how they played last weekend I could definitely see a sweep happening. This team seems to be willing to play closer to a Hak style team (and the last time we swept them at home, Hak was the coach. January of 2009)

Are we talking Mac Swanson?

If the player wants to I think the agent tells the coach and team to take a hike. It’s probably 2-3 games missed max assuming they take a couple visits

The last time they were in the frozen 4, 2 of their best players were from AZ and PA haha. I don't think they necessarily need to go too overboard with Canadian players, but at the bare minimum you'll need to have around 4 impact guys on defense + offense to keep up with the level of play with everyone else on a consistent basis.

ESPN2 showing the MSU vs BU game this Friday. For program visibility primarily would be nice to see UND leave the TV rights open for at least the Gopher series at home so ESPN was a possible option. Getting the feeling the NCHC will more than likely be taking the TV and streaming to ESPN. Encouraging to see ESPN showing some interest in college hockey present day

Think it’s important to note for context that he thankfully is overcoming a pretty brutal alcohol addiction. He can be a little much but he’s at least he comes off genuine and if this job keeps him happy and in a good place I’ll take it. (The latter is his life + the family’s going down the drain again)