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I wish I could say I'm surprised. I said this in the Spring when he committed. Find me a player that played in a much lesser league and put up numbers that then hits the portal and goes to a bigger school/league and even remotely comes close to doing the same? It just never happens.

The only tough decisions to be made with Berg back is the line combinations. In my opinion, I think the 12 forwards are pretty set. Monty, Andrew and Littler sitting depending on if we suit an extra forward or D.

I would guess you could replace Portal with CHL. Remember the number of available goalies increased exponentially more so than just the Portal now.

No I certainly agree not bringing in Laurila. I was thinking maybe flipping an older recruit but I kind of figured with Monty moving back and forth that we wouldn't bring one in.

I was thinking this was going to likely be the case as well. This has been discussed before but do we bring in a D at semester knowing this now?

And you can visibly see shift by shift (and even on the PP) OMac losing confidence playing out of position. He fumbled more pucks tonight than he has his first two years. Many of our skilled guys are really fighting the puck.

100% agree and have said this for years. Guaranteed two boring games even for the best of Sioux teams.

Also based on Minnesota high school hockey box scores it looks like Schultz didn't play for Minnetonka this weekend. I take it that means he's playing the full year for Chicago (USHL)? I thought he was doing before/after.

I've said it before and I will say it again this is/was the most frustrating thing for me. Look what Carle has done creating momentum after momentum in all areas of his program after the national championships beating out Minnesota for two blue-chip cities area kids (which is unheard of for DU) and we follow our national title up with two of the worst recruiting classes I can remember with on-ice results to show for it!

You can show me all the numbers you want but our PP doesn't pass the eye test especially our zone entries! And again especially when comparing it to what DU's looked like last weekend vs what ours looked like.

And their recruiting has really taken an uptick capitalizing on these most recent national championships. This is/was the most frustrating thing for me after our natty in 2016. Instead of building of the momentum of finally getting the monkey off our back we followed it up with 2 of the worst recruiting classes maybe ever at UND.

Agreed I found that very odd as well as you know for a fact Schloss is going to ask about injuries every week at Berry's press conference. I think it means Schloss had no idea Berg was injured again and the team kept it very quiet.

If I remember correctly that year, we absolutely pounded them both times in Denver and then once at the Ralph as well but I believe tied the second night. All the reason that 1-0 regional final hurt so bad! Must have wasted all our goals on them in the regular season.

And hopefully one day James hands can catch up to his feet!

This X a million. Saturday was about as bad of a game as any player could have. And how much ice time does that third D pair get? It's a little scary.