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  1. All this concern about Schmaltz (really, any really top recruit these days) reminds me of the old days and Dr. Hook:

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman it's hard

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman you know it's hard

    Everybody wants her, everybody loves her

    Everybody wants to take your baby home

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman you watch your friends

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman it never ends

    You know that it's crazy, you want to trust her

    And then somebody hangs up when you answer the phone

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman you go it alone

    Maybe it's just an ego problem

    Problem is, I've been fooled before

    By fair weathered friends and faint hearted lovers

    And everytime it happens

    It just convinces me more

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman you watch her eyes

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman you look for lies

    Everybody tempts her, everybody tells her

    That she's the most beautiful woman they know

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman you go it alone

    [break]

    Everybody tempts her, everybody tells her

    That she's the most beautiful woman they know

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman you watch your friends

    When you're in love with a beautiful woman it never ends

    Dagies- i imagine you cranking that song in your Camaro with the T-Tops off cruising down S.Washington Ave. :lol:

  2. Helmets look JV style. There has to be a reason right? Silent protest over the old logo?? lol I don't know just a wild guess. I know it's not a huge deal but still looks awful and doesn't make any sense not to have something on both sides. Makes a helmet/uniform complete. Strange

    agreed. don't know the reason for it. put the 'ND' on the sides like they did in the 80's.

  3. You can believe this all you want, but it's pure BS. The Pens do not struggle to put the puck in the net on a game to game basis like the Wild. Even with Parise and Suter, they still struggle to score goals. I think there is still too much dead wood left over from the Lemaire regime. And if you really think Hakstol does the same things Blais did, you obviously are watching a different team than I am. This concept of scoring one or two goals and then hanging on for the win is trademark Hakstol and it simply doesn't work that well against the really good teams in the NCHC and the NCAA.

    No, i'm watching the same teams. You want a different decade of hockey and I think that's really what you have a problem with. Do i wish college hockey was still up and down with little neutral zone defense played? yes. that's why CC v UND games have been so entertaining the last couple of years because they play wide open against each other. College hockey isn't that way anymore and they play more systems and defense than ever. Love it or leave it.

    In regards to the Pens vs the Wild---they have Crosby and Malkin which makes just a little bit of difference. ;) We're you complaining about the 2006-2011 UND teams? Well they had Oshie, Toews, Duncan, etc etc etc... UND is still playing the same system, right now they just don't have the horses. But they will in due time. :D

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  4. I am no hockey expert, but the team definitely plays it closer to the vest than under Blais. Everything is about structure, structure, structure. Blais didn't really have a "system" for the forwards; all he wanted was for them to backcheck whenever the defensemen needed help. Blais believed in allowing forwards to use their creativity and instincts to make things happen on the ice. He also was a big believer in kids playing pond hockey outdoors so that they could develop those skills without the constraints of a "system". This is the biggest problem with Hakstol and his staff; they are married to the system for better or worse. Honestly, if I wanted to watch stuff like this, I would get Wild season tickets.

    Actually, one of the problems UND had last weekend was beating a system. The system that St. Cloud used was to clog the nuetral zone...trap, whatever you want to call it. UND couldn't beat it hence why you never saw them come up ice with speed and numbers. So, bag on systems but St. Cloud used the exact system i believe you are admonishing UND and the Wild. btw, Jaque Lemaire isn't coaching the Wild anymore and they have twice the talent any of his teams did. The Wild emulate the same system Crosby and the Pens use. Also, you're crazy if you think Blais didn't (doesn't) use systems. His system at UND was to attack with pressure and speed and forecheck 2 all the time. It's not that far off from Hak.

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