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So if someone has an egregious slashing or checking from behind penalty, and their team gets a lucky bounce or breakout that leads to a short handed goal, they get out of the box early? What if they had pulled their goalie near the end of the game to try get back in it to go along with the power play and the team scores short handed into an empty net. Seems to me, you do the crime, you pay the time. Seems like a gimmick to me.

Biggest concern for sure is puck management. Rather than eat the puck and have a 50/50 chance, they blindly throw the puck into dangerous places. UND has always been great at living to play another day, especially when you have the lead. If they don’t get better at puck management, winning four games in a row in tight tournament games could be quite a chore unless your goalie is stealing games, or you are shooting lights out. On the positive side, they are in every game, and 3 on 3 isn’t a thing in the playoffs, unless you have some weird non coincidental penalty situations. Turnovers are going to happen against pressure, but they need to for sure tighten up on unforced turnovers.

That, and did BU get other players that rarely play into the lineup as well?

They certainly can’t count on Alaska’s goalie to be off again tomorrow, so they better be able to win a game scoring 3 or 4. How about proving Schlossman wrong for picking a split.

I can see the school board in Grand Forks going back and saying now that people are being credited taxes, there should be enough money to upgrade the new school to get more things they really "need"!

How about carrying that over to Mariucci and helping our league in the pairwise versus other leagues!

That probably can be said of 90% of the teams in the country. Remember when people thought Minnesota was going to be a wrecking ball, well they are scoring a quarter less goal a game than us, and we are basically top ten. Other than Denver and a few others, most teams are going to put up between 2.5-3.5 goals a game. The key for us is to make sure we are doing the right things so that we can keep holding teams down and giving Persson the ability to make the first save and deal with any rebounds if there are any. Alaska would be fired up to play us regardless of their pairwise standing, but UND will have to match their effort because this may be the last chance for Alaska to move up dramatically by having a good weekend. Will be really disappointed if UND comes out standing around and watching Alaska, so let's get after them from the start and don't let up.

Turns out it was between CC and UND.

How do you know if you qualify?

Keeping a demand. With the last two games there were empty seats and I think it would have been better for some to just hold off on purchasing tickets from those who ordered too many and they could probably have better seats as well. I know I considered just waiting to purchase seats from those who overbought, but with the smaller arena that might be risky. Hopefully we would have already had a destination game earlier in 2026, if they could manage to make the Frozen Four in Las Vegas at TMobile.

I don't think either one is gloating. I think best scenario for both of them would have been that he was actually ready a year ago to go to UND, but unfortunately they didn't see eye to eye on that.

If he couldn't wait the first time around, will he do so now. Time will tell, but hopefully he learned that there is no reason to be in such a big hurry for someone who has to develop anyway.

He is a sophomore, but yeah still would be relatively easy coursework.

Being he is playing top line minutes, he shouldn’t have to worry about academics too. No doubt he is being told he is good enough for the next level, so schooling isn’t a priority. Hope those that have been advising him are happy how they screwed up his development.

Although, I am thinking the one thing UND is missing right now is a skilled defenseman to run a power play unit. Livanavage is growing into the role, and Pyke has been good, but we could use an elite guy to run another one of the power play units down the road. Strathman is probably a guy that fits the bill, and Wiebe has some potential, but certainly could use more guys with an elite upside that still pays attention to the defensive end of the ice.

Apparently there are a lot of "Brockstars" as Brock Nelson has 15 goals this year and Brock Faber for the Wild has been pretty impressive as well.

Wow, who would have thought Payton would run.

and a fake punt that was so predictable as not to be believed that there was nobody on that side of the field. I’m not even sure I put a return person back on that.

How do you not expect a fake punt?

Of course another failed extra point.

Kind of nice to go to different ones to see some different stock items in some stores. I think some just seem a little more out of the way.

There are 10 Costco’s in the Twin Cities area. I have been to 4 or 5 of them, so I looked it up and there were more than I thought.

Yes, we all remember the buzz about Tomek, and he ended up making the rounds.

Also the expectation would probably be that he would be a go to guy, and maybe take away opportunities for growth for guys like Perron, Boisvert, McLaughlin, etc.

Absolute joke. Will he get to sit it against Simon Fraser, or is that an exhibition? They play Providence twice again after that, so he should have to miss both those games at the least.