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They are trying to make up some of the Champions Club membership that they lost out on. When you figure some of those membership levels in on the average ticket, I imagine it would increase the ticket price a bit.

CC beat Duluth having fewer games under their belts, why does UND have to feel bad for sweeping a series after coming off a month without a game?

Are we sure this wasn’t initiated by UND? Wonder the same thing about Halliday. It would be interesting to know what went on behind the scenes in both cases.

That's good. You wouldn't want to be playing tons of games near tournament time. At least this gives you a little more wiggle room if/when you run into more postponements.

So they are taking the place of other games to be played later?

Who would have thought that Canada would need to rely on an artificial boost like revenge to be King of the hockey world? Shouldn't that have been on their minds yesterday after people kept telling them that the U.S. had beaten Canada the last 3 times they met in the Gold Medal game?

Covid related, and teams agreed to it.

I bet they don’t keep their whistles in their pockets now.

But it made it sound like the NCHC wasn’t involved in us adding games, so I would assume they would need to be if we were rescheduling league games.

Wouldn't be very smart of the NCHC to set a standard for playing then change it.

Since Canada hasn't been behind the whole tournament, it would be nice to get that first goal and play from the lead.

People questioned James Patrick the first half of his freshman season, and he didn’t accelerate to play a year early in college.

So if CC should happen to sweep Denver and Denver falls to 3-8, does Bobby Brink go directly to the Flyers after World Juniors? If they thought he might make their lineup, it might be tempting.

Testing protocols would be what they have always been, but it sounds like they have a good standard in place as to how many players you can be missing before you have to reschedule.

Yes, I would have thought in order to find a deserving Penrose winner you could play a crossover series late. Don't know how many Omaha players are out, but the powers that be had no problem with us playing a third of the season without two of our top defensemen. They knew that the World Juniors would play a huge factor. That said, this is an unusual year and they did their best, it just seems they could have left some wiggle room at the end of the season to mitigate the uneven schedules.

That is the huge positive about this. Hopefully when we play them, we will have Kleven and Sanderson back.

Agree, the focus in the POD should have been playing only teams you don’t play in the second half.

I think Keane plays the way Berry likes, and I agree he will be in the mix. Although it may not be every game, I think he will get a chance here and there, if for no other reason than to hold other guys accountable who don't play with passion. I would guess that he might be here next year as well, as they will be replacing some guys.

You don’t think Keane will be playing?

Denver's? I wouldn't be so quick to count them out. Bobby Brink is like our Shane Pinto, and they had a little more transition to do from last year on the back end. Let's just hope they don't get back in it at our expense.

Thankfully, there are only five DU fans that had to put up with the ads!

Portz scores his first two goals of the season and is first star in a 2-1 win.

Which makes you wonder if Kleven can adjust to the need to back off hits simply because officials can’t distinguish on borderline plays and always error on the side of a penalty.

Would be a huge fail. Then it would be all about politics of the advertisers and whether they are politically correct or not. Then they would cancel out the “wrong” advertisers.

There were a couple times when that line had St. Cloud hemmed up in their own zone for a while. Ness made a bad play not chipping it up the boards on one of their goals, but I think he hasn't been too bad.