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Jacob Bernard-Docker had a goal and 4 assists last night for Okotoks.

Remember when he said they should just make a call and go with it like the NHL. He said they don't listen to arguments in the NHL, yet all he does now is complain. Seems like it has rubbed off on some of his players as well.

The officials in the league appear adept at fundraising for a good cause as Adam congratulated them for, but they are inept at what they are getting paid for, and Adam sits and does nothing. Several very dangerous penalties that weren't called, then calls are made for the exact same thing. Can you imagine if Western still had to play in Denver how many minutes they would be shorthanded?

Yeah, I see now that your earlier post about him being followed was a North Dakota account, not Berry himself. Crossing my fingers.

On GPL they are saying Berry isn't following Randklev on Twitter. I'm assuming he must have been. I would think that we may have lost out on him to St. Cloud, which would be disappointing. Anyone have info to the contrary?

No doubt. When guys like Gersich and Yon crossover from the dark side, I wouldn't say anybody should be off the table. When you have multiple people in the NHL and former players here saying UND is run with a professional type atmosphere, any high end recruit would be crazy not to at least explore the program. Let's also remember, not all Minnesota alumni are enthralled with Lucia's stamp on the program now, although Mike Guentzel has a lot of pull with some of those same alumni.

Yes. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=12125

I believe his dad Craig played for the Gophers.

Schlossman said that Randklev is visiting today. Would guess he either has games this weekend, or Berry doesn't want to take a chance on waiting until the weekend. Don't let him leave campus without a commitment.

Agree, he is a spark plug. When someone goes out and works that hard shift in and shift out, the others better be working too, or it stands out all the more.

The one thing I have noticed about the USHL is how close the scoring race is all the way through. With a couple good games on a weekend, you could move up from the third page on the league leaders to potentially the top ten. I also noticed that most of the players on the first page have really made their mark on the power play. With everything being so tight in that league, it is really hard to know who is going to make the step at the next level. Jacob Schmidt-Svejstrup from Fargo, who is committed to Maine sure seems to be a consistent scorer though.

Probably a possible replacement for Gornall. We have had many guys that were not highly sought after that were heart and soul guys like Pattyn, Gaarder, Sanderson, Kaip, etc. The question for me going forward is will we be losing speed with some of these bigger players in a time where penalties drawn by speed are frequent. With Weatherby, Mattson, Costello, Kunz, and Caulfield, we should be able to grind it out, but do we lose on the speed end. Not saying you can't be big and a good skater, but typically they don't get up and down the ice like a Dixon Bowen.

So, now are we a bad team, based on the results of one weekend? Maybe Union is a little better than you thought they were too.

Think the players thought the same thing! Didn't someone say that against Anchorage in October as well? Bottom line is you can get beat by any team period! I think their coach said the same thing last year as ours did this year, they weren't ready to play.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2017/10/25_Culture-Trumps-Everything.php I'm a big believer in culture as well. In sports, many times there isn't a lot that separates teams from each other. It is the programs where everybody buys in and has a work ethic that seem to always be in the mix.

Just want to hear an explanation from the league what happened with the disallowed goal, being that there are two different explanations given, depending on who you talk to.

If anything, they haven't been hard enough on the players. There is no excuse for the lack of discipline that some of these players have exhibited.

When did you see them play? People could have watched UND against a few teams and said the same thing. This series is huge for both teams, and if UND underestimates that this could either make or break Union, they could be in for a surprise. Their coach wasn't happy with how they weren't ready to play at UND's intensity level last year without Jost and Boeser, which really boosted our pairwise at the time. I am certain they will want to return the favor. Need to make sure the young guys that have been instrumental in our season so far, continue to play at a high level in huge pairwise game's like this.

I actually like that Berry talks about what they need to do going forward from here, as it doesn't allow the players to use it as an excuse, no matter how extreme. Of course he didn't like a lot of the calls, but players will have to adjust to bad officiating in the future, so it is a learning opportunity, and hopefully it doesn't get that bad again.

Yes I believe Motzko speaking out about that was included in his reprimand from the league. How about hearing about reprimands for officials. Not enough of that, which leads to the arrogance where they are looking for confrontation with players and coaches, but that is Don Adam in a nutshell, no accountability.

The scary part to me is that they would generally want to get the best officials to do a #1 versus a #3 contest. Heaven help the NCHC if that is the case. Just like at the regional last year, Berry took the high road by not blowing up. You can bet if the roles were reversed, Monty would have come unglued!. Time for Schlossman to do a little research and see if UND has ever had 27 minutes to 2 minute advantage on power plays or similar.

Well when a linesman called a five minute major on Minnesota years back, causing them to lose, Greg Shepherd suspended him. How can officials that are usually regional effect that kind of situation. Sounds like getting homered to me.

Berry said he was told the linesman was the one who called it no goal, first time he's ever heard of that.

Does it surprise you that guys like Todd Anderson and Brad Shepherd want to confront players and coaches instead of just officiating? After all, the king of confrontation, Don Adam is the one instructing these clowns. Way to ruin a good hockey matchup by the officials choosing to be the center of attention, and that goes for last night with the linesman.

They say that a team takes on the personality of their coach. If so, I can see where the arrogance comes from. I get the impression from the Championship game last year that it is all about Monty, and how dare they embarrass him as a coach last night. Coach Berry is right when he says, even though they are always competing against each other for top recruits, the differences in the philosophies is night and day.