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So when do we hear the obligatory, “no way we lose to Bemidji State”?

Bottom line is when you see Brad Schlossman not predict a split, UND is in trouble. He doesn’t exactly have his hand on the pulse of this team, or others in years past for that matter.

What?

If you listen to Frank Seratorre on Brad Schlossman's blog about officiating in Denver, it certainly sounds like a familiar refrain. Maybe Don Adam should take a closer look at the perceived homer calls Denver is receiving.

Think Starman might need glasses.

True, but I thought they would be ready to go for an important pairwise series with Union, and they left a lot on the table in that series. I think this series will say a lot about their focus level going into the second half, because they should come out like they want to win the league not just finish top 3 or 4 for home ice.

Should be hasn’t worked out too well for us against Anchorage, CC and Union, so hopefully they are ready to go for a hard fought series.

Is he going to Sarnia or opening up recruitment for NCAA?

Definitely done well, especially for a freshman, similar to Mismash. I just don’t think that makes him NHL ready. We were raving on this site about Jost being unbelievable last year, probably more so than what I’ve seen on GPL about Mittelstadt, but that next step is a big one.

He hasn’t exactly been ripping up college hockey at this point. There have been many games I’ve seen where he wasn’t that noticeable, except if they had a power play. He might be able to hold his own on the offensive end, but you better be able to play at the other end as well, as Edmonton has shown so often over the past decade. That said, I imagine Mittelstadt will put up a lot better numbers the second half with the confidence he has coming off of the World Juniors.

Thought Bubba was your guy.

It looks like Cruikshank might be done for the season with Penticton due to injury.

He has seen first hand as an NHL assistant under his buddy Scott Arniel how fast you get fired, and now to see Hakstol recover a bit from the fire he was under a few weeks ago, I’m sure he likes the pressure to win here more. Heard he is content to be here around family as well. Wonder if Blais has second thoughts about leaving. Schlossman’s stat about Hakstol being one of the longest tenured coaches certainly is alarming and would give one pause.

Definition of arrogant 1: exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearingmanner an arrogant official 2: showing an offensive attitude of superiority : proceeding from or characterized by arrogance Even if we had the right to be, why would we want to be! At one time the gophers had the right to be, but as they say, pride goeth before a fall, and Karma apparently caught up to them. I kind of started this diversion from the thread, and seeing that IHTISNB's jab can be taken as a tongue in cheek, wink, wink, statement, I probably took it in a different way than it was intended. That's the thing about the internet, you can't always detect tone and intent. Sorry for derailing a thread that everybody, including myself, is excited to see pop up, because each time it could be about a future star.

How could anyone take this other than arrogant and condescending? Oh, but we have the right to be, so it's all good.

I would say that St. Cloud is one of the best at putting together a team despite not always getting the top end talent. They seem to have to step out early a lot and get players before they are considered sure fire college talent. Joey Benik, Mike Essiymont, Ryan Lasch and Garrett Rowe come to mind. Then they seem to find guys like Kalle Kossila as well. They might have to do things the hard way in that regard, but I certainly respect that they can put a competitive team on the ice year in and year out not having all the built in advantages, and I think our coaches respect that as well. That's how our '97 National Championship team was built and that's when we started to get back into the top end recruits again. It's funny we are talking about this considering how many times our fans lament us not having enough finishers and top end talent.

Mark Parrish apparently. We don't want to get so full of ourselves like Minnesota, lest we lose players like that like Minnesota did. This is a great listen about his recruitment, or lack thereof from Minnesota, even though he had full offers from many places including us.

I always got the impression that Rocco's chemistry with his linemates wasn't as good as it could have been for whatever reason. From what I have seen with Randklev ( which granted isn't a lot) he seems to have very good chemistry with his linemates. Haven't seen the high end speed like Rocco has, but maybe he has that extra gear I haven't seen either.

Wouldn't mind Cruikshank, but if they could find a high end guy this late in the game that would be ideal.

I wish he had Randklev's other assist last night available, as it showed great touch on a little saucer pass.

As Kramer would say, Giddy Yup!!

I would imagine we will continue to bid on regionals in Fargo and Sioux Falls, so if Randklev commits here, he could be assured that they would have a regional in his back yard if UND makes the tournament.

Yes, I am certain that coaches are in contact telling players what they need to work on to transition successfully to the next level.

It's really too bad, as I am sure his sister who plays for the volleyball team was looking forward to him coming here.

I wouldn't necessarily say way out of his element, as there will be many that have similar scoring stats that will be making the move to the NCAA as well. While we don't know where he will land yet, the competitive nature of the NCHC night in and night out would certainly be an eye opener for him. Perhaps another league where his ice time would probably be better because I could definitely see him struggling to get consistent ice time in the ultra competitive NCHC.