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…and of course three shifts in overtime and you don’t play your leading scorer, but have no problem playing Mooney. Did Mooney even score in the tournament? For how much he played, he should have produced something.

When you give up as many power play goals against Sweden and aren’t utilizing Emery that much, it is no wonder why they can’t keep the puck out of their net. U.S. goalies can’t stop the puck if they can’t see it, but also if you are giving up point blank shots to most of these guys, they have the ability to hit the corners more times than not. They all can snipe.

Hopefully he learned the lesson there rather than with us.

…and to be clear, I wouldn’t have Zellers in that situation either, but it seems Spellacy and McMorrow should be out there in those situations.

You notice who was out trying for the empty net goal — Mooney and Ziemer.

Why is McMorrow not out there in crunch time?

Heil needs to come up with some big saves if he wants to see more games later in the tournament. I will say the U.S. defense is letting them in prime scoring positions, but still needs to come up big.

McMorrow and Spellacy are two other guys that have been good, yet don’t see a regular shift.

Wouldn’t you put a guy with a great shot along with someone like Plante who can free up space for him to get his shot off? Mooney supposedly should be able to create on his own, but haven’t seen that yet, except for the opposition.

Two big turnovers by Mooney and one by Ziemer, yet Mooney gets extra shifts and Zellers sits.

Thanks, I see that is the case.

Do you think Viggo Bjorck will play college hockey like his brother, or does it just make sense to continue in the Swedish league and then move on to the NHL? I imagine he would go high in the draft this year. Had a great game today.

Wisconsin without top two defensemen with World Juniors, and Quinn Finley at the Spengler Cup.

That would be nice. In that case, BC has more to lose playing Western shorthanded because they are fairly close in NPI. How many bad losses do you get? Clarkson must be our bad loss so far. Let’s keep it that way. In the NCHC, if you schedule tough non conference, you don’t get as much of a chance to take advantage of the relief.

Finland absolutely destroying Latvia 8-0, outshooting them 38-6. Of course we’ve seen teams don’t always play great before the medal rounds, but pretty stark difference from Canada’s game with Latvia.

BC at #15 and WMU at #11 in NPI. Pretty big game for BC to be playing without at least 3 guys at the World Juniors. Not sure if they have any at the Spengler Cup. If this Spengler Cup is going to continue to be played the same time as World Juniors, I don’t know why any team that has high end players would schedule any games other than exhibitions until after the World Juniors end. The whole goal is to make the NCAA tournament, and all that can be blown up by a couple bad losses. We might even have it worse, because we are playing a bad team with much more to lose. Either that, or the NCAA has to come up with a formula to be able to exclude your worst games, but that doesn’t make a lot of sense. I think Dane and company should only schedule exhibitions against Augustana, Bemidji State or the like to get ready for the second half, and maybe not play them during the season.

Yes, he certainly has a motor on him. I definitely would take another Ollie Josephson type player.

Reschny scored one of Canada’s goals and won the faceoff leading to the winning goal, yet he hardly saw the ice down the stretch. Hunter supposedly was looking for better defensive effort than they had in their first game, yet Reschny sits. Hunter probably had one too many hits to the head, but Motzko can’t use that excuse.

If you aren’t playing Zellers late because you want to lock it down, then why play Mooney, and why not put Emery out there?

Zellers probably has had more opportunities per shift than any one else in the tournament. Motzko is a joke.

Zellers doesn’t see the ice in crunch time but Mooney.

I really do like that Steiner. I assume that is the one that UND is interested in?

How much would Arizona State move up if they sweep?

Faber wasn’t on the gophers 1st power play unit, so yeah Bob isn’t always great at roster management. In fact I wonder if it was someone else’s decision to include Zellers on the roster.

Like I said earlier this year, goal scorers score from being unafraid to shoot from anywhere like Bochenski and Duncan.