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It’s like we went back to the first night against Duluth. Just like with Duluth, you need to deny the cross ice passes, but we allowed it time and again. How did we go from the defensive game last weekend to this? Thought Keaton would have learned that throwing it up the center of the ice like he was criticized for in the World Juniors can possibly cost you a championship down the road. Two more huge turnovers up the gut tonight. Don’t want to be too critical of him, as even Emery almost got burned by leaving a guy totally alone in front of Homer to engage on the boards when everyone else was already there. Lot of defensive breakdowns tonight. Hopefully they can get back to how they played against Denver. We won, which is great to say when you have an off night on the defensive side of things.

“Always” being a whopping 2 game series last year.

Yeah, and it wasn’t easy when you were younger pushing that triple-wide shovel, especially pushing a ton of snow with it.

Even back in the day the Grand Forks teams could compete with top Minnesota teams. If memory serves, when Minnesota was one class, Roseau won the state title and only lost 2 games all year, one to Red River, the North Dakota state champion. Chris Gotziaman and Billy Lund were on Roseau that year, and Blais was head coach. Was the Corey Campbell and Chad Skarperud team for Red River.

Would imagine he will be taking Strinden’s #21, and most likely will be on the top power play unit as well. He seems to be doing really well on the power play for Youngstown.

It’s just that yours are wrong the majority of the time, and they surprisingly are right when the news comes out elsewhere before.

Gibson Homer!

What are you a 2 year old? I was for Central, but I can be objective. Was Moorhead jobbed when Mickelson was called for retaliation after the Central player was holding him?

It wasn’t out of nowhere. Every time a penalty is called against your team it never seems to be warranted. Nevermind the fact Central had all the power plays up until then.

I think Minnesota was in the recruiting mix as well, and probably would have a decent chance of playing right away there.

Probably people clinging to “back in the day” pricing to determine if they still want to give a place their business.

Haven’t seen him play, so not sure it is fair to judge his offensive output because Fargo hasn’t been an offensive juggernaut. I’m sure the coaches have been able to monitor his play often.

Interesting that 2009 Ludovic Perreault has 12 goals & 22 points in 41 games on the same team as fellow 2009 Eli McKamey, who has 1 goal & 6 points in 27 games. Don’t know if the injury is still holding back McKamey or not, but interesting stats. I know Perreault was one of Schlossman’s top 20 recruits list from Canada to watch this past August.

Would be interesting to know if he would agree to that, or go play with his brother at CC. I believe CC was one of the teams he was considering before committing to UND. If you’re not dominating at the current level, why rush it though.

Makes sense.

Going to miss all the business when UND makes the Frozen Four in Vegas in April. Really, Vegas has become so expensive that they are chasing people away.

I think Gross would either finish his career at St. Cloud or turn pro.

He seems really invested on being a leader on this team. Nobody would surprise me, but I think he knows he could benefit by another year with more responsibility.

If we don’t win a title this year, I can see him wanting to be a part of a championship team, knowing we would be contenders. Would assume if he chose to do so we would lose someone, either a recruit or someone currently on the team. You would possibly have pairings: Liv - Verhoeff Mackenzie - Emery Strathmann/Laurila - Carels Strathmann /Laurila - Lindberg Jubenvil - Engels Someone would certainly leave in that scenario. Experience on defense is huge if you want a championship run, so Liv staying would be huge. Hopefully it would be going for back to backs.

If so, you lose a lot of development and are starting from scratch, albeit with very talented players. Think of us a couple years ago with a very young defensive crew. Not a great recipe for a National Championship team with one or two upperclassmen.

Personally, I think Bob is either doing his best to recruit replacement guys like Jackson did when we looked like a mess, or they will show him the door. Be interesting to see if they are active recruiting players in the CHL beyond the already committed Kvasnicka. I think Bob probably is feeling the pressure to turn it around quick, so we’ll see if he is stubborn, or if he changes his philosophy a bit. So many good defensemen in the CHL, that maybe Minnesota could even pull one if they move that direction. Personally, I hope teams use the “All Minnesota” provincialism against them on the recruiting trail in Canada.

Makes you wonder if Kvasnicka would have played instead of Zellers had Vanbiesbrouck not stepped in to include Zellers.

You playing in the UND golf outing?

Beyond Carels, don’t know how much room you have for another defenseman with MacKenzie and Lindberg coming in. Assuming we lose Wiebe, Livanavage and Zmolek. Emery could go, but would be wise to stay. Need to keep some experience on the back end, as we know that there is a bigger learning curve for defensemen.

In the same token, how can the Bears throw a Hail Mary 40 yards and the defender not be right on top of the receiver?