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Which means we'll lose one this weekend.

On GPL they said Casey Staum decommitted from Omaha. Seems like he would be nice pick up for someone. Last defenseman that we plucked from Omaha after decommitting worked out pretty well.

Agree, I really like his game. Good in the faceoffs, responsible on the defensive end, and a great work ethic. May not get the accolades of others, just like in the BCHL, but the coaches know you need guys like this to win championships.

Your credibility is kind of suspect calling for Hak's head to begin with, but Hak did some nice things with teams where he couldn't even field a full lineup, and he had to deal with being raided by the professional ranks a lot. Not easy to plan ahead and fill all the gaps on a year to year basis with injuries and pro defections, yet he seemed to make the NCAA playoffs every year.

So who do you take out? I think Yon may even have been an extra last night. Adams, Kawaguchi, Mismash and Jones all look like they belong as well. May depend on what type of team they are playing against.

http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&ATCLID=211670237 Is WCHA.TV available on ROKU or AppleTV?

Agree, with the caveat that his effort isn't lacking. The great part of having the depth they have this year is being able to send a message to any player that isn't perceived to have given maximum effort. Sometimes rookies have to learn the difference between what they perceive as working hard, and actual maximum effort.

Didn't know the Nordique made a comeback!

I see a potential problem that if it is very close and you have the stipulation of indisputable evidence, are they going to go with overturning the call rather than possibly giving the team asking for the challenge the double whammy by putting them in the penalty box as well. Since all goals are checked in the NCAA hockey tournament, there wouldn't be any penalties there anyway, and even if they weren't checked, BU would have challenged anyway because they had nothing to lose.

The one of Osterberg against us at the Target Center was even more blatant.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/25/mike-rowe-blasts-everyone-involved-in-the-nfl-national-anthem-protests/ Not that opinions of celebrities should carry any more weight than the common man with common sense, but I think Mike Rowe makes a lot of good points. If the multiple strikes didn't change the clamoring for the NFL by the fans, I don't think much will. But I would hope that they would be hurt to some degree in the ratings and attendance just to put some thought in the back of their heads. Would love to see a big backlash, but I think the NFL knows that isn't going to happen, that's why they choose to be so bold.

So, shouldn't the other positions be able to get a push then? So by that thinking, we are totally screwed the rest of the year or until we get someone back.

Yet their lines moved the line of scrimmage consistently, and ours had virtually no movement.

Everyone has injuries. The Bison have had many to key players. Getting pushed around on both sides of the ball is the exact opposite of the philosophy the coaching staff wanted this team constructed on. Our good running backs could be completely wasted if they don't figure out the offensive line situation. Not having any depth at linebacker in a 3-4 defense doesn't help. Be interesting to see if off field problems start to arise if things continue to head in the wrong direction.

https://undhockey.areavoices.com/?p=104167 It will be interesting to see how he does in the USHL. Like everybody, it is all about how he develops. Don't know that Grant Potulny was ever considered a college prospect when he was in high school. Would assume he would project as a power forward, so would assume they would want him to grind and put up some kind of numbers, but hard to tell right now how that would translate. However, he is a big player with some skill. Trying to think of a bunch of UND power forwards that put up a ton of points, and most take some time to develop. Poganski didn't put up huge points his first couple years but still was quite valuable. Brad Malone certainly developed into a nice scorer, but took time to get there. I am sure the coaches are going to let him develop in the USHL as long as it takes, but he was probably one of the guys that they had to offer or risk the chance of losing him. I am sure the coaches do not like losing out on local talent.

Didn't catch that the first time around, thought you were down on Peski, but now that I see your reference it rang a bell for me as well.

...and hopefully the rest of the team knows it will take everybody chipping in to be successful, because they can't rely on super talents like Jost/Boeser to make a game changing play anymore when the game is on the line.

The way the players talked after the game about maybe that is what they needed, has me wonder if they have that drive necessary to capture the ultimate prize. They were back talking about National Championships yesterday. Championships? Championships? While I like the confidence, the bluster needs to be backed up. They have seen the path to winning championships for many years by the Bison, and that goes through home field advantage. In order to get that home field advantage, you can't have weeks like last week. If anything, this goes to show how impressive the Bison run has been. If anyone should have been overconfident and eventually lose to some very good opponents, it is the Bison. Having to play those schools year after year and seldom missing a beat is crazy, especially when you look at the mind of a college student. Let's get back on track and have the mindset of a champion every week from here on out.

I am guessing we may have issues scoring goals at times, unless we can get more scoring from the back end that was prevalent a couple years ago. Hopefully, all the freshmen from last year can take a step forward in that regard. It really is impossible to know how all of the new freshmen will acclimate to the college game, so it is hard to say what kind of year we will have. If Cam is a rock we should be in every game, but I am guessing we will be 2nd or 3rd in our league, which could put us on the bubble of the NCAA tournament with the Big Ten being a little better this year.

But in college sports if you aren't putting money into a program it is much harder to get results. Tell me how easy it would be to keep putting a very competitive team on the field if the money coming into the program could no longer support FCOA? I know you don't look at that as your concern, which is fine with me, because I am hoping someday the throngs of fair weathers that are part of the Bison crowd will help bring the program down a notch after some less than stellar play.

This is exactly what he is trying to accomplish.

I saw the same game you did, which included being dominated in every area. How are you going to single out who needs to be fired? I think this is just one of those games where they weren't quite prepared mentally to know what they were going to face. If this wasn't an aberration, then those kinds of issues on both sides of the ball may lead one to believe we aren't heading in the right direction period. I choose to believe that despite being warned, the players weren't heeding the warning and thus had it handed to them. We've seen this in every sport, if you aren't ready to play at this level, even to an inferior team you will have trouble winning, and South Dakota is a very good team!

Overreact much?

Not everyone wants to go for a graduate degree, so if he wanted to get into his hockey career, whatever level that may be, more power to him. Don't think another year at UND would change his hockey path, so why not play, get paid and have your degree to fall back on.

Matej Tomek with an 18 save shutout for Waterloo in preseason game tonight.