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Other than Bump, don’t know that they have a lot of big studs, but when you play as a team you don’t need almost all your forwards to be drafted like UND.

Ferschweiler takes lesser guys like Slukynsky and Nehring into something while Berry takes guys with talent and turns them into guys that don’t score because of his system.

Will Berry say it is a shame we didn’t get in because we were playing so well.

Once again Berry’s team waits until the other team takes the lead to start to get aggressive. And then he believes it’s time to play Montgomery because that’s what you want, a guy who isn’t playing his natural position and is a fringe recruit to begin with.

Whatever happened to UND’s hard line that could shut down guys? So we have guys that can’t score and can’t hold down guys either?

No thanks.

Yeah, to me why would you not be playing someone with a bigger current upside, and thus getting them more experience so they can make an even bigger impact in the future as well. Maybe there is a reason guys like Jamernik were much better competitively in their early years then seemed more complacent later.

Yeah, to me, this loyal to the local boy mentality at the expense of true competition is bizarre, and much like the football Bubba paid the price for that mentality, I wouldn’t feel bad at all for Berry if his fate is sealed with that mentality.

A long litany of one and dones tends to kill the golden goose for a traveling fanbase. I know I opted for more summer vacations rather than another possible weekend where I have to alter plans after a Friday disappointment.

Obviously Alex wasn’t around back then and has only watched footage, that’s why I question whether he was confusing the Mariucci game as being at the “X”.

But he mentioned batting it out of the air like Trupp did.

Is Alex thinking of Trupp batting it out of the air against Minnesota in overtime from the pass from behind the net from Ryan Martens, or was there another bat out of the air I don’t remember? Because that one was at Mariucci, not St. Paul.

Starman talking about how Arizona State is using Denver as the blueprint for what they want their program to become. Remember when UND used to be the blueprint for a lot of teams because of how hard they played? Personally I think Berry needs to follow Denver’s blueprint and recruit and play fast aggressive hockey. No more sitting back and hoping to hold on after you lead.

I guess when your vocabulary is limited, you want to stick with the simple words to spell.

GF hockey slacking on his patented reply.

So you’re arguing Berry shouldn’t be accountable because teams like Minnesota, Boston University and Michigan have a bigger budget?

Both of the Brock’s, Nelson and Boeser, score their 21st and 22nd goals tonight.

I will only say that we have two first round draft picks on our team this year, yet we are not exactly flourishing. Sometimes it takes a while for the super talented guys to adjust to the college level, so you might get one big impact year from them. If you can still get the 2nd and 3rd round picks, you can compete quite well. Older players help offset the high skill of these young studs. Look at the US development teams, they have all studs, but still take their lumps playing teams with less talent but are a bit older. Besides that, there are only a handful or so of these first round guys that go in the draft each year, and those teams constantly have to be replacing them every other year. The best situation is getting some elite players and supplementing them with guys that play together for a while that develop chemistry. However if you want to compete with later round draft picks, portal players and Major Junior players, you better get guys that are willing to outwork and pay the price to compete with those teams with elite talent. As we have seen, that is very possible.

How will Denver compete? If things like a million dollar NIL become the norm, than there will only be a handful of teams that can afford that. With Major Junior players eligible now, on top of the portal, you have other ways to stay competitive in that scenario. If you can't compete using those tools, then you recruit all 25-year old Canadians and goon it up, because players that are getting a million dollars won't want to mess up their future NHL contracts with an injury going into the corner with a guy that couldn't give a crap if he gets a five minute major.

According to the affinity of UND hockey players for Chipotle, we should be putting our NIL money towards building a Chipotle instead of lining a few pockets.

You know when you see something like this that this new poster can't look at things objectively. Joining a message board to defend screams that already. Not saying there aren't points to be made in Pemberton's regard though.

I guess I don't see the categories that were referenced.

I think Western wants to keep their train on a roll, unlike what Berry’s teams have done laying an egg in the Frozen Faceoff and then not being able to regain momentum in the National Tournament. I think Western coaches instill in their guys a compete level and won’t want to go backwards now.

From what I’ve heard, they are in regardless.

My concern not knowing if the NHL rule was in effect, was he dragged then picked it up and moved again so fast that you couldn’t tell where the puck was at any given time. Regardless, you couldn’t overturn something you called a goal with any hovering perceived anyway.