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Yet, there are many on this board that would rather win that one Natonal Championship and be irrelevant for years at a time. Can't wait until Hakstol wins an NCAA title and see how many stick to that premise.

Yeah, getting out of that stretch at 4-2 or better would set them up well for the rest of the schedule.

I think it is time to boycott KVLY, as it only mentions UND hockey as an end of broadcast score, while taking a whole segment for Bison football. Others have said they mention other Big Sky scores except UND's at halftime of games. Appears to me that they think if they don't cover Sioux hockey the popularity will suffer. Well you lost one viewer for such stupidity.

... and UND swept CC on the road fairly easy, who in turn swept Huntsville. Anyone can come up with some argument by comparing scores, so unless you actually play head to head, you never know how good you are, and even then it's when you play someone. Usually playing UND early in the year is more beneficial than playing them later, and then you also have injury factors.

Are you talking about a highly ranked St. Cloud team? I would say St. Cloud is a lot better than Bemidji State, and UND hasn't exactly lit up St. Cloud recently. We have a common opponent and they swept, while we split. I would rather they keep that early season bullseye.

Agree. He has flashes of using his speed and stick handling, but looks a little anxious at times trying to finish with a shot or a pass. Reminds me of O'Donnell on the Kristo, Knight line. Hopefully he finds a comfort level somewhere. I'm really good with St. Clair getting back in the lineup too, but like you said they'll probably need both players next year when there will be that same adjustment level for the freshmen and some may take a while. Excited on how good our lineup can be this year when Poganski, Olson and Simonson get more comfortable and confident at what they can do at this level.

I guess I might be in the minority here, but I'm not willing to give up on players as fast as some. Guys like Jeff McClean and Kevin McKinnon started out barely noticeable and came back being major players. Chyzyk's first year wasn't great either, including off ice. Guess there always has to be that player fans love to hate. I like St.Clair in the lineup as well, but think Murphy might have a bigger offensive upside.

Someone should ask Hakstol, but it seemed weird that they didn't call contact to the head, elbow or charging instead of roughing, because it makes it seem like they thought it was a good check but just too dang hard. I don't want refs determining if a clean check is too hard! Unless they just didn't announce it was roughing, "contact to the head".

Really? Then why didn't he get a five?

I see both Jost and Fabbro have been out of the Penticton lineup the last 2 games, anybody hear why? Some kind of tryout camp or international tourney or something? Perhaps college visits? Seem to have done well without them, 21 goals in two games.

How great would it be to have Nick Schmaltz setting up Auston Matthews next year. I think that set-up would go a long way in moving Matthews to the top of the 2016 draft, nevermind the puck-moving defensemen that could do the same.

... and the fact that we were only told we could get them online is a joke.

But Schlossman said they had the best non-conference record of any league going into the weekend, and considering how bad they were last year, and the first weekend this year, I'll take that.

I assume he is fine, as he was in warmups but they just used Murphy and Poganski.

Actually they haven't this year, but the rest of our non-conference opponents for this year have been brutal so far this season.

I think tonight's game is more critical than it looked before the year because of how poorly most of the rest of the non conference opponents have performed to this point.

Exactly, Providence could still come out of this series better than us because a Non-conference road win means more come pairwise time. Let's give Gillies his first back to back losses.

#1 seed doesn't mean a lot in Fargo, except for line changes, so just make the NCAA tournament first.

I am not holding mine, especially since season ticket holders have been devalued in their new points system.

We could be the Semolinas!

I haven't either. I wonder if they will call even if no more tickets are available.

Yeah, I see he was drafted years ago in the latter rounds, so the fact he isn't playing there suggests he wants the college route.

Gersich with another couple goals tonight in a loss.

I see his father is former NHL'er Craig Wolanin. Hopefully he follows Dillon Simpson as someone whose dad played in the NHL and chose the college route, instead of guys like Matteau and Lemieux. Of course Simpson's dad played college hockey. Looks like Craig Wolanin played with Kitchener.

Bingo. And I'm sure CC remembers they competed well at the Ralph and believe they can get off to a good start at home.