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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.

I would think that it would be Chartrand, Shaw and Evers before the 3 East Side guys. They would probably need a little more seasoning first. Don't rule out that someone from this team isn't happy with playing time and goes somewhere else. Not highly likely, but with draft picks, you never know what the main club is putting in these kid's ears.

I believe he decided not to come back. Don't know the circumstances.

I'm not the one who said that people would be fired for not putting forth effort one day.

Then you must live in a cocoon, because everybody I know works with people they swear are the laziest people in the world. I bet 75 percent of the people on this site have posted from work. People have expectations of Hakstol and his players that they don't have for themselves or their kids.

O.k., only first game, but when you go out of your way in every interview to say that your whole focus is getting out of the gates we'll this year, and that is the effort you get in game one -- we'll, it's frustrating. When Pattyn said their goal is to win every game, I thought for a minute it might not be lip service. No more talk, need some first half success, starting tomorrow. Let's keep guys that give maximum effort like St. Clair, in the lineup. Having a veteran team with a preseason game under their belt against a less experienced team playing their first game should have resulted in a competitive game. Get after it in Bemidji, and carry it into the first league series then crucial games against Providence. Dixon Ward's team must not have been impressed with Sioux hockey, maybe the tour of the updates of the facility, but not the on ice performance. O.k., so get a good road win, and start from scratch, after all a road non-conference carries more weight. Right?