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Now can someone please show that list of all the teams that have more NCAA tournament wins than UND during the Berry era!

Seven Frozen Fours and never missing the tournament or home ice?

Thankfully I saved my money for an extra golf outing this summer. The Berry Effect indeed!

So is the game in Austin against Michigan State set in stone. Might be very embarrassing for Berry if they can’t get a bunch of fans in a smaller arena.

So Berry needs to impress on his players every other year how important the early games against Bemidji, et al are? When a program like North Dakota is average every other year, it is a culture problem, and it begins with the coach. Best players play should be the number one tenet of culture.

Maybe Berry knows he is gone and doesn’t care if he is pissed off.

You can’t tell me it isn’t the style of play that Berry teaches. The announcers said the same thing of Western as is the case with Denver, they don’t want to be grinding in their own end, they want to be aggressive.

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.