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Panzer got one tonight. I’m guessing Slipec doesn’t see a lot of ice time. If you look at how many forwards Chicago has in the leagues top scorers, there can’t be a lot more ice time to go around.

If we beat Denver and they outshot us nearly two to one, everyone would be saying the only thing that kept us in it was goaltending.

I would call it the half Michigan, as I assume the puck was on edge already removing the part of getting it off the ice. Still pretty neat.

Yes , from Omaha. I think McLaughlin and Emerson will both be ones that we will be ecstatic with by the time their college careers are over.

We’ve benefitted from decomitted recruits as well. Let’s get a list of them as well. Jason Gregoire, Gage Ausmus, Gaber, Colton St. Clair, Brock Boeser to name a few.

So now we have another precedent. If you get a Major for facemasking in the last 19 seconds, there will be no further action. Tyler should just take note of that, and test that precedent. Of course there would be some other explanation.

We did flip Hedquist from CC, or at least he reopened his recruitment. Hedquist was similar to Keegan Karki and Matej Tomek, they were thought to be huge gets. We have no idea how Hedquist will end up playing, but I don't think his stock is as high as it was when he was younger. I think with goalies, it is nice to see how they do at the Junior level before offering. There are plenty of late bloomers that have a high ceiling. Slukynsky might end up being a stud, but there is no guarantee.

Nathan Airey, a goalie from the BCHL committed to Minnesota. Appears to have better numbers than Hedquist. Hopefully Hedquist can make the transition to college fast. Watching Basse for St. Cloud last weekend, it is nice to have a bigger goalie that the puck hits when the goalies eyes are taken away. Not as many Karl Goehring types around anymore.

…and some of the mistakes are things you just don’t do, and I’m sure are preached not to do. Maybe choosing to play pond hockey instead of following what they go over in video sessions put him in the doghouse. No question that Sidorski deserves to be playing, as he does the right thing most of the time.

Wondering if Tyler Hennen from Kittson Central has college potential. They play a soft schedule, but averaging 5 points and a hat trick a game, must have some potential considering the other teams are probably keying on him. Would imagine he will need to prove he can do it against better competition.

Apparently someone told them to shoot the puck.

I hope Miami doesn’t have weekly shootouts like we do, they would just be there until the goalie becomes exhausted. But they do have weakly shootouts!

But good old Gino Parrish thinks it is the best goaltending in the history of the game. How about you see what is happening and go off the board like Christian Wolanin!

Brock Nelson wins the most accurate shot competition at the NHL All Star skills competition. Our other Brock won it too.

Just curious if Fufeng will be allowed to build elsewhere in the U.S., as if they are that dangerous, you would think they shouldn’t be in the country at all.

Yes, I can't remember if it was Travis himself or one of the other on the hockey broadcast team that mentioned it, but they said the perspective part was especially pertinent to Travis since his kid had gone through cancer I believe.

I recall Travis mentioning at one of the last home losses about how we need to take the game into perspective in the whole scheme of things. Sadly, and ironically, this is just another example for the rest of us. We, myself included, often bicker about the most trivial things like it is of utmost importance, but even though sports can make life that much better, in the end it isn't a life and death endeavor. Condolences to all of those that were close to Travis.

That said, we need to take care of business as a league when we play them then. I do think our league will once again represent better next year. Omaha, St. Cloud, and Western all lost a ton of guys from last year, and Omaha and Western took a bit to get going, but now are playing well. UND's non conference record certainly hasn't helped the league that much, but had Omaha and Western not had to basically start from scratch that would have helped our league standing immensely. It just goes to show that those early games that don't seem like they will affect your season that much (Arizona State), can play a big part in the end. A game here and there flipped by each of us becomes huge in the grand scheme of things. I think of Denver getting swept by UMASS early, while outplaying them, as a huge factor in the Eastern teams pairwise.

I'm sure St. Louis could use a Snuggerud as well, but given his ties to the Minnesota program, he will most likely stay at least a second year. With McAllister being an overage guy, does he take advantage while his stock is super high?

The sad part looking at the top 25 or so, is the two UND players on the list are the only ones with a negative plus/minus.

I don't care how they get there, but I think everyone can agree, we just need to get there. NDSU has been able to navigate the Summit quite nicely in men's basketball, so we just need to start finding a few diamonds in the rough to flip the scenario and give UND the ability to get more of the regions best players.

Would say more than anything we need to keep the puck out of our net. We need to be better five on five, but the goals per game is enough to win a lot if we tighten up defensively and in goal.

Yes, and the positive is that now the NCHC has 4 teams in the top 15, so there will be opportunities to move up the rest of the regular season and playoffs. We play 3 of those for sure, but it has now become put up, or shut up. Time for talk has long since passed.

Can someone pull up the Loheit hit against St. Cloud tonight?

Just getting that game to overtime against Duluth last weekend would have been nice.