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We see how it’s done, by physically dominating the line of scrimmage. That is where we need to focus at getting better. Can’t believe we once thought trimming down was the way to go.

Second year in a row, where the gopher guy who committed an uncalled penalty against St. Cloud in overtime, scored the game winner on the same shift.

Seems to me, we beat Western by shutting down their top guns. Would bet that the 4th and 5th year guys had a lot to do with that, but yeah, let’s go back to a wide open game and hope our goalies can pull out some wins for us.

Don’t forget, producing goes both ways. If you score one goal but are responsible for two goals against, that isn’t getting you anywhere. In fact, we have scored enough this year, but giving up all of the odd man rushes has killed us.

What catches my attention is the huge fluctuation from week to week. Western Michigan was behind us a few weeks ago, and now they are at 12. Everything is ahead of us, just need to string a few wins together against the higher ranked teams and they can move up. The fact that we moved up, despite playing #56, bodes well if we can indeed string some wins together against the higher pairwise teams.

I will say, they came out better tonight, just couldn’t convert on their early chances, but seeing how they dominated both nights when they had to, makes you wonder where that urgency is at other times.

Would be nice if St. Cloud can finish off the sweep of Minnesota tomorrow.

Agree, but when your backs are against the wall, you would hope that you don’t have to be shocked into playing. When they speak of culture in the UND program, it isn’t “we play when we have to, or when we want to”, it has been in the past that the work ethic and readiness to play has been there most of the time.

Then I wouldn’t go into a thread that has traditionally given other college scores.

Does he play linebacker?

That's why I cringe when teams hog pile after they win a championship. Seems like high school teams are the least cautious when jumping headlong into a pile.

I didn't say it, Bubba did, but it sounds like you are setting it up for more excuses after it is finished.

Well, after this next phase Bubba says we will have the best facilities in FCS. At that point, no more excuses, but we know that won't be the case.

What if you have the odd situation where 3 or so defensemen want to possibly start their pro career and burn a year on their contract. I certainly hope it doesn’t happen, because there aren’t that many hockey teams like there is in basketball. Nearly every team making a postseason tourney seems odd, because many wouldn’t even have winning records.

We’ve seen with the Cooper Moore suspension last year on a hit similar to, if not as bad as the hit Savoie put on Senden, that the league isn’t going to do us any favors. Moore’s hit probably wasn’t as bad, and it didn’t happen near the end of the game either. We now have seen the standard, let’s see if the league is consistent with their punishments.

Hopefully he learned his lesson. If you are going to take liberties, take them the game prior to the exhibition, so you only have to sit for an exhibition game. St. Cloud has that figured out.

It’s all talk, until they do it, much like people saying NDSU’s run in football was over.

So Major Junior players are twice as tough then?

Yeah, I see they moved up to #17 in the pairwise, so in order for us to keep moving forward, we will need to win the upcoming series with them while it is still fresh in Western's mind what we did to them a few weeks ago. No easy task, but it is the hole that UND has dug itself.

So they call a questionable hold on one end and miss he hold by the receiver on the Bison touchdown. Don’t tell me home field doesn’t mean anything.

Almost like you can’t make it up. Was there no discussion beforehand that the only way you beat a dynasty is by not beating yourself.

…and Incarnate Word falling apart.

Agree, they are going to have to take advantage on the power play, and Blake is a great guy to have with his abilities.

But the way for the U.S. to have a chance at the gold isn't going to be to try outscore teams like Canada, as it would be hard to compete with guys like Shane Wright, Connor Bedard, and Adam Fantilli. The U.S. might have to have a bunch of guys that are two way players, so you never know what that final roster could look like. Agree, he should be there, but you never know.

They finally found a way to get McLaughlin to shoot the puck -- put him in the shootout! Now if they could only get him to shoot more during the game, we might not need to get to the shootout.