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3 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
so your doing the lameriouex qualifying...if you don't have a gold medal around your neck you can't voice your opinion?
you'll see my at the drive thru at mcdonalds slinging mccrispys and apple pies buddy.
It's one thing to voice your opinion, but quite another to act like someone is stupid for using Hakstol as a person from whom to request advice. There is a reason he was a finalist for coach of the year at the highest level of hockey.
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7 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
and.............................................................
Let's see, you are mocking someone at the top level of their profession. How about you telling us for which Fortune 500 company you are CEO! Seriously, tell us where we will see your name in the headlines, other than for some transgression.
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6 minutes ago, Blackheart said:
You mean like some of the experts on this board?
I would hope he has better connections than to have to revert to that. Seriously, it would need to be someone in the loop of the current state of college hockey. I know some NHL people are adamant that you stick with your line combinations for continuity and to create a chemistry, but others change lines like Berry does. I just think an outsiders viewpoint of why we can't get past one game with the talent and advantages we have is a good place to start.
My perception is that Berry doesn't think that anything is wrong. When they talk about how proud they are and that they left it all out on the line, it seems a disconnect with getting outshot 15-1 when you were that close to being able to put a game away, or at least get up by a couple goals. Would have loved to hear the exhortation by the coaches going into the 3rd period.
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12 hours ago, SiouxFanSince1990 said:
Talent. We are losing the recruiting battle.
Maybe we are losing with philosophy less than losing the recruiting battles. If you aren't as talented, I would argue you would lose more during the regular season as well. I think it is a mindset, and getting the players to perform on the big stage that is the issue. Maybe we are losing the battle of recruiting guys that refuse to lose. I know Carle has said he likes to recruit guys that have a pedigree of winning. Obviously UND has guys with that same pedigree, but maybe they need someone else to look at what they are doing in the postseason. I know Hakstol wasn't too proud and asked Gasparini's advice to try get over the hump. I would hope Berry would be open to some constructive criticism from a few mentors as well.
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20 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
If Pohlkamp "goes further west" I'd take that as a tell that Buium is gone from DU.
Could be both Buium brothers are gone. Might as well add another "B" to the group with Behrens.
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1 hour ago, SJHovey said:
I think one of the big keys next year will be how dynamic, offensively, Strathman and Emery can be, and how quickly they get there. I’ve always believed that the 2016 championship was more about the deep puck moving and passing skill we had on the blue line than it was about one top forward line.
Emery hasn’t been a huge offensive threat, but if he can move the puck efficiently and take care of his own end like Zmolek, it could be huge to free up Wiebe to up his game and with Strathmann and Livanavage we should have a bit more offensive upside than this year. If we did get a transfer like Pohlkamp look out!
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8 minutes ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:
He hit a cold streak in the USHL and moved to Penticton, wasn't even a point per game there and got injured. Take a year to get confident again.
The leading goal scorer on Cedar Rapids has 14 goals in 55 games, he had 8 in 14 games and still leads Cedar Rapids in points per game. I don’t believe Penticton’s leaders average a whole lot more either. Don’t know a 4th year of juniors will be an advantage when he has already put up good numbers in previous years. Now if there are lingering injury issues, that might be another story, but it is going to be hard to crack our lineup for even well seasoned Junior players. People surprise you, I don’t think many had Johannes as a key player coming into this year.
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17 minutes ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:
Littler's dad coaches major juniors in Wenatchee. He should wait another year, and see if MJ-NCAA eligibility starts this fall. If so he can be the hometown hero for last year of eligibility. They are smart enough to know it'd be better to come in ready to contribute rather than fight for extra skater minutes.
What makes you so certain he isn’t ready?
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1 hour ago, brianvf said:
You'd think if they could, they'd go back to making players sit a year and also maybe control NIL a bit.
I have no idea if that would be possible though.They were saying that part of the reason that they are thinking about Major Junior players being NCAA eligible is because the threat of lawsuits. I’m afraid there is no going back on this now, even though I wish there we could.
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1 hour ago, scpa0305 said:
Add wood and someone like Pohlkamp and that would be a top 1-2…3 team in the country. MN is always heavy…but if Wood is making a hockey only choice and Blake stays, that’s an absolute no brainer. McMahon reporting MN is heavy favorite.
Minnesota loses a few guys that play a lot of minutes in Snuggerud, Brodzinski and Nelson, so may be a lot of opportunity for big minutes. Playing with Blake can really give players nice numbers though.
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17 minutes ago, planetearth said:
My opinions:
1. For the past several years UND has been average. I believe this really started with the type of players recruited around the same time as the new Ralph. The UND style-game has been more pro-style with bigger bodied, less-dynamic players (generalization: there have been obvious exceptions) whose games translate very well to the heavy NHL style.
2. Look at the offensive skill on Michigan vs UND. The guys they’ve had the past several years are unreal. It’s like U20 grad program. Dyneamic NHLers. Not grinders.
3. Same for the Gophers, BC, and BU. How many 1st-2nd rounders play on those teams? Game-breakers… Jackson Blake is close, but he is not Lane Hutson, Celebrini, Gautier, Snuggerud, Willander, Moore, etc. Shoot, I think Bemidji’s young defenseman is better than our best.4. Why doesn’t UND have those players? I honestly can’t believe it. It should reload with 3-4 first rounders every year for all the reasons touched on in this thread: facilities, tradition, fan-base, finances. Used to have the game-breakers, always had a stud or 2 that were always threats to score. I haven’t seen that for a long time.
Really, reload with 3-4 first rounders? How many first rounders is Minnesota going to get this year? How many first rounders go the college route in an average year? And you do realize before the new Ralph we rarely got 1st round talent. Look at our 1997 and 2000 teams and show me all the first round talent.
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6 hours ago, SIOUXELEVENS said:
I’m not saying forget about the regular season but don’t lazor focus on it, prepare the team for postseason and playing their best hockey at the end of March and beginning of April. Don’t wear the team out chasing one.
That’s the thing, I think UND has given guys plenty of time to come back from injuries and even got guys rest, especially after wrapping up league titles. The problem I see, is they never regain the edge required to compete in the postseason after that.
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Just now, .357 said:
I didn't see many games last year, so I don't know much about the team, but why are you down on Benoit? He rarely saw any action last year, so it seems like you're not giving him a fair chance to prove his mettle. It may have been you or someone else, but a ss.com poster said to trust our recruits & develop them, which I tend to agree with; at least give them a fair chance to prove themselves before letting them go.
This is another byproduct that I don’t like about the portal, either teams moving on to the new shiny thing without seeing how they develop, or players moving on because they think they should be playing right away despite them needing some development and rounding out of their game before extensive game action.
How many great players would we have missed out on if we didn’t allow them to develop, or if they moved on? We can already look at examples of players that would have looked nice in a UND uniform if one or both parties stayed with their original plan in guys like Halliday and Rizzo.We have seen so many guys develop at different times like LaDue and Poolman, so best not to throw away the baby with the bathwater.
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1 hour ago, BusinessSiouxt said:
On one topic we lament ‘rentals’ on others we drool at what might be. Kind of kissing you wife on the way to the strip joint…
To be honest, I despise this new system of transferring and NIL because it has and will change the competitive balance and widen the gap between the haves and have nots, especially in some of the other sports.
That said, if you are not going to use it wisely, you are going to be left behind. The word wisely is the key. Years like this year need to be the exception, not the rule.
UND needs to use it to supplement and complement their current recruiting, filling in gaps of experience and positional need and role.-
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15 minutes ago, siouxweet said:
Is he fast?
Was USHL defenseman of the year a year ago, and was Bemidji’s second leading goal scorer this year. Don’t know how fast he is compared to others, but certainly making the World Junior team ahead of Livanavage, he certainly has a lot of talent.
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2 minutes ago, franchise said:
I'm hearing UND is dealing another big blow to BSU as well
Would be nice to get an Eric Pohlkamp to add some more offense.
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On 3/10/2024 at 5:59 PM, sioux rube said:
That’s a first. The Wild are in overtime against Nashville and obviously need points. They pull Fluery when it’s 3 on 3 to make it 4 on 3 and they score to win it. That is a first for me and probably every other hockey fan
So had they lost the game with goalie pulled in overtime they would have lost their 1 point. I’ve never heard such a rule. Then again I’ve never seen that happen
They did it again, but this time it bites them, and they lose the point. When you are fighting against Vegas for the final spot, why don’t you pull your goalie before overtime before Vegas gets that secure point?
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38 minutes ago, Langster019 said:
Why does it seem the majority of people think Blake is good enough to go pro?
He’s small and can be reckless with the puck. Can he score? Absolutely, but I don’t feel he’s close to NHL ready. I think it’d be beneficial for him to stay at least another year maybe even through senior year.
If he were to leave now, I see a Kawaguchi or Adams situation, going to AHL squad then may not even hang there but moved down to the jungle. Could be proved wrong tho.
Blake’s talent and hockey sense are on a level higher than both of them.
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2 minutes ago, Stack said:
Have you ever seen a team as unlucky as UND?
So, in this game Ludvig tries to clear the puck and puts it directly on our guy's skate and back into the goal. to tie the game. Third Michigan goal hits not one but two of our guys and flutters over to the Michigan guy all alone on the other side of the net. So we're now down 3-2 and have to chase the game.
I can think of so many times our hockey team has either hit multiple pipes or the other team scores off our guy.
For example: 2005 Frozen Four in Columbus against Denver for the Championship. Denver won the game 4-1 with an empty netter. First three Denver goals went off a North Dakota Player either a skate or a body. Two of which were power play goals. North Dakota out shoots Denver 21-1 in the third period and does not score a goal. One of which Fabian puts into their goalie (Maninno's glove that is inside the goal. But because the refs say they couldn't see the puck in his glove they disallowed it.
Or 2004 Regional in Colorado Springs when Parise was a sophomore. We lose to Denver 1-0 after out shooting Denver 38-9. Only goal Denver scores goes off one of our guys butt.
Just feels like we are snakebit when it comes to the national tournament.
Argh!!!
What about the .6 game against Minnesota and the near equivalent against New Hampshire, nevermind the overtime winner being overturned against BU. We probably don’t remember all the things that went our way though. We just need to make more breaks for ourselves, by sometimes something as simple as shooting the puck and getting to the net.
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I know players should be self motivated, but I think sometimes they need something to really push their buttons, much like Lennon did for the NDSU football game this year.
I know Blais brought in Ralph and Morelli to inspire before the 1997 championship game. When I see Goehring talk to the players it seems more monotone and not really inspiring, but maybe he is their best option.I don’t think the chance to see Berry throw up his arm and yell is going to be a game changer. Like I said, when you are at the regionals, and you are an athlete, you should be able to motivate yourself. Maybe they could bring in the other Bubba to do the griddy.
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28 minutes ago, rochsioux said:
Definitely frustrating.
It’s not just the lack of titles, it’s the lack of any playoff success at all the past 8 years.
In the past 8 years we have missed the tourney 3 times and made it 5 times (I am including the Covid year as making it since they would have qualified). In the four years they competed they lost in the first round 3 times with the only win over AIC.
There has been 7 NC$$ tournaments since we last won a title and we have won only one game.I know for the past 8 years I have been spending more time cheering for the lesser of two evils than I have been cheering for my team.
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4 minutes ago, AJS said:
The Omaha weekend told me all I needed to know about the leadership of this team. They were never winning a tournament game.
When you have Schmaltz saying how proud he is of the team, and saying they came out flat in the 3rd in the same breath, while getting outshot 15-1 early in the period, shows the disconnect. How do you come out flat in a period when you have one period to move on to a regional final? Berry basically said the same. But they did try to respond after they came out flat, so we all should be proud like they are.
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6 minutes ago, Armchair Expert said:
Serious question- How is losing to a team like Michigan by ONE GOAL not being in the mix for a title? Let’s stop pretending like they lost to the 16 seed.
Oh, and by the way, why did they have to play Michigan again? Losing 5 of 7 down the stretch, beating the powerhouse Miami might have something to do with that. Hey, I was one of Berry’s defenders, but at some point that graph speaks for itself.
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4 minutes ago, Armchair Expert said:
Serious question- How is losing to a team like Michigan by ONE GOAL not being in the mix for a title? Let’s stop pretending like they lost to the 16 seed.
11 hours ago, Big A HG said:Since my other thread was deleted despite it being just facts.
I don’t call this in the mix. So Air Force has been in the mix more than us for a National title?
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Will agree, if Berry wins back to back then the talk is suddenly quite different. Usually though, you have to knock at the door a few times before you kick it down. I wouldn’t be against winning back to back and pushing those win totals up 8 on that graphic. It does go to show how lean the times have been in the NCAA tournament lately, that it would take 3 straight titles to catch Denver in NCAA wins since 2017.