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Wouldn’t you put a guy with a great shot along with someone like Plante who can free up space for him to get his shot off? Mooney supposedly should be able to create on his own, but haven’t seen that yet, except for the opposition.

Two big turnovers by Mooney and one by Ziemer, yet Mooney gets extra shifts and Zellers sits.

Thanks, I see that is the case.

Do you think Viggo Bjorck will play college hockey like his brother, or does it just make sense to continue in the Swedish league and then move on to the NHL? I imagine he would go high in the draft this year. Had a great game today.

Wisconsin without top two defensemen with World Juniors, and Quinn Finley at the Spengler Cup.

That would be nice. In that case, BC has more to lose playing Western shorthanded because they are fairly close in NPI. How many bad losses do you get? Clarkson must be our bad loss so far. Let’s keep it that way. In the NCHC, if you schedule tough non conference, you don’t get as much of a chance to take advantage of the relief.

Finland absolutely destroying Latvia 8-0, outshooting them 38-6. Of course we’ve seen teams don’t always play great before the medal rounds, but pretty stark difference from Canada’s game with Latvia.

BC at #15 and WMU at #11 in NPI. Pretty big game for BC to be playing without at least 3 guys at the World Juniors. Not sure if they have any at the Spengler Cup. If this Spengler Cup is going to continue to be played the same time as World Juniors, I don’t know why any team that has high end players would schedule any games other than exhibitions until after the World Juniors end. The whole goal is to make the NCAA tournament, and all that can be blown up by a couple bad losses. We might even have it worse, because we are playing a bad team with much more to lose. Either that, or the NCAA has to come up with a formula to be able to exclude your worst games, but that doesn’t make a lot of sense. I think Dane and company should only schedule exhibitions against Augustana, Bemidji State or the like to get ready for the second half, and maybe not play them during the season.

Yes, he certainly has a motor on him. I definitely would take another Ollie Josephson type player.

Reschny scored one of Canada’s goals and won the faceoff leading to the winning goal, yet he hardly saw the ice down the stretch. Hunter supposedly was looking for better defensive effort than they had in their first game, yet Reschny sits. Hunter probably had one too many hits to the head, but Motzko can’t use that excuse.

If you aren’t playing Zellers late because you want to lock it down, then why play Mooney, and why not put Emery out there?

Zellers probably has had more opportunities per shift than any one else in the tournament. Motzko is a joke.

Zellers doesn’t see the ice in crunch time but Mooney.

I really do like that Steiner. I assume that is the one that UND is interested in?

How much would Arizona State move up if they sweep?

Faber wasn’t on the gophers 1st power play unit, so yeah Bob isn’t always great at roster management. In fact I wonder if it was someone else’s decision to include Zellers on the roster.

Like I said earlier this year, goal scorers score from being unafraid to shoot from anywhere like Bochenski and Duncan.

Some of those Penn State guys are very cocky. Sometimes I get the same impression of their coach.

Looked like Parekh got away with a hand pass to himself on that play. You could hear people questioning it when he did it.

Well, he did embarrass Bob by scoring his only two college goals against the gophers.

You know they aren’t hockey people when they call it a stadium rather than an arena.

There is a World Junior thread.

Makes you wonder if Jacob Kvasnicka just stays in Minneapolis after the World Juniors. That wouldn’t exactly ingratiate Minnesota with Penticton taking a player halfway through the season, especially when Minnesota needs to be building more ties in Canada rather than the opposite. Will be interesting to see what teams do that want to fill spots for the second half.

I think we already know. They recently split with Bemidji State, and did split with Duluth early in the year. From what I’ve seen, they have been getting outshot quite a bit, but they have a very good goaltender.

Watched Williams last night and to me it looks like he needs a lot more time in the weight room to be ready for college. Have to watch more before any real conclusions can be drawn, but didn’t see a lot of dog on bone, but a lot of coasting. Can’t judge him on one performance though, and you could definitely see the skill. I see that Chyzyk is out not only recruiting, but determining who is ready to come in, so I’m sure they will make the right judgements and let people know what the expectations are for improvement in order for them to make the jump. Looking forward to see future games to track his progress.