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Yes, gotta love those grinders, could definitely use more guys that are willing to get dirty and play both ways. It seems like we could use more skill guys that are hard to play against like Pinto.

I see Barzal was the Islanders all star selection. Nelson, definitely should have been another candidate to be a Brockstar at the All Star game, and defend his shooting accuracy title. Of course Boeser will probably be in that competition as well.

Although St. Cloud did get a 5-3 that last 3 minutes of the game. Maybe Heather Weems has more pull with Mike Schmidt than with Don Adams for her former school.

Yes, I can imagine our season ending on an ill-advised dangle where the situation requires getting the puck deep.

They took Perron off his line down the stretch for more defensive play, so why play Blake all the time in a lockdown situation? If the same mistakes of not getting it low weren’t happening, I can see rolling the lines, but the same errors happen over and over, almost like he has no intention of learning puck management. To that end, we should be finding a way to get Albrecht and Ness in more in those situations. Happy for the win, but with 3 minutes left or so we should have our responsible guys out there. It doesn’t guarantee anything, but you shouldn’t have as many odd man rushes from turnovers just inside the blue lines.

So we haven’t lost a game in regulation in two months and have only lost in a format that everyone agrees is a gimmick, and the sky is falling? Oh, and if all the players we were told shouldn’t see the ice in overtime didn’t play, we would have nobody left except Komzak or Benoit and Schmaltz and Albrecht.

Obviously since people are down on Persson, he didn’t have many tough saves. Opportunistic isn’t a term I would use for a team who totally outworked the other.

Denver, must be a horrible team, losing to Omaha in regulation at home, as well as us, then needing o.t. to beat us.

So shouldn’t the shots have been reversed if they outworked us so much? 39-24 hardly proves your eyes right.

But those people are told that the standard is .900, so it shouldn’t matter if some of those are impossible to save. UND was winning consistently when denying the cross ice pass and at least giving Persson a chance to save it.

Got a point out of it, and within 3 of St. Cloud, so not all is lost. We haven’t lost in regulation since BU and people are nothing but negative. Same people, as always.

That was obviously a misjudgment, but as we have seen, bringing guys early can hurt their development as well. But the bottom line is where you are drafted doesn’t mean you should or shouldn’t come to campus. We all saw Brent Johnson, a third round pick wasn’t ready. We also have seen a guy in Michael Emerson, who put up big numbers in the USHL not even put a shot on goal with limited action, and leave this week. I happen to really appreciate guys like Andrew Strathmann, who does the right thing for their own development. If you make it a race to get to the next level and not do the right thing, it might end up slowing or ruining your development completely. Wonder where Tyson Jost would be with a little more patience.

Collin Adams had patience and he really had a nice career here.

Panzer and Littler will probably be coming in as well. What if there was another Berg or Johannes in the portal?

Tomorrow is really CC’s chance to become a huge threat when it comes to tournament talk.

If you would have said Minnesota scores 4, I would have said no way CC wins. Hopefully CC doesn’t give up much tomorrow.

We are also not as much of a hitting team as we have been in the past, which leads to less infractions. How many five minute majors have we had this year, compared to how many did Tyler Kleven have alone!

Any way to watch it around here. It shows Fox 9+, but not sure if that is available in local market, or another way to access it.

For what they have lost to the portal and where they have finished, I would think he isn’t going anywhere soon. Remember everyone thought they would be bottom feeders last year when they lost a ton, and we were supposed to be one of the league favorites, and we had to play in their barn for the playoffs. True, no postseason success, but I don’t think Omaha has illusions of grandeur. At some point I would imagine losing players yearly, and no playoffs will warrant change, but don’t think that is imminent.

So if someone has an egregious slashing or checking from behind penalty, and their team gets a lucky bounce or breakout that leads to a short handed goal, they get out of the box early? What if they had pulled their goalie near the end of the game to try get back in it to go along with the power play and the team scores short handed into an empty net. Seems to me, you do the crime, you pay the time. Seems like a gimmick to me.

Biggest concern for sure is puck management. Rather than eat the puck and have a 50/50 chance, they blindly throw the puck into dangerous places. UND has always been great at living to play another day, especially when you have the lead. If they don’t get better at puck management, winning four games in a row in tight tournament games could be quite a chore unless your goalie is stealing games, or you are shooting lights out. On the positive side, they are in every game, and 3 on 3 isn’t a thing in the playoffs, unless you have some weird non coincidental penalty situations. Turnovers are going to happen against pressure, but they need to for sure tighten up on unforced turnovers.

That, and did BU get other players that rarely play into the lineup as well?

They certainly can’t count on Alaska’s goalie to be off again tomorrow, so they better be able to win a game scoring 3 or 4. How about proving Schlossman wrong for picking a split.

I can see the school board in Grand Forks going back and saying now that people are being credited taxes, there should be enough money to upgrade the new school to get more things they really "need"!

How about carrying that over to Mariucci and helping our league in the pairwise versus other leagues!