mikejm

This is the correct way to look at the situation.

You sure you want to go down this road? Compare the 05-06 Freshman class with this year's. Here, I'll help get the discussion started: 2

^You probably get a kick out of pulling out your own fingernails too, huh?

I am getting really, really tired of watching Eidsness go behind the net to play the puck. Every time he does I flash back to the Final Five last year.

I yell at him all time through the glass. My seats are right behind him. He doesn't pay any attention to me either.

^Goalie coach would help this team. I'm still amazed that UND doesn't have one.

Bradley needs to practice keeping his rear end in the little blue area directly in front of the goal. And maybe his head in the game instead of wherever it is he allows it to go...

4 goals per game

Yeah, Eidsness was (again) not sharp, and the young D made a few mistakes, but the problem with this team is that it isn't scoring goals. I really expected this talent to generate 5+ goals per game instead of the 3.22 we're sporting. We're under 3 in WCHA games! Gotta finish.

I'd say you can take both Gregoire and Frattin off the list of forwards from here on out: I think Jason gets "the call" and Frattin simply moves on. Still have a log jam at D. Tough troubles to have, huh?

Good for Danny.

Keith is rumored to be getting a new deal too; I think I read the 'hawks are going to give him a 13-year deal! Kane's money will be a little more than Toews.

Actually, that might be me...

Bob McKenzie is reporting that the Blackhawks are close to signing Jon Toews and Patrick Kane to five year extensions, worth around $6,000,000 per year each. Nice!

Or peeing...

I agree that Kristo on the point seems like mis-allocated resources. The kid is talented, but he tends to wander and leaves his spot, resulting in the puck leaving the zone or worse. I think the shortie the Sioux gave up Saturday was the result of him trying to make too cute of a pass to the other point: he feathered the puck rather than putting some zip on it. That particular deficiency wasn't limited to Kristo, though. Many, many Sioux passes through neutral ice were simply too easy to pick off, breaking up any offensive flow and creating odd-man opportunities. StCloud was really aggressive in their forecheck: they usually had two forwards really deep disrupting the Sioux break-out scheme, and stacked five skaters across the blue line. And when the Sioux finally gained the attack zone, the Huskies collapsed inside the dots leaving almost no room. There is a time for cutesy, floating doughnut passing, but not against a clogging defense like St. Cloud put up.

Wait. They play hockey in Ft. Wayne?

Were you using your moderator powers and saw the post I was composing? 'Cause your's is almost a carbon copy of what I was about to post.

I still think the Alumni Association ought to simply write a $1,000,000 check to each tribe and get the deal(s) done. 30-year contract in return for the money. There, I said it.

Put me in the category of agreeing with this ^ post.

I'm guessing it is a complaint that the visitor's locker rooms at UAA don't have individual thermostats, carpeting and a team-sized hot tub. Pretty serious stuff.

Eidsness provided the Gophers wide open nets on at least two occasions in the third on Saturday. Were it not for some pretty tough and fortuitous play by the D, his out-of=position play would've cost the game. I am sort of comfortable with Eidness, but he has to polish up some obvious rough edges. He is very, very late getting back to the crease too many times for me.

You sure they're hockey fans?

^Yes. A strong first half would also do wonders for cardiac health.

Did you forget a smiley here? Or are you serious?