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I wrote, I waited, came back & read what I wrote. I'm still going to send this. Bob's coaching failures have nothing to do with his life experiences, or if he's a good human, in my opinion. And you show your ignorance for lobbing that kind of dirty insult about posters on this site. Having lost a child of my own, I would never want any parent to experience that loss, ever. But it did not then, nor does it now, affect the decisions I make in my business or professional life. His lack of experience, low hockey knowledge, inability to learn from mistakes, being stubborn, or just aloof - is what cost those 25 young men, who have been dreaming of playing in that tournament since they started skating, a chance to win a medal. That is his unforgivable sin. The examples are a mile long. Jockeying lines non-stop every game. Matching the wrong lines against opponents. Sitting players with skills that better matched opponents. Not acknowledging, or worse, rewarding bad play with more ice time. The list goes on and on. A good coach would have given those young men an opportunity to succeed. A good human would set aside his ego, learn from his mistakes, look at the numbers and make the obvious choices to give those boys have a chance to win. He did not. He selfishly made the same mistakes, over and over. The overtime in the last game was the perfect example. He put players on the ice who had not scored and had made mistakes & given up goals. And it cost the entire team the game. And every single one of those boys knows how Bob failed them. Especially the kids he put on the ice in OT. These kids are the best in world, more than anyone they know who should be on the ice to give their team the best chance to win. But Bob knew best, now those kids have to live with letting down their teammates in the biggest game of their hockey lives. THAT, is being a dick, in my opinion.

My 2 day update from the WJ tournament. A client had a suite & invited me & a buddy to both games. Being a MN company, there were several former Gopher players there, 3 of them with solid NHL careers. Listening to their take on both games was fascinating. None of them had a single good thing to say about Motzko, & a couple played for him. The main theme, he has no clue how to coach high-end talent players, and letting him coach the WJ's is the worst possible position for Team USA. One guy said the overplaying of Mooney is killing the kid personally, and the most obvious of many horribly bad coaching decisions by Motzko so far. He said all the scouts & coaches see Mooney is clearly out of his league & putting him on the #1 PP & constantly on the PK where he just isn't physically or skill-wise strong enough is embarrassing. They said the kid & his agent know how bad he looks, but Bob doesn't see it or give a 💩 because he's a Goofer. Most were convinced Mooney will cost the U.S. a game at some point. A bunch of agents & NHL scouts dropped in to see the former players. Again, consensus was Motzko seemed to be trying to coach Team USA OUT of the medal round. Every one of them thought it was the dumbest thing in the tournament to not have Zellers out every third shift, second prize, breaking up Zellers, McMorrow & Spellacy. 1 guy played defense in the pros, he said the top 4 for U.S. have been horrible. He hadn't watched EJ at UND, but what he saw in game 2, he would put EJ in top 4 over any of the returning players. The guy hosting let everyone know me & my buddy were UND grads & Sioux Hockey fans, they all said they were very impressed with this year's Sioux team & thought our boys had a chance to make a run. All of them said Motzko was shorting Zellers & scratching Emery because they are Sioux players, no question. One of the scouts showed me his Insta-Stats (SP?) account on his phone & said it is insane to not play Zellers based on all kinds of scoring metrics. He said it was more insane to play Mooney, Lee, McKinney, etc. when their numbers get worse with more ice time. He also showed me the U.S.'s "top 2 lines" data, & said if they were his players he's be worried they would be sent down to the AHL. It was a ton of data that they all knew well, the guy told me basically any coach in the NHL doing what Motzko has been doing would have been fired in less than a month. Someone said too bad Bob didn't get hit with the puck, then they could let Garrett Raboin take over & have a shot at making a medal round. 😬

Nope, not good enough. This decision coming from a guy who is coaching one of the legacy programs in college hockey, right out of the top 20. How USA Hockey let this happen should be investigated right up there with the Somali fraud scams in Minnesota.

I wouldn't count on Zellers being available for the Mercyhurst series......😏🇺🇸

Now THAT is funny!!!

In case no one gave the background, Geno (color commentator) is former NHLer Mark Parrish's brother. Mark is a regular on KFAN's Power Trip Showk & has similar cadence & annoying commentary. But sadly Mark has had 86 concussions so he forgets & repeats himself, often. Adding salt to the wound, at least for me it does - Geno gets paid a s*#t ton as a consultant to college & NHL players on game strategy, on-ice play & workout trainers. Probably why he thinks he's so dam funny.

Up yours BOB!! 🖕

Amen! Give the top lines a period, maybe half of the second, then put them in bubble wrap & let the other lines get a ton of ice time.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRKimSbETx2/?igsh=MWJkZnpjbW04NzhkdA%3D%3D Post from a guy who only writes about college hockey. Take it for what it's worth. If you look at the other players being compared to #9 and #6 - our guys are ahead of the pack in a lot of categories. Sadly, he doesn't include #7 or #13. With the exception of Plante & Horcoff, 9 has more goals than the rest. Even ahead of the overhyped Ryker Lee, who has 2 goals on the #1 ranked team in the country?? If you look at the dmen #6 is the only 'offensive' defenseman next to Hutson. Not that he's a scoring juggernaut, But Kleber, Groenwald, & Osborn are not going to light the lamp. It will be interesting to see how Coach Bob handles this, especially with Gopher Nation not exactly rowing the boat for him lately.

100% agree with every point. Put a 10% chance any one of them happening. Sadly.

We made it easy for them to play us. All they had to do was wait for our D to bring the puck up ice, which they did all night. Pressure them, that took us out of our system, forwards are waiting for a pass, D panic, take a bad/long shot from the point, rebound comes out, D are out of position, they get a 2 - 1 or back door play for a goal. My 2 cents from the cheap seats.

Looked pretty familiar last night, big line changes, players with bad performances were not ‘corrected’, loss on the East coast. Not a surprising loss when you look at from that perspective. And now this from the GF story: But Jackson indicated more shuffling may occur for the series finale. "Didn't see a lot of playmaking that connected," Jackson said. Agree there wasn’t enough playmaking but that’s because the D were constantly sticking handling the puck. Drove me nuts watching our defensemen taking what seemed like 80-90% of the shots, PP and on the rush. Why?!?! And why the F do they feel the need to stick handle the puck for 10 seconds, doing a hot lap around the Off. zone before passing it to a forward?!?! This is like in football when a quarterback constantly throws the ball to the blocking tight end with Justin Jefferson on the field & then they are shocked they aren’t scoring enough touchdowns to win the game. 🤯🤬 It’s B.S. to blame it on the forwards. They can’t do their job, scoring goals, when the D aren’t doing their job, keeping the opposing team out of our end. I know it’s blasphemy, but the play of #4 & #2 cost us that game. They got beat, badly, on the first 3 goals & were behind the play all night. Sets a horrible tone for the rest of the team when your “leaders” make mistakes & aren’t corrected by coaches. Shuffling the D would be good. 2 second rule for puck possession with dmen. Quick f’in passes up the ice. Forwards shoot first mentality. Try that before line change bingo & see what happens.

Great way to correct that PP problem - don't have the defensemen skate a loop around the offensive zone & NOT pass the puck to a forward. Drove me nuts watching #25 and #4 do the loop, then not get a shot off, or a bad shot, or lose the puck. Trying to do it all yourself is a PeeWee level mentality. We have 5 they have 4, take advantage of the math. Quick passing. Shoot the puck! 🤯🤬

I hope the coaches don't go with the big overreaction/correction to a 1 game loss to a top 10 team (I think MN is better than UConn & Maine) and change lines, flop players around, big switches on PP units, etc. I have deep empathy & sympathy for what #21 has been through the past 2 years, and if the coaches told him, "Hit everything that moves!", that might also be clouding his judgment. But as the B.B. haters have said on here many times, "JAX is going to do it different!" and I hope they are right. But, that would mean he would have to sit #21 for the bad play & really bad penalties. Let the lines develop & build chemistry. Use the Foligno example for checking to separate a player from the puck, not skate around looking for a body to crush & skate past the puck. I love physical play when done right, but you look at Denver, BU, Michigan State, and our Sioux style under Blaise - speed kills, puck possession, quick, accurate passing, shoot first mentality, relentless forecheck. You get dumb penalties when all you are focussed on is hitting a guy, not all of those other things. Playing the speed kills style of game would definitely be different from the past 2 years. GO Sioux!!

Here's a blast from the past to occupy Friday night's for the boys: