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Slapshot Sports going for the clickbait headline. The referees didn’t call that a penalty. (And the TSN announcers are of course going to want a penalty on the American opponent.)

The best January in UND hockey history? 10 wins, 0 losses, by the Hrkac Circus 1986-1987. The worst January? A couple years of just one win (back in the 1960's and 1950's). No team has ever gone winless in January.

Outside in Mankato, 3 SOG for Tommies. 3-1 MSU halfway through. Snowing, windy, reminds me of playing outdoors in Grand Forks. well, except for the crowd of 10,000.

I haven’t heard any credit given to Western Michigan in the comments. Let me be the first. That’s a solid club. betting their postgame coaches comments note they were rusty to start, but got better as the game went on. Also probably not happy at giving UND so many good scoring chances, and need to tighten up tomorrow.

Regulation, but with the main camera set low, it certainly compresses the width, and length to a degree too. They may also be running a wider angle lens too.

Can’t believe they win with hardly any blue chippaz

Western looks rusty … we should take advantage soon, and stop their mojo before it starts.

While we’re at it, let’s overturn the semi based on the clock not turning on soon enough a couple times. * * I have only anecdotal evidence to support this assertion.

Upset alert: End of 1 period St Thomas 1-0 MSU Mankato. Goalie saves: 12 Berger, ST, 0 Mackay MSUM.

I hacked into the Transfer Portal for Referees and dropped his name in the hat. Will see if it works.

Matt Carl’s putting out some big guns on that last power play, up 3 , with less than a minute left. not cool. Typically classless for DU.

Much as I love college hockey, a decent share of talent goes Canadian Junior. Hope our selection people weren’t biased against.

One of their players is from Fargo.

Anyone who wanted to watch St Cloud and UMD will have to wait for a reschedule. Ppd, covid protocols. https://umdbulldogs.com/news/2022/1/5/mens-hockey-this-weekends-men-hockey-series-at-st-cloud-state-postponed.aspx

USCHO has Minnesota as 11-8-0, while CNH has Minnesota at 10-8-0. USCHO is including Minnesota's exhibition vs St Thomas yesterday as "NC" instead of EX - it was an Exhibition game. So, CHN is correct in this case.

UMD vs Mankato scoreless late 1st. Great tempo and team play,

Through 40 minutes, the best part relates to Dean Blais. down 1-0 after 2

USA hockey could do a lot worse than sending the U-18 team to the Olympics . These guys are very respectable. Plus they are unbeaten in the Big Ten 3-0 so far.

For the first time in a while, I may actually check on the polls when they come out on Monday… interesting take on sentiment in the college hockey world.

Kudos to Brad Schlossman, who's used his Twitter platform to skewer, flame and troll Michigan these last couple days. And Kudos to Michigan Tech for getting a result tonight. Well done boys.

This afternoon's "results": Penn State vs Maine, scheduled for the weekend, is cancelled and won't be rescheduled. (Positive results in the Maine camp.) Quinnipiac vs Princeton, postponed, likely to be rescheduled.

The Michigan: "A really cool lacrosse-style goal." "Chickening out of a game because you are scared to lose."

Oh, and we can also say goodbye to the Great Lakes Invitational, one of the best holiday traditions in the sport. (not to mention who in their right mind would schedule a nonconference game with Michigan in the future. Here’s hoping Mel chicken Pearson experiences a broad backlash.)

Time for NCAA RulesCommittee to define what’s allowable. Michigan vs Weatern should go onto the books as a forfeit, and be part of the Pairwise. English football has a standard of “13 players and one of them a goaltender” ; if you have that many you play or forfeit. We need a bright line objective standard like that in NCAA play too.

Good thing Fenton will be in charge soon.