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Clearly evident talent imbalance at this point.

It clearly crossed the line. Second replay view showed it.

Nice. Bunch of boneheaded Blackhawks fans have been griping about JT's downturn in production and claiming his paleo diet is making him weak. Not sure it's strictly paleo, but he's not eating brats and burgers like they'd like.

That seems odd. He's a WI resident, so tuition and fees are only about 10,500 per year, so he's not an expensive scholarship, even with room and board. Of course, maybe they didn't put a high enough value on him to offer a full.

Hence the Wisconsin connection. In addition to training at Pettit, did one or both attend UW?

Source?

Does DU have a message board where a guy can try to stir up the natives a little. Do those people even read?

Not surprised about JS, to be honest.

Your comment is such small thinking. When I was a kid, I thought winning the game I was playing was the immediate goal and winning the season the ultimate goal. But I've aged a lot and matured a little and have changed my definition of what the "big one" is. A banner is a lot of fun and provides a convenient and identifiable goal and a great excuse to engage in trash talk, but it is NOT the "big one" in these kids' lives. How they fight for it and what they learn from that fight, win or lose, is much bigger. Hak helped a lot of kids "win" that one. And yeah, I deserve some "FCS, give us a break, burd" crap for that one.

Cue Dustin Penner story

Many of us have been a little disappointed by Kawaguchi's development, but there's another way to look at it. The guy has real skills, just hasn't adjusted to the speed of the game, it looks like. If he does (and I have to think our staff can help him turn the corner), that's another tool in our belt we haven't even been using to this point. And possibly a very good one.

I don't know about Philly, but we stopped getting high end recruits when Hak left. Sigh. Those were the days. Shame on burd for stooping to an emoticon.

I just want to see the boys play well in all areas. And where don't, let them fix it moving forward. Wins are nice, but if hard lessons need to be learned which will help them in the long run, then we will see if they can handle that. They may be elite college hockey players, and some of them will make a lot of money playing this game, but they are still basically kids, and they need to learn how to learn sometimes, hopefully quicker than I did at that age.

This series is just what this team needs now, and whether they win or lose, they will learn a lot about themselves. So glad UND is in this conference, where they are tested by the best college hockey has to offer and we get to watch it.

The only way they don't get the sweep is if they don't play a full 120 minutes.

Jerome Tweeton

The game seems just a little too fast for Kawaguchi still. Looks like he has a pretty big upside, though.

I'm glad we get to see them play 4x a year. Fun hockey to watch.

Larkin moves really well. Weak on Bowen's goal, though.

They are fun to watch. If you win.

Miami definitely has a skating edge.

That's true, and Miami was the better skating team, IMO. Though there are a lot of factors that go into which team "seems" quicker.

I'm still in too much denial to think Gornall won't get one tonight. Just as good a chance as the gophers getting #6.

Yeah, UND missed a lot of them. Just saying it would not have taken too much for that game to have a different result.

I really like this group too, but if Miami had converted on a couple grade A chances and one or two of our scrum goals not gone in, the outcome would have been different and I think a lot of fans would be complaining about the effort. Miami is a better skating team, and our passing was not particularly good. I'm happy with the result and the effort, just saying how outcome-centric we tend to be as critics of the boys' play. Really nice to see how well Thome is playing. Bodes well for this year and looking ahead.