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UMD and Denver have been 1 and 2 PW all season long, and look how close their games have been with other NCHC teams, including the bottom of the pack. This is one tough conference. And an even field nationally. All the more reason for us to have hope, so long as we make the tourney.

Boeser and Jost can carry us against Omaha, a very weak defensive team, but we will need others to step up against better defensive teams.

Seeing how well this team can play for stretches and then go backward makes you appreciate how error-free our Defense has been in recent years, especially last. It's a pretty fast moving game in this conference, and those guys just didn't many costly mistakes back there last year.

One thing. Our fan base takes adversity well.

Not much he could do. The D should have been there.

Are you talking about the breakaway save on Ortega?

I thought their goaltending when we played at Omaha was as bad as I'd seen, but they it's just as bad tonight.

I think Granato and his staff have UW back in the game.

Man UMD has been in a lot of close games this year. Especially for the #1 ranking they've had most of the year.

Stop the reminiscing. I'm getting tears in my eyes thinking of Sparky.

I agree--I was just poking fun at all of us, including myself, for how we've responded to FF failures over the years. For the record, I think we often attribute loses to them not caring when that is not really the case. But I'm not in the locker room, so what do I know.

Experience has shown here that if we don't win that one weekend in April it doesn't matter how things went the previous 24 weekends.

9 points by former Sioux last night in Hawks/Wild game, two of the winningest teams in the league. Hattie and two assists for Toews, a goal and two assists for Nick, and a goal for God. Decent showing.

I don't think it is an excuse; it's a fact.

They beat and tied them already on the road. CC is not the CC of last year.

They are playing very well this period against the 5th ranked team.

It seems like Boeser and Jost are both missing on high quality wristers we've come to assume would be goals.

There you go. Ever since we started playing top teams, it was clear we don't have the horses to expect success like we've seen in the past. It doesn't mean the guys are lazy or don't care. If we get in the tourney, maybe something good will happen, but just don't count on it. And with the talent we lost from last year, nobody should be surprised.

The boys have been playing a good forecheck and possession game. Can't say they aren't working hard.

anyone listening to Tim? Lots of white noise now.

Some very thoughtful posts by the usually erudite and informed Sioux fan base. The standard in the industry. My slightly more emotional take: MY MAN GORNALL v. the whole dam wmu team and anyone else they want to put out there

You know what? With this team, I think this weekend is this weekend. They are capable of beating anybody, and that means anything can happen in the tournament, but I don't see them turning it on and becoming "that team." They just don't have the horses for that this year. I'm still optimistic, believe it or not. They can play with the best, and Cam is capable of a run.

Can't be good for our PW.

I can't think of Kalamazoo without thinking of Glenn Miller's song I've got a Gal. That's a confession.

Well, Mafia and I live quite a bit closer to Michigan than you do, and the chances of being shamed in public by some drunk Spartan fan is that much greater. Could even come from the B1G fan who shall not be named on this thread, since he wanders around these parts now and then looking for friends.