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Can't imagine who would, just as the McNaughton brought a lot more respect than the Broadmoor.

I'm good with them starting out against the hottest team. Wouldn't have it any other way.

I'd agree, and it is a mystery sometimes what makes teams seem flat. Sometimes they are just off rhythm. Sometimes they are just chasing because they are outcoached. Sometimes it just isn't working. And yes, sometimes they aren't prepared mentally. I just don't see Berry's teams as being unprepared at this point. But I'm watching from a long ways away.

You are right, I'm sure, but that doesn't mean they didn't see the urgency on Friday night.

Seems like every time any UND team loses a big game, folks come out and say the players don't care or are soft. That is an easy, convenient, and simplistic thing to say and usually just made out of frustration.

Fitting end to a needless game. But I'm sure there are years when this game counts for a bubble team.

I feel the same way.

I know there are all kinds of cliché's about how the team needed to win this tournament, but I'm not very upset about this loss. Call it a bit of superstition or just playing the odds. The burned a loss and got a little reminder today that it's balls to the wall. The ONLY factor that counts, in my opinion, is Cam's confidence. Hope that didn't get shaken today. Four in a row starting next week.

You have to understand, row5, that not everyone evaluates cities according to bowling alley count.

Nicely done, MM.

Sounds tough. You lose to BC when you think you'll win, which is traumatic enough; then you have to drive back through Minnie and risk exposure to a gopher fan. I guess you gas up and use the bathroom in Hudson and hope you can make it to Fargo.

I think you 're right, jk. That was a hell of a team that was eliminated in the first regional game wasn't it?

UND's record is now 30-5-3, I think. They haven't accomplished anything in the NCAAs, but I don't think a UND team has ever lost fewer than 7 games in a season. Among teams that won the banner, the 1963 team lost 7. The Circus lost 8. Among other good teams, the '03-04 team lost 8, and the '10-11 team lost 9. If they do not win their last game, many will say this year was a fail, but it has already been something special.

It's not going to be like this next week, which is a good thing, with regionals around the corner.

Who's Tim's color guy again? Someone message him to quit saying "yup" while Tim's talking. He is good on the color, but he's got to break that habit.

That's the thing. They're due.

Even gfhockey's woody for Blais could use a little medicinal help about now. Simple fact.

A non what thread?

Is it too late to arrange some marriages here? Sisters. Sisters. Of course, there would always be the risk that we manipulate the gene pool to create a tall, quick, talented goalie who goes off to play for the goofers.

Not a goalie expert, but if Cam had Karl's glove he'd be at another level.

If we lose a game to CC, people will certainly say they overlooked them, but CC has proven it's capable of playing very well. Which is odd, because they usually suck.

Cam has been a better goalie this year than Zane was last year, IMO. Will he have an off game in the NCAAs? Possibly. Zane certainly did. Whatever happens going forward, what he has done this year is pretty unimpeachable regardless of whom you compare him to.

I think he's right: CC will keep it tight for about two minutes, then all he!! will rain down on them.

I think Boeser needs to work on his defense. He works hard and back-checks, but he has a tendency to be careless in our zone. Does that require professional experience? I don't know.

I think many of us are hoping against hope that Schmaltz will stay so Jost can join those two. Don't think it will happen, but a girl can dream. But man, there could be some serious departures at the blue line.