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Incoming:
Boeser
Gersich
Wilkie
Janatuinen
Gardner
Wolanin
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Shaw
Tomek
Hammy
Departing:
JS
Mac
gfhockey
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Lo and behold: we're sounding like GPL
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Jaxon Nelson to the gophs, kind of expected.
What are your thoughts on him, big loss?
Meh--really didn't fit into the Sioux's plans with what we've got coming in and the way he dresses and all . . .
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I expect UND to compete for the NCHC regular season, NCHC tournament, and National Title every year.
Looking at how I think the NCHC regular season might go.
1. Duluth
2. North Dakota
3. Miami
4. Denver
5. Omaha
6. St. Cloud
7. Western Michigan
8. Colorado College
Duluth will have two very good goalies in Kaskisuo and incoming freshmen Hunter Miska. I think it will come down to goaltending for Duluth to win the regular season.
I believe North Dakota can win back-to-back Penrose Cups, I can also see them finishing third in the league.
Miami will depend on how good their goaltenders play on where they finish in the league.
Denver, Omaha, and St. Cloud I see battling for the final home playoff spot, and any of them getting it. Denver has the advantage in goaltending over Omaha and St. Cloud. Offensively all three are about even.
Western Michigan will be a tough team to play against like they are every year, I just don't see them finishing higher then 7th.
Colorado College is on the 4 year plan. I do think they will show some improvement next year, but it wont be enough to get out of 8th in the league.
Boy it's nice being in this conference, with all these quality teams. We all miss the WCHA, but this field is great.
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That's hypocritical
U guys think a frozen four is good enough
I want nattys
You're entitled to nothing.
gf is that child kicking and screaming on the floor in front of the candy display. It's hard to tell if he wants the candy or the attention.
Of course, his parents should ignore him
Maybe he will be an early departure to Omaha or Duluth when he gets less and less playing time here.
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But didn't he stick in the USHL for another year with nothing else to prove either? Zane could go either way and I wouldn't be surprised.
I don't think JS is physically ready yet either--he'll get manhandled by players who are just as good on their skates, stronger and much more intense. But I realize he probably wouldn't benefit much from another year at UND, and the goal is to get into the system and learn the pro game in the minors before taking a shot at the NHL.
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Another National Title. Nothing else will do.
You still in Memphis? Or long gone from there?
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Great group of young men. It's been a real pleasure.
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Not a single player or coach on this team has anything to apologize for. Fans of this team should be proud of the way they have played and the way they handled themselves this year.
I would go all in that they have outperformed the way their loudest critics perform their own day jobs.
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Providence College looked really good today. They will give BU or UND all they can handle on Saturday night.
Hard to tell if PC is that good or Blais is just that bad.
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It gotta go with 6 if he gets a faceoff in the Ozone.
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If this two-goal lead continues, what's the over/under on how many minutes left before Dean pulls Massa?
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I wonder if gfhockey is going to pull Deano aside between periods and ask him a simple quesiton
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Good luck today, boys. '
And I hope all of us fans can overcome the anxiety enough to appreciate how lucky we are to have a program like this to root for.
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Am I the only one that wouldn't want to see him play even if he was cleared today? I think you have to have fully healthy bodies on the ice. No weak spots. Plus, I wouldn't want to test his rust in a one and done format.
After the boys get #8 and are invited to go on tour, maybe he can suit up.
The folks in the twin cities would probably pay to see some championship hockey.
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Wow. I know it's a highlight reel, but the kid can control the puck. Haven't seen him play yet, Hope I'm disappointed.
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Jason Herter was drafted #8 overall in the 1989 draft.
Best slapper I've seen by a Sioux. Hard to compare the velocity of modern shots against the old woodies, though.
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Exactly. I'm not for Hakstol's release at this point (not that it would matter anyway), but it's important for people when they're debating a point to step outside their entrenched (& I mean ENTRENCHED) beliefs/views & at least try to understand the other's point. To be fluid with one's perspective & entertain the notion that maybe that other person just might have a valid point, even if it may take a few beers to wrap his mind around that other person's thought. For me, it seems like many people go their entire lives clinging to a certain belief & they will die or defend that belief because they just cannot see themselves accepting anything else; almost like they made a vow to that belief & it would be completely unacceptable for them to even entertain changing it. I'm talking generally here, not necessarily as it applies to Hakstol. These rigid thinking patterns seem to be more ironclad in people's mind than prison bars.
It's called confirmation bias, and it is something we all have to be careful to avoid. Tavris and Aronson wrote an excellent book on it called "Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)," which is an excellent read for everyone.
If my school has a coach who has lost control of his players or is consistently performing poorly, like missing the tournament consistently, I would probably conclude that he needs to go and that it will not be very difficult to replace him with a person who will do better. If I have a coach who ranks in the top three coaches nationwide in win percentage, frozen four appearances, etc, but I can identify a coaching flaw that leads me to conclude that coach will probably never win a banner, I will strongly consider firing him, but I would be very careful about it and would have to be convinced that the replacement is likely to be better, all things considered. That is a tougher call the better the current coach is performing.
I think it is amusing when posters here complain that they cannot criticize Hakstol. I don't think I'm alone in saying people should be able to freely criticize him, but if that criticism is limited to personal frustration that we haven't won a banner, then be prepared for others to expect you to identify the basis in terms more helpful than "he hasn't won one yet." To say that people are being shouted down so they cannot criticize Hak is creating a strawman.
I have stated that I think he is a great program coach, perhaps the best we have ever had, but I'm not convinced he has reached the point where his game coaching has reached that level. He has certainly done both jobs well this year. Up to this point, he should be in the running for coach of the year. But we will see how we do in Boston. If we win two games, that will be all some people need. If we lose, I will want to know what the better-informed hockey people identify as the reason. Either way, I really like this bunch and what the coaching staff has done with them.
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If a spouse cheats, does the other spouse need to know the intricate details of why that spouse cheated, or can that person just end it & get a divorce? Or, if a coach of a revered program goes for a long drought without a NC, does the fanbase need to give an intricate coaching analysis of why they are terminating him, or can they just terminate him for someone who may be more sophisticated in all points of the game? It's not an emotional reaction; it's a conclusion based on the very tangible result that no national championships have been won over a long duration. Cut & dry. .... I'm not implying anything about Hakstol, seriously, just trying to understand your rationale, so no burning parties tonight from the mob, please ....
Not much to chew on there, but I'll give it a shot. In a divorce, one person makes a decision on his or her own future (although it may involve kids). It is a one-step process--no immediate replacement is necessary and, in most states replacement within 6 months results in an invalid marriage.
You may wish to divorce yourself from Sioux hockey, and that is your choice. But if the AD or athletic board "divorces" a coach, they will have to replace him or her soon afterward unless they want the players to coach themselves. So if you hope to avoid your previous mistake or even making things much worse, you better have given serious thought to who that replacement will be and why he is likely to make things better and not worse.
I've been critical of Hak myself, and I have no problem with fans getting on his case. But just wanting him gone because he has not won a title and nothing more is not criticism, it's whining.
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Let's face it: the "no banner" argument, though understandable, is an emotional one, not an analytical one.
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So you want a longer explanation? Well, here it is:
Hakstol has had a long laundry list of talent come through this program since he took it over in 2004. Cripes, he had Toews (future NHL Hall of Famer), Oshie (NHL All-Star) and Duncan (2007 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner) on the same team and on the same line. And that wasn't enough to hang #8. If you really want to sit there and say Hakstol hasn't had the players, go right on ahead. That doesn't make it true. Because it isn't. That is one example of how Hakstol's teams produce in the regular season and the conference tournament (most years anyway, certainly not this year), but then crash and burn in the NCAA's. And I believe a 1-6 Frozen Four composite record is crashing and burning, especially some of those blowouts to Boston College. You know, the team that doesn't use excuses like "parity", "one and done", "hot goalie" and so on and just gets it done when they have the players to get it done.
And please don't tell me that Tom Izzo has the same caliber of talent that Duke and Kentucky have had over the years. Those two programs are always stacked with McDonald's All-Americans and future NBA lottery picks. I don't think Izzo has sent all that many kids to the NBA or had a bunch of McDonald's All-Americans on the roster at the same time. His teams simply are well-coached, well-prepared and take advantage of match-ups that the coaches find for their players to exploit. Kind of what Wisconsin did to Kentucky last night. And what UConn did to Kentucky last year.
Even without the athletes that Duke, North Carolina and Kentucky have on a perennial basis, Izzo has done more with less during his entire tenure. Meanwhile Hakstol took over a program with a full cupboard left behind by Blais and hasn't won a single NCAA title. And, like it or not, hanging NCAA banners is what separates the elite hockey programs from the merely good hockey programs. And I honestly care more about the status of the program as a whole than how many guys we send to the NHL (more often the AHL or Europe). That is the point I was making. And I will stand by it. End rant.
I get what you are saying, fighting, and many of us share the frustration, but there is not one word of actual coaching analysis in that post. There has been very little criticism of Hak's coaching on this forum--just frustration about not winning #8.
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I would say that Izzo has done more with less, while Hakstol has done less with more. Flame away if you wish, but that is the truth.
Nothing wrong with criticism. Anyone who accepts a head coaching job of a top program and all the money and prestige that comes with it must expect to be criticized. But what exactly about his on-ice or off-ice coaching to you think has been below par? We can all count to one (banner), but understanding the game well enough to identify what will work better is more difficult. I'm sure there are a lot of people who know the game well who don't like Hak's coaching, but all I ever hear on here is the banner shortfall. That might be the result of inferior coaching, but it is not the cause of it.
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This is my worry every tournament since it's killed us in the past. The nice thing is that UNDs style of play has evolved a lot over the past few years.
I agree. You have to adjust if you want to succeed.
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I was just going to suggest that Luke Johnson is a shoot first kind of guy. Even if that shot is at the goal line, he's taking it. Hopefully those three recruits have the speed and hustle to avoid the same benching cries that LJ got this year.
Bucks. Shoot from anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
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I count 19 teams added to D1 hockey since we won in 1982. I think that's a 50% increase in teams (40 to 59). Don't ask me how that helps this conversation.