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Poolmans goal was about as good a play as I've seen a UND defenseman make in a long long time. Complete control of the puck and situation and finished like a cold blooded assassin. We pounded those poor guys last night. They weren't ready for that, tonight they'll be expecting it so it should get interesting.
PC also wiffed on several open nets last night, which we can't count on happening again.
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Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln
I think you miss my point, Irish. If the coach, whoever it is, does everything you expect of him but fails to win the NC, some people demand he be replaced for that reason alone. Another coach could do virtually the same thing as a coach, get a few bounces, and win two NCs in the same period of time and folks would call for his induction into the hockey hall of fame. It is stupifyingly obvious that results count: most of us live with that in our work. But those who cling to that one factor without identifying what it is about Hak's (or anyone else's) actual coaching and without identifying someone who would come and who would do those things better, it's all just white noise.
The difference between a great coach and a failed coach is not a bad bounce or a pipe. That may be the difference between a great season ending and heartache, for sure. For some fans, it's more about the bragging rights of a NC than it is about watching good, well coached hockey year after year. And I've never understood that, since we fans do nothing but sit and watch and bloviate here and other places but have nothing to brag about ourselves. (Giving Gopher fans shat about the Banner count has a value, though, no question)
Now, criticizing Hak for his actual on-ice coaching and saying he should be replaced because of it is another matter, and some do focus on the coaching itself and not simply on the Banner count. I've been critical of his game coaching in the past, thinking he could even be the best program coach UND has ever had but he's not quite there as a game coach. But I don't really know enough about the college game at this point to say much more than that, so it's pretty empty criticism too.
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Blais would have hung 7 on those guys.
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boys need to be careful not to give up the momentum by watching the game from the PB
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The boys forechecking like demons tonight
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Watching pregame. Hammer. The guy just seems like nothing about hockey comes naturally for him but he tries so hard. It makes me like him more. He's like the walk-on who becomes a fan favorite because of his attitude not because of his talent level.
Who else has a Hammer?
Here's hoping for a traditional circle of sticks on Saturday.
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This will be a very good opportunity to get a feel of where this team is at. I don't think we can tell yet, from playing Manitoba, Bemidji, and CC, though I have a feeling Bemidji will give some good teams fits this year.
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Excluding National Championships but using win percentage and frozen four appearances for any 10 consecutive year period, how does Hak rank with other coaches in Sioux history ?
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Srunk is like a soberish drunk.
Strunk is the word we used back in the day, and it had quite a different meaning.
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Blais woulda hung 8 on this team. Easy.
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You guys are right...memory is fuzzy after 40.
After 40? Boy are you in for a ride.
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Am I watching the same game? Good connection, bad camera work and 3-1 with about 11:00 left in 2nd. PP-CC
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Northern Michigan has 5 shots on goal and have 1 goal. Wisconsin's high end talent have 9 shots on goal.
I think you might be thinking of last year's Wisconsin team.
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How old is TH? I will surely miss him when he's gone.
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The Hak supporters properly point out the success of the team in his time and his .600 W PCT and that's great. If Jones, Brewster and even Bubba did that with several trips to the playoffs/Big Dance they'd be here for life.
But this is UND HOCKEY. The standard is higher and every year that we don't get a title it's as though we accept anything less than a title. No one expects to win one every year, and we do give a guy a chance and 10 years is more than fair.
Plus how many coaches, even pro, wouldn't want to try coaching here? We would get applicants from all over the hockey world.
Those are all imaginary applicants until you can identify someone who would come (can't count York, for example, or Lucia) and who is likely to do better. Who is that person, in your mind?
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I suppose every team suffers this at times, but our guys, IMO, have shown a tendency to glide into the corners and boards too often. As if the urgency level is not quite there until it has to be. The dmen do this at times when it looks like it is a positioning strategy they are taught, and it might be. I don't have the expertise to know.
Nice to get a Friday win on the road, though. Anywhere. Get four or more tonight.
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UConn is now my new favorite team in Hockey East... you old timers will appreciate the fact that they will be using Brass Bonanza as their goal song (Whalers old goal song).
I think old timer Al Hangsleben, who I think is one of UND's best defensemen ever, played at Hartford, so there is that UND connection.
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Please tell me we won't have to watch floating tiger heads if we subscribed to the NCHC broadcast.
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Thats because unlike our guys, players get hit and lay on the ice so a penalty is called. Ive never seen our guys do that, maybe i have the goggles on
Frankly, I think UND players have taken a lot of real stupid penalties in recent years in the name of so called "old time hockey." We need a physical presence in front of and behind the net, both on offense and defense, and a good solid hit is a good thing, but give me a player who works hard, knows where he is supposed to be, understands the way rules are enforced in the game today and is smart enough to keep his wits about him. There's old time hockey, and there's new time rules.
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Randy Carlyle's doghouse...
But to be fair ..sounds like he put himself there.
Very discouraging. He was on fire before he hurt his knee? in Toronto, then let a prime opportunity in L.A. slip away. I wonder if he's keeping it together off ice.
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Where is Matt Frattin?
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I'm all for physical hockey like what we got from McWilliam, but not the kind of chippy, tough-guy, stupid stuff that puts us a man down. McWilliam got the box a lot, but mostly because he hit people so hard the refs felt there had to be a penalty.The format for college hockey is ridiculous. Leave it to the NCAA to have a format with so few practices before the first official game. Only sport in the NCAA I can think of where there is less then 2 weeks of practice and the period where you have 20 hours for the week before your first game.
There is a reason Notre Dame, Providence, Western Michigan, Miami, Wisconsin and UND all lost their first game.
All I'm saying is I still have hope that we will avoid the "slow start" with the experience of this team and I want to see Sioux Hockey now as oppose to after the break when they put it into gear and make a push.
Nick Schmaltz is fun to watch.....and we need some guys that play on the edge and play some "old time hockey" and I think Chyzyk and Olson could be those guys on the forward unit... They need to be in the line up from a physicality stand point.
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Some of you guys don't get it. A coach doesn't recruit for those "4 year players" he recruits for talent. Yes, the unions and yales have had recent success but a lot of it was luck. When 57 other teams pass on a kid there is a reason for it. In Haks defense, you don't just turn a blind eye to talent, he is competing against the gophers and Eagles and the chl for the best young kids in the country. Those "4 year players" are the result of everyone else passing on them and a lot of luck. That's why those teams typically are hot and cold every other year. However, hak has had a lot of talent and even our "4 year players" could have played almost anywhere else, so he needs to get one relatively soon.
True. BC isn't wining more titles than anyone because they have a lot of players recruited to say 4 years. They have a great coach, but their roster is high end. And yes, UND always has a bunch of draft picks, but they're not getting the level of talent BC or Minny is getting.
Like everybody, I'm looking to see if Hak can become as good a game coach as he is a program coach, at which he has few equals.
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The radio crew were giving props to Simonson for his face off ability. That would be nice to develop another natural C (if that's what he is.)
That's good, because we lost a LOT of faceoffs last night. Listening to TH, it sounded like the Beavers won a lot of stick battles, on faceoffs and on the boards. Maybe it just sounded that way.
The Ralph - The 3 Best and 3 Worst Games Ever
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If there is such a think as a best loss, I'd pick the back to back OT losses against UW in Madison in January of 2000. I believe the teams were tied for first, and the atmosphere was electric. Sioux lost, but some very exciting hockey, and a great comeback to get the OT on Friday (I think). Strangely, I left both games feeling juiced up instead of heartbroken. Maybe you could sense good things were in store for that team. Sioux waxed the Badgers in the Final Five.