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Minnesota's problem in recent years (not last year) when they've underperformed has been their tendency to quit, and they were doing it earlier this year. When I saw them down 3 with their back-up goalie in, I wondered how they would respond. This team might not be playing the top shelf in the pw, but it looks like it's starting to play up to its potential--and there is a lot of it. We all are afflicted with some degree of gopher hate, but they are becoming a team to be reckoned with.

I really like this group. They're not the most talented team we have had in the last 10 years, but their intangibles make them a hard team to beat.

A win Friday would make me feel a whole lot more optimistic about the weekend. If we do, I hope Hak tells them to loosen up and go after them Saturday. I know that is not the way he has been winning, but if we get to the FF, I think the boys need to see it as a chance to do something special rather than a challenge they must meet with discipline and focus. All that sounds like BS (or cliche'), but I think it is possibly true that a team can be a little too tight in big games, and they sometimes need to be taught how to go out there and just play with energy and believe good things will happen. I think that can be the difference between a very successful season and a successful tournament. Again, that sounds like BS even to me.

Each person gets a pair of green glasses upon graduation?

For Duncan, it was just another day at his office over there inside the dot.

But Kristo had a P Kane-like ability to move around the zone and create chances. Bucks was a shooter would could smell a net a mile off.

I wonder how much goalie equipment alone would change numbers for guys like Hrkac and Greg Johnson? Go back farther and the difference would be even more pronounced.

This.

I completely understand the frustration, but it seems that every conference in country has an officiating problem--at least the fans constantly complain about it. If that is true (and I admit I can't prove it), then improving matters would have required some major changes, not just by NCHC but throughout college hockey. That is a complicated matter and probably expensive. Necessary, perhaps, but far more complicated than just giving some refs the boot. At least that's the way it looks to me. And I'm never wrong, you know.

I don't know. Others who saw him regularly might. Matt always skated hard and seemed extremely consistent. In the D zone.

I completely agree on the beef part. Get some more size and strength, but keep speed and skill as our identity. I like this current D corps better than any we've had in a while, and they make their mark with skill, speed, and positioning. Not that a Matt Jones type of pure defenseman wouldn't be welcome.

Ever visit the Blackhawk site on HF Boards? If the Hawks are losing, coach Quinn and every player on the team is a slacker not worthy of AHL wages. Until they win. Hilarious.

They have to be calling for Blais' head.

This team has only lost twice since Christmas (one in OT) in what is by far the best conference in the country. Not bad.

There's the deal. Western was hustling to pucks all night long and we just slowed down in the last 3 min

good time out

I don't know what JS will learn in the AHL, but he's not ready for the NHL. Not close IMO

True, but Western is really attacking, and I have a feeling the Sioux will get some odd man rush chances if Western doesn't score pretty soon.

Western the better team that period

camera work is pretty bad.

Only a little less awful than cc's floating tiger heads

The only thing I dread about student productions is inexperienced cameramen. Hockey can be impossible to watch if the cameraman zooms in too close is always chasing around to follow the puck.

Do they do a OoTTCoS? Out of Town Traditional Circle of Sticks.

Yes, I'll give you that.