Big A HG

As a former Sconnie, we have a better chance on the ice than out-drinking them.

Yep, we are the host.

Merrimack knocked off Quinnipiac 4-1 in their lone match earlier this year.

I don't give a hoot if I'm beating a dead horse or not like all the Berry lovers like to say....but those who argued to keep Brad were all wrong. Even if we go to Vegas and get smoked, switching up coaches was the right call.

QUIET...a hockey game is going on.

Shhhhhh, there's a hockey game going on.

I, too, have Michigan State.

Just got home from work, how come no UND fans went to the game?

I wasn't looking to ever sell any of my black Nike jerseys, but I have an authentic size 48 if the price is right.

Does Blais count? If not him, I can't think of one ever. Might be an obscure one I can't think of.

Lamoureux twins?

I think many are overreacting, but I think there's an interesting question in what you said. Before I get to it, everyone should remember how difficult we've been to score against all year. As the season has gone on, the stakes have ramped up, and we still kept pushing higher in the NPI despite playing what looks like looser hockey. I think our opponents place a bigger target on our back when we're ranked as highly as we are and the season starts culminating toward playoff hockey. Does that mean a 5-1 loss on home ice is suddenly acceptable? No, but not a huge cause for panic quite yet. Duluth is a top 6 team in the country, hates us, and has a multiple-time championship head coach. In a one-and-done, if you don't bring your A-game, this will bite you. Dane will use it as a teaching moment and we'll be ready to go in Round 1 of the NCAA. But, jumping back to .357's point...assuming these mistakes are as prevalent as what some want to say...I wonder if there's a difference in having a head coach now who played as a forward throughout his career versus having Brad or Hak who were both defensemen. I don't think it means much, especially with Dane having been behind the bench for almost 20 years in some capacity, and we have Smaby and Simpson helping out (both defensemen), but was just an interesting thought.

Need chippahs and strong leadership. That's a tiny part why a coaching change was needed at UND.

Agree...but we can't have many consecutive years of one-and-dones either. Even when Berry was winning conference titles but getting bounced, the team didn't pass the eye test for me. But, everyone was like "we won the conference, so all is great", but you could see the writing on the wall a lot of the time. The 2020 season that got cancelled was a great example of a season where I feel we way outperformed our actual talent. #1 team in the country and all, but it didn't seem like a team that would go very deep in the tournament to me. Conversely, this team passes the eye test. All three phases of our team can win the game for us. If they are all clicking, we're extremely dangerous. The scary part is, I don't think all three phases have clicked at the same time, but if you could put it all together in late March and April, anything is possible for this team.

I wasn't 100% sure Dane was the right guy either, but it was hard to fathom how anyone could think that keeping Brad was the right move. It's amazing what some accountability and forward-thinking can do in a single year. Even if we somehow fizzle out in the playoffs this year, you can tell we're on the right trajectory again.

How does Michigan let Minnesota have essentially a 2-on-0 in front of the net when they're on a PK?

Probably because so many people who wanted Berry gone were called very mean things and many claimed nothing was wrong with the program. And now that the program exceedingly passes the eye test under new leadership, you can no longer even bring up the subject of past coaching anymore.

UND wins this game.

But Berry was a nice guy and all the old women on Facebook loved him. If anyone truly cared about UND hockey and actually watched any of it with their own two eyes, it was pretty obvious the program was going backwards in warp speed.

EmBerrysing

Looked like the .6 goal.

They listened

Brad's not coach anymore.

Mercyhurst will tie it... I guarantee it

They officially have a "hot goalie".