Big A HG

I agree with Goon on this one. These types of games happen. It's a road game in a small town requiring both flying and busing against an unfamiliar opponent salivating at playing one of the western powers in their own barn. A lot of the college hockey blue bloods don't make a trip like this for the very reason we saw on Friday night. A game like this will hopefully make the team stronger and more adept for uncomfortable situations down the road. The result sucked, but I still think they kept fighting and skating, just made a lot of mistakes in the midst of all that.

It's still Minnesota at #1 for the majority of the fan base. The bitterness seen is similar to how Vikings fans (which most UND fans are) have Packer Derangement Syndrome...though in this case it's Gopher Derangement Syndrome.

We should never schedule road ECAC games ever again. It never helps us. Thank you to the previous regime for scheduling this one.

Clarkson diving all over now.

Awful shift for Swanson on this PP

They'll come.

Haven't been there in awhile, but all the times I went it was big, but very sterile. And now there's no crowd either.

UND wins this game. Relax folks.

SHAWTY!

I don't think you could have gotten off a worse clean shot than what Swanson just pulled off.

Both last week and so far this game we've immediately fought back like a pissed off hornet as a response to opponent goals. Love the new energy this year.

WHAT. A. SHOT.

And just like that 1-1

Outside of one sloppy play, seems like UND has the Gophers heads spinning a little bit.

Not ideal that we're down 1-0, but I kinda like it to help settle the nerves. I don't like it enough that I prefer it over 0-0, but now they know that they have to bring that extra energy.

Oh man, I feel like I had a hand in that game! We were struggling offensively through two periods big time. Down 2-0 but felt like a bigger gap than that. From the perspective of that video above, the UND parents section was straight down below by the glass. I was sitting next to the Finley's in Coach Osh's seat, row 2 seat 2, since he went up to the press box. Along the way, we tried different things for luck...Joe's mom, being that Joe was #2, decided it would be a good idea to sit in seat #2 where I was, so we swapped. Didn't seem to work. Leading up to the game, and in the game itself, our top line was Duncan, Oshie, and I want to say Rylan Kaip, but memory is escaping me for sure....BUT, earlier in the year there was a period of time when it was Duncan, Oshie, and Kozek. They scored a ton and I thought they clicked. I'm guessing Hakstol liked someone with Kozek's shot and scoring ability on the second line for some balance which is why he didn't stay up there. I was convinced enough that moving Kozek back to the top line was a good idea that after the second period I ran over to the tunnel (in the video above, near-side on the right) and yelled to Hak "PUT KOZEK ON THE TOP LINE!!" A Badger fan standing there along the railing said "Do you think he's going to listen to you?!" In my mind I thought he was probably right, so scurried on back to my seat. But sure enough, to start the third, Kozek was there again on the top line. Then boom, it was all downhill from there. Unbelievable third period and overtime. Kozek scored that game-winner right in front of us and it was pandemonium. I turned to make eye contact with that Badger fan and he looked back at me, and with the biggest grin on my face gave him the biggest double birds of my life. I'll always wonder if I had a legitimate role in that or not. Maybe one day I'll get to run into Hak again and I can ask.

I should have put a "/s" at the end. Bob Norton was a regular on the old ESPN Selection Shows and was from out east and hardly talked about a single program outside of Boston. His accent was thickah than Jewwy's I think.

Probably The Bob Norton Experience

2016-17 was a good year too, don't discredit them. On paper they were totally outmatched but gave BU everything they could handle and never quit. The problem is, it was all downhill from there and many of us got a lot of flak for wanting a change at the top because UND hockey wasn't passing the eye test for years, even with their NCHC championships.

It's not new, it's just finally returned.

5 games.

Is that you again, Brianna?

I love our PP setup so far this year.

I think Dane will run the program similarly to Hakstol, which would have this make sense. Hakstol built the team for the long-term at the expense of struggles early in the season. There's a bigger picture at play. It's not actively trying to lose, but building things the right way.

What. A. Save.