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You quoted the wrong post, but change is change. It always runs the risk of losing recruits, but if the coaches aren't putting the players in a position to succeed when they have more resources than any other program, then the change is worth the risk.

I agree, everyone needs to relax and give Berry 8 more years to win another NCAA regional game since that's the standard he's set so far.

What kind of fan enjoys and is okay with watching their team play like ass?

Really hurt Denver going from Gwozdecky to Montgomery to Carle since 2013.

Ha, sorry...the comment seemed odd from you, but I was in a zone.

We're a university of North Dakota...no longer The University of North Dakota.

One, UND was a second half team under Hakstol and he hasn't been the coach in ten years. Two, Cornell somehow managed to sweep us with their first two games of the year....you'd think we'd have a huge advantage of "playing together" versus them at this point in the season.

Well that makes sense....last time I flew Allegiant I came home after losing my ass too.

There are no more resources we can possibly give Berry and his players that I'm aware of. They have everything.

Just give Berry a few more years, say 7 or 8 more...he'll prove the Berry haters wrong.

Relax, it's a long season.

Congratulations Berry stans, you got to see one good period of hockey.

All of that's fine and dandy, and of course it's a good opportunity to do some of that, but nothing is getting cemented in one exhibition game. How well are you going to test out lines and d-pairings when you come out and skate with 20 pound lead skates anyways? Where's the energy coming off a long off-season? Where's the motivation to turn the game around after getting punched in the mouth? I don't think UND learned anything in that game other than the level of work that was put in wouldn't be good enough to compete at a high level and that's what people are talking about when they make comments about the game. There is not a single resource I can think of that UND is missing to properly prepare an elite roster of college hockey talent, yet somehow we're still talking about the things that those tools are designed to prevent. Imagine how bad UND would be if they didn't have the resources they did. /s

The point of people bringing it up is it sets a tone for where UND is at to start the year. It doesn't count, but doesn't make it meaningless. If it was completely meaningless for the program, don't play an exhibition game...ever. What's the point? Obviously Brad sees importance in it. The loss is not going to change our PWR, but that's not the point. You lack imagination to think outside of the box and see the bigger picture. Again, the loss doesn't matter...it's how we lost, why we lost, and what it may or may not mean for the games that do count.

Since you're always so into semantics and fail to use any sort of figurative reasoning (despite everyone knowing that the game doesn't count, but that's not the point of bringing it up)...here ya go:

.500 hockey against ranked teams isn't going to get us very far in the tournament....like usual. Not saying we need to win every single game against ranked opponents all season long to prove a point that we're ready for the tournament, but these consistently up-and-down performances don't bode well if things don't change.

With Hak at the helm. Have Berry's teams ever really gotten significantly better from first semester to second?

We've had much better teams go out east and lose a game against worse teams than Cornell. Win tomorrow and all is good. I don't judge Berry for October, I judge Berry for the month of March. We're stuck with him for now, so reserving judgment on the season until then. Going on nine years....

It's not always about individual losses. A split with BU is fine. It's about the eight years (going on nine) of playoff misery and no results (if we even make the tournament). That leads to people magnifying smaller issues over time. Virtually no one called for Berry to be fired a couple years after the title when we missed the tourney for the first time in many years because, hey, we won the big one recently. 2016 was a long time ago now and to only have one NCAA win since is awful for a program like the University of North Dakota. This is UND men's hockey, not UND men's golf....the standards are different...or at least should be.

Best fans in college hockey! ™

How does the crowd barely cheer at the end of a 5-0 first period against BU?

If we don't have an identity, teams have a harder time game planning against us.

Time to diversify the gene pool.

Titles are too hard to win. They're the expectation but not the standard for a program like UND or any other elite college program. It's not about comparing Hak to Berry when it comes to 1-0 on titles, it's about the sustained success we had in the post-season. Hak was snake bit, but we were challengers just about every year, making the Frozen Four 7 out of 11 years. A couple years we played good enough to win but lost, a couple of times we stunk it up, and a couple of times we lost on a bit of puck luck. But we were there. Then Berry comes in, wins a title, and eight years later, going on nine, we've won ONE SINGLE NCAA game...against lowly AIC. How can that be okay?