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That was worse than Persson's last night.

Dang Close lets in a total softie. 2-1

I guess UMN scored? My feed went to commercial and then when they came back it was 1-0 UMN

That was early season BC. Now they haven't lost since Feb 5th and they're just crushing teams. Anything is possible in one-and-done for sure (the best team doesn't always win quote and such), but they're certainly looking head and shoulders better than the field right now.

Wonder if DU will get Rizzo back for the F4? You'd think he'd be pretty darn rusty even if he could play. DU and UND's season paths sure changed after that UND sweep of DU in the Ralph. What happened to that UND team? They made easy work of this same DU team.

I think DU gets past whoever wins the next game (BU/MN). Not so sure that they'd be able to beat BC however.

The 8 DU fans in the stands are overjoyed.

DU to the F4 2-1 Final

Especially come tourney time.

That's game. Brutal time for a call when the refs have let so much go.

Oh my did he miss a WIDE open net for the tie.

Understand your reasoning. Makes sense for both UND and you. I think you'd be a perfect fit for a program like Anchorage, Bemidji, maybe UMass-Lowell if you go east coast. Best of luck moving forward!

Cornell not mounting much offense this period. They're gonna need a break to fall their way to tie this one up.

Not Blake personally, but a couple people (including Brandt) mentioned that he's told others that he wanted to come back for another season.

There easily could have been a penalty called on DU to go 4x4 as Cornell was trying to clear the zone early in that PP.

2-1 DU with 4sec left

And now another one.

I don't think it matters with BC, they're just too good. BU vs MN, BU is the lesser of two evils there. Agreed on MSU, would rather they advance than UM. DU vs Cornell, I'm torn. I like to see NCHC do well, and it sucks that they're the last team standing. But...it's frickin DU. DU losing would be karma for that dolt on here last night trying to get UND fans to sell him some F4 tickets. He said that NIL would ruin UND. If anything, NIL would ruin DU long before UND...UND alum and fans actually care about hockey, DU doesn't even have fans to begin with.

A home and away series schedule with Maine would be pretty sweet. I’d consider going to that away series.

I don’t really see a correlation between the two. You can celebrate conf and tourney championships along the way, with the end goal still being a national title. Enjoy the moment and the effort it took to accomplish one goal, but then move on to the next goal. Unfortunately this team didn’t achieve the other two goals, but I don’t think it was because of his reaction to accomplishing the first goal.

From the portal: Basse (G) had three sub .900 years (two at CC, one at SCSU), and then one good year at SCSU. If you can get his 22/23 SCSU season again, he'd be decent. Israels (F) from UAF had 20 goals this season and was a 2-yr captain for them. Will (F) from CC put up ok numbers and is good at faceoffs...also a 2-yr captain. Risk (F) from UAF with nice numbers his whole college career and still has 2 years of eligibility remaining. Lovell (D) from ASU put up a pt/gm as a D, I'm sure he'll be courted by many big programs We'll see more quality players pop up as more teams see their seasons coming to a close.

Yeah I was wondering about that...CHN has him listed as a junior on both the stats/roster pages. Modified.

If both he and Blake come back, then we're set. We saw this year that Persson has talent...like you said, he had his moments. Keep that rolling for a year and see what the team can do.

He won how many NCHC goalie of the week awards at the beginning of the season? Then I don't think he won another one the rest of the year (that I recall). Add in his injuries/illnesses, and it was a rough 2nd half for him for sure. Of course, he could come back for another year if he wanted, but it sounds like that won't happen.

My Projection based on current info: Forward (15): GR - Jamernik SR - Berg, Kunz, Schmaltz, Montgomery JR - Blake, McLaughlin, James, Strinden SO - Perron FR - Swanson, Boisvert, Croal, Littler X - Portal Defense (8): JR - Zmolek SO - Livanavage, Wiebe, Benoit, Komzak FR - Jubenvill, Strathmann, Emery Goalie (3): JR - Johnson SO - Hedquist X - Portal I think (similar to when we did this last year) that next year has the potential to be a better team than this year. Both offensively and defensively. You lose a dependable scorer in Gaber and a hustle/grit guy in Johannes, but I would expect big years from all the forwards in that JR class and then also for Perron to have a similar improvement like what OMac had from his FR to SO year. Kunz really stepped up his game 2nd half...a VandeVelde type SR year from him would be great. Two elite forward frosh that should impact immediately. Find a diamond in the rough portal grab like Johannes again that can contribute and that is a skilled forward group. Defensively, Zmolek/Livanagage/Wiebe are the steady core and then add in three very skilled frosh. Strathmann played an extra year of juniors, so I'd expect him to be able to be a reliable/steady dman from the opening puck drop. Emery is a beast. Add in an experienced portal grab for injury insurance or if Benoit/Komzak hit the portal. Goalie is the only real unknown. Hedquist showed that he can play at this level, but you still need someone to push him for playing time. Portal grab for a year until Heil is ready to come in the following year would be ideal.