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Refs call 5 straight penalties on Mercy, Mich scores on 3 of them to now go up 10-1. They're just stat-padding at this point.

UMN up 2-1 on Tech UW up 1-0 on Lindenwood Mich up 7-1 on Mercy

Now we need to for sure win on the road against them if they lose to Canisius.

Tech ties it up at 1 against UMN. Gordon, UND-abandoner, with an assist.

Mich up 6-1 on Mercy. And they get to play their cupcake again tomorrow too. QU up 3-2 on BC. Canisius up 1-0 on Clarkson, who we play in a couple weeks.

UMN up 1-0 on MTU Mich up 5-1 on Mercy

SCSU ties it at 1 with Augie

QU and BC tied at 1 after 1. Mich leads Mercy 4-1 after 1. I wonder if a Perron blind behind the back pass caused the turnover that led to the Mercy goal?

Ferris and Miami tied at 1

SCSU goalie playing well...it could be 3-0 Aug at this point.

Aug leads SCSU 1-0

Michigan crushing cupcake Mercyhurst early, 3-0 only 7min in. FR Cole McKinney already with 3pts (1g/2a) in his first collegiate game.

Perron starts the season at Michigan on wing on the first line for them. We'll see how he does for them...

Article on Smaby: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-believes-it-has-a-rising-star-in-associate-coach-matt-smaby

New season...new head coach...new Through These Doors episode:

Schloss posted his college hockey preview with a prediction for each conference as well. Very well thought-out and researched article, as usual. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/the-heralds-conference-by-conference-college-hockey-preview While picking the order of the NCHC this year is a crapshoot with all these CHL, USports, AHL/ECHL players, etc...but his placement of SCSU (4th) and ASU (7th) is definitely a little surprising. I would guess that those two schools would be flipped. Herald predicted order of finish 1. Western Michigan 2. Denver 3. North Dakota 4. St. Cloud State 5. Minnesota Duluth 6. Colorado College 7. Arizona State 8. Omaha 9. Miami

Osh on ESPN as an analyst!

Almost there folks!

+1 Both heading off in opposite directions on player visits. The coaching staff definitely put in the work this offseason.

Agreed. If Berry would have been retained for another season, I'm guessing the roster would look quite a bit different right now. And not in a good way.

A dang good article from Schloss about how UND scrambled to fill the roster spots for this season: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/the-inside-story-of-how-und-saved-the-roster-this-summer Sounds like the coaches were traveling all over the US and Canada visiting with players, commits, and potential recruits. They certainly earned their paychecks this summer.

The games are showing on the NCHC.tv schedule as well, so another way to watch Mr. McKenna's big debut. Some intriguing (non-exhibition) matchups for fellow NCHC teams this weekend: Miami vs Ferris - Miami needs to start the league off right with some wins against the CCHA UConn vs CC - tough first matchup for the Tigers facing a UConn team that just had their best season ever Penn St vs ASU - big first test for both teams...will be interesting to watch STU vs SCSU - single game, will give us an idea of what to expect the following week for our series vs STU

Sounds like Littler really worked on his skating this offseason: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-hockey-forward-cade-littler-adds-speed-to-sturdy-frame-after-effective-freshman-campaign

Good to see O'Neill getting more offensive in the WHL, he needed to be given the opportunity to expand that part of his game.

Don't go to the UND series!