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Dang, Maine climbed all the way to #1 in the PWR with their win today.

Cool to see the resurgence of Maine this year after what seems like quite a few down years in a row. Alaska up 3-2 on FSU Cornell up 2-1 on UMass UMD and Air Force tied 1-1

Berry over-ruled the fan vote to kick him off the team.

Minot plays CC tonight in an exhibition...that'll be interesting. Maine up 1-0 on RIT, end of 1st Alaska up 2-1 on FSU at the halfway point.

Shootout win for the USA.

OT

Cool Through These Doors this week that talks with each coach and how they ended up at UND:

Agreed. I gladly pay the monthly fee for the Herald subscription, even though I live in AZ now. UND's hockey coverage & content is the envy of every NCAA school...I hope that continues.

Hockey Day Texas

Yeah that was a blast when the Ralph hosted. My favorite memory was playing hockey at University Park with Ty Gretzky (Wayne's son) and one of his friends. A big group of us played for a few hours and then the Great One drove to pick up Ty, but unfortunately never got out of the car.

UMD and NE tied at 3 at the end of 2

Hopefully all the injured players are all good as well. Berry mentioned that Albrecht as well as a couple others were potentially going to be held out against the U18 team for their injuries to heal up.

MTU wins it in OT over Alaska...one of the seven Pietila brothers with the GWG.

Alaska/MTU heading to OT tied at 2. UMD 2, NE 1 beginning of 2nd.

Alaska 2, MTU 2 in the 3rd...Austen Swankler with assists on both MTU goals in his first action since leaving BGSU right before the season started. UMD 2, NE 0 at end of 1st

UMD leading Northeastern 1-0 in the 1st.

Alaska leading MTU 2-0 in the 3rd period. I have a feeling that Alaska is gonna be a couple tough games next weekend. They play a more defensive game similar to CC...so hopefully the results are better than the CC series. Plus, UND will be knocking off some rust after the Xmas break. Hopefully the team got re-focused and re-energized to start the 2nd half. They have the talent to do some damage this year, but they can't have more series like those stinker games against CC.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-making-progress-toward-next-destination-hockey-game In 2026 for the HoF game. They've been in communication with Michigan State as a possible opponent. These destination games have been stinkers the last couple times. Hopefully if this all gets scheduled, they can break through with a win this time.

Midseason bracket projection from CHN:

Hopefully he can get some confidence and get back on track. I remember he was pretty highly touted when he committed.

Good article from Brad on the portal, and how the real portal process begins in January. Sounds like that is when the player agents start contacting teams to see who might be interested. Quotes from multiple NCHC coaches: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/hockey-transfer-portal-action-begins-long-before-you-may-think Sounds like all the coaches are anticipating the number of transfers to decrease substantially once the COVID 5th year option is gone.

Adam Gajan was tremendous last WJC and it looks like he's continuing that already this year. Not going to like UND having to face him when we play UMD in the future...

Geez, that is just crazy.