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I'm not seeing it...when is the last time UND went bonkers and embarrassed an opponent?

That would be my guess as well, but I like your 3rd line where you put him in Hain's place with Sendo/Jammer. I think he'd fit in well with those 2 and might take some of the "scoring pressure" off him if he's not on one of the top 2 lines.

Merrimack beats BC, 3-1

Merrimack up on BC 2-1 after 2.

Five players didn't make the trip to UNO due to injuries, including Gavin Hain...that was unexpected. Ouch. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-to-start-nchc-play-minus-five-players-due-to-injuries

Despite not looking the best this season (swept by Niagara??), UNO always plays UND tough, especially at home. I feel that they get up for the UND series in the same way that UND gets up to play UMN. I'd say this series has split written all over it. One game where UND looks good, generates chances, and plays well. The other game UND will look like the Sat QU game or ASU game.

From what I’ve seen, James need to be on the ice if he’s healthy.

I'd still take him here! Heck, pair him back up with Farmer.

Yes agreed. Farmer > Ferner based on what I've seen so far. My understanding of the Calder situation was that since the NCAA put the limits back on scholarship money after the temporary lift during COVID, that he was going to be left with very minimal or no scholarship...which wouldn't be ideal for any student athlete. I don't blame him one bit for looking elsewhere for a team that had scholarship money to spare.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-hockey-team-looks-to-turn-offensive-zone-time-into-better-scoring-chance All those blocked shots. That was frustrating to watch.

I met Hakstol in the Minneapolis airport a couple months ago. The guy looks the exact same as he did back at UND...he's like Paul Rudd...refuses to age. Super nice guy though, spent like 5-10 minutes just chatting Sioux hockey with me.

Rich get richer.

Yeah, I don't think anyone said that at all.

Penn St at 8-0 is pretty impressive...although they've been feasting on cupcakes: 2x wins against Canisius, Mercyhurst, St Thomas, and UW. We'll see if they're legit or just fat on cupcakes the next two weekends when they play UM and UMN.

I think it was more based upon him being rated a "C" prospect by a different publication...which seems quite low based on his early season performance thus far. Either way, wherever he gets drafted, hopefully he can stick around for 2-3 years at UND and make a nice impact.

Morrow and Miller on the blue line. Rizzo and Halliday with the forward group. With those four, we'd have about 10 more goals this season.

I like it. New destination game format for the team. Make the F4, go to that destination to play a game or two (hopefully two).

Damn. Yes, him too.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/gavin-hain-and-his-linemates-are-carrying-und-at-even-strength

Bring back Blayzsie?? Serious question.

Should prob start with some sort of conference affiliation.

I’d celebrate pretty hard if I was a new program that just won a destination game against a nationally ranked team and held them to only 15 sog in the process. I’m less worried about how the other team celebrated and more worried about how poor UND looked.

Oh for sure. Not a single player on their roster has over 2 goals this season. Except for Jack Randl...who has 10 goals already. This kid must have eaten nothing but Wheaties this offseason. He scored 0 goals as a freshman at UM. Then 5 goals as a SO at UNO. 9 goals in 38 games last year as a JR. Now 10 goals in only 8 games as a senior? Very similar numbers to Judd Caulfield for his FR-JR seasons, but I guess Judd didn't follow in Randl's offseason Wheaties training for this season. They even wear the same number. If UNO were in my adult beer league, Randl would be the ringer that everyone yells to cover when on the ice. "Just watch #28!"