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That includes two wins in a row against teams that couldn't be beaten too. Duluth always wins when it matters (so I've heard). And Michigan was the best college team ever (if you look at those pesky NHL drafts). Pretty impressive NCAA performance from them, for sure.

Seemed to work out alright for UND last time.

DU stands to lose a ton this offseason. Wright for sure gone. Doubt Guttman or Stapley use Covid years. Brink, Savoie, and Chrona will get pressure to sign, for sure. That'd be 5 of their top 8 scorers gone plus their goalie. Mazur and Rizzo will be a good core pair, but they'll get all the pressure with all of the above likely gone.

The good thing about that is that there's only like 15 total DU fans on social media, so you don't hear from them much anyway.

What a 3rd period meltdown for Mankato. They completely dominated the first 5 periods of this Frozen Four, and then collapsed in the last period.

I wanted Mankato to win, but keeping it in conference is good too. Now we'll just need to win next year to get into a 3-way tie with 9 titles.

And then still ended up playing a year of juniors if that's the case.

Him and Morrow in green this season, and maybe we're playing today.

Just like that last 2on1. Mankato is officially fallen apart.

It is?

Mankato had 2 full periods of playing well but now DU is getting multiple chances. Even if Brink wouldn't have gone in the crease there, that would have been a great chance.

Wright isn't gonna miss that one too often.

Ha! Taking a page right out of Karl's PP playbook.

Geez 4 DU SOG at the halfway point of the game? And they have two PP chances in there? Wow

Mankato with their 2nd failed SH breakaway.

Yes. Too many men.

As annoying as it is, I hope we hear Ole a few times tonight.

Yeah that’s what I thought as well but CHN has him listed as a Soph this year so I just went with that.

1 goal in 22 games isn't ideal. Hoped for a bit of a progression from the previous year where he had 4g in 28 games.

We still have a logjam even with Calder leaving: Super Senior (2) - Senden, Hain Senior (2) - Caulfield, Albrecht Junior (4) - Gaber, Jamernik, Ness, Budy Sophomore (5) - Schmaltz, Costantini, Portz, Kunz, Montgomery Freshman (3) - Blake, McLaughlin, Strinden Still at 16F even with Calder entering the portal. Unless we're planning on running with 16/17F for this upcoming year or more players from above enter the portal. Or if a different freshman is coming in rather than Strinden.

Pulling a big gun off the portal. Getting a top recruit to flip. Something fun like that?

Nice! Talent-wise that's a no-brainer, but I bet there's gonna be some butthurt UM fans after he got 1st team over Powers/Hughes despite missing half the season.

He scored 11 this year on a team that was more offensively challenged than what I predict next year's will be. He was also injured so missed 5 games...and I don't think he was fully healed when he came back because he tailed off after that injury. Even if he was 3rd line, I think he'd be 10+ goals.

Agreed. Would rather we see 1-2 other players enter the portal before him. He could have been a 15-20 goal scorer for us next season.

Yep, gonna see a lot of action these last few weeks in April!