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18-11 SOG UND

Right? Puck bouncing all over, players falling all over. 2-1 WMU

Man even 3-win Princeton is able to take it to Cornell. Cornell's PWR is gonna tank if they don't pull that one out.

SOG 12-8 UND Nice way to end the period.

Wow, Judd!

Yep. Can't even make entering the zone look seamless most of the time.

It's going about as expected.

And another PK.

Nice shorthanded chance.

SOG 6-2 UND thus far, but that'll change now.

And now a PK.

How'd that not go in? Bounced around.

Ford has been elevated to team alternate captain: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-gives-connor-ford-an-a-as-alternate-captain

I'm really hoping the team can find their focus again. It's been frustrating hockey to watch thus far in 2022 for this UND team. I'm crossing my fingers that they show us something different tonight & tomorrow.

It certainly helps them that they kept their trio of seniors for another year and Attard didn't go pro. They'd be a completely different team without Frank, Passolt, Washe, and Attard. It'd be like if Kawaguchi, Adams, and Kierstad stayed for another year and Pinto didn't go pro.

I think we get one goal tonight too.

This year is different. I'm guessing that Western wasn't ranked higher than us in any of those other visits (and this year they deserve to be ranked higher than us). They've always been a tough team to play against. Especially at home. This year they have a lot more skill to play with.

I don’t have a good feeling about this series. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the winless 2022 streak continue a bit longer. Western is 1 or 2 levels above Cornell, and now the team has had a week off to get rusty and forget the sting of being swept at home by an ECAC team.

No Hain for several more weeks: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-will-be-without-gavin-hain-for-the-near-future?fbclid=IwAR0Ui4WBVia-S8sZOIkzBzcGFANQ6nZqOMi18ldaG9bvVXiehgnOqoK237g Also talks about Caulfield's drought:

I'll forget all about Morrow/Rizzo/Halliday if Berry somehow manages to land Cooley. I doubt it'll happen, but we can dream. Anyone heard which direction he might be leaning?

Going to be a tough series. They always play so well at home, and our play since the new year has been very uninspired.

UND back up to #10 in the PWR though with DU's win.

Geez, that looked pretty weak. I've been shoved harder than that in my no-contact adult league with no penalty called. Granted, I didn't purposely fall directly into the boards after it happened...maybe I'll have to try that next time.

Agreed that their schedule is pretty weak, that's why they're sitting at #5 in the PWR despite only having that one loss. Impressive with how they're convincingly beating the opponents they do have though. If this year's UND team had their schedule, you know they'd have closer to 5-6 losses with how inconsistent they are. Watching both the Cornell and the QU series against UND, I would think that QU should be able to beat Cornell.