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Matteo puts WMU up 1-0 on CC in the 1st.

OMac with his 1st goal tonight, assisted by James for his 1st assist of the season.

The next head coaching hire could possibly be a yoga master of some kind? To improve the mental health and state of mind of the team?

A state of mind? So let's say you replace Montgomery (a player with like 8 games total of playing dman in his entire career) with Zmolek (one of the best defensive dmen in the entire league), that wouldn't matter in any of these missed assignments or situations? I'm not saying that UND couldn't beat DU with its current lineup. It absolutely could. And I'm not trying to rip on Monty, as he's done great stepping up into the role as others have gone down.

Cutting down on the after the whistle crap would be great. Taking too many penalties...an area that they improved on last year...need to go back to that. And getting some of these players back from injuries. First step in gaining consistency would be being able to play a consistent lineup. Right now they're losing players every week. Even getting guys like Croal back, who showed some great potential & speed in his minutes, would be a boost.

He got suspended a further game for that.

For sure. Hasn't been a good last couple months...years...certainly.

We’re not reduced to anything. I still think we finish top half…wouldn’t be surprised at finishing 2nd in the league. If we can get healthy…and stay healthy…2nd would be fine with me. It worked out for DU last year.

Hard to keep lines intact with players dropping like flies with injuries. Regardless, this team still hasn't found its offensive flow. We've seen it in bursts, need it to happen for a few games in a row. We'll see if they can do that this season. Jury is still out on that.

@Oxbow6, you'll get a kick out of this...appears that CHN is now showing xG in their box scores. First time I've noticed that. And it's probably broken, because xG barely gave DU the win tonight...3.6 to 3.3. https://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/final/20241115/den/ndk/

This team needs to play some desperate hockey tomorrow. A split would sure be a huge help later on down the road. Tough task for sure with how good DU is and how depleted our lineup looks right now. I'm just assuming that UND got 2-3 more injuries tonight?

Dartmouth at 5-0 and just beat Cornell tonight. They're at #2 in PWR behind DU. UND moves down to #17...one spot ahead of a CC team that is 8-1 on the season.

Yep. He’s one that can’t have 0 goals after over a month of games. If he’s struggling at draws, pair him with someone that can win some draws and then they switch assignments after the faceoff. Easy enough.

I think this team plays first round at home. DU is the class of the league. Miami and UMD are at bottom. We'll see how things stack up when we play SCSU, WMU, and CC...but from what I've watched of those teams, I think we can take points from them.

Still shows us at 15 in PWR, but lots of games still to finish...including ours, of course.

CC's first loss of the season!

Man that breakaway to tie it would have been huge right after Strinden's goal. Instead it comes back the other way for the 2 goal cushion again. I'd agree...hopefully we see Hobie tomorrow but not sure it matters with how DU is playing right now and how short we are with injuries.

Certainly doesn't help that our best scorer and best dman are out longterm. But that would just close the gap slightly to DU at this point in the season.

I'm guessing the Schmaltz line will be paired up against DU's Devine line as much as possible.

TJ with the start. Every available skater is playing with no extra. Same D group as against UMD. Lines all scrambled. I'd bet that they'll be shuffling quite a lot throughout the game.

Have to scan the upper deck seats to see 1/3rd of them.

Berry had the boys attempting to block shots with their faces in practice on Tuesday. Needless to say, it backfired.

Yes, for sure. Just ridiculous the injury issues this team is already facing a month into the season. You hope that they are using up all their injuries now.

Couple Thurs night games tonight... UMN beat BSU 5-3 with an ENG and outshot them 39-25. Hopefully we can dispatch BSU in a couple weeks as well... Providence beat UMass 2-1...UND is still Prov only loss this season. That bumped UND to #15 in the PWR, up one spot. A win over DU would do wonders for UND...

Evidently Berry recruited a bunch of guys similar to Mr. Glass.