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Mismash got Schmaltz'd on that one.

Yes, that's got to be it. All the hockey fans decided to go watch women's Bball instead. I guess it makes sense if they want to watch a winner...is the UMN women's bball team any good? I'm not sure any of the B10 teams left anyone "high and dry", let alone a team that is now in the NCHC. How many titles has the B10 won since their inception compared to the rest of the leagues?

It's actually around 900 for a sellout, but still. You'll be amused when you walk in and realize that it is their "D1" rink, at least until their new rink is completed. Go CC!

Especially after the last couple seasons.

That is a brutal 8 game stretch. A split each weekend would be a good goal and probably put them in really good position if they can manage to get 4+ points each series in the CC/UNO series prior to that (plus sweep Canisius to maintain their good OOC record.

Geez, Rizzo's shootout goal against the US in the WJ A Challenge was a beauty. https://twitter.com/PentictonVees/status/1071990768531734528

That kid is clutch.

I remember feeling that way prior to the WMU series. A split would be good...anything more is excellent.

Would have loved to see both Morelli and Ward in a UND sweater instead of Omaha.

We'd need to start scheduling Robert Morris, Mercyhurst, Sacred Heart, Bentley, Niagara, and Canisius more then to mimic their scheduling as well. Heck of a lot easier to score PP goals against those opponents rather than UMD, WMU, etc. We saw it earlier when we played UAA...we do play Canisius soon though so hopefully that will help bump our PP%.

Especially being that they probably had a better chance scoring short handed than we did with the man advantage. They should have looked at any PK situation as a positive.

Has anyone been able to check on DHG and Ciskie today? After their twitter ranting about the officiating last night, I can only imagine that they drank themselves into a (further) stupor.

If we play UAA in the postseason, our special teams will be fine.

If Gardner and Hoff are out tonight too, do you think Ryan Anderson can skate out? He'd probably get as many points as the rest of our forwards.

As I said a couple weeks ago after the WMU sweep, don’t be surprised if UND starts NCHC play with a 1-7 record.

Yes!

Yep. We struggle to score as it is. Now you toss out three normal top 6 starting forwards on top of that. Ouch.

That had nothing to do with UND being rusty. It had more to do with UND just not being very good.

Good old Ciskie. I'm just hoping that with a few key graduations that UMD isn't still super dive-prone...or is that still the case? They were pretty bad the last few years...

I'd feel a lot better about UND's chances this weekend if Jones were able to play. Man, tough one. UMD has been so strong this season. A split would be a successful weekend IMO.

Unfortunate if true. I have a feeling he'll be a really good college player by his soph/jr year. Tough to lose out on that, especially to UMD. At any rate, if he's heading there, he'll need to bone up on his diving skills.

You realize we could still both be wrong, right?

Where the heck has this offense been all game/season?

Go for the tie!!!