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Time to sit him for the rest of the period. Mooney can take his shifts.

Just Bob doing his best to tank the US this year.

FYP.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/what-could-unds-lineup-look-like-this-weekend-against-mercyhurst Liv and Wiebe expected back on their earlier flight. Engel is listed as questionable though due to an ailment. Mercyhurst also battling with quite a few injuries.

Corrected.

According to the IIHF boxscore, Keaton played 14:58 against Denmark. Reschny played 10:59. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2026/wm20/gamecenter/statistics/68811/14-can-vs-den

Certainly a nicer position to be in when compared to the last couple seasons.

Even you'd have to admit (as a Gopher fan) that Mooney is not the best forward option on the WJC team to be throwing out in short-handed or defensive shutdown situations. Mooney has elite stickhandling which can be great on the PP, but is easily tossed off the puck and has shown to turn it over when pressured.

I'm no super smart hockey mind like Motzko, but that seems pretty good and worthy of an invite to the WJC team.

Now THAT would have been sweet.

UND hockey players doing well at WJC https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-players-thriving-in-opening-days-of-world-junior-championship

Western vs #2 UW should be an interesting matchup tomorrow. WMU moved into the top 10 NPI with their win over BC tonight.

Whitelaw and Wisdom have been great pickups out of the portal for Western

Not a good start to the day for NCHC. Hopefully WMU can beat BC. I can't believe Dartmouth is still #4 in NPI after their two losses considering their horrible SOS.

Correct.

Dartmouth up 3-1 on ASU in the 3rd in their rematch. MTU leading Miami 3-2 in the 2nd in the GLI. WMU plays BC tonight.

Zellers currently in 2nd for WJC points, one behind Czech Dman Galvas. And he leads the WJC in goals (also with a 100% shooting %...3 goals on 3 shots).

Crazy that this article needs to even be written: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/will-canada-use-keaton-verhoeff-at-the-world-junior-championship

If Motzko wouldn't have been forced to add Zellers, he could have kept Gopher commit Kvasnicka on the team, and he would have 19min of ice team each game and be a -4 already.

Nice!

This roster mis-management makes it not surprising that UMN is struggling so badly this year.

Mooney is the last forward on the US team that should see PK time.

It wasn't Motzko's decision, it was the USA GM. Bob just "went along" with the decision. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/will-zellers-proves-late-addition-to-usas-roster-was-the-right-call-in-wjc-breakout-2

UND up to #3 in NPI thanks to ASU's win over Dartmouth! Moving up while not even playing, noice.