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UMN fans are ready for this season to be over.

Awesome to see Young get his 1st!! And in case you were wondering, that Zellers goal was before 2min had gone in the period.

They needed 2-3 more goals in all the 1st period craziness to offset this period.

Zellers has such a quick release.

LIU up 2-1 on UMN Mich up 7-1 on PSU MSU up 3-1 on ND

SOG 10-1 UND so far. Need to get some past.

ASU leaving all sorts of stuff loose in front of their goalie. If that continues, the goals will follow.

I wonder what other offers he had other than Miami. Just interesting that he ended up there.

Michigan up 3-0 on Penn St after 1. PSU getting exposed playing the Mich schools.

With their dumb white gloves too?

Yeah, you can tell he's been struggling a bit the last couple seasons. Hopefully he can rebound for remaining home games, but you have to figure this is prob his last year calling games. Will be sad not to hear his voice...he's been the voice of Sioux hockey for my entire life!

Zellers

So we agree that if Liv and Wiebe are able to play that weekend (which they will, unless injured) and UND sweeps Mercyhurst, that it was a win/win all-around? UND players gain a valuable experience, and UND sweeps against a team they should sweep.

Best Matvick call of a Sioux game that I recall:

BC opted in to the House agreement so couldn't be them, as they are stuck with their existing 26 players.

Sounds like Hockey East school possibly? Can't be BC, because they opted in to the House agreement so are locked into their existing 26 players. BU didn't opt-in though so could be them. Although probably the last thing BU needs is to get even younger this year....

I would guess that Liv and Wiebe both play Fri but just with more limited minutes. The coaching staff is viewing this the same as the WJC tourney, in that the players gain experience and get the school some exposure...and hopefully come back fired up and with more confidence for the 2nd half. I would rather be a little shorthanded during WJC/SC than the approach that the MSU coach is taking and not allowing players to participate in a cool holiday tourney like the Spengler Cup. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for these players. Plus, you know guys like Strathmann, Jubenvill, Laurila, and Engel will be very excited to show us something with their expanded minutes. And Zmolek keeping it all together.

From the US and Canada roster projections that I've been seeing, I think a good chunk of our players might be bypassed. I think only Verhoeff and Emery would be considered locks. Despite their strong starts, I haven't seen many projections that considered any of our forwards. Agreed that the boys shouldn't have trouble with Mercyhurst anyway, but hopefully Liv and Wiebe make it back in time and can log some minutes, even if they reduce them a bit.

Congrats to him, will be quite the opportunity! We might be just a BIT short handed against Mercyhurst. I wonder if Liver and Wiebe will be able to play being that they would be flying home earlier that day? We'll see how the WJC teams for US and Canada shape up, but you have to figure at least Verhoeff and Emery are locks for their teams. Hopefully Strathmann and Jubenvill have their skates sharpened...they're gonna get lots of playing time against Mercyhurst.

Wiebe joins Liver on the team as well.

If that's the case, don't join the Sun Devil Hockey FB group. Watching all the ASU fans flip a lid last season when they didn't understand how PWR worked was a sight to behold.

ASU making their first trip to the Ralph: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/arizona-state-set-to-make-first-trip-to-grand-forks

Reschny playing both sides of the ice: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-freshman-cole-reschny-showing-value-on-both-sides-of-the-ice

Sacha has 9pts (mainly due to a 4a effort last game), but is still a -2 in +/-.