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Duluth has such highly skilled forwards. Duluth has a decent goalie too, I could see them being up there. Omaha relied on Massa a ton...UNO was routinely outshot by large margins all season and Massa kept them in it. They were young this year, but without a reliable goalie I can't see them cracking the top 2 in the league even with another year of experience for their forwards. Denver lost a large 7 senior class, including their best player for the last few seasons in LaLeggia. Heinen and Moore are both highly skilled and young, but after that their talent level drops off especially on the forward side. Miami is always fast and talented, but they lose a ton of points with Czarnik, Coleman, and Murphy all graduating (& maybe Barber going pro?). If Miami was going to win a title, this was the year they needed to do it IMO. SCSU was a low scoring team all season, and now they lost Brodzinski early. That doesn't bode well for them.

Yep.

You'd swap UND's last decade with Notre Dame, Miami, and Ferris?

East Coast Bias! Eichel Bias!

I would say the last three F4 losses were games that UND was the "sharper" team. A loss is a loss either way though.

Who is this Kristo character, and why does he think he knows more about Hakstol & the team than the posters on this forum?

The Blame Game. For today's game, I would put it at: 70% gfhockey 30% Zane

You could say that Zane gave BU a couple goals as well.

The blame for this game goes entirely on your shoulders, my friend.

For those looking for finishers, hopefully Boeser, Wilkie, and Gersich will help out with that next season. And hopefully NSchmaltz will stick around to help feed them the puck.

Also a 0% chance that you post should UND win the F4.

I think there's a 0% chance that we see you post a single post during the regular season, a 0% chance we see you post during any of the regional games, and a 100% chance we see you post if the Sioux are losing the semi-final game at the F4.

Providence played a similar style of game to UND. Of course, UNO didn't press them too hard. Go Sioux! Shut down Eichel line and put pucks on O'Connor...he misplayed a couple during the regionals.

Yep, the players were even talking about it in the papers...about how Massa wanted to beat Zane to prove he was the better goalie. UNO got absolutely worked. Embarrassing effort on their part. You could say that Blais can't get them up for a big game?

UND’s lines 9 Drake Caggiula–27 Luke Johnson–15 Michael Parks 28 Stephane Pattyn–8 Nick Schmaltz–7 Wade Murphy 29 Bryn Chyzyk–17 Colten St. Clair–3 Tucker Poolman 21 Brendan O’Donnell–13 Connor Gaarder–14 Austin Poganski 4 Keaton Thompson–24 Jordan Schmaltz 5 Nick Mattson–6 Paul LaDue 20 Gage Ausmus–2 Troy Stecher 31 Zane McIntyre 33 Cam Johnson 30 Matt Hrynkiw Boston U’s lines 17 Evan Rodrigues–9 Jack Eichel–10 Danny O’Regan 26 A.J. Greer–7 Cason Hohmann–2 Ahti Oksanen 13 Nikolas Olsson–21 Matt Lane–19 Robbie Baillargeon 12 Chase Phelps–11 Mike Moran–15 Nick Roberto 5 Matt Grzelcyk–16 John MacLeod 4 Brandon Hickey–25 Brandon Fortunato 27 Doyle Somerby–20 Brien Diffley 29 Matt O’Connor 30 Connor LaCouvee 1 Anthony Moccia

Also, when Matthews is added to the fall roster, it will make it even better. Caggiula–Johnson–Gersich Wilkie–NSchmaltz–Boeser Chyzyk–St. Clair–Murphy Olson–Simonson–Poganski

I am excited about those 3 coming in next season. I know that we lose a lot of senior leadership and scoring this year, but all three of those players have shown an excellent ability to score goals in a tough USHL league. I like the thought of having a pass-happy NSchmaltz on a line with one or two of those incoming freshmen. Could be quite the fun.

Sounding like a Providence win in the first semifinal. Massa is already looking forward to a potential matchup with UND. Getting jobbed for the goalie of the year award? Haha, that's good stuff.

I don't think the effort on the Fri night BSU game had anything to do with coaching...

The term buddy can be used loosely...the restraining order that Blais has against gfhockey is quite complicated.

0-0 UNO has never made it to the F4.

Chambers isn't always the most accurate with his info, but I did get a chuckle out of him and Montgomery already penciling Matthews into a line for next season. That's good stuff. Matthews is an elite talent...if he commits to any college, he'll pretty much be a near shoe-in for their top line right away. But this article makes it sound like it's a done deal. What happens if he doesn't go to DU? They'll have to rethink their entire 15/16 team strategy!

You could see that on one of UMD's goals today (forget if it was 1st or 2nd goal). The UMD player was skating the puck up the boards into the offensive zone and instead of the BU defender driving him into the boards, he just let him skate right by with the puck. He had the angle on him too where he could have easily put him into the boards.

Cost includes three nights’ hotel accommodations at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. Not sure if that means that the team is staying there as well...