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1. UND was 2 pipes and a couple of lucky bounces on Massa away from winning this game by 2-3 goals. IMO they came ready to play. 2. I highly doubt that Blais will win a national title in Omaha. He puts together some quality teams, but none have done well in the postseason. Plus, he'll be retiring soon.

Ortega is quickly becoming a hated, cheap player. First the dumb comments before the UND/UNO series at the REA, and now that cheap dive in OT. I can't believe that they gave them a 5x3 in OT. Statement game tomorrow. I want Ortega pounded into the ice and a 5-1 Sioux win.

I haven't spent enough time on the player profile pic pages to answer that question adequately.

I am betting that Stecher plays this weekend.

Is Ortega talking smack again before this series? Hopefully UND can shut him down again.

There's gotta be a joke in there somewhere...

Follow your own advice. What does the committed recruits thread have to do with the number of natty's that Hakstol has?

I saw that too. Sounds hypocritical.

Just started? It's more than halfway over! Playoffs start in less than 2 months!

You leave Swayze out of this!

Haha, gotta love that.

If I were a coach, I think it would be hard to pull a goalie from a shutout game...especially a goalie who has had difficulty in closing out shutouts. Maybe they could have put Johnson in after Zane allowed the one goal last night, that I could maybe see even if it would have only been for a few minutes.

You knew it had to happen. Anytime the Sioux are involved in a game, this is bound to happen. Oh wait...

Syracuse 2 UND 1 FINAL That's just embarrassing.

Agreed on both counts. I can see why the players dislike them so much.

So much for that Bulldog sweep that everyone was talking about last night. I guess we know which coach made the correct adjustments. No DHG tonight?

Ton of commits lately. Hakstol and Co have been busy! Any room for Fabbro, Jost, Matthews, and Boeser?

Haha, one game a 2nd half makes? I bet you were on here chanting "season's over" after the season-opening loss to Bemidji.

UND must be losing, I see that we have a gfhockey post.

Your info is always appreciated, Jim!

How did the Mariucci Cupcake Classic go? Epic 3rd place finish!

This is like the USA/Russia WJC game except for all the penalties are against UND instead.

That humored me. One PP within 10 sec after Merrimack got a 2 goal lead. And then another PP about 10 sec after they didn't score on the first PP.

Good to see your spelling/grammar return to normal. Almost as if you forgot to spell incorrectly for awhile. Get some time off from your "oil drilling" job?

Eichel is skilled, but tried to do too much himself all tournament. Lot of weak penalties today, with most being called against the US. The Russian gameplan appeared to be to fall or grab their faces anytime a stick got within a foot of their heads. This was a highly-skilled group of US forwards, but for whatever reason they just didn't click all tourney. Not nearly as much offense as what they were capable of...especially on the PP. Looked horrible most times.