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I like it, contributing on your first post. Welcome aboard.

Brett Hextall = WCHA Offensive POTW? Brad Eidsness = WCHA Defensive POTW?

From Jim's PWR forecast for this weekend: Step 1: Sweep UMD. Check UMN swept CC UML split with Maine Miami split with UNO VT lost and tied against UNH Merrimack swept UMass Yale beat both SLU and Clarkson All in all, definitely not a bad weekend for the Sioux, they got some good help from other schools, and most importantly...they swept the Bulldogs.

Nice, Hakstol talking about the Marvin/Mario situation.

Sweeney just said it wasn't. I believe they have a crappy webcast though with a floating Tiger head.

Tied.

UW just beat SCSU 7-4 and Roe got his butt kicked by Smith of UW at the end of the game.

Let's see the stick salute!!

18 goals in the last 3 games.

Great deke to blow by the dman and then snipe the goal. Two great shots for the Sioux goals...

Doesn't matter to me. I just posted it here because no one had started a Sat thread yet.

Brad has the lineups posted: Lammy in for Cichy. UMD scratched Dylan Olsen and stacks their top line. I'm surprised that Sandelin is sticking with Reiter again in net. UND's lines 17 Jason Gregoire--29 Chris VandeVelde--10 Corban Knight 19 Evan Trupp--22 Brad Malone--21 Matt Frattin 26 Brett Hextall--27 Carter Rowney--7 Danny Kristo 9 Mario Lamoureux--11 Darcy Zajac--13 Brett Bruneteau 2 Andrew MacWilliam--24 Ben Blood 3 Derrick LaPoint--25 Jake Marto 20 Joe Gleason--4 Corey Fienhage 31 Brad Eidsness 32 Aaron Dell Minnesota-Duluth's lines 22 Mike Connolly--12 Jack Connolly--37 Justin Fontaine 19 Rob Bordson--21 Travis Oleksuk--11 Kyle Schmidt 23 Jordan Fulton--7 Drew Akins--27 David Grun 20 Cody Danberg--15 Jake Hendrickson--17 Mike Seidel 6 Scott Kishel--24 Mike Montgomery 28 Wade Bergman--2 Brady Lamb 8 Drew Olson--26 Huttel 35 Kenny Reiter 30 Brady Hjelle

This goalie recruit was talked about a bit on USCHO earlier this year with the UMN fans. The thinking on their end was that Patterson was upset about the promises for playing time this year (that have not happened) and may be bolting, leaving room for this goalie recruit.

From Brad:

Brad reported that Cichy will be taking Mario's spot tonight against UMD. Cichy got it over Toews. I'm a little surprised that Toews hasn't played more recently. He has really progressed since last year IMO.

Great to hear for Chay...not just hockey, but in general. It would probably take him awhile to get back into game shape...3 months off is quite a long time.

That's only for fighting DQ's.

Greene is hilarious. Love that episode.

I don't think the Sioux absolutely need UMN to sweep CC in order to get home ice. Being that they play each other next week, that's where the big differences could come into play if UND can manage to sweep CC. Also, the last weekend CC plays DU, where UND gets MTU at home. If UND is within a couple points of CC entering that weekend, I like their chances.

Thumbs up.

3-1 USA now halfway through the 3rd.

Yowzers, that could be huge. Could he be using a commitment to an NCAA school as leverage to an OHL team? I forget the name of the player last year that committed to UND and then bolted...

Wednesday update:

Nicely done. Word of the day? We've been in similar situations in 3 or 4 of Hakstol's years as head coach. Was it two years ago (I think that's right) where UND was sitting at #23 or something like that in the PWR at this time of the year? That team needed to put together a serious streak to make the NCAA's. Last year we had a horrible OOC record that almost killed our NCAA hopes. Three years ago UND was 3 or 4 games below .500 at Xmas time and had to put together quite a run as well... It seems like every year Hakstol's teams have had to mount good 2nd half runs just to ensure good WCHA and PWR standing.

Fudge! We need his one-time ability back on the PP. Our PP has been horrible lately.