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He almost had one earlier too. Heck of a time to get his 1st. Talk about a last second goal. 1-0 End of 1st

SCHMALTZ!!!

Miami pushing for turnovers as UND attempts to exit the zone.

Miami kills it. That could have been a big nail.

Cmon. Perron nails pipe

Miami is living dangerously with all these late and dirty hits.

Zmolek back in and Albrecht out with illness. Perron back to top line. Heavy and fast 4th line.

Dang, yeah, I remember us talking about him last year in this thread. Thought that one was almost a lock. Yes.

Thanks Jake! Guessing Heinert will get called away sooner rather than later too, so we might be looking at a couple new announcers pretty soon. His first season in the booth was a national title season. Might as well make his last season a title season too. Would be a good bookend.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/jaksen-panzer-released-from-commitment-to-und-flips-to-bemidji-state

Give him a couple years at BSU...and give Spicer another season at UMD...and then they'll be ready to join UND via the transfer portal.

The good news is that UND won't play another "away" game all season. All that is left is Home and Neutral. Plus, the big advantage with playing at home...every remaining game that UND will play (assuming they stay the same in PWR) they'll have last line change unless they meet BC or BU in the Frozen Four.

No his issue was that he had 40 commits locked in for like 10 spots each year.

I'm guessing Blake gets both Player and Forward of the Year. I wouldn't be surprised if Mayotte gets CoTY, but thinking it'll go to Berry with the roster turnover then vaulted to 1st. Going with Buium for RoTY. Mbereko for GoTY. ZBuium for ODoTY. Can't believe that Zmolek got the shaft for the DDoTY award and isn't a finalist. Laba or Berg for DFoTY.

I would say it’s less of “we lost him” to more of a circumstance where he wasn’t really producing at the junior level and the writing was on the wall for how much playing time he would have ever gotten at UND. Not much attention would be paid to this if his last name wasn’t Panzer. I wish him all the best at BSU!

Expected goals It's essentially the statistical odds of a particular shot going in the net depending on where the shot is taken on the ice. Schloss really started pushing the xG stats last year, when UND was really struggling but the xG stats were showing that the team should have been doing much better.

It's certainly looking to be lining up that way, isn't it? I feel like the boys would welcome another shot at either of those teams. But their playing styles have certainly caused us fits all season...I would hope that by then the coaching staff would have been practicing ways to counter that style.

Winner goes to Frozen Faceoff. Hopefully we see a UND team with a little more than they showed against UNO. UND is 4-0 against Miami this season. Although Miami had a few injuries last time they played UND. The Friday night game was the one where Blake scored in OT then just skated off the ice in frustration that it even went to OT. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-preparing-to-face-a-different-looking-miami-team

Man, what a disappointing end for Merrimack...I remember in the pre-season, there were many that were saying they were a top-10 / top-20 team.

Both him and Hellsten seem to be fitting in well for UNH.

Yes, for sure. Someone to push Hobie and get some starts if needed. Hobie has shown with his starts this year that he can play NCAA, so I'm not too worried either way if Persson stays or goes.

Three HEA teams season coming to an end tonight in the HEA tourney. VT-CT UNH-Lowell NE-Merrimack All 6 teams below the bubble so all need to win to keep playing.

+1 Agreed on the portal as well. I think if they find 1-2 options that would be a good fit that they could pick them up and then have a couple of the recruits spend another year in juniors. Goalie to replace Persson if he leaves. Not many holes to fill, especially not when compared to last year.