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https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/schlossman-who-are-the-teams-to-watch-in-the-second-half-of-the-college-hockey-season Schloss predicts that UMD, QU, and UW will be better in the 2nd half. And that BU and SCSU will fade a bit.

Thankfully Providence pulled it out against Dartmouth. That win over Providence is helping at least. Plus, that moves Dartmouth down a bit...another loss or two and they'll fall below UND too hopefully.

RPI is so tight among those low 20's teams in the PWR. Idle UND drops to #25 even though Long Island finally dropped below them with their loss today.

Couple decent upsets there. Maine outshot Bentley 45-19 in that game but lost by 2 goals. Wish we could have completed the sweep against BU.

Exhibition losses are a touchy subject around here after the Augustana game.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/schlossman-a-deep-dive-into-the-und-hockey-teams-first-half

Evidently DU can't even beat a club team without Buium and Carle.

That 3rd period and OT were like a constant DU 5x3 PP.

Only took them until there was 1.2 sec left in OT. Ha!

I would doubt it unless the USA doesn't advance very far.

That Maine/DU series next weekend should be pretty entertaining though.

This is like watching that one really good beer league team that needs to move up a level.

Nice 5-1 win for the US over Latvia. Never really looked troubled. Latvia probably used up all their hockey puck luck in their win over Canada.

Is this the typical NCHC broadcast from ASU? No replays or anything?

https://www.flohockey.tv/articles/13327487-what-we-learned-from-usas-10-4-win-over-germany-in-world-juniors-opener Emery should be on this team and playing top 4 minutes. Instead, Team USA is going to have to rely on Buium and Hutson to play a ton of minutes, as outside of those two, there's not a ton of depth. A shutdown dman like Emery would have paired well with two offensive dmen like those two. If those two dmen start to get fatigued later in the tourney, the US is gonna be in trouble.

Yeah for sure on Spicer. One more year of juniors after his U18 year would have done wonders for him...

Emery got snubbed from the US roster in favor of a lesser SCSU dman because the SCSU coach is a whiny bizzo.

For sure, 100%. He's been absolutely killing it at UMD lately.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-to-assess-cameron-bergs-status-upon-return-from-christmas-break

Yeah every list I’ve seen has had Emery as a lock. Hopefully he uses it as motivation and it doesn’t bite Team USA in the butt.

Yeah, that was discussed a bit ago on here as well. Hopefully that's just a rumor and he's able to make it back...

Article also had a little update on Berg:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-defenseman-bennett-zmolek-out-for-the-season Article doesn't really clarify...just lower body.

They just announced that Zmolek will miss the remainder of the season. Not a huge surprise. Hopefully he can recover in time for next season.