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Frattin was robbed!

Barbolini and Neaton both being out is huge for them. One is arguably their best player and the other was their starting goalie.

Ha, yeah it's not surprising that no team from the 70's/80's is on that list of least penalized teams.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/once-known-for-being-a-menace-und-is-now-one-of-the-ncaas-most-disciplined-teams This year's team is on the verge of finishing as the least penalized UND team in program history. UND's least penalized seasons 2023-24 — 6.62 penalty minutes/game* 1947-48 — 6.81 1954-55 — 6.93 1948-49 — 7 1953-54 — 7.15 1952-53 — 7.3 1950-51 — 8.5 *As of Feb. 1, 2024

Johannes and Albrecht didn't make the trip to Miami...both still injured. So that means every other player was able to make the trip. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-miami-both-will-be-without-regulars-for-weekend-series Miami missing some players due to injury as well:

https://www.uscho.com/2024/01/31/bracketology-2-a-correction-and-a-look-at-movement-as-we-move-closer-to-seasons-end-for-college-hockey/ Rematch of last year's national title game in the 1st round would be cool. RI and MO are tough regionals, I could see any of the top 3 in those regionals advancing. I would like this bracket for UND. I'd like their chances to advance out of that SD regional.

Like UW the last time they won a title. If I remember correctly, they didn't have to leave the state of Wisconsin for their entire NCAA run.

The WMU / DU series is intriguing. Neither got the number of points that they were wanting/expecting out of last weekend. They should both be hungry.

Neither of those guys are too biased. All of a sudden, BU is on a 3-game losing skid.

Gotta remember the East Coast Bias though. They won't want two Western players in the hattrick. My guess would be Rizzo/Insert BU player/Insert BC player for the hattrick.

Could tie that record this weekend.

That guy was money.

Dang! Hatty and Boeser hits 30 goals.

Current PWR picture looks like this after this weekend's games: HEA (6) - BC, BU, Maine, Prov, UMass, UNH NCHC (4) - UND, DU, SCSU, WMU B10 (4) - UW, MSU, UMN, Mich ECAC (2) - QU, Cornell That's the top 16 with ASU, CC, and UNO in 17-19 spot. Top AHA team is RIT at #23. Top CCHA team is MSUM at #27. The AHA & CCHA bids would eliminate UNH and Cornell from the field at least, barring any other league playoff surprises.

Hopefully Perron can get going again against Miami next weekend. He scored in both Miami games earlier this season, but now hasn't scored since the Alaska series.

14 league games down, 10 to go. UND with a 4pt lead on SCSU and a 9pt lead on CC/DU. 3rd thru 6th is a cluster with only 3pts separating CC, DU, WMU, and UMD. If there's a year when it would be much more beneficial to finish 1st rather than 2nd or 3rd...it is this year. Playing Miami in the 1st round of the playoffs as opposed to UNO, UMD, WMU, etc would be much preferred.

Oh man, a good weekend in Miami and we could be seeing history here. That's awesome.

This weekend was huge for UND in the NCHC standings. SCSU gets one point all weekend against UNO and DU gets zero points against UND.

Another amazing stat from this weekend? UND held the top two offensive players in the country to ONE point all weekend. A secondary assist from Devine in tonight's game. Devine and Rizzo were both averaging over 1.5 pts/gm this season and they got a combined one point. Impressive.

They swapped a lot of the personnel and where they're playing. Instead of focusing on Gaber on the right side, they now put Owen and Berg (depending on unit) on the other side so that there's an effective shooter on both sides for both PP units. Now teams can't just load up the right side to take away the Gaber shot from his office.

For sure. An amazing defensive 120 minutes from the D corp. Persson didn't need to make a ton of outstanding saves like he did against SCSU. Massive massive last four games against the 2 & 3 teams in the league. If UND wins the Penrose, a huge reason is due to the last two weekends. Awesome job boys, you earned it!

DU really going for that stretch play trying to spring a guy. Almost worked again there.

It all started when the UND dman didn't get the shot deep...hit the guy right in the shin.