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I can't remember a UND team being this inept offensively

Kawaguchi is one of the worst forwards as far as playing along the walls I've seen at UND in a long time. He has decent open ice skills but UND doesn't play race horse hockey.

Totally agree with your last point...... but who is that at this stage? If Jones gets healthy put Gersich and Adams on the wings? Adams is not a center yet he has been forced to.play there like last night. 30 games.....30 different lineups but Berry seems to be grasping for combos to click. ......and IMO Adams should see the ice over Kawaguchi right now.

It has been 9 periods since any forward on this team has scored a goal. If I was a betting man I'd wager that even I have a better chance of "scoring" on Wednesday night than do multiple forwards tonight.

Here's to Wolanin with a hat-trick!

Thome in......Cam out. Casey at forward.......Adams out. Mismash centering JJ and Kawaguchi. BTW...........Kawaguchi must have inherited the "longest leash" on the team after Wilkie left..........who got it from Murphy but I digress.

If UND is awarded two penalty shots tonight I like their chances............

As I stated previously last in the NCHC in scoring offense. This team is talent poor overall at the forward spot. Half....7.....of the rostered forwards have not scored a single goal in the last 7 or more of the games they have played in. I'm all in favor of optimism until it completely overshadows reality.

This...^^^

Leclerc would win the Hobey if CC just played UND all year too so there's that.

TH and Ollie said the same thing on radio last night..........these types of games are a recurring theme. Bad goals, bad penalties, bad PP, unable to sustain momentum after a goal.........and no offense from the forward group. Now UND will will probably win 5-1 tonight and some will chime in on the offensive juggernaut that this team is like after UNO Saturday but stats and the eyeball test tell a different story.

UND is last in scoring offense in the NCHC. 6 out of the 12 forwards in the lineup last night have not scored a single goal in their last 7 (+) games played....Simo, Kawaguchi, Yon, Bowen, Adams and JJ (Hoff is in that group too). So this team is asking Gersich, Pogo, Smith, Gardner, Olson and Mismash to carry the scoring load up front? Geeeeeeeeeeerez................. #wherearethebluechippers

Mediocrity? This squad hasn't won a game in a month............ I'd take mediocrity right now.

#13 in Pairwise

Gardner with the hat-trick..........3 minors. CC had the worst PK in the NCHC but UND's PP is just soooooooo bad. ........and make no mistake Berry is fed up with Cam's poor play and soft/bad goals. Thome will start tonight.

This is just a bad hockey team.

UND 4-2

This team struggles to play one solid game for 60 straight minutes.....................asking for back to back solid games is a stretch.

Like most things the general public is absolutely clueless on the working mechanisms and causes/concerns within our current healthcare system and market. To be blunt, like with most things, if one gets something for free there is always more abuse and is less incentive to be accountable for one's own actions but hey let's keep dumping more people on state and/or federal assistant healthcare plans.

With the boom in those developing diabetes I'd say there's some validity in that thought process.

FYP

Have seen him play multiple times.......has the skills, size and temperament to play the "4" at a mid major D1 program. Talked to his FB coach earlier this winter.........he thinks he could be a Big 10 FB talent.

An extra week off and sounds like UND will still have to play a D-man at forward. Terrific................

Talked to someone yesterday who knows Otis Weah and his background very well. His take is Weah has great upside FB wise, comes to with lots of concerns with his personal background and is a marginal student at best. Thinks it's a flip of a coin if he makes it at UND. Said there was lots of babysitting of Weah at MHS over the years. Thinks Otis knows this is his only D1 shot so he's hopeful he takes full advantage of it.

...........and somewhere Chris is still trying to convince someone that catching the ball at the 5 and running with the ball for 3 strides and then breaking the end zone plane is not a catch!