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Well played!! BTW...that '86 Hillsboro team had Elliott Rotvold and...not much else.

Belfield I think?

Great course...if it's not windy. Good luck with that though.

The only one you are missing...Carrington. We took care of Oak Grove and Langdon after that.

We had a chance in '86 to win it all but played a very poor game in round one.

I knew Bobby Franklin back in the day. Very good BB player for Linton, but better pianist!

Ok...but when do we "get there"? I don't think some of these players came back this season to not have the D "get there" by now. A wasted season no one wants!

We had lots of Gary Cederstrom and Rask...Jeff I believe. There is a reason one of them is in the big time, Gary umps in MLB, and one isn't.

Goph's new assistant and D coach seemed to turn that D-man core around pretty quick.

Bump

"Come around" and "in the end"...care to elaborate on your suspected time frame? We are 2/3rds thru the regular season. Not to be greedy but I was expecting it to "come around" quite awhile ago.

St. Clair destroyed a Clown on Saturday in the corner in the context of the play and game. Mac has a history of trying to make big hits just to make a big hit. If it's in the flow of the game those get overlooked more than just trying to find a hit for the sake of making a big hit.

Chyzyk is a way better offensive and 2 way player IMO. He should be in the lineup most nights. He has size, can skate and has some grit to him.

Fair enough but whatever the system Berry is coaching isn't working with these Dman...it's pretty obvious.

Lots of WCHA flavor in the Wild/Blues game...Parise ties it at 1.

<gasp> Getting popcorn...

Pattyn was looking for a partner to drop em with. Problem is no Clown bit. Looked premeditated as it was his 1st shift and he was yapping as he left the bench. Put UND is a tough spot right off the bat.

Similar to our last Natty?!?!

We use to be physical, tough and responsibly sound. Now we are soft, out of posituon and undisciplined.

Fire Muss!!! My 2 cents to this thread since I'm not in camp to fire Hak.

Agree. Think the WCHA has figured out that with this UND team they can plug things up offensively for us and wait for their chances knowing we'll cough up some bad turnovers in our own end that will lead to quality scoring chances.

Hak doesn't post here I believe.

Specifically those three...Schmaltz looks totally disinterested on the ice. Mattson looks lost. Forbort had his best game in a month last night and that's not saying much. Berry has to be held accountable for this defensive mess. That's why he was brought in.

3-3-2 in the 2nd half of this season...wouldn't call it a surge and 1-2-1 in last 4 league home games. We dropped to 10th in the Pairwise. WI is coming in playing their best hockey to date. We need wins. We need WCHA points and more than 2...that's the bottom line.