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You are pro-best player yet you seem to have a thing for Malone and LaPoint ? Neither one of them have done much in 1+ years. LaPoint was a minus 2 6 1/2 minutes into the game! If Finley come back, both those two should sit and Miller goes back to forward. You are dead wrong on Martens. He has been one of most solid 2-way forwards night in and out. As far as Mario and the teams record, it is what it is. Your 201K if he doesn't play tonight, they lose. Kozek and Watkins, at this point at UND, should be scoring, but they also need someone to help create for them at the center position. Malone is gritty but can't create much...but still not as gritty as Mario! And by the way, lay the points and take the Pack at home vs. the Panthers. It won't be close if GB gets an early lead.

UND is 4-1-1 with Mario in the lineup and 1-6 when he is not. One guy doesn't make a difference, but...it is what it is at this point.

Liked the lines last night. Trupp is a much better option paired with Frattin and Gregoire. That line was clicking. Really thought the Zajac line was great too. Mario is a grinder and Martens is just solid and underappreciated. But has UND had centerman less offensively gifted than Malone...ever?! Kozek and Watkins need someone with some playmaking abilities for those two to score. Malone isn't the guy. First Cornell goal was about as soft as it gets, but otherwise E was solid in net. Defensively, again big lapses. Lapoint was again awful last night. I just don't see what he brings at all? Fienhage was solid but he seems a little slow. Marto really needs to pick it up too. He is playing below his skill level. Expect Blood to play tonight for someone. My vote would be for LaPoint. Overall very good effort and win. Looking forward to a sweep!

UND is 3-1-1 when Mario sees the ice. If he plays, the local kid gets the game winner 2-1. If he doesn't, my cell phone goes on after the national anthem!

In a year so far in which UND has underachieved, UND has about as much of a chance of sweeping Cornell as Charlie Brown had of kicking the FB out of Lucy's hold in their televised Thanksgiving special I watched with the kids a couple of days ago. Just as long as they win tonight as the kids and I are making the trip up I-29 for the game.

I agree. I don't think the guys we have brought in over the past few, that are still on the roster, are as good as their incoming hype. Case in point, LaPoint, an offensive minded D man, who has been...not very good in any facet since he has been here. I could on and on, but this team is what it is this year...not very good because the talent is not very good! This is a team that can't score and doesn't play good defense. Not hard to see why they are under .500 when you watch them game in and game out.

And it is disrespectful/unfair that someone who makes 6 figures isn't willing to share his/her money with someone that doesn't hold down a job and eat chips and plays PS2 all day. Some people's mentality of entitlement never changes.

From my perspective, Marto is just not playing well but has plenty of skill, while Lapoint just doesn't have as much skill to his games as many thought when he came aboard last year, plus he is playing just awful.

After the early part of the season and watching again Friday, I said that Malone and Frattin should be the 2 sitting Sat. Maybe this will jump start them, especially Frattin. Eidsness better not miss a minute of action the rest of the way. Hextall is already the best 2 way forward on the ice game in and game out...and it isn't really even close. On more thing, Mario brings something that UND really needs...a nasty attitude. He'll get in anyone's grill. We need more of that.

This thread is a no-brainer. Ride this kid the rest of the year. Walski is...well, he's not Eidness! Eidness played almost exclusively in his 60 game Jr. schedule last year. So 30+ games this year isn't going to wear him out.

Miller splitting time with Martens? From my perspective, Frattin and Malone need to be upstairs. Those 2 have done absolutely nothing this year, which is a little improvement from last year! I agree, give Davidson and Mario some ice time. Value to your team is what is produced during a game not what is perceived at practice. Davidson has, in his limited ice time, produced something. Hak needs to stop "waiting" for some guys to figure it out. And really, when is the slow start to every season under Hak going to end? You keep going to that well with the mentality that it will turn around and one of these seasons it won't. Unfortunately, I see this being that season. UND doesn't just need a win tonight, they need a "step on your throat" convincing win tonight. With the schedule UND has in the first half of it's season for them to be around .500 at Christmas is going to be more like playing .333 winning percentage hockey when all things are said and done. This slow start is a much bigger issue than in years past because of the "easy" first half of the schedule.

Hak said this team was close to putting it together and that they needed to play 120 minutes in a weekend, not 110 like last weekend. Heck, I'd take 62 minutes of solid hockey this weekend!!! Truly a pathetic performance tonight. Taking one at CC doesn't account for jack if we can't sweep UAA at home. 3-6 with the talent we have is embarrassing.

Can't figure out why my wife doesn't want to go to the game tonight on her birthday , so I'll catch bits of what I can on the radio. But I'll be there live tomorrow. UND 5-3, but not that close as UAA score 1 or 2 late.

This is a series UND should sweep, banged up or not. Superior talent up and down the line up and playing at home. No excuse for not getting 2 wins this weekend.

Your squad was a pre-season top 5 in the nation and pre-season top conference pick. You'll finish 6-5 more than likely. UND finishes 6-4 or 5-5 in the first year of transition. Who will have the most disappointing season? Where is your "bright" future? This was to be THE year for SU. SU has a better team than UND this year which was to be expected, but you guys ARE the biggest disappointment in nation based on all the pre-season hype!

I don't think we match up well at all this coming weekend. I agree with the rest. Plus we sweep Harvard the first weekend in Dec. I got us at 10-8 at the break.

Hak was pleased with probably the effort to date, but performance? Really? Again this team has been bad defensively and they can't score/finish. And I'll agree wtih a previous post about Martens--where was he this past Sat.? I can think of two guys that Trupp rolls with that have done pretty much nothing so far!

Exactly. Less than average goaltending, overall poor defense and the inability to finish scoring chances so far is why this team is 2-4. It's not a fluke. Right now they aren't very good. Friday was hands down their best game of the year so far and they still needed a 2 goal rally in the 3rd to pull that out. Looking at their schedule though, I still think they have a shot to get to or above .500 by the Christams break.

Hadn't seen any games UND had played so far this year, but I can say that from the top of the line-up to the bottom, that was about as good of game as far as energy, jump, effort and hard work that I've seen from a Coach H team play! Win, lose or draw, I can live with whatever (to an extent) the outcome of a game if I see that kind of effort from every guy on the ice night in and night out. Zajac looks like a totally different player from last year! Trupp is the real deal. Watkins hard work is like few I've seen in a Sioux sweater. All 4 lines looked good and contributed. Genoway has to remeber that he is a D-man 1st! LaPointe...I just still don't see it. Great effort and good win! Looking forward to tonights game.

Heard on the radio this AM that there were 80,000+ foreclosures nationwide in Sept with 200,000+ default payments letters sent as well. Living outside your means have anything to do with this??

Well if you are "priveleged" and/or "fortunate" from a financial standpoint (as some on this site see it), you can buy the 'blow' in it's powedered form. Much easier to use. Bottom line is he'll get his job back as he has an "illness" and will be absolved from accountablility as he will be from foreclosing on his house to pay for the coke!

Bingo! There is no other "talking head" on any TV channel that is less/miss informed than Eddie. I can't stand Obermann, but he at least has somewhat of a clue as to what he is taliking about.

Eddie was a Bison fan/supporter, then he was a Sioux fan/supporter. He was once a Republican, but is now a Democrat. No one is a bigger fan of Eddie than Eddie and no one has more self serving interests than Eddie. Eddie is all about Eddie all the time.

You are probably right that "most" is a stretch. But that number of irresponsible people is growing at a rapid rate in this country as is evidence by the 700 billion dollars it is going to take to help clean up this mess!

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