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teams take on the personality of their coaches and none of these three coaches is a firery(sp) type of coach so therefore the team will show no fire and will take on a business like aproach to everything. those of you who are wishing/hoping for a coaching change-it isn't gonna happen unless hak leaves on his own. mussman and jones still have jobs at this university and have acomplished nothing compared to what hakstol has. on a side note I could give rip about the final five as it means nothing and has doen more harm to our ncaa hopes than has helped in recent years. IMO only the green banners that are hung have meaning and this program hasn't won in over a decade and is approaching the longest title drought in program history. we can have all the talent in the world but if we don't win a title every so often it goes wasted.

won't matter. doesn't look like this team cares.

this season is quickly becoming a f-in lost cause. last years squad that was undermanned most every night had more heart, soul and grit than this team will ever have. i'm about ready ready to sell my frozen four tickets as the only way und will be there is if they are running maintenace crew. i could sell them to some quinnipiac fan who would have more use for them. this is frickin pathetic. I think tonights game tells us a whole lot about the heart and focus of this squad. you come off a disappointing weekend last weekend and all we hear this week is you have to be ready for st. cloud and to get run aout of the building by a team that split with rpi and got swept at home by northern michigan is an utter embarassment for one of the so called "top" programs in the country. absolutely pathetic. whohoo what a great second half run we are experiencing. i kept telling people it may not happen one year and this appears to be it with an overrated underachieiving team. fall the 11th in the pairwise, let's fall six more spots and offically be in position to put an end to this disaster of a season.

if they keep rocco off that top line i'd like to see: mark mac-knight-kristo rocco-rowney-drake mitch mac-st. clair-parks jim-rodwell-pattyn

my understanding of why rocco isn't on that top line is because the coaching staff believes or is hoping that with keeping rocco off that line you can have 3-4 lines capable of scoring which makes it harder for opposing teams to defend.

I think pattyn stays with rocco and drake hak mentioned after saturdays game he like a lot of things from that game,so therefor I don't see any changes from last sat night including gothberg in the nets.

in a valiant effort to change the direction of this thread USCHO came out today with it's second bracketology: West Regional (Grand Rapids) 13 Boston University vs. 2 Minnesota 12 Western Michigan vs. 7 Massachusetts-Lowell Midwest Regional (Toledo) 14 St. Cloud State vs. 3 Boston College 10 Notre Dame vs. 6 North Dakota Northeast Regional (Manchester) 15 Minnesota State vs. 4 New Hampshire 9 Dartmouth vs. 8 Miami East Regional (Providence) 16 Niagara vs. 1 Quinnipiac 11 Denver vs. 5 Yale if this were to be how it actually came to be Denver would have a cakewalk to pittsburg and we would be in one of Goon's favorite terms the "region of death".

two or three years ago this would not have happened, maybe not even last year as blood would have layed more than a finger on him. our d has become way too soft. Even a little farther back I remember watching the 2005 Frozen Four and listening to the ESPN guys just rave about how physical our d was with green and smaby leading the way and now it is almost as if they are afraid to lay a hit on someone other than big mac.

I think he started the friday game at home against uaa.

odonnell hasn't been the same this season since he got hurt last year.

I still have a hard time finding another weekend other than bemidji where we get more than 2 points: scsu 2, wisc 2, omaha 2, denver 2, bemidji 4, msum 2. this would probably leave und in fourth and having to play someone like cc or duluth in the first round. omaha has the inside track to 2nd place with the cupcake schedule they have left.

brilliant, just brilliant I say.

what would that be?

is there any particular reason that in two out of und's last three games they have ony had one pp each game? is it something the players are or aren't doing? they one one against cc on sat night and one against the gophers on sat night.

I would ammend this by saying you want to be in the top two to avoid having to play on thursday and possibly having to play 3 games in three days. which is stupid as no other conference does this I beleive.

89-90, they have the longest current streak. und has the second longest i believe.

we would also own the tiebreaker over them as well.

nothing that happened on sat night changed my opnion of what I had sat morning. minnesota is still by far the better team, I do feel our chances of winning the cup are out the window, we are struggling right now and I do not want to see minnesota again this season. only thing positive is we didn't get swept but on the other hand we didn't get a split either. you have the number one team down by two goals with less than 10 minutes to play and can't win doesn't say a whole lot for a team that is supposed to have the potential to do "special" things this season. a 4-4 tie doesn't mean you hang with the best, alll it says is you can't beat them. I see a 7-5 finish the rest of the regular season and that assumes we sweep the beavers.

which library does hakstol hang out at? does booing the team at the ralph count?

just a lttle side not on this, should quinnipiac and minnesota finish 1-2 in the parwise BC could very well be shipped out west. but that is for a conversation about 2 months down the road.

anything less than three points isn't going to cut it in the race for a top two spot in the league.

positives to come out of this weekend. we didn't get swept and looks like we move up in the pairwise as bu and notre dame are pissing around more than us.

and avoid giving up two bad goals in the first period.

IMHO UND is not very good right now since they came back from break. you are right in that titles aren't won in january, but they can be lost. anything short of a win tonight and for all intense and purposes we don't win the cup.

we need scoring ,not protection after the whistle.