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und 4-2 tonight. we surivive the first period tied at 2, scoreless second, get a goal midway through the third to go up 3-2 and kristo gets an empty netter for the final.

they did the first year the ralph was open.

rowney

yep I think it is telling of who Bemidji and Duluth wanted to play as they opened up their new buildings a couple years back, it sure wasn't the "big brother" looking out for them in minneapolis.

maybe, just maybe it means we won't go on the annual surge until a little later in the year which will carry through the second saturday in april instead of hitting the high point in st. paul.

the gophers scored two there and denver did it to us last month. I can't remember the last time UND scored two on a 5 minute major, I think it was in feb 2008 aganist bemdji but I might be wrong, in fact I can't remember the last time we scored on a 5 min major period.

ask bjugstad, hasn't he drawn like three cfb's penalties this season. if I'm a UNDplayer I don't touch him if he is anywhere near a wall.

you really do ride the short bus.

that's his problem as he let's in one or two bad ones early and und needs to dig itself out of a an early hole. if he does that against a really good team we don't come back, i.e.notre dame. saunders has been in a funk his last few starts but I feel more comfortable with him this weekend than gothberg.

patterson barely played early in his career so I wouldn't put him on that list. but as far as wilcox goes,his numbers speak for themselves. I can see a "hot goaltender" excuse being used at least one this weekend and it would probably be a legit excuse as well. the goophs do have the advantage at goaltender heading into this weekend. the key is getting an early goal beacuse as the game goes onthis kid gets better and so does the rest of the team. UND has to survive the first 10 minutes on friday night to have a chance.

with as brutal as our 5 min pp was on fri night I am apt to just quit complaining about cfb penalties. and it just wasn't fri night either. it seems that if und does get a 5 min pp it is pissed away while you watch other teams use it to their full advantage.

those are just games with UND, I bet you would find similar stats with most other teams in the wcha as well when they visit minny.

yes and no. he orininally got hurt right before the season started in practice and was shut down after the that series in minny after playing just two weekends.

it might not be as bad as we think but there is a difference in penalties called and pp's at the mooch. over the last 10 years there have been 14 games played in minneapolis and in those UND has had 64 pp's and the goophs 92 for an average of plus 2 pp's for the goophs per game. however those stats are inflated by three games in which minny had 10, 11 and 12 powerplays. the biggest discrepancy was ironically in 2007 when we swept them down there and minny had 23 pp's to UND's 8 for the weekend.

the officiating will be what it is-poor and questionable. the real question this weekend will be can we score as the goophs aren't giving much up and we have let in a few too many softies of late. if these are low scoring games it plays into our hand, if it gets into a track meet I don't like our chances.

I am going to go out on a limb and say in at least one game we will lose a player to a bogus/questionable CFB penalty and on that pk we will have another questionable penalty call against us to go down 5 on 3. the gophs will have at least 12 pp's this weekend and we will have less than 5.

hey it would give us two weeks to prepare for st could(a series in we match up better with the opponent) and less chance of injury by mailing it in

I think someone made mention of this earlier, but how sad is it we don't have one line combo set in stone and it is the middle of january.

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after what I have seen the last 10 periods, unfortunately I don't see us getting more than a point. minny might just run us out of the building.

only once in the last 30 plus years has UND gotten 4 points on a weekend at the mooch. I know Hak and the boys have the intention of getting four points but what else are they going to do go in with a mindset of only getting one win? minny will have the purpose of getting four points as well. I'll take a split and run with it.

let's hope that is a 5-6 goal lineup tonight.

let's keep in mind that this fan voting has very little if any impact on the final result tallied in april. I tend to agree with Knight and at this poinjt all this Hobey talk is being blown way out of proportion.

first things first. we need to get through this weekend. second come next weekend the biggest key to the weekend will be surving the first period on friday night as the goophs have come out rolling the last two games against BC and ND and it was game over after the first in both cases. but like I said we need to get two wins this weekend.

they should be arriving at some point today.