Sioux1
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I believe that CB strongly suggests the boys maintain a clean cut look because it looks more professional on and off the ice.
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I was very impressed at how solid Brandt played tonight. Finally, after all season he shows the confidence and talent I knew he had! What a game! Go Sioux!!!!
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Now, the goalies this year haven't been allowed to come into their own! Blais has his reasons****I don't even want to speculate**** because I haven't been a coach at that level. So, how are any of these guys supposed to find their strategy? How are they to find confidence? How do they know that they will be there another day? None of us know the answers, and neither do our goalies. Blais does, and I'm sure behind closed doors, the goalies are informed of these things. However, with so many switches during the season, the flow isn't there! Many reasons for this I'm sure, but I think many would agree, hang one of them out there, and let them find a groove. It's up to all of you (and Blais mainly) to decide who that one will be(in your minds for personal satisfaction, and for Blais to decide the rest)......and this late in the season, it may not work for anyone involved! However, this is what I feel is a partial solution. I've heard static from a few(maybe 12-15) season ticket holders, and from those involved in the conversation that enjoy the few games at the Almighty Ralph that they can, that this would be their choice(sticking with one goalie...whoever that may be) for partial solutions to the slump. I'm saying this on a night where they took-it-to Wisconsin, but we can't brush the middle part of the season under the carpet.....and I have to say that confidence in the crease has something to do with it. My two-cents says let the goalie (of choice) take a few bumps, but let him build confidence over time......as a D-1 coach, choice of who this should be would be easy in this case, and let em' buck from there!!! Eventually we'll have a stand-up tender that looks at his jersey after the game and says...Thank God I came to UND!!!
I couldn't have said it any better myself Hopper!!
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I am torn as to how this weekend went. I agree that the goaltending struggled, but so did many other aspects of the game.
I feel as though the offense was trying to hard and was forcing too many passes and shots. The quality shots they did have they just didn't capitalize on. We had so many open net shots and our offense panicked and ieither overshot or sent it straight to the goalie. Our passing was way off and it always seemed to end up on a Duluth stick.
The defense had their fair share of mistakes. It seems that with Hale gone we just aren't the same hard-hitting team that I loved to watch. It's hard to readjust to a new defensive linemate after palying with someone you're used to reading for over half the season.
If Jones wouldn't have gone down Josh would have never been put in the position he was. Being a goaltender myself I can see where Josh saw it to be the right decision to come out of the net and charge the oncoming forward. Whether anyone thinks that was the right decision or not Josh thought it was, he just went down too soon. We'd all be singing a different song if Josh would have made that save and it would have stayed tied or we would have gone up one. He did give up a lot of rebounds, but as I recall the Bulldog's goaltender rarely froze the puck in their end. We just couldn't put it away and they did. Parise and bochenski could not get a goal to save their lives until the very end.
We can place the blame on bad goaltending or poor reffing. We can place the missed shots and fallen defensemen, but in my opinion they just didn't paly together it seemed as though it was more of an individual effort rather than a team. We're missing the fire that I watched them play with at the beginning of the season. I don't know who is going to provide the spark, but I pray that it happens soon.
Go Sioux!!
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The thing I noticed about Reichmuth is that even though he made some bonehead plays and he was lucky that they didn't cost UMD the game, he plays with a great amount of confidence -- unlike Siembida and Brandt. He never seemed to be shaken, even with the game appeared to be very lopsided in UND's favor.
Don't you think it's kind of difficult for a goaltender to have confidence in themselves if no one else has confidence in them?
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It will be great to finally have him back.