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Sorry to say it is hard for me to care too much either way. The regular season is almost irrelevant, it all comes down to the Summit league tournament. Win that and you get into the NC$$ tourney where you are likely one and done. Once the season is over it is time to rebuild again as you will likely have some top players transfer. I’ll still watch the games and cheer for them but it is difficult to get excited about any success or lack of success. At least in hockey they are in the championship picture most years. With the coaching changes in football I expect them to be relevant much more often than not. Basketball is kind of like NDSU in the FBS, no chance of ever winning a championship.

If the ref said it was a dive then why didn’t he call a diving penalty? Start calling all the dives and make the diving team have to kill a penalty, that’s the only way you will have any chance of eliminating it. Right now there is every incentive for coaches to encourage players to embellish as it almost never gets called as a standalone penalty. You either get a power play or matching minors. With the decrease in scoring over the years, power plays have a greater impact on the outcome of games, hence a greater incentive to try and “draw” penalties. While you’re at please start calling interference and pick plays. See too many of these go uncalled.

Couldn’t tell definitively from the camera views they showed. They must have had some of those double secret camera views that we aren’t allowed to see.

The way Reschny had to be helped off the ice isn’t good. Got a bad feeling he is done for the year, hopefully he can come back sometime this year. Time for payback in the third.

It almost looks like we’re trying to lose. Sloppy, undisciplined play.

Not sure UND will be able to play tomorrow, they have to be totally exhausted with the effort they gave tonight.

No energy, playing like crap.

My gut says the charges will get reduced to misdemeanors, he will get suspended by the team for a few games and that will be it.

Cebrian was offsides and set an illegal pick. Refs 0-2.

Can’t challenge it. You can challenge an offside where the player was an inch offside but did not factor in a goal being scored. You can’t challenge a pick that was instrumental in a game winning goal.

Yep

Two very substandard periods. Need this third period to be our best period of the weekend.

It’s been brutal. Very poor defensive play for most of the night and extremely frustrating down the stretch when leading 6-3. No excuses for giving up breakaways at that point. The defensive play must show improvement if they want to win 4 consecutive games in the tourney. The way they played defense tonight will end any tournament run. They have a realistic shot at #9 this year but only if they play well defensively.

Are we not allowed to challenge the hit to the head. These officials should at least try. They are almost as bad as our play that period.