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You need a combination of both. Do we win a title without the heavy line ? Not sure, but I am sure we don’t win a title without the CBS line.

We can only hope this is the end of the Zimmer era. Pathetic.

The play calls when going for two are just baffling.

Just four field goals away from taking the lead !!

After having success stretching the field in recent weeks the Vikings brain trust has decided to go ultra conservative again and take the safe three yard throws and then punt. If that is the game plan, why in the hell do you pay a QB 30+ million per year ?? Very easy to find a QB at minimum salary that can do the same.

I think we’re in the end days of the Zimmer era.

Hopefully the third period will be our best of the weekend, especially in the defensive zone.

I think Driscoll needs to play better but my god the defense zone play is not very good.

Terrible defensive play by Frisch. Plays on the top pairing…kind of says it all about our defensive play this year. Is it coaching, players, ?? The sad part is we are not showing improvement as the season goes on.

“Gotta come ready at the opening puck drop”, “have to be more disciplined”, blah, blah, blah. Rinse and repeat next Friday.

We’re closing in on the halfway point of the season and our defense and goaltending are just brutal. I see a team that plays soft and without energy in way too many games. No excuse for this, it is not North Dakota hockey.

Not a fan of allowing players to transfer at will. I would rather the rule is modified to only allow transfers after the first year. That gives the player a year to see if the school is the right fit. The other exception I would allow is if the head coach leaves then anyone can transfer. All other transfers would require the player to sit out a year.

I don’t have much confidence in Driscoll so far but to be fair the defense has struggled. There is little to no chance of winning a natty when a goalie has a sub .900 save percentage. Need to start showing improvement fairly soon. I think what bothers me the most is that he flops around quite a bit and seem out of position a lot. Again, with an improvement on defense maybe this goes away. As Duluth has shown, you do not need to be a top team during the regular season you just need to make the tourney. Once in the tourney you do need sound defense and a shutdown goalie. If you have that you can string together four wins even if you aren’t the best team. Goals against average and save percentage will tell the tale of this season. Keep the goals allowed to two or less and I like our chances. Continue giving up over 2.5 goals per game and we have little hope for #9.

Since UND had two first downs that may add a few seconds to the theoretical clock. The clock stops after a first down until the chains are set but I assume the 40 second play clock does not. So you may need add 6-10 second back for each first down. That would put the clock at 1:10-1:18.

There were 6 plays run but the clock only ran after 5 of them. A timeout was used after play number 6. Let’s say each play takes 5 seconds and you snap the ball on average with 3 seconds on the play clock. The six plays should then take (5+37)*5+5=215 seconds or 3:35 If we started with 4:33 on the clock it should now be at 0:58.

Does anyone know why Sandelin wears a chin warmer during the game ?

They really don’t have a clue how to manage the clock in the last few minutes of a half. Not surprising as most NFL coaches seem to have this problem also. Have to improve in this area. I highly doubt there will be any coaching change so I hope the coaches can show some drastic improvement for next season. Can’t say I am overly optimistic for that to happen. It’s possible to overcome coaching blunders but you generally need to have enough of a talent edge to do so. Good luck to the seniors in their future endeavors, thanks for your time and effort.

Ideally you want to go down a score a TD as time runs out. There is more than enough time for that. Taking a timeout makes no sense to me.

Why take a timeout ?

Nice drive. Need the defense to step up now and get the ball back to the offense in decent field position.

IMO, we are not losing games due to bad luck. We lose games due to poor coaching, poor play calling at times, and poor execution (e.g. dropped pass late in the first half). We are very inconsistent in our play.

Dropped pass at mid field looks like a possible 14 point swing in this game. At minimum 7 points.

Hopefully tomorrow. It’s needed ASAP like tomorrow but I’m not optimistic. This teams margin of error is very small. When the Vikings win the Super Bowl ? Probably a lot sooner but we can’t afford to lose players because the scoring depth is limited. Not a chance. Why stop something that works and has almost no risk of hurting your team.

Either you want to get rid of diving or you don’t. It’s pretty obvious from how games are officiated that they don’t care. If you really cared then the league should hand out penalties for diving after reviewing games. Minimum of a one game suspension if it wasn’t called during the game. If called during the game it’s a five minute major. Would put an end to it quickly. Instead, the worse a player risks is matching minors. I’m just sick and tired of watching teams diving. I’ll go watch platform diving if I want to see that. Disgusting.

Duluth and CC going to a shootout.