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Mike Zimmer and clock management. Ineptitude does not go far enough in explaining how utterly incompetent he is.

Not impressed with either team. If tonight was indicative of how these teams play this season then we saw a matchup of two teams that finish in the bottom half of their leagues.

Could be a 5 year guy if continues playing defense like this. I do suspect he’ll get his act together at some point this year. The sooner the better. The team as a whole is playing terrible in their own end.

Sanderson…brutal. Has the offensive talent, great skater, got a ways to go on defense.

Two teams that don’t play well in their own end. Not the best goaltending either.

Unfortunately this is not a one game aberration. Been pretty poor all season.

Season effectively over. Hopefully the end of Bubba coaching, but I doubt it.

Terrible call by the ref

When I watched it live it looked like the ref actually spotted the ball correctly and it was a half yard short of first down. No need to measure. If this was western with the ball and they stopped to measure I think everyone would have been pissed at the refs.

Bubba should be pissed at Bubba.

That last series explains in a nutshell why Bubba must go if UND is serious about football.

Unfortunately I have come to expect poor game management. Even by Bubba standards this was exceptionally poor.

When you get 1st and goal from the five (or closer) I want to see them run it. If the defense stops them with no gain (or a loss) then you want to spread it out and give the QB a run/pass option. Unfortunately one of our QBs can’t run it and the other can’t throw it.

Time for Q to come in and pass ?

Why do you complicate matters ? First and goal from the five and you bring in Q to throw ? WTF ? Just pound the ball there. Ridiculous.

Let’s see: Our defense has been poor to brutal, goaltending has been average, face offs have been poor, penalty killing has been questionable, passing is awful, our hobey baker candidate defenseman can’t defend, and our offensive skill is lacking. Not too sure what we have to build on, lots and lots of areas that need significant improvement. With a tough schedule coming up we need to correct this quickly or we may be out of the race for an at large tourney bid before January. Tomorrow’s game will be a very important indicator for this team. I expect a much much better effort and getting out of there with the split.

Or three

Announcer gets a bit too excited for nothing.

Been pretty weak all season. Lots to work on.

ECAC hockey streaming

ESPN+ is not available in Canada. If you wanted to try to get ESPN+ in Canada you might get around this restriction by using a VPN located in the US. You would need to also sign up for an ESPN+ account ($7/month). Your credit card used for the signup might get flagged so you would probably need to signup using PayPal. No guarantees any of this would work but I think it would. The biggest problem might be video quality since you have to go thru the VPN host. No idea since I have never tried this

Failure to take advantage of the blocked punt was a huge turning point. We came out of the first have with a lot of momentum. Forced a 3 and out on the first series after halftime and then blocked the punt. Take over on the 15 yard line. First down Tommy just throws it away. Second down Q come in. Why at this point ? You’re in a compressed playing field and anyone paying attention knows a run is coming. Little to no chance of success. Q ends of gaining a yard setting up third and long in a tight playing field. Probability of success is not very high. Tommy comes back in, rolls to the right and throws it away. Then a blocked field goal. So much for momentum. That series is all on the coaches.

Pissing away chances here in the second half.

Lucky guess.

I really hope I’m wrong but I don’t see UND winning this game. Would go against everything I’ve seen this season. If UND covers the line it will probably be due to a late TD in garbage time. To win this game the offense needs to open it up and throw downfield a lot more. Stop with all the 2 yard throws on 3rd and 8 hoping the receiver can break 3 tackles and pick up the first down.