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I don’t have issues with him. And I don’t think he’s exactly been put in a position to succeed either. I think him and Moore make the same costly mistakes, and playing them on the same pairing is questionable at best. So I think what’s happened is that they’ve determined only one of them can be in the lineup and they’ve gone with Moore. I would put him in as the extra skater. Spot him some shifts with some other defensemen, see how it goes.

On the one hand, they average less than 3 goals per game. On the other hand, we give up on average 3 goals a game. I’m sensing a 3-2 /4-3 type of game.

I know he’s accelerating but last I heard he couldn’t commit until this summer, and that wasn’t that long ago. But what do I know… *shrugs*

Hensler can’t commit until August.

Which is exactly why they wanted him to defer. His time and development would have been wasted if they brought him in this year, just to have him scratched frequently. He was behind Blake, McLaughlin, James and Strinden. And James and Strinden have been scratched quite a bit.

Why Hedquist? He was the BCHL’s 1st star of the week and just set his franchise shutout record. Has a .951 save percentage in his last 10 games. Seems to be doing well up there. If they don’t think he’s ready then they need to let him go now instead of continuing to string him along.

Calder graduated from UND in the spring so I am going to say that’s not true. I know he came to UND from Lake State and that might have been an academic choice because Lake State doesn’t have graduate degree programs and he was almost done with his finance degree when he got to UND. He needed a school with a graduate program if he was going to do a 5th year.

It really seemed to me Calder definitely thought he was coming back. Though I have no inside information. If we hadn’t brought back Senden and Hain I wonder if Calder and Budy would still be on the team or if they still transfer.

lol he just flipped from Michigan to Michigan State a few months ago so I’m gonna go with no.

DeRidder got offers from over 30 NCAA teams, including UNO. Kucharski wasn’t UNO’s first choice.

Haha same. I spent way too long wondering who was going to be the center on that “line”

Why do you think they were logging minutes they didn’t normally? I’d have to see the ice time stats. Moore was moved to the top pairing in Kleven’s absence, so I could see that, but the other 2 were in the same place in the lineup they usually are.

I would literally gouge my eyes out with a spoon if we roll out those D pairings.

This game is apparently happening tomorrow. I saw Livanavage pulled out due to injury and Michael Emerson was added.

Yeah, I’m good with starting fresh at this point.

It’s been predictable for like 3 years.

His redshirt year has already happened. (Last season) You can’t lose it after it’s been completed.

This has been my take as well. Hellsten can get wins against more mid-to lower tier teams but I don’t think we can make a serious push to the NCAA’s if he's in net.

No, we weren’t even supposed to play them this year, since we were supposed to originally be playing out at Cornell, so I’m sure we didn’t have time to get a scheduling agreement put together. Wouldn’t be surprised to see it down the road though.

Yes, he’s listed as injured on a recent line chart.

Didn’t really have a choice since Rinzel hasn’t graduated high school yet from what I heard

Western Michigan is a decent team but they weren’t that much ahead of us in the PWR going into the weekend so I’m not sure how much we could have moved up even if we had swept. Just gotta keep banking some wins.

They’re active but when I was there a couple years ago I couldn’t understand anything they were yelling…

I think there’s a good chance at least some of those HEA teams in particular fall off since there is a few close to the bubble. Also WTF kind of world are we living in where MERRIMACK is a top 4 team in the PWR?

Haven’t checked today but last night in addition to the B10’s 5, there were 6 Hockey East teams that would be in the NCAA. Then the NCHC with 2, ECAC has like 1, Atlantic and CCHA just would get their auto bids.