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I think Ty Farmer will be in the lineup on Defense. I would also personally rather play 7 D right now instead of an extra forward. Especially while the defense gets figured out.

I actually said during Friday’s game: “Hear me out, a Gaber-McLaughlin-James top line” I know they have James in the bottom 6 because he’s versatile enough that he can fit there, but it feels like a waste of his talent at times.

That’s the thing. I still pick them 3rd/4th in the league. I do not think Omaha and Western will be as good, and I don’t think CC is quite there to challenge either UMD or SCSU in the top 4. I don’t think they’ll be bad or anything but with all their turnover I just would not have had them as a top 5 team nationally at this point in the season.

They shouldn’t have been ranked as high as they were to start the season. Not with that turnover. Wouldn’t even have made my top 10.

I’d rather keep Gaber and McLaughlin on the same line, but we could find another winger for them and go back to 19-27-10 and I’d be cool with that.

Otherwise known as article that makes me want to barf.

I don’t think there was a pre-game interview with him when we were at QU last year. Don’t quote me on that but I think going into the weekend I wondered if there would be because of how much Tim hates him. So I listened to see and I think there wasn’t.

I’ve looked into them a bit. I read somewhere they have the largest roster turnover in the ECAC this year but considering the amount of wrong info in season previews I read last week, I will take that info with a grain of salt. They have eight freshmen but just looking at early stats, don’t think they have actually played 8 freshmen. I think we are deeper up front and that’s where we may have an edge. They lost some significant offensive contributors from last year’s team, but there were still a few names I recognized.

Lol same for me. And then after those 2, I went to the 2014 Frozen Four in Philly to see the disaster of 0.6. … then I went to Tampa.

I’m not as high on Q-pac as others. Still think they’re solid though. They have 8 freshmen so they’ve had some turnover from last year. I’ll be curious to see how we match up.

I would rather see pretty much any line combo for our top line than the one that played tonight. I like Gaber, Schmaltz and Caulfield as players but I haven’t liked them together as a line. I think there’s gotta be something that’ll work better.

There’s no one to play center if you take both Strinden and Ness out. So I don’t think Strinden is coming out. They’d have to move either Senden or Costantini to 4th line center and that’s definitely not going to happen. I agree with you on the top line. I’m not a fan of it right now. I think they want to keep Gaber and Schmaltz together because they played all last year together, but I’d rather we try something different.

As I said earlier it gives their fans false hope! They play all these cupcakes, get a 7-1 record or whatever and then hit NCHC play and fall back into reality of being a completely average team. UND is their first NCHC opponent they play this season

You mean Omaha’s usually cupcake schedule before NCHC play to give their fans a false sense of hope might not work?

Can’t offer scholarships before August 1 for this kid. I’m not sure about actual communication.

Lines are out.

I wasn’t surprised they didn’t know. The ones they asked are also not from the area. Costantini is from Ontario and Sidorski, who was also mentioned saying he didn’t know either, is from New York. I feel like it’d be more something the more local/Minnesota guys might know, but not the guys from out East.

Gabe was injured a lot. Luke has been relatively healthy both at UND and previously in juniors.

Yeah- I’d say that’s more of an observation to me. At times I think he feels like everything is on his shoulders. I thought this last year too. And he was great last year but I never felt he had linemates he really clicked with. I hope we can find some for him this year.

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if either Blake or McLaughlin will move to Gaber’s line. Berry didn’t want both of them on the same line based on the article in the Herald last week, but with the illness going through the team they probably didn’t have much choice. I bet they try one of them with Gaber.

Denver has like 10 fans. So They’re not going to have a message board. NCHC teams that have message boards (or have previously, cannot confirm if they are still active) : Western Michigan, Omaha, Miami, SCSU.

Also listed in the preview article that Dominic Basse is a returning UND goaltender, in addition to a CC departure and SCSU addition.

I didn’t think they’re making the tournament anyway

I think that’s for next season. But don’t know for sure besides it not being changed yet.

Better goal for Gaber would be surpassing 20 goals. Schlossman had that article on him today and it mentions only a handful of UND players in the last 10 years have even passed 20 goals. Frattin had 36 in 2011, so he’s the last UND guy to pass 30, and obviously that team was pretty stacked.