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Since you asked why... 1. We don’t know Sanderson is going to return. While I believe it’s likely, the coaching staff also thought Jost was going to stay for a second year and got burned. Let’s not go through that again. 2. What kind of caliber defensemen do you think is still available? Particularly for next season? They probably should have found a couple more d-men months ago. Hopefully they have a couple in mind because recruiting has got to be challenging with leagues stopping and starting, constant cancellations and postponements of games... 3. Morrow hasn’t played any junior hockey. He’s still at Shattuck. He’ll be pretty raw. And the other defenseman recruit signed for next year, Luke Bast, has been injured and has played like 3 games this season. So, all that said, I’m not comfortable with our defense for next year at this point in time. We could be fine. But there are so many unknowns on defense. And until I know who will be here next year, this is a major concern for me.

I’m more concerned about defense than any other area next year.

sounds like a pipe dream.

What voters? I thought they just picked the guy with the most points...

Of course we can add someone at semester break. Happens all the time. Doesn’t mean Berry will want to. Sometimes it messes with team chemistry. I don’t think he’ll add someone for the sake of having an extra body - they’d have to be able to add something to the team. I’m sure they’ll give it some thought after the pod ends.

To replace MM? I personally thought it was too late in the semester. But Berry definitely should have replaced Rizzo in the summer. There were an abundance of overage forward recruits committed that could have came in a year early.

Weird. The post game story in the Herald made it sound like Frisch was closer to returning than Caulfield and Blaisdell. And then last week they said Blaisdell was close to returning. I can’t keep up.

I just saw they are the only Big 10 team with a record above .500 right now.

If I recall, I think I had read that he wanted to play closer to home and UND was his dream school.

Yes, glad someone else noticed.

How’s the SCSU football team doing? oh, riiiight.

I think they should bring someone in as soon as possible. One forward gets hurt and then we have to use all available forwards? We should have more depth than that.

I don’t remember.

I think they started in 2009-10 season. When the players decide they want a different song, we’ll get a new song.

I don’t agree with how Berry has used the goaltenders in the pod. I just wasn’t surprised. Berry isn’t exactly known for using a rotation.

I had also heard that we were interested in the Cornell goalie Matt Galajda as a grad transfer. He hasn’t landed anywhere yet so maybe that’s still an option.

I was under the impression Kaleb Johnson is Thome’s replacement and Hedquist is Scheel’s replacement

Scheel clearly struggled after Christmas last year. It may not have shown in the wins and losses, but it was evident. If you have 2 perfectly capable goaltenders, if someone is struggling, I think you should give the other guy a shot.

I’m not surprised at all. In fact, I’m surprised Berry gave him a game, just based on how Berry has managed goalies the last few years.

Also, Smith and Michaud were probably the most hated players on our team. Other teams just hated them. And I’m not sure we have a guy like that this year. I was watching the game last night and I kept thinking I wish we were meaner. As a side note, if we were scoring more goals at even strength some of the mistakes wouldn’t be as prevalent because they wouldn’t be costing us games. Defensively, I’m okay with how we have played. Pop a couple more goals and we should be in good shape.

I think we shot outselves in the foot against both of those top 5 teams. Which is annoying.

We lost to them all 5 times in 2016-17, but most of our series since then have been splits.

Wolanin did that against Miami.

I don’t consider this team to have a ton of grit.

I probably would’ve scratched him if we had a healthy forward.