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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.

Minnesota has 10 defensemen on their roster, which seems crazy to me.

We are short forwards too. It sounds like Blaisdell will be back before the end of the pod, so unless he’s able to play tonight, there are no healthy scratches.

Technically he left off last season as a healthy scratch...

If Western gets Brandon Bussi back, they’re likely a more competitive team in that division and could take some points. Miami has been more competitive so far than I thought they’d be. I think SCSU and UMD games will probably be as competitive as the UND and DU games are so I think that might be a wash.

Yeah. Everything I’ve seen indicate that Nate Benoit will play for Tri City in the USHL next year. He’d be age eligible to come in, but USHL will be better for his development.

I realize there’s a transfer portal and the whole additional year of eligibility situation throwing everything up in the air, but does anyone else think we still need some defensemen for next year? I did the math and I feel like we need between 1-3 more defensemen for next year. Especially considering potential early departure flight risks.

Yeah, same here. Caulfield has been pretty invisible to me so far. Blaisdell plays on the PK so I think he’s been more valuable to the lineup there. I also don’t think either line they have played on has shown much offensive chemistry as of yet.

He got hurt last game so not exactly surprising though.

Yes, he was a late add after the BU players had to withdraw due to COVID

Honestly, Moore and Rieger on the same pairing is something I don’t care to see at this point in the season. So hopefully we can figure out a good rotation.

4th actually.