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Yes, we couldn’t score (as we have all discussed), so that wouldn’t work, and if we hit them back we likely go to the box and our penalty kill sucked last year. Kind of a tough spot. So clearly improving our PK is the way to go. UMD’s PK when we played them last year was over 90 percent so that’s why they do whatever they want and not care.

GOAL. SCORING.

https://bchl.ca/b-c-born-ethan-bowen Feature on Ethan Bowen.

You either missed the point or just felt the need to worship Duluth again. If we pulled half the crap Duluth pulls, we’re spending half the game in the box. Duluth is lucky they get away with all that crap.

I know they have 4 goalies on their roster... They split goalies during our series with them last year, one of those goalies is back.

No they’re not.

Well we are not finishing in either of those spots, so...

Well in addition to that, I know they have a freshman who got suspended for a game 7 of a BCHL playoff series for attacking the ref after the game so...

A better shots to goals ratio. I’d also like Manitoba to not score. Im not that demanding.

Yeah same. I keep seeing the word “dominant” used to describe them and I’m just I would say the last couple years, UMD is “opportunistic” as opposed to “dominant”

Yeah St Cloud’s ranking stuck out for me too. I think they’re maybe a top 20 team, but definitely not a top 6 at this point.

It wasn’t well advertised. I didn’t attend, but I knew when it was before they even bothered to announce it.

He’s no longer a sophomore. He’s a junior now. He got a year of eligibility taken away.

There’s been very little media content this preseason. Hardly got anything out of NCHC media day last week and very little from UND’s media day a couple days ago.

I think the top 6 will be Guch, Mismash, Adams, Pinto, Michaud, and Blaisdell. Not sure who plays first line and who plays 2nd. Would imagine Guch and Mismash will be on the same line like they have most of the previous 2 seasons. I listened to parts of the NCHC Radio show podcast yesterday where they interviewed Berry and Poolman and these were the 6 players Berry mentioned when asked about improving offensive production.

He’s on injured reserve. I read the article on their site and it mentioned him and Aaron Huglen (Minnesota recruit) are on IR but will play this season.

I thought penalty minutes were pretty high league wide. A lot of teams taking a lot of penalties.

We were 1st. Though if you look at overall and not just conference games, UND had 13.9, Omaha had 13.8 and Western had 13.6, so not much difference between the top teams in that stat. Conference games are a different story. (www.collegehockeystats.net)

Schlossman’s comment about UMD’s lack of offense wasn’t well received by the UMD beat writer. (I saw the video version so I saw his facial expression). I think that while they’ve been able to win those low scoring games the last couple years, I feel like lack of offense could come back to bite them unless they start scoring more. Which is valid. 2014-15 UND team was masterful at winning those close games, didn’t always score a lot, came back to bite them in the Frozen Four when Zane has a bad game and we couldn’t score enough to come back. (Just as an example)

It’s available on the bulldog insider podcast feed also if that works better. I listen to podcasts on Apple podcasts and I found it there. Warning: shades of arrogance can be found while listening. If I have to listen to that all season it’s gonna be a long winter.

Are you familiar with the concept “complete sentences”?

I’d rather earn 1st than be picked for it. We’re not finishing 4th. Its a preseason poll. Media opinion. That’s it.

Technically a 5th season. But yeah I cannot imagine they were too happy. I personally got the impression the people he was closest with on that team all graduated with him, so it made sense that he left.

Nick Swaney from UMD was named and he basically had the same amount of points last year as Kawaguchi. So I don’t take it too seriously. Just something to talk about in this boring preseason.

I looked at overall scoring, not just conference games, but: Liam Finley (DU) and Josh Passolt (WMU) , which is kind of funny because I’d say they aren’t as well known as some of their teammates. Of those who made the preseason team, Jack Ahcan was behind them in 3rd and Justin Richards was 4th.