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Which for a pass happy team is not good.

Haha so funny. I actually had just transferred to UND during this season. I go home for Christmas and tell my parents UND isn’t very good at hockey this year lol. My parents make their first trip to GF to visit the weekend of this series. We win Friday so on Saturday morning my mom says to me “I thought you said UND wasn’t very good.”

Gotta be upper body. Apparently his arm was in a sling after last Saturday’s game. I also don’t know if he’s been skating. According to the practice report I saw, he didn’t practice on Wednesday. Not sure about yesterday though

I don’t know but I’m guessing Chesley made the trip. He is supposedly a game time decision. Koster was already ruled out so it probably doesn’t matter if he made it or not.

It also has nothing to do with UND. REA has enough material to show that it’d be really lame if they did.

None of their defensemen that are playing this weekend played in the series last time it was at the Ralph. Koster is out and he’s the only one that has. So they are super young and inexperienced back there. Im also interested to see how both team’s forwards match up.

He decommitted over the summer.

We already have 3 defensemen scheduled to come in next year to replace the 3 we have that are out of eligibility. And I don’t think any of them are going to be playing another year of junior. Emery, Strathmann won’t be. Jubenvil ages out. So we’d have to make room for a ninth D unless there’s an unexpected departure. Don’t get me wrong, I like Gruba, and would like him at UND, but just curious how we’d make room.

Ah - Good thing Im not going then. I only have black lol.

Did you see this mentioned somewhere? I know there’s a green out but that usually doesn’t have anything to do with what we wear on ice so I’m assuming we will still wear white jerseys.

I think they ranked were #1 at that point that year. UND was probably barely above.500. That series led to an absolute meltdown by Minnesota the rest of the season and they missed the NCAA’s.

I don’t have an in depth analysis on my reasoning why I thought the defense looked significantly better than last year. Because there wasn’t much d-zone play. But just watching them skate the puck out of zone so comfortably without a lot of panic just felt different than last year. Especially with the top 6 D. Last year I thought the weakness on D was that third pairing, no matter who was on it. The fact that we can pair Livanavage and Wiebe with experienced seniors in the top 4 D and then roll out a third pairing of Britt and Zmolek is something I really like.

Not sure how production to expect out of Simpson this season. He’s been playing on the 4th line for Tri City according to recent line charts so it’s not like Boisvert or Swanson last year who both were immediately placed in their team’s top 6. But we’ll see how the season progresses.

They used to do it after the first goal years ago but more recently it’s been done at intermission. A lot of other schools have also started doing it at intermissions.

Don’t they do the teddy bear toss at intermission anyway? At least it was last time I went to one. So how would it affect the flow of the game?

I’m not sure but it doesn’t seem like they are putting up much effort yet with this class compared to what they were doing with the previous class last year. Maybe they are just being more selective. I’ve barely heard of them even being in on guys that have committed to other schools.

Why do you think Zellers has only been playing a week? If he’s played 8 games already, and there’s 7 days in a week, it’s definitely been longer than a week. Probably closer to 3 weeks.

UND and Minnesota have been said to be his top choices for months now. And based on his Instagram, that checks out. So unless that has changed, I just don’t expect him to go East. Also - if he doesn’t go to Minnesota, I think someone may need to check on their fans. I think they are going to lose it real soon. (If they haven’t already)

I really do not think Mooney has any plans to go East.

I also heard about it on a podcast being more related to family. So I’m more inclined to go with that reasoning. Especially when you consider he has been away from home for a while between his time at the NTDP and Shattuck.

I’m still not convinced he makes it to a college campus. If he’s projected to go top 3 in the draft, things can change quickly after you’re drafted.

It appears so. Im thinking this has been in the works a while.

BU was who I thought was the eastern school with the NIL offer that was reported. If I recall they were his second choice originally.

I actually was starting to think a while ago that he will play more than some people might expect. Namely because I don’t think we are going to play 2 freshmen on the bottom pairing if we don’t have to.