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Jones in. Casey Johnson in. Hoff and Peski are out.

Well. In tonight’s game, our opponent got called for penalties also...

See if he’s feeling well enough so we can spot him minutes to take face offs and play some PK...

We remembered, but the UND Twitter account didn’t specify illness. It said “undisclosed” so no one knew if he was still sick, picked up an injury in practice, etc...

Schlossman tweeted Jones isn’t an injury but an illness...

Reeeal concerned about the penalty kill at the moment...

Hope it’s not serious because we’re down to 3 natural centers with him and Bowen out. Adams is centering the 4th line.

Perhaps what we need is some context when someone posts some names on this thread?

Olson is still out. As is Bowen.

You don’t remember the 2013-14 and 2014-15 Frozen Four teams? Those were pretty offensively challenged. But we had great D and goaltending.

Both of Pogo’s goals were scored when he was on a line with Jones and Janatuinen. He scored in 2 straight games. Then they switched that around. Then Bowen got injured and the line shuffling got worse.

I realize the PP is a point of contention here, but if we could score AT ALL on a consistent basis, no one here would care how crappy it is. It wasn’t good with our title team either. We’ve never been a team that lives and dies by the PP and we’re not going to become one anytime soon...

Here's my solution: don't put the three forwards who SHOULD be leading this team offensively but aren't (19, 22, 14 )on the same line. You separate them. All three. Don't put two on one line and the other on another. Put one on the first, one on the second, and one on the third. Putting three guys who haven't been producing as often as they should on the same line is a terrible idea. Technically Gersich and Gardner are tied for 5th in scoring on this team behind Wolanin, Mismash, Jones and Poolman, but we all expected more from 19, 22 and 14 and that's the problem. Either they need to step up or we put other guys in a position to succeed instead. The other thing that getting the injured guys back will do is create some internal competition that we haven't had in a few weeks at forward since we've had to use everyone. Make everyone earn there spots, because there were definitely a few forwards that would be in the stands if we had people to replace them with. Side note: Matt Kiersted has 2 goals on 7 shots this season. He should shoot the puck more.

No disrespect to those three there, but we're probably not going to score a game winning goal with them more often then not. They play hard and provide some energy and I appreciate what they do, but...

You mean someone will show some leadership by calling a meeting?

I noticed it, just neglected to comment on it. So much happened that definitely would have been called a penalty in Denver.

He's in according to Hajdu on the chat. Under the weather sounds like, but he's in.

Yup, No argument here.

I agree. Maybe one day we will get to see it...

19 & 22 are probably a package deal at this point...

Yup. Every other line has changed in the past few weeks either by injury or other reason, except that one.

On this team, he is, because we don’t have an influx of skilled top 6 centers, unfortunately. Look at our centers: Gardner, Jones, Hoff, Bowen, Simonson. Not a lot of top 6 guys there. Gardner has basically played a top 6 role since he got here because he wins face offs.

25 didn’t play last night to be fair... But over the course of the season, yeah we should expect more from those three.

Awful game. I pretty much knew how things were going once we had Thome’s gaffe. What team has ever won a game where the goalie had that happen? Is Casey Johnson injured? I saw him at intermission, but found it weird he was out if healthy, considering Rieger was at forward. Yeah, Bowen is missed. As was Janatuinen. And Olson. List goes on... Side note: I haven’t seen much of Yon previously on the PK and thought he did well there.

I feel the student section has been dead all year pretty much so I don’t know if I’d consider that a big factor. *shrugs* That said, I really don’t know what to expect. Day after Thanksgiving home games have been awful lately. That said, I’ll be there... with my beer, hoping for a W.