TheFlop

They split against Duluth and Denver which is a good overall outcome. Now they have to win the games they are supposed to. No more losses to the Bemidji and Miami's of college hockey.

5-1 Duluth as Senden gets a greasy goal in front of the net to prevent a weekend shutout.

It's a shame that UND is the only team that ever loses players early.

Writing was on the wall with inept offense when last year the teams best option to score on a penalty shot was a D-man Wolanin

+1 for the Dokken reference. Agree with hitting the reset button.....but unfortunately this team has had to hit the reset button almost every weekend.

Once again, you can choose to keep going back to the start when Sandelin took over a doormat of the WCHA and had an old barn......but fact is since getting an upgraded facility in 2010 he's WON 2 National Titles and almost won a 3rd (and who knows about this year). Kind of makes up for meaningless conference titles.

UND was close to not even making the title game in 2016 due to a nail biter with Denver.......but they did and they won so it all counts the same.

How many of the junior class were actually Berry recruits?

You can't be serious? Since Sandelin got a decent arena in 2010 he has been lights out. 2 National Titles, a Runner Up, and on his way to a possible/likely 3rd title. UND would take him in a heartbeat but he ain't coming

Sandy isn't coming back. Never. Berry is a good coach......but too nice of a guy to do what is necessary.

Gonna need someone to step up and fill JJ's shoes when it comes to missing point blank shots to score. I think Bowen has it in him.

Used to be 80-90% full during Sioux games with about a quarter of those fans being Sioux fans. I'm guessing it will be 2/3 full with a smaller percent of Sioux fans than normal.

A concerning development for the direction of the program. When was the last time that UND lost a high end committed recruit to another college program? Not surprising when recruits that weren't panning out in juniors (like Mitchell Matson) don't make it to campus but this is huge.

If there's still any hope, hopefully he isn't at the Amsoil this weekend to witness the carnage.

Pat O'Leary, Ryan Connelly, Brendan Connelly, and Jeff Yurecko off the top of my head. There were quite a few of them.

JJ couldn't score on the Vegas strip at 2am on a Saturday night with a fist full of Bellagio chips.

Sad.

No puck luck.....hot goaltender.....UND dominates in time of possession......shots off of opposing teams shin pads.....and point blank shots directly into the goalies medsection....still UND guts out a 2-1 and 3-1 win.

Ironic. The UND Jr. class that just keeps on killing this team.....whether it be on the ice or by clogging up the pipeline.

No FBS games but NDSU kindly slides in to provide the automatic loss. After that who really knows. However, make no mistake about it the only real difference between Mussman and Bubba at this point in their tenures is that Bubba is a likable guy that is good at shaking hands and slapping people on the backs. Bubba is benefitting from the theory that you can get by for quite awhile focusing on the sizzle and not on the steak. Problem is even the sizzle eventually turns to fizzle once people realize the underlying product is lacking.

Just a question that since you don't know the answer to that perhaps someone else can help with. Since most recruits play juniors for 1-2 years after committing.....and Berry is starting year 4.....the much maligned JR and SR class (at least as it pertains to offense) would have been recruited under Hakstol. Doesn't let Berry off the hook either but you take a slump at the end of the Hakstol years and couple that with a slow start Berry's first couple years and this is the result.

Honest question, how many of the forwards on this team are still left over Hak recruits? (Yes, I know that Berry won a title with Hak guys......but Hak couldn't win the big one with Hak guys so can't really hold that against Berry). Possible that Hak left the cupboard a little bare?

So with all of this talk about how the gap has narrowed.....parity.....there are no gimme games anymore......not much separates teams anymore.....it seems like it would be tough to keep expecting UND fans to keep paying 3-4 times as much money for the product when their team isn't much better than any other team?

With mostly the same group of forwards that couldn't score last year back this year and people expect different results.

Game 2 against Wisc took the refs handing the game to UND.....game 2 against Miami was a yawn-fest......and this game.....I don't have words for this game. The team flat out can't score.