SiouxScore

This team showed a lot of fight tonight. The Smith-Hain-Senden line was great and has been pretty much every time they've been together. The guys showed the type of response I expected to see after the Schuldt hit last night. They played with an edge and made sure they weren't gonna take anything from St. Cloud whether it was a jab at the goalie, a late slash, or whatever and that is something that has been lacking this year. This team looked a lot like the Fighting Sioux teams we've loved so much over the years and I think they need to play that same style going forward if they are gonna be successful. It isn't running around taking penalties all night but instead protecting your goalie and teammates, standing up for yourself and teammates, crashing the net hard, and playing a physical hockey game that this team needs to continue to do the rest of the way. Those are the types of things that make you hard to play against.

Scheel was very good last night. Gave the team a chance to steal one that they didn't deserve to win. Missing the knee on Schuldt and then giving Mismash a penalty on top of that is inexcusable. Then add on not even being willing to look at it and just saying I already saw it is ridiculous. The best have open conversations and are willing to admit when they miss a call but Anderson is on the other end of the spectrum. Terrible official, thank god he is retiring after the year. I thought the 1st period UND played decent but when it ended up 1-0 I knew it was another missed opportunity. You knew St. Cloud would push and UND had missed their opportunities for a 2nd or 3rd goal. The 2nd and 3rd periods were all St. Cloud. UND looked like they didn't even want the puck when they did have it and most of the time it looked like they needed a 2nd puck out there because SCSU was in complete control of the puck.

Just the kind of performance and result that exemplifies the 2018/2019 North Dakota hockey season.

Maybe? Guys getting free behind defensemen, blind cross ice passes, and blown d-zone coverages were part of the lackadasical play at times tonight. I didn't say there weren't things that went well tonight but there were definitely times where things looked lackadasical and unfocused as well.

A win is a win but man that was way closer than it should've been. That seems to be pretty common no matter the opponent though every game seems to go down to the wire. Ton of great chances that guys missed on. Some were just flat out misses while I thought a couple should've resulted in Omaha penalties. Thought UNO got away with a ton overall tonight but especially with the stickwork while UND got called for way less. Scheel came up with some really big saves in huge moments. Way too many defensive breakdowns and just lackadaisical play overall tonight. Tighten things up for tomorrow and get the sweep.

5th goal was a empty netter. EGF scored first and Cental tied it late in the 1st to make it 1-1 at intermission. Central got a goal in the 2nd and led 2-1 after 2 while being outshot 21-17. Central scored 2 goals early in the 3rd to open it up to 4-1. EGF scored with about 3 minutes left to cut it to 2 but the empty netter sealed it. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/4552942-central-handles-east-grand-forks-test-stay-unbeaten

Doesn't really have to be Gersich anybody could probably step in and do the job.

No USA actually got the puck in the zone with possession and created some chances and we know that doesn't happen on Shaw's powerplays. Although a couple whiffs on beautiful backdoor feeds did look reminiscent of something I had seen before.

I'm not a big fire the coach guy as soon as something goes wrong but I think the last two years have seen a pretty steady downturn in the level of hockey UND is playing. This weekend tops it off for me as I think you have to make a change. If they wanna keep him through the end of the year and let him finish the season fine but somebody should be getting in touch with Hakstol right away and letting him know at the end of the year the job is yours if you want it. I'm so sick of hearing the same old crap from Brad Berry. Your team just was swept by a terrible irrelevant Canisius team and you talk about playing the right way and how people are gonna say mean things in the post game interview. It is a bottom line business Brad and yours doesn't look very good at all. I don't care whether you play the right way or not if you are getting swept by a program half the country doesn't even know exists. You have had plenty of time to make changes and instill some discipline back in this program but instead you are too worried about being buddies with the players and don't want to make difficult decisions. Good leaders have to make difficult decisions because it is the best thing for their program. Time to bring back somebody we know will do that.

At least half our roster hasn't look prepared to play college hockey the last year and a half. Donovan definitely will be prepared to play college hockey next year it just won't be at UND and that is a major mistake on the part of our coaching staff.

And Berry and staff looking extremely stupid for not making sure they would make room for him to come in next season especially with so much dead weight currently on roster.

Kiersted

Start of the 2nd half of the season with a pretty much fully healthy group and you know you have no room for error and this is the type of effort and performance they put on the ice. We just lost to freaking Canisius, let that sink in for a moment. Are you kidding me? Canisius wouldn't be a top 15 AA team in Minnesota High School hockey. This loss is not only tremendously embarrassing but does a ton of damage as well. The way this team showed up tonight is a huge indictment on this coaching staff as well. Playing at half speed for most of the game with no discipline at all and more coasting than you see at open skating at your local rink. No adjustments throughout the game either, guys keep dumping it in against a clearly inferior team that was giving you plenty of room to skate the puck in. This roster needs a huge overhaul and talent infusion. There should be a number of difficult conversations that take place after the season. I'm at the point were I have very little confidence in this staff and particularly with Brad Berry in charge to pull this program out of the spiral we are in. There is a guy out there who had a ton of success here with a number of different types of teams and in my mind it is time to give him a call. Bring Back Hak!

Awesome, Thanks a lot!

Gardner

Wish the black Nike Swifts were on there somewhere. That was a sweet looking jersey.

Didn't get the outcome tonight but thought overall it was a much better weekend of hockey from this team than what we have seen the majority of this year. Scheel made some big saves and was good again. He would've probably liked the 1st goal back but I'm more disappointed in the d-zone breakdown that leaves a guy open at the bottom of the circle especially that early in the game. This is the type of game where you need to come up with a powerplay goal and take advantage of your chances but the guys just couldn't convert on enough of them. Really thought Cole Smith played well tonight creating a lot of chances, hitting a post, and just really giving Denvers D a lot of trouble throughout the night. Get some guys healed up and play with some urgency right out of Christmas break.

Good win. 1st period might have been the best period this team has played all year and held on in the 2nd and 3rd. Scheel was rock solid and came up with the huge penalty shot stop. Jones looked to have good jump really thought he would end up putting one in the net with the way he was playing although he did miss a wide open one I guess. The Hain-Senden-Smith line was very good and really set the tone for the game. Defensively real solid job keeping Denver out of scoring areas for the most part. Guys play all 3 periods tomorrow like they did the 1st tonight and it will be a sweep.

Bernard-Docker

I'd guess EGF would be a solid number 2. They already played Red River and pretty well controlled the game. They won 4-0 and the shots were like 30-15.

Minnesota will likely have a couple and I could see both guys moving down to FCS. Johnathan Femi-Cole already walked on SR day and would be a grad transfer. He has 14 rushes for 65 yards in his career did have a heck of a spring game a year ago though. The other likely possibility would be Dominik London who will be a Sophomore next season. He hasn't announced he is transferring but Minnesota will have some after the bowl game and he hasn't played in his first couple of seasons and doesn't really have a path to getting on the field at Minnesota. I also see on his Twitter that he and Danny Freund and Malcolm Agnew have started following each other recently.

Heck of a bounce back effort tonight. Thought they did a much better job of taking away time and space but the biggest difference was they played a lot harder tonight. Guys made some of the tough plays and battled through contact to get to where they were supposed to be instead of giving up an opportunity because you didn't work through contact. They got a couple of skilled guys to finish on a couple of chances but still left a ton on the ice. The powerplay was terrible and I think with the way the roster is right now it would be best to go to a more simplified powerplay where you just try to get a couple guys like Gardner and Smith in front of the net and work for point shots for JBD and Poolman. Very frustrating to not be able to add another goal with all the opportunities but this roster isn't changing anytime soon which likely means the finishing ability isn't gonna change either. This team is going to have to find different ways to win. Like playing tough physical defensive hockey. I wasn't a huge fan of giving Thome the start last night and after tonight I hope Berry has figured out he needs to ride Scheel for a while. He is capable of stealing a game here or there.

Shaw

Hain

You do but skilled guys can be role players too and some guys that you have higher expectations for will inevitably fail to meet them and have to become role players. At the least we have Bowen, Yon, Smith, Hoff, Janatuinen, Keane, Senden, and Johnson are all role guys. That is 8 of our 15 forwards and is way too many.