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Hell of a game! Agree with what others have said wish they wouldn't go to the shootout in the gold medal game.

Rumor is Coyle has had communication with Flecks agent back to Christmas Eve. I don't have a lot of confidence in any administrative people at Minnesota but you would think they would be smart enough not to fire Claeys unless you have somebody already lined up especially at this time of the year. Sounds like there is a lot of confidence in ending up with either Fleck or Harsin from Boise St which wouldn't be too bad but I would have rather just gave Claeys at least another year. Fleck wants to stay in the Midwest and the Gophers play in the B1G West which is looked at by most as the weaker of the 2 divisions. They also have the new athletes village and one of the regents said on radio yesterday they could end up paying $3-$3.5 million a year for their next coach. Lots of reasons a coach could look to take the Minnesota job if he trusts the administration.

As a Gopher football fan I'm not happy at all with Claeys being fired. This staff had brought Minnesota back to respectability and was starting to take the next step. The staff is a great group of guys and most of them won't be out of work for long especially those on the defensive side of the ball. Claeys and then Sawvel are some of the best defensive minds out there and showed as DC's. I mean just look at the gameplan they put together to shut down one of the best passing offenses in the country even though they were missing 3 of their top 4 corners and a freshman All American safety. There are major problems with the administration and their mishandling of the alleged sexual assault is just one thing. A major problem is they just don't communicate very well at all which is also a big part of the boycott took place. The players feel very little respect, support, and trust from the AD and president. When they suspended the 10 players for the bowl game coaches found out about a half hour before a practice and the news came out during practice and no new information was given to the coaching staff. The AD Coyle lied about and continues to lie about Claeys being behind the players being suspended as Claeys was in San Diego for the Holiday Bowl press conference. Coyle also wouldn't answer any questions when he met with the team about the suspension citing student privacy laws but somehow the names of who was suspended was able to get out to the media quickly. A lot of the frustration from players, fans, and coaches with the suspension for the bowl game was 5 of the players had been suspended earlier in the year for the same incident and then suddenly another 5 appeared in this suspension for the same situation because of the EOAA which isn't exactly a fair unbiased group to determine an outcome in this situation. The boycott started because of the way administration didn't communicate the process but the players took that action because of the lack of the due process the players received. It wasn't really about the first 5 who had been investigated and suspended earlier this year before being allowed to come back. It was about the 2nd 5 who from all reports really weren't involved in any sexually activity at all but were in the same apartment at 1 time or another for some amount of time during the night in question. When meeting with some regents and the AD they ask for the 2nd 5 to be reinstated and the AD had ok'd that but the university's attorney eventually shut it down saying that the victim would have to give the athletic department the ok to reinstate those players which makes absolutely no sense. Not sure how many people know but the players also almost reinstated the boycott after they announced they would play as President Kaler spoke to the media after the players announced it and basically took all the credit for the players ending the boycott. Kaler had nothing to do with the boycott ending and he is lucky 2 members of the board of regents went to go calm the players down again to keep them from reinstating the boycott. The alleged sexual assault case is nowhere close to over either one of the Gophers top freshmen Carter Coughlin tweeted this today. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Both sides of the story deserve to be heard. <a href="https://t.co/uLm1JjSgWp">pic.twitter.com/uLm1JjSgWp</a></p>&mdash; Carter Coughlin (@Cmoe34) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cmoe34/status/816712814312247297">January 4, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Anyway more about what concerns UND I'm not sure how many transfers there will be from Minnesota. I know this team was very attached to this staff and there are a lot of strong statements and feelings right now but that is often the case when a coach is fired. PJ Fleck is rumored to be the next coach at Minnesota and while I'm not sold on him at all he does seem like the type of guy who could sell a lot of these guys on staying. The biggest thing with the transfers is the players aren't necessarily transferring because of the coach but because of the AD/President and as a coach how do you sell these players on those guys supporting you when the players have seen they haven't and the AD has flat out lied to these players. As for current commits if they decide to look elsewhere Andries had offers from pretty much everybody Oklahoma, Nebraska, Miami, Florida, etc. so he wouldn't be looking at UND. Abojei would probably look at Iowa St. as that was one of the other schools who got multiple visits from him this summer. Rousemiller does have a PWO offer from Minnesota.

Good road win. Really liked the move to put the 2 Poolman's together and Ausmus with Shaw today both pairs seemed solid.

Why would he be an LB? He told teams coming out of high school he wanted to play RB otherwise he wouldn't consider them.

Tweten from EGF? Has played for both the Minnesota Magicians in the NAHL and Cedar Rapids in the USHL this season. Has played 17 games with the Magicians scoring 4 goals and 9 assists. Also has 9 games with Cedar Rapids with no goals and 2 assists. I haven't seen him this year but going back to watching him at EGF he has good size and skill but skating needed to improve a little bit and he really just needed to put everything together.

Really solid bounce back from last weekend especially with Boeser and Shaw out. Guys did a lot better job of doing the little things well tonight and I thought we saw a little more physicality throughout the lineup. Great showing by Sioux fans as well looked like an electric atmosphere.

That's a terrible loss against a bad team because you didn't play most of the game off. Thought Berry would make the move to Hrynkiw after the 3rd goal if for nothing else to try to slow the momentum a little bit. Refs were awful Michigan State got away with a bunch of clutching and grabbing and the missed delay of game call when all the momentum was with the Sioux in the 3rd was absolutely terrible. Also should have been a whistle and another faceoff in the MSU zone with 3 seconds left as their player had covered the puck with his hand and instead the refs just let the clock run out.

Really solid weekend can definitely see some guys starting to take steps forward in their game that we've been hoping for.

Olson brings a physical presence and at least adds something to the lineup while Wilkie really isn't adding anything right now.

Agree Yon in for Wilkie should be the move tonight and I'd like to see him on a line with Bowen seemed like they had some chemistry early. Wilkie hasn't really brought anything to the lineup all season.

Boeser

I thought this was one of the better games we have put together so far this season. I'm sure Cam wants both of those goals back and with a struggling group of defensemen he really needs to step up his play and carry us for a while. Hopefully we will see some improvement as the D get more experience but right now you can only trust about 4 on any given night. Schierhorn was the difference tonight as he was very solid tonight and got a few lucky breaks as well with about 4 posts. Thought Smith stepped into the lineup and played well but Gornall struggled and I'd much rather see Yon in over him I didn't really get that move. Hopefully Poolman can heal up this week and be ready to go for Denver because right now everytime Peski gets on the ice it seems like he panics and gives up some kind of chance and Johnson isn't fairing too much better back there right now. Think we will see some changes this week with the lines and especially the PP that 1st group really didn't seem to fit well together.

Gersich

Offensively the guys got better as the game went making plays and being hard on the puck. Early it just seemed like too many guys were just looking to get rid of the puck and slap it anywhere instead of moving it to someone or just skating with it. The reffing was absolutely terrible. The B1G refs bought right into Minnesota's embellishment all night gifting them powerplays and they have a solid powerplay. The 14 minutes that they took Ausmus off the ice for in the 1st for something that maybe should have been a 2 minute penalty for him was pathetic and definitely hurt us big time. Lindgren is a guy who I think is gonna have some guys coming after him tomorrow night and I think he'll get exactly what he should.

Need to do a better job of getting shots through, seemed like Duluth blocked a bunch last night and guys were taking a little too long getting shots off. The powerplay seemed like it got better later in the game but we need it to start producing more. It seems to me like they're almost forcing the PP to run through Boeser and right now Brock is trying to force his shot through whenever he gets it instead of moving the puck and finding the opening. Defensively it just seems like there are a few times a game where we get lackadaisical in our own zone and it seems like most of the time our opponent has taken advantage and put the puck in the back of the net. Did like that we saw a little more physical style last night finishing more checks on the forecheck and creating some turnovers.

Very good player with an explosive get off. Torn ACL last season hurt his recruiting a bit as he wasn't able to camp this summer. Minnesota has been keeping a close eye on him and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see him end up there still.

Gersich

T. Poolman

Boeser

Gersich.

Big Teddy fan and absolutely hate to see him go down. The Vikings still have a great defense and the running game to be a playoff team even with Hill at QB but don't think they're a Super Bowl threat like they would have been with Teddy. Hill is 36 I believe and not real mobile so not sure he will stay healthy enough to start every game. Need to try and find a veteran backup that could eventually start maybe trade with Philly for Chase Daniel since they have Bradford and Wentz as well.

It isn't any different and I know that. Someone just mentioned some schools like Minnesota and other BCS conference schools also doing it and I just said in most cases those are exhibitions that don't count at that level but I know the low-mid majors sometimes have to play those types of games as regular season games.

Big difference between playing Crookston and SMSU as your 2 exhibition games in games that don't count and playing a team like that as part of your regular season schedule though.

No change not a fan of it at all.