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Except Wilkie has 5 goals... which surpasses Murphy's total... by 5

I would hope he'd leave him alone in that situation, that would be messy!

He started to put the puck in the net and the end of last year but it was always someone else creating space for him. He's got a good shot but that's moot if he can't find space to release it.

It almost seems like Wilkie has been sleepwalking through games, not sure I'd want him in a top 6 role right now.

FYP At least that's what I think you meant?

Agreed on this team will improve, I was only commenting on the premier puck handlers/skaters we lost last year and it contributing to the problems discussed. For this reason, it's taking this team longer to gel on things like Powerplays and zone entries which require the talent and being on the same page. This team has good talent(not to last year's level but still good) but they are not yet on the same page.

What does this even mean?

Someone on Google Images apparently

Caggiula, Schmaltz, Stecher, Keaton, Ladue... get the picture?

That makes sense

I will say that they did this all of last year and remember someone mentioning this is by design. Not a great hockey mind but may be a better way to press the player into making a mistake

Is a 'blink' emoticon the sign for sarcasm? Sorry, didn't read it that way.

Just going to regurgitate many of my random thoughts from this weekend: Positives: Hoff stands out as physically mature and plays a heavy game, Colton Poolman and Cole Smith are looking better with each game. Wolanin might be our best dman right now, Shaw looks miles better than last year, Tucker is a monster and will provide offense this year. The young guys also are looking better with each game but have some growing pains as expected. Also, Ausmus had IMO his best game of the year Saturday vs Denver and bailed Tucker out on a bad turnover. Also, had that nice big check on the DU partial breakaway. Negatives: 2 breakaways given up in a matter of maybe 30 seconds on Friday but Cam stoned both of them, Ausmus doesn't look quite as comfortable without Stecher(but who would?), the freshmen D making rookie mistakes on pinching resulting in odd man rushes, PK and PP need to start figuring things out, maybe take Boeser and/or Jost off the PK to save energy and find a couple guys willing to lay their bodies on the line. All in all though, we only gave up 4 goals to the #2 team in the country and should very well have had a split if not for an atrocious interference called at the end of Friday's game that led to Denver tying the game.

Just stopped in to say I went to 2 games this year... South Dakota and NAU. Sitting there in the 3rd quarter on Saturday down 31-10 I was just thinking "There's no way Bubba can pull this off again, right?" This team is never out of a game and pulled off a fantastic finish to this season! Congrats Bubba and the team! Now I'm getting greedy and want to take down the Bison in the playoffs

Good lord, this isn't a football hockey pissing match, stop contributing to it. Football is doing great, hockey just hung a national championship and had 9 guys leave including regular NHLers and is experiencing adversity. No need to try to put down either team.

You obviously didn't listen to the rules... <sigh>

It seems like they're starting to figure things out and make the proper adjustments (judging by Saturday's game against Minnesota) which is encouraging. Now if we can just start finding the back of the net!

Counterpoint: No

UND 4-3 tonight Jost, Boeser, Gardner, Pooly

Tickets have been sold

I'm feeling confident... so there's that

bump, still available

I'd also like to know what the purpose of these are... or like a company mission statement. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice enough looking logo I'm kinda with Siouxperfan7 in wondering what the end game is.