stoneySIOUX

Good morning, sunshine. Glad to see you're feeling better after your nap. Goodness.

I greatly disagree that 1) We have good enough forward talent; 2) Bubbs is a really bad coach. Our best players, outside of our netminders, are defensemen and they are leading this team. This is flatly shown in our system and even by playing three d-men on our top PP tonight. Bubbs and his staff has shown during the title season that they can coach a team with great scoring punch. He's/they have also shown he/they can get this current team to beat really good teams without great forward play. If he was such a terrible coach, we'd lose all our games because our forward group isn't performing. Seems fair to want to see what he can do with a good crop of scorers.

That's precisely how I feel. I'm glad others are saying the same because I don't understand why there isn't optimism.

It's just me. I'm the eternal optimist and apparently that makes people sad because they wanna feel grumpy? Idk lol. I see zero reason to not be excited and/or hopeful that this team could get better when what we lack most is scoring.

This helps.

Has almost everything to do with our tremendous lack of forward scoring. But, apparently we aren't allowed to be excited to be bringing in high profile forwards? Lol. Or, maybe I'm just not allowed to be. Siouxelevens, what's the ruling here?

Senden.

Yeah. He totally got me. Mafia, you're bad at memes lol.

Gross.

Hey! I'm here!

Go and read Brad's article. He ran the numbers and said it's more likely we get an auto bid than home ice.

I agree with you, man. I'm very hopeful and I definitely can see some light on the horizon. The next couple years have a lot of potential to be really fun. This year ain't over yet, either! Need the win tonight.

My guess is that we have a system the suits our strengths this season and that would change when and if our strengths change.

What he said was accurate. Brad said it in his article today they win 5 out of 6, they put themselves right there. Winning the next four are certainly possible. DU on the road will be tough, of course. But, there's definitely still a chance of getting an auto bid.

We've been talking about this all year and we've also discussed four incoming freshmen that should help this on the 18-19 season thread. Hopefully we score more than 2 goals tonight.

Yes. Our lack of forward scoring is pretty well established, is it not? I don't understand why this is all so confusing. We've been talking about this all season.

It sucks that this is the case. Kawaguchi is one I think needs to shoot more, for sure.

Frankly, I wasn't shocked at all lol. It's our system because our best players are d-men.

Well, first of four (likely more) must wins. Get it done. 5-3 UND Rhett (If I keep picking him, it'll happen sometime, right?), Guchi, Weatherby, JBD, Hoff

I don't. Led by Sophs and freshmen now. Those players should take a step and the incoming freshmen look like impact players.

Can I have both?

Haha me too!

Yes, agreed. UGH...

Outside of that one weekend, which I get it, it happened, we've played and beaten some very good/great opponents. I'd say we're playing much better in the second half.

Hahaha yessss