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Yeah, we all agree with that.

No, it actually wasn't. But, ok.

Shooting percentage is glaring. Awful, awful stuff. Creativity is huge with this, but maybe we start just piling in front, at this point, and keep firing since we have possession. We have no one that is picking corners, at this point.

I've heard this a lot, but I'd like to know if it's true. Does Dahl's PWR website do a predictor? I feel like with DU, UMD, SCSU, WMU still on our schedule, we have room to move up. Of course, we have to win those games lol.

Lol alright, man. I was disagreeing with the idea that you brought up that analytics are a problem as to why UND isn't winning games this year, but ok. Your view is simplistic and that's fine. I said that possession USUALLY leads to goals. We're an outlier.

How did you get that out of what I said? I literally just said USUALLY possession leads to goals and we're a part of the outlier.

Consistently, sure. Certainly not always. What's your point?

I'm an analytics guy, so I'd disagree. I promise I'm not just being contrarian haha. In this particular Corsi piece, possession usually leads to goal and this supports that premise with most of the Top 20 teams in Corsi being pretty successful -- the outliers -- Us, BSU, BC, for sure. Other than that, that's a list of the best teams in the country.

This is very true. No corner picking, for us, of late. Pretty much all season. Lots of logo burners.

Lol alright.

We've recruited plenty of heralded guys. I'm not going to keep repeating myself as it's not worth my time, but, again, we missed on one class -- the current junior class. That hurts our Sophs. But, our sophs are our best talent right now and we need to get them going. There isn't some magic ball that guarantees them performing at this level. For every Brock Boeser, there's 15 Mike Cichys. We recruited guys that MANY, if not most, wanted (Kawaguchi, Mismash, Adams, etc.). In my view, we have a lot of talent on this team, particularly on the back end with the forward reinforcements (And still loads of new d-men) coming in the next couple of years. I don't see recruiting as a weakness in any way, shape or form. As others have said, maybe we need to change up the system for the current roster?

Look at the Corsi numbers. Possession usually leads to wins. It's not, this year, and that's why it's a story. Who's taken the mentality that it's any sort of a moral victory that we're outshooting teams? He's saying that because it's true. So, you want him to ignore that we outshot Cansius 3-1?

I never said firing Bubbs isn't an option, I just don't believe it's the right one. Haha "we'll give him the year right after our championship." So, you're discrediting a playoff season in which we were a controversial call away from playing for a shot at the Frozen Four. OK then haha. You don't have to buy the argument that recruiting is done years before, but it's the case. You don't think Boeser and Schmaltz were in our pipeline for years? When Boeser decided not to go to Wisconsin, since we he was always on our radar and we recruited him heavily, we were near the top of his list. I'm fine with the self-analysis and almost all of your execution take, but I wholly disagree with your recruiting portion.

100% agree. Sorry for assuming this was a "fire bubbs" thing.

I'm a bit confused on what you're responding to since that post is different, so I'm not sure how to respond. We missed on one class, yes. Sophs need to continue to develop and turn it on really quickly for this season to be saved. I don't wonder why there is some concern. I get it. You have a solve? I don't know what it is, but firing Bubbs isn't, in my opinion -- particularly in season -- the best option.

Questioning his leadership ability seems hard to do. I'm not in the room. We're not winning, sure, but to pin it on Colton's leadership seems a bit far fetched, to me. We're just not good enough offensively. That's why we don't win.

Yes! I think it's definitely part of the system. Maybe we need to adjust to the players we have. We don't seem to have a forward that can create enough space alone, so we need more playmaking, as I see it. That, or just abandon all of the creativity, keep getting pucks on, but GET IN FRONT for dirty stuff.

THIS! This reaction to this weekend ignores this. What does losing Bubbs do to a pipeline that is being heralded as pretty dang good? So, the problem is we don't score enough, right? Well, we have scorers in the pipeline. Of course, they have to score when the get here, but will they get here if Bubbs is gone?

Lol I wasn't saying that to imply that you don't, whatsoever. Over simplifying it, I guess. Oh well... it is, what it is. We're not very good offensively. That's the long and short of it.

Haha it's true! Hockey is a game like no other where a goalie or a bad bounce can erase a 40-20 shot advantage.

I don't think Brad is going to ever provide that kind of a kick, nor should he. But, he didn't make excuses in the least bit. From his Weekend Rewind: "UND seemingly has to labor and labor and labor and labor and pile up 35 shots just to get a puck to go in the net. And when it does go in, it feels like the team just climbed Mt. Everest. Then, the other team gets one good look — and sometimes not even a good look — and it goes in. Could there be a better example of that than Saturday night’s first period when UND outshot Canisius 23-2 and didn’t have a lead to show for it? And the telling part is that period didn’t feel strange. It seemed normal. It’s fairly obvious by now that UND lacks high-end finishers this season. This has happened in too many games now to just chalk it up to bad luck or running into goalies who are playing out of their minds. Every team is going to run into a hot goalie a few times a year, but not every week. UND has been held to 1 or 0 goals in more than a third of the games now. That’s a trend."

I didn't really get the impression that they made it sound acceptable. To each, their own. Pooly is NOT a "rah-rah" guy. If you want anything other than cliches or "proud" talk, he's not the captain for you.

I don't think the team played soft, no. We're just not very good offensively.

That's fair. I do feel like the team works hard, however.

I don't personally think this team wasn't ready to play, this weekend. Winning a game is different than being prepared/ready to play. From what I saw/heard this weekend, we played fine, but didn't score. It's the unfortunate MO of this team.