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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.

Hockey is different, but alright.

Yup.... no other choice, at this point. Just win, baby.

Beat me to it hahaha But seriously, I don't like that "other team is trying, too" agrument, either. We are better than Canisius. We should beat them every game. But, that's hockey. Getting a little annoying to say that as much as we have, this year.

LOL Mafia, you gotta get better at memes, dude

Brad has a great story about it this weekend. He wasn't even remotely kind to the team.

Again, what do you want them to say in the media?

I don't necessarily disagree, but what are these guys supposed to say? Is Bubbs supposed to rip his players in public? Are the captains supposed to call teammates out? Cliches are as old as sports (see what I did there?). None of this matters.

Many of the kids on the roster, if not most, were already in our pipeline when we won in 2016. From there, we've got a pipeline that's very, very good. I'll say it again, we missed on one class (current juniors) and that's a huge part of our struggles. But, that class was all before 2016. I don't buy the half-hearted play. I think the current team works plenty hard.

We do?

Thank the guy who does the link! I'm just the errand boy, in this situation. But, you're welcome

1-0 US -- Walstrom. Russia had a disallowed goal like 2 minutes before.

For those of you working, here's a perfect link for the US/Russia game: http://www.hockeydabeast413.xyz/wjc.html

Lol

Also, it's very "intimate"

HAHAHA for AHA hockey... yiiikes. I bet they make a lot of profit on all 12 of their subscribers. My guess.... they'll make more money this weekend than they will from their annual subscriptions.

My goodness, could you imagine him as a senior?