stoneySIOUX

Less is more, Branch....

You guys don't like Jake, huh? I think he's done WORLDS better the last year or so.

Yeah, for sure. I wasn't trying to be contrarian, basically I'm just saying the team needs to get it done this weekend, regardless in how many games and we can keep moving forward.

A sweep isn't a must. It would be very much helpful, but it isn't a must.

In a way? UND blatantly stole it lol.

HELLO?!?!

Wise words.

So, the kid can score against a bunch of kids younger than he... big woop

Hahaha is Brass Bonanza the only other option?

When you lose that many leads like that in the second half of the season, it's absolutely in their heads. It's human nature. All it takes is one win to get rid of it, though.

Feels like the opposite. They don't relax, they get incredibly tight.

I feel the same way. If we play like we did against St. Cloud, I think we sweep.

Red cows haha

Big thing I took out of this weekend is that the top 2 lines can generate high-level offense and we haven't had that kind of consistency all season. The rest of the way needs to see Line 1: 19-22-14 and Line 2: 16-8-29. Kawaguchi has been really, really good the past handful of games. With Omaha being at 14, we get two wins (sweep obviously preferred) and get 1 win in St. Paul, that should get us in. 2-2 in the next two weeks should do it. 2-3 puts us on the bubble and needing help. Atlantic is a 1-bid conference as no one left is in the Top 16 and the remaining 4 in the Big 10 are locks, so no stolen bids there. We're now big fans of Northeastern and Providence in HE; Clarkson and Cornell in the ECAC; and Mankato in the WCHA. All of those hold, we just need to be 15, obviously.

Nailed it.

Hahaha this. Yup. I think we've all heard the cliche of "playing up/down to the competition", but man, this is crazy.

I'm fine with wrapping this all up, but who are we to say what these kids do with their spare time? And again, implying that the amount of time they spend on social media is affecting their play on the ice doesn't make sense to me. Let's move on as it really is a matter of opinion.

Glad to hear it. Doesn't make that janitor any less of a dick.

Lol and this makes my point even more evident. That's lunacy.

Lol I know you're kidding, but this is the kind of stuff that's been implied, MM!

It started with that and ballooned to implications of players needing to get off social media as a commentary of their effort and focus. It's all there. I'm not asking for the team to be babied and those that know me know I don't believe in anything of that sort. I just think attacking this generation of players that uses social media off the ice and implying this is an indicator of how hard they work or their desire to win doesn't make sense.

And btw, I don't think saying "player x needs to sit" is bad. That's normal. But, ripping on social media use and implying stopping that use would improve their performance seems stupid. That's what I was referring to.

It's a penalty by the book, but I don't like the call. Bast needs to be responsible for his stick, but that's not a penalty even 3 or 4 years ago.

They are all over the threads in the past few weeks. Most are implied. Most of it came from that IG post that quoted Oxbow6 and were noting that players should concentrate less on social media as if that would improve their performance.

Crap, just reread what you said. Schlossy has a spot on his blog where he notes what years players are expected to come.