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Crap. Good. Double crap. Not because Rinks is no good, but just because Cam isn't 100%. Rinks makes me nervous.

Ok, so you aren't saying because he's not good enough to score, got it. I think he's starting to create that space more and more and that's coming from his effort level. Him hitting pipes and generating chances shows he's close. Could be one of those things where he gets one to go and he builds off that. He's got the talent.

Really? Why not? Didn't he lead the team in shots recently? Had two pipes last weekend. Kid is absolutely close and has a rifle shot. I think it's pretty clear he's not 100%. Shot has looked much better, but he's just not getting space. I think he's got something lower going on.

Absolutely. His effort level has been great over the last month or so. He's working hard and I appreciate that.

I used to rag on Wilkie for his lack of effort while slumping scoring wise. He's gone to work, now and I want him to get one so bad. Confidence builder, for him and with his shot power, he gets going, he's gonna be a big time boon to this team.

I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see him sit since we have a bye week next.

Kindly, leave.

I really, really don't want to play Duluth.

Anyone see the NSCC game with UMD/Clown? I was not impressed with them when we swept, but I have barely seen them since. I know the Huskies are in desperation mode like us, and frankly, they probably "need" these games more than we do, but I think the boys are sick of their inconsistency. Get the Ralph rockin' early and get the Pups on the run. 5-2 UND ... I think Jost will play (no insight, just a hunch) so I'll give him one, Boeser (buddy, we need you -- find those legs), Hoff, Shaw and Gersich.

With a lot of opportunity for wins in our remaining schedule, a sweep would be so big. SO much momentum

Seems fair. Tough to call anything but a split when we've been so inconsistent.

HAHAHAHA well played!!!

I feel like the 14-15 guys had one thing that this year's squad needs desperately ... leadership. They had a group of seniors who had been through it all and had four years of buying in to the life at UND. They had ups and downs, not just the ups like the freshmen from last year. Those seniors had seen it all.

In a do-or-die 1 game and out setting? You definitely cannot. We get in the tournament and we have as good a chance of ANYONE in the tournament, regardless of seed, of getting to Chicago. We've all said it a bunch, we've seen this team at its best and at that level, we can compete with anyone. Toss in a home crowd in a raucous atmosphere, we have a d@mn good shot.

It was a stream of consciousness kind of thing, but it did bring me back good memories

I 100% with you, btw. I was just speaking of precedence and what they have always done. Didn't mean to come off condescending if I did. Hahaha, right. I think with the small size of the tournament, they try to stick to the formula as much as possible.

He's just overthinking the logic. Yes, we all agree it's silly to end BU to Fargo, but they want to protect the intraconference thing.

Well, that changed them from a No. 16 to a No. 15, which is still a Four seed playing a 1. They always try and protect the No. 1 overall seed and pair them with the 16, but they have changed that a couple times. What you were saying was flipping a team into a band of rankings (from a 3 to a 2) and that I don't see happening.

Of course, since we are talking about PairWise. I doubt we'd be talking about this if we all thought we had no chance of getting in. EDIT: I misread and now understand what you meant. We can absolutely get in with more than a four seed. We have the No. 1 SOS last time I checked, or at least a Top 3... we can move way up with wins.

Again, yes. Your logic is spot on, but it's the way they've done it.

Lol yup.

To avoid intraconference matchup, yes, that's the precedence.

This. Yup, I'd be surprised if they didn't avoid the matchup.

I'd be pretty surprised to see them flip our seed like that. Has that ever happened? Honestly not being confrontational, but do you remember this ever happening? Only thing close I can think of is when Wisconsin made the tourney when they were below .500 but hosted the regional at the Kohl Center. We beat them anyway ... Since then they added that under .500 rule. That's not really the same situation here, I guess.

I'd say yes. Again, not sure, but the precedent is there. My impression was, and from what Debbies just put on the thread, was that they will do everything they can to avoid the first round, intraconference matchup. That can happen by not putting DU or UMD in Fargo. If Western is a No. 1, too, that blows this discussion up because they'd have to have one if UND is a No. 4 seed.