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Overall playmaking ability is so good. Passing, skating, the ability to miss pads in traffic, lots of stuff. They are a phenomenal group.

Same thing with Duluth.... both are going to need young guys to step up QUICK.

I disagree with none of that, but you'd rather keep Boeser, Schmaltz, Poganski, Stecher, LaDue, Thompson, Poolman, right?

We did alright with three goalies with (almost) no college experience

You don't say? Wow UMD and St. Cloud is losing a lot. Crazy.

It's even more cool when this list never has a UND departure

I think I could see Patts.... Pogo, no way. There's a reason he's a fourth round draft pick. I think Gornall can carve a role by the time he's done here, though. Hard workers often find spots on our teams.

I had a dream in January that Chris Wilkie scored the GWG in OT of the National Title game. Not exactly a solid pick right now as he sat out all weekend, but hey, you never know

Yup. The CBS were our second best line this weekend and we won both games easily. Certainly and important development.

I said it after both games this weekend... we play like we did tonight, no one touches us. IMO, our best two single games we've played this season in the biggest weekend, thus far. Absolutely phenomenal in Cincinnati. Keep it rolling, boys.

EXACTLY.

It's not a lack of respect, it's a lack of preparation. It's clear as day that Melrose doesn't do his homework before the tournament and relies on what he's heard of on the east coast.

Melrose will rave about us and Bucci will man crush on BC? Definitely got that flipped. Bucci knows the college game way more than Melrose and is consistently talking about us Twitter. Melrose could have very well been delivering felatio to Alex Tuch and Jerry York during the NE regional with weekend.

I've got Boeser ripping a couple. Let's see if they can beat our D. 5-2 Sioux.... Boeser x2, Stecher, Pogo, Rhett

Was literally just thinking the same thing. Ugh, sports. I'm a d@mn full grown adult. Why does this stuff do this to me?!?! Lol

What do you mean?

If we play a full 60 against any team on any night, I always like our chances. We've seen it many times this year.

Didn't we just have a 14 year old commit? Ugh... cmon boys. Do it. For yourselves mainly, but for all of us, too.

My guess this is a chemistry and depth thing. Roy was out for awhile and my guess is that kept the top line in tact. As far as I'm concerned, Roy is definitely their best player and is a top line player on the overwhelming majority of teams.

Hahaha welcome to Sioux Sports. We are the kings of the tangent. Our second line of Rhett Gardner, Luke Johnson and Austin Poganski are big boys that play very physical, but all bring good scoring punch. Poganski and Gardner in particular are dominant in front of the net. Johnson shoots from all angles and the other two try and bang rebounds. Our third and fourth lines have players that can score. Bryn Chyzyk has a great shot in space, Shane Gersich has game-breaking speed, Coltyn Sanderson has shown a good around the net scoring punch in the second half and Joel Janatuienen is a hard working, two-way player. I'd take note of our d-corps. Troy Stecher and Tucker Poolman both have dominant playmaking ability. Stecher might be the best player on this team and that includes the CBS line. He does everything for this team. Hope that helps.... and makes you nervous

Thanks! I appreciate appreciate the read.

Do tell about our culture. Winning a national championship is No. 1 on this program's mind year in and year out.

DDC couldn't wait any longer. Here we go. It's tournament time. http://daddydumpandchase.blogspot.com/2016/03/ncaa-tournament-mw-regional-from-queen.html?m=1

Fair enough.

I don't get why everyone is thinking our norm is somehow blown away with one poor weekend. This team is giving up 1.85 goals a game. We can shut them down just like anyone else in the country. That being said.... I'll take 5 haha