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Where did this narrative come in? I've heard this on that God awful Facebook group, but I've never heard a sniff of this anywhere credible. If Kleven goes, it's because the kid is beast size wise, would be able to handle his own in that realm, and has grown a really nice offensive game. My hunch, and from what I've heard over the past couple of weeks is that he'll come back, but we'll see.

We, apparently, asked him to stay another year in Junior and he felt he was ready. So, that unfortunately looks like a big miss.

Well said.

Not super surprising. Jashvina, the girl who picked us, writes about the NCHC. My guess is not many of those other writers saw more than a game or two, if that, of UND all season. Plus, UND and ND are tightly matched. I do find it silly that three writers are picking UMass into the Four and only two of them say Minnesota will win their first game. C'mon lol.

Alright, everyone get off work earlier and hit the threads, please

Let's fire up the gameday thread. *Hand shakes* *wipes hands on jersey* *belches nervously* The worst/best time of the year, friends. One and done. This team has consistently overcome obstacles all year and it's been such a frickin' fun ride. Let's keep rollin' Good guys in green - the REAL ND - win 3-2 Gaber, Costantini, Sendo

May be a little tougher to do in hockey

And Trupper ringing the post with about 6 minutes left, or so.

I was told that the surgery was done right away to give Sandy any chance at all to play at the Frozen Four. Still skating to keep his wind, just in case. With that said, it's all but certain he's done.

You misquoted me... I implied that that win made all the demons work so hard from frustration due to us winning that they passed away from exhaustion, duh

Meh. 2016 exercised all the demons, for me. Now it's all about the whole of the program and recognizing how great some of those teams really were.

I think the 20-21 team was better overall. I felt like 2020 we were playing with house money because a lot of guys exploded in their development. 20-21, basically everyone came back and we added Sandy, Kleven, and Gaber. All in all, is 2010-11 to me and it's not close.

Coming into today, I wanted to avoid four teams for as long as possible -- DU, Western, Minnesota, and UMD. I'm happy with our draw. With that said, Notre Dame isn't a fantastic draw for us. Very, very good defensively. They pressure the puck like crazy and are a fast, hard team. I've seen them play against Michigan (went 4-0 against the PWR No. 1) and they forecheck and back check like demons. Not a dominant offensive team, but incredibly sound. I would have preferred to play UMass, but c'est la vie. UND is gonna need to play the with the pace they carried against Western in the third period on Friday, which is the same pace we carried against them in our sweep of them a few weeks back and when we swept Duluth. If we get that game, I think we move on. Mankato is very good, but not as good as they were last season, IMO. Harvard's puck moving D is going to give them a run. I like our chances. If we play our game, speed, short passing, effort... I think we have a great chance to head to Boston.

Need? Na. Want? Absolutely. Kid looked dominant against CC and if some how he's better and we're still playing, he's absolutely going to be in the lineup and would be nuts to think he shouldn't be.

Lived in Schenectady, which is essentially a suburb of Albany, until I was six. Wish I could go. Cheer loud, man!

Sendo - Friday Frisch - Saturday

AHA: AIC / RIT / Air Force / Mercyhurst ECAC: Quinnipiac / Clarkson / Harvard / Colgate HEA: Northeastern / UMass / UM-Lowell / Connecticut CCHA: Minnesota State / Bemidji State B1G: Minnesota / Michigan NCHC: Denver / UND / WMU / UMD

Haven't touched a lot on the actual game this week. I'm feeling weird about this one. Frankly, I just wish it were next weekend right now lol. With that said, I always want UND to win and carrying momentum into the NCAAs is a big deal. Would love to see this team knock off a really good Western team again in front of what is sure to be a hot, pro-UND crowd. Good guys in green win, 4-3. Gaber, Frisch, Costantini, Ford

But, he's injured. LOL

Yeah, but the glass is full of my tears, so it is what it is lol

Sure we did. Over two years

Me too. He's gonna be missed. I was really, really hoping, and frankly, expecting a couple more moments from him. He showed it on Friday. Such a bummer.

Not sure I think it's fair for a kid to take basically one hit ever, get injured, and then be questioned for being injury prone. That was a very hard hit. Not something that'll happen a lot to him in his career, IMO. What you are both saying, I totally get, I just question the narrative.

Was anyone wondering if he wasn't before his hand got cut open by a skate on a freak play? Not that I've seen. So, what changed?

11-3 without him. We'll be aight. But, I do want him here lol.