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I thought it is Grayber? Or is that only in Michigan?

FWIW I sent an email to BES asking him to ask BB about the issue at the weekly Wednesday presser but with no games this weekend (waa...) there was no presser. Maybe they could have a conversation about it. Maybe.

IN TONIGHT'S NEWS.....

Best defensive effort by far this season, and DeRidder looked like the guy we expected to see. Prelude to a second half run?

What was Caulfield doing on that 4x4?? What is Jamernick doing passing to the other team? What is Jandric doing icing the puck when he's two feet on the wrong side of the red line? 1-0 sure won't win this game.

Not real inspired play so far. Passing is poor

I learned something new today!

Extra skater in warmups?

Blake

That was more like a full 59:55. Completely unnecessary icing with 5 seconds left- puck is in the net 4 seconds later.

UH, HOLY SMOKERS!!!!!

Penalties?

anyone have any doubts how this will turn out? Four (five?) penalties in the first period and give up a goal with a second left.

I wonder if Bast isn't fully recovered from his injury

I don't know about anyone else, but I am not accusing Berry of anything. I would, however, accuse the local journalists of negligence. It seems pretty much impossible that Berry didn't know that his daughter trademarked the name. He should feel obligated to tell his side of the story. And the media should be obligated to ask the question.

I just listened to Berry's weekly presser. Did I miss it or did no one ask him about the trademark issue?

Oops....well analytics you know

I have never heard that, nor is it listed as a component in the Pairwise metrics. And it would make sense that a 7-2 win would count more than a 3-2 win but that's not the case either.

There are other players that are not performing at the level they did last year based on the numbers. 28 got his first point in the 9th game of the season. 18 has 2 points. 29 has 2 points. 8 has 8 points (.47 pt/gm vs .62 last year). No that doesn't necessarily mean they won't pick it up in the second half but it has certainly contributed to the team's record to this point. No I'm not in with the blame Berry crowd. It has been a very tough schedule - we are currently #5. A bounce or two our way could be the difference in being under .500 vs a winning record, but what seems to be really leading to losses is bone-headed plays. No look passes that end up on the stick of a player on the other team, losing puck battles, shooting the puck into the shinpads of a player three feet away leading to a breakaway or odd man rush. Poor goaltending is obviously a big part of the problem.

If you look at plus/minus, there were four players that were minus last season (full season stats/not including players no longer on the team) and this year there are eight (not including freshmen/transfers). Gaber -6, Frisch -7 and Kleven -8. Gaber is at least scoring but I don't think there's much question Frisch and Kleven are not playing at the same level they did last season.

I'm afraid I've lost any hope for this season. I would regain some hope if they were to sweep WMU. Bwahahahaha.

Good goaltending can win games for a mediocre team. It seems we have the mediocre team part of the equation.

Yes, they have. Very unusual for so early in the year but they seem to work well together.

I like those lines.

IIRC UND was tied or lead about 115 minutes in that series.