Godsmack

Do you know any names of players who may not have made the cut for USA (or Canada for that matter)? Just curious.

Ha ha! That’s classic!

I’m sure there’s a lot of talk about the missed call on the two many men on the ice by the U.S. but as Frank Serratore famously said in a post game interview following being tossed by the refs for clapping, if you look hard enough, you can find missed calls on just about every shift.

Redemption a bit for Connor Hellebuyck given his NHL playoff struggles. So dang proud of the guy. He played the game of his life out there.

Pure class by him. He kept the focus on his team and country.

They honored the two remaining seniors, Ryan Alexander (an ASU transfer this year) and Kaidan Mbereko, along with former Tigers Noah Laba and Gleb Veremyev who recently earned their degrees while playing professionally. The announcer mentioned Mbereko’s 43 saves against North Dakota in a game back in 2024. He truly was and is a special player here at CC. Not only was he the NCHC goaltender of the year and first team all-American his sophomore season, he’s just an all around great kid and ambassador of the program. So good with the fans and kiddos.

CC outshot Western by a wide margin in the first and third periods but Western outshot CC by a wide margin in the second. Mayotte was pleased with his team’s response in the third period. Slukinsky made some big saves in the third, particularly during that late game power play CC got.

Gotta get Unger his reps but at this stretch I’d be going with the more experienced Mbereko. I’m wondering if Mbereko has been dealing with a nagging injury the last few weeks as well. He left that Saturday UND game rather abruptly midway through the third period and I didn’t have the impression it was due to poor play. Unger gave up 6 goals on Friday at St. Cloud but man, his teammates certainly didn’t give him much help. They looked much better defensively on Saturday.

St. Cloud has a lot to play for still as well so it definitely won’t be easy. I think they’re still in the hunt for home ice not to mention fighting to get their NPI up.

Dangit.

My apologies if this has already been posted but just read a CHN article about the Mike Richter award finalists being named and Jan Spunar is one of them! Very cool and well deserved!

Just finished listening to this week’s UND hockey podcast with Brad Schlossman and Jason Feldman. Schlossman said if we win all 4 of these next two home series, we’d clinch the Penrose before traveling to Western. It’s a tall order but doable.

I lost a lot of respect for CC’s Ken Landeau when I heard him call Jackson Blake a punk on a broadcast. I thought that crossed the line for a sports broadcaster to resort to name calling.

I resorted to muting the broadcast last Saturday.