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Okay, Schlossman, I’ll bite…who was in the recruiting battle?

Excellent post, bale31. Couldn’t agree more with everything you just said. I too listened to that episode of Live in Five and frankly found it one of their best episodes largely because of Coach Ward. My ears perked up when he talked about having or getting a thick skin, not only in dealings with players, parents, and agents, but also opposing coaches. He was clever in his choice of wording and reading between the lines, I took his comments to be directed at other programs raiding his and/or other smaller programs’ talent by throwing money at them. I don’t blame Mankato fans for being pissed seeing guys that their program spent time and resources recruiting and in some cases, developing only to see them bail. On a side note, I took a hockey trip to Minnesota State to see you guys play UND, I wanna say second half of the 2012-2013 season. If memory serves, UND lost the outright share of the McNaughton Cup because we lost the Saturday night game to you guys in overtime. That said, I stuck around to watch the celebration by your players and fans and it was such a fun atmosphere there in your barn. It definitely ranks up there in my list of favorite road trips. Fans were super cool.

It seriously is not a good look for the family name. If I’m Bubs, I’m telling my kid to knock it off.

I honestly don’t remember seeing him mouthing off but maybe it was because my vitriol was directed at Connor Caponi the whole time! Lol

I agree. That Buium is a total Sally!

Does UND have a need to fill on D? I see big Brady Cleveland is now in the portal. Six foot five, 220 pounds. Edit: Nevermind, it says, “no contact”

Thanks!

Wow…

Do you know which game that was? I wanna go watch the highlights and see that. (I believe you, just want to see it).

Holden has a pretty good podcast called Nothing But Hockey. I stumbled upon it last week when Schlossman was the guest.

I was quite satisfied with the coverage too. Wished they’d have Dave Starman on either the broadcast team or in the studio offering up analysis.

When I was out there, several Broncos fans expressed their displeasure to moving games off campus and away from Lawson arena. They are loud, crude, obnoxious and I say all of this in the most positive way. They rock the house there. Yah, Lawson is kinda dumpy by today’s standards but man, what an amazing atmosphere! Reason I got out there this season was word they were building a fancy new barn and I just had to experience the Lunatics first hand and it lived up to my expectations 100%! My wife gave me a hall pass to get out there as Lawson has been on my short list of arenas I’ve been wanting to visit.

Loved Bump’s moxy. He said during his interview between the second and third periods something to the effect of BU is soft defending.

Isn’t he younger than many of the kids he’s playing with and against?

Brad Schlossman was the guest on the Bruce Ciskie radio show this morning if you care to go listen. It’s on the kdal1610.com site.

Just read a story in Sports Illustrated that Buium logged 51:41 minutes of ice time last night, which was approximately 64% of total game time and 15 more minutes played than the player logging the second highest amount of ice time.

Get him in! I’d take 20 Hunter Johannes type players. Loved his passion and compete.

Yep, but Wellens omitted that part. Seriously, in reading Schlossman’s article, seeing all the pictures of Menghini as a kid decked out in Sioux gear and his quotes about being a life long fan, just makes you wonder why Berry passed on him the first time around.

Seriously. That skate to the penalty box had to have been a long one.

God, remember that penalty UND took late in the third? They reviewed it for a possible 5 minute major but ultimately determined only a 2 minute minor. I was so freaking nervous that entire period, I think I shaved some years off my life from all that anxiety.

I was impressed with Menghini the times I got to see him play on tv or live in person. I’m happy with the addition.

On the most recent Bruce Ciskie show, Matt Wellens downplayed the loss of Menghini saying he scored most of his goals last fall against Stonehill, UND, and Miami. The implication being, he padded his stats against average teams. At least that’s how I interpreted it.

God, I bet those guys would never forgive themselves had they lost that game. Badly outplayed DU for most of the game but just couldn’t extend that lead past the ever notorious 2 goal lead. And #8 Zach Nehring would have nightmares for the rest of his life about missing that wide open net early in the game. When DU tied I was like, sh*t, here we go, Denver finds ways to win big games, they’re off to the national championship.

Was that puck off of Buium’s stick there that landed on Michaels’ stick for the OT winner???