Godsmack

I was at the game tonight and while we had long stretches of zone time, we didn’t do anything with it. The shots we did put on net were either logo busters or the goalie had a clear view of them for easy saves. We don’t seem to have any creativity in the offensive zone and no finishers.

Yah, it was tipped by the Canisius forward and changed directions on Scheel.

Yes, Scheel was on his butt and they hit the post.

Any UND fans making the trip out to Buffalo?

https://www.uscho.com/2019/01/03/canisius-looking-to-springboard-from-pair-of-nonconference-weekends-against-ranked-teams/ Coach for Canisius talks about North Dakota coming to town this weekend.

Game was televised on Altitude. Story of CC’s season-games lost tend to be because of lapses in the second period. Similar to the Friday night game at ASU, CC dictated play and had several grade A scoring chances in the first period only to fall asleep in the second, coughing up the lead and giving up 3 goals. The third period was spent chasing and as the final period went along, CC shortened their bench and the players looked tired. CC somehow needs to learn how to play more consistently through the middle part of games.

“Why are you ruining the fantasy? We know the reality. Don’t mess with the fantasy, okay?”

I miss the old days of the GLI when they’d have 3 Michigan schools and invite a non-Michigan based school as the 4th participant. I remember a goalie named Josh Siembida flying in at the last minute and standing on his head to help UND win the GLI about 15 years ago.

Anyone in the Colorado Springs area going to either of the Air Force/Bemidji State games tonight and tomorrow at Cadet Ice Arena?

I take issue with your characterization that people “escape” from ND for the TC. What facts do you have to make that claim? Or are you just trying to antagonize the UND fans by saying that?

I think my beer league game at the Air Force Academy had almost as many fans as Mariucci tonight.

I tried watching some of the DU/Merrimack game as well (the 3rd period) and had to turn the channel. The only time Merrimack can get the puck in the DU zone is when they dump it in on a line change.

Yah, I’m not sure whether or not the UMD/Mankato game will be televised.

Tonight’s UMD/Mankato game will be on the PAC 12 Network as well as streaming for free. https://pac-12.com/live/arizona-state-university

https://letsgodu.com/2018/11/29/denver-boone-pins-have-finally-arrived/ For those of you who collect college hockey memorabilia, check out the link above for Denver Boone pins. Boone was dropped as their mascot by the powers that be at DU a few years ago so these are not officially licensed by the school. I just got mine in the mail and they’re pretty nice and would enhance anyone’s hockey pin collection.

They’re good and even more so, they play with a lot of attitude and moxy. They won’t be intimidated in the least playing any of these 3 ranked opponents. In fact, I think they will revel in the opportunity to face either MSU Mankato or Duluth (But first they need to focus on Clarkson).

CC is a pretty small team and it showed against ASU.

I just saw the final score between Canada and Denmark. Nice to see that Canada didn’t run up the score.

https://mobile.twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1074756521718878209?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1074756521718878209&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fsiouxsports.com%2F Ouch.....reading Flyers fan comments makes other teams’ fans sound like angels. They’re pretty unforgiving.

I see those who are biased against NCAA hockey viewing Hak’s firing as confirmation of their original and on-going biases and therefore I can’t see Hakstol getting another head coaching job, sadly.

I’d love it if Hakstol were to pursue a head coaching vacancy in the NCAA. I think there would be several programs who’d salivate to hire him.

Impressions of ASU this weekend... 1) Oceanside Arena is old and small, no better than your typical aging single sheet arena you’d find most bantam teams playing in. 2) ASU likes to get into track meets with teams and they’re very good at playing at that pace. I lost count of the # of odd man rushes they had over the course of the weekend. 3) Johnny Walker is the real deal. He scored 4 goals but he should’ve had 6 or 7 this weekend. He was everywhere. But the team isn’t carried solely by him, they have some very fast forwards up and down the lineup. CC tried getting into a track meet with them and it wasn’t pretty. 4) Goalie Joey Daccord is a good netminder and he is big-he takes up most of the net. CC’s best period of the weekend came in the 1st period on Friday (and really their only complete period) where they controlled play and peppered Daccord with several quality shots only to be denied. 5) I was told that the plan is to break ground on the new arena this spring with a scheduled opening for the 2020-2021 season. Makes you wonder if this might open the door for future talks with the NCHC about conference affiliation?