Godsmack

Five minute major on CC.

What the heck is the play-by-play guy talking about? What is a "drain cock"

CC is playing great so far. 2-0 late in the 2nd.

Perhaps Hakstol determines the line combos based, in part, on whether or not we get the last line change as well as who it is we're going up against?

Yah-I mis-spoke, I meant to say, "I bet Hakstol WISHED he had that timeout in his pocket for the faceoff down in the UND end.

I went to the game. We played fantastic the first period, tentative and-at times-lazy the second, and I'd say a push for both teams in the third. Dr. Hindsight is a smart man but I bet Hakstol had that timeout in his pocket when we iced the puck in OT.

Bad outlet pass, lazy play by Schmaltz

They just announced a scoring change: Kristo from OD and Knight.

Not sure if anyone commented but Grimaldi got stoned on a partial breakaway and then late in the first, Williams robbed us on a 3 on 1.

I flew into Mpls from Denver, rented a car, and drove down to Mankato for the series. Observations: -Never been to Mankato. Can add that to my list of arenas I've now been to. Got to hear the "Ole!" Song three times; hopefully no more tomorrow. -Very quiet student section and fan base overall. -Saw Mankato last Saturday in the Springs against CC. They are a scrappy, hard-working team. They out-played us but two costly mistakes cost them the game. -We didn't look pretty but we got it done. Pretty good officiating overall.

Here's a quote from a DU fan... "A little bit of grit in front of the opposing goalie during the power play instead of dumb penalties at the end of the game. We made the prima donna Kristo look like a star tonight."

It was interesting to read the comments on " let's go DU" today. One poster referred to Kristo as a prima donna. I guess my bias prevents me from seeing this, my guess is, any hockey fan out there would love to have Kristo on their team...including DU.

Is it true that the team didn't make it home? Are they stuck in Denver?

I have an extra single seat ticket for each of Friday and Saturday night's games between UND and DU this weekend. If anyone wants them, let me know. No charge. Only requirement is you can't be a DU fan.

I'm a UND fan first and foremost but as a CC alum (and fellow DU hater), I just had to share this! http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6uW4Vvmjpks&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3D6uW4Vvmjpks

Even better, a Twin Peaks! If any of you are planning on going to Omaha next weekend, be sure to hit, you won't regret it!

Yes, it really was bad last night. I recall the UND/Mankato game from several years ago when UND looked just as listless. Ill never forget Blais' quote where he said something to the affect of, "I knew it would be bad this afternoon when I saw the players sitting in the arena, watching a movie on the big screen." Point being, the guys should've been focused on the upcoming game, not watching movies.

I just walked out of the Alerus Center, at Sioux Boosters, and my takeaway from Coach Hakstol was this: our defensemen need to "play with more sandpaper...Gleason and MacWilliam already do but he wants to see guys like Mattson, Panzerella, Forbert, and Simpson play grittier-not dirty/but tougher in the D zone. Second, Hak was very proud of Zane's play the past few starts since XMas break and that he's worked himself back into a battle for the starting job. Three, he said 9 of our 12 forwards played well on Saturday against the Gophers but that the Rowney line missed several key assignments and they must do better. Last, he said he was proud of Grimaldi and thought the Minnesota series was his best of the season.

As much as I dis-like DU, one cannot ignore Murray Armstrong and his accomplishments at Denver. I thought it was a disgrace they didn't name their arena after him. Also, Gino Gasparini is another big time historical fixture of the old WCHA. What about his name for a post season award of some type?

All of this line shuffling talk concerns me. Do our opponents (not just Minnesota) experience this with their rosters on a weekly basis?

I remember going to a DU/Minnesota series about 7 years or so ago at Magness and seeing a Gopher player-laying on his back-kick a DU player so hard with his skate, he cut through the guy's jersey and chest protector and drew blood. I'm definitely no DU fan, trust me, but my point is, I can cherry pick as much as the next guy and find examples of bad on-ice behavior as Gopher fans can.

It looked like Mitch was wide open on that two on one but can't fault Kristo for shooting either. I guess nobody knows why Mitch transferred to UND.

Can anyone answer why Mitch chose St. Cloud? And also, what his reasons were that he transferred to North Dakota?