Godsmack

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???

Mbereko’s return for his senior season is likely the reason I suspect Musser entered the portal yesterday. The kid wants to play.

Agreed. Musser needed playing time and he should’ve been used early in the season during CC’s weak non-conference schedule.

My wife and I went out to Omaha for the CC series and got to visiting with Musser’s parents and granddad, nice folks. They mentioned they were from south central Minnesota so yah, I could totally see him wanting to play close to home.

Could we see Musser land at another NCHC school? Perhaps Denver? Matt Davis is a senior and I’m not sure if Freddie Halyk is considered the heir apparent or not.

Full disclosure: I don’t have any special insight to confirm if that’s the case but I do know that he was recruited to come play at CC by Mannino so certainly that could have played a role in it. Also, at the CC season ticket holder fan event last September, Kris Mayotte openly talked about how Mbereko had received multiple offers to go pro last summer but turned them down to come back and play one more season at CC. Well, things didn’t really go as planned this year, wondering if his value dropped given the relatively poor season he had. So, perhaps he has decided to return for his senior year and Musser figured he’d go someplace where he can have a shot at being the starting goalie.

Schloss just posted an article to that effect.

Omaha also has Infusion Brewery. I’m not much of a beer snob, I tend to drink swill, but man their Vanilla Bean Blonde ale is the bomb yo!

Article out there on FightingHawks.com announcing Chyzyk as the new GM.

I found an old article in the Gazette about Werner’s transfer from CC to Michigan and while it didn’t definitively say his reasons why he decided to leave, it mentioned how after getting off to a very hot start his freshman season, he hit a point dry spell going 3 months without a goal until, naturally, against UND. Article went on to say he fell to the fourth line starting the second half of the season, so perhaps there was some consternation there and his role with the team. I also read that he moved from Texas to Michigan when he was 12 to fully invest in his hockey career.

I’m not the most wired in guy but I will share anything I can find out. I had heard he had left CC because he had a buddy playing for Michigan and that’s why he went there. He was productive his freshman year at CC so I’m sure that had a material impact on Coach Mayotte’s plans for lineup preparation and such.