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I didn’t catch much of the game but sounds like we didn’t play our A game. That said, I’ll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day of the week. Hopefully the guys play a better game as you know the Huskies will be playing desperation hockey tomorrow.

I highly recommend you check out Schlossman and Feldy’s most recent UND hockey podcast, “A Sweep of the Beavers.” Towards the back end of the discussion, they scout St. Cloud and have a conversation about the recent news of St. Cloud shrinking their ice sheet a little bit as well as the history of Olympic sized ice sheets and how smart UND was not to join the fad of the 90’s when building the Ralph. Interesting how 6 teams in the WCHA played on at or near Olympic sized sheets (Wisconsin’s was 200x97). Smart of UND to build an Olympic sheet for practicing purposes back in the day too.

Schlossman and Feldman keep talking about how cold it is/was in the Sanford Center. But they don’t give any context. Is it simply a cold arena? -It’s not an old barn so don’t know why it would have temperature issues. Schloss said he brought a space heater along on the trip to Bemidji.

I see what you did there

I would like to see what CC and Denver do with Air Force and an east coast school. Maybe have two teams from outside the NCHC and CCHA come in and play one game each against UND and Bemidji. Maybe get a Hockey East and a Big Ten or more realistically, an Atlantic Hockey league opponent. This year, CC and Denver each took turns playing a game against Air Force and Bentley. World beaters? -No. But unfamiliar foes, at least with Bentley which I like. And I prefer when CC only has to play Air Force once rather than a two game series.

I can’t believe I’m admitting this, I found myself pulling for the Gophers. Now, I need to go shower for saying that.

Rough overseas trip for RIT. They didn’t score a single goal.

Good for Miami. I’m happy to see that program start having some success. I like that second year coach of theirs. I think he’s gonna right the ship.

Drew Montgomery left the game in the first period after taking a hit to the head by a Providence player and never returned.

Quick whistle and so unnecessary to have even blow it there.

Anyone know if the Vig brothers were recruited by UND?

Great game. CC played much better compared to last night. Wasn’t a full win but I bet they’ll gladly take it.

Yes, take a page out of the St. Cloud State tv production! lol

Frank Serratore said it best following an Air Force game up at Denver and falling victim to some home cookin’ and poor officiating… “There’s three things I’ve never seen in my life. I’ve never seen Big Foot, I’ve never seen the Easter Bunny, and I’ve never seen a referee say he had a crap game.”

Is there any real formal accountability for the officials? I know every fan of their respective sport thinks that their league’s officials are the absolute worst in all of college sports-my best buddy is a Texas Tech alum and says the Big Twelve officials in football are the absolute worst-but I hope that coaches have the ability to submit what they feel are questionable calls/non-calls to the director of officials following a series for additional review and potential training opportunities.

In other CC news, not sure if any of you had heard but last Saturday night at the CC/DU game, right before they were about to line up for the national anthem, the players were all skating around in their respective ends when Klavs Veinbergs lost an edge at the blue line and went crashing into RoCCi the CC mascot who was standing at center ice, waving this big CC flag. He knocked RoCCi over so hard, their head flew off and the poor girl fell and hit her head on the ice. She had to be helped off the ice by the officials. She’s ok though but had to have several stitches in her head.

I don’t know if any of you turned on the CC/Duluth game last night but with fifteen minutes to play in a 2-2 game, the officials called what I would consider a questionable, soft interference penalty on CC. Mayotte lost his temper and got himself an unsportsmanlike bench minor leading to a five on three power play for the Dogs. They’d score what turned out to be the game winner. I don’t consider myself to be one of those fans who blame the refs for every loss but man, that was a tough call IMO. The Duluth player skated straight forward into the CC defenseman. What is the CC player to do, turn and step aside and give the Duluth forward a clear lane to the net? Had the Duluth player changed direction and the defenseman did the same in response, I could see that being an interference call but that’s not what happened. Anyway, end of rant just was frustrated with how the game was called last night.

CC needs a slump buster. They should come play my NORAD league team this Sunday.

I don’t even think that long. 2-3 years maybe? The Flyers wore them too.

Anyone remember these beauties? Cooperalls!

He who fight with wife before bed, get no piece at night.

Yah they brought in a touted freshman and yet there doesn’t appear to be any signs he gets a whiff of playing time.

Pretty much. This guy doesn’t give up rebounds, has good size and is square to the puck.

That’s Ken Landau for you. The biggest homer announcer in all of college hockey. Trust me, as a long time season ticket holder this isn’t a rivalry until we can consistently start winning some games and winning some Gold Pans more than once every seven years. I will give this Mayotte led team credit though, this is a much more physical and skilled CC team than that of years past under Haviland where we might get an occasional upset win over DU because Alex Leclerc had to put up 50 saves. That Miller for DU is the real deal, by the way. Mbereko played well this weekend but CC simply had a hard time solving Miller.

Clarkson doing UND no favors.