Godsmack

Because Gabinet is the biggest whiner in all of NCHC???

CC should’ve gotten a penalty for cross checking after the whistle as well.

Has run time started in Stearns County yet?

Loyal fans

Anyone notice how many empty red seats there are at St. Cloud?

CC badly outshot and outplayed UNO in the second period but couldn’t solve Latkoczy. Omaha played much better in the third and limited the chances for CC.

Not sandbagging here but I have a feeling Omaha’s going to make it very difficult to win this series in two. Tonight I expect to see a more aggressive Mavericks team.

At one point in the game, shots were 12-12. The game ended up 51-15. UNO had 1 shot in the third and 1 in OT.

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We went to the CC/DU game last night. Some observations… 1. Ed Robson Arena was rocking. 3,900 in attendance, standing room only. Student section was full and loud for a change. Largest crowd in Robson arena history. 2. You couldn’t have asked for a worse start for the Tigers-they got scored on 13 seconds in, then took an offensive zone tripping penalty by Noah Laba twelve seconds later, and DU rings one off the crossbar. It easily could’ve been 2-0 very early and a totally different game. Credit CC for the awesome tying goal as Laba came out of the penalty box, he snuck behind the DU defense and got sprung for a breakaway by a heads up pass from Drew Montgomery. That brought life back into the crowd as well who’d been silenced by Denver’s early goal. 3. Lots of penalties both ways. Emotions ran high. Some dangerous hits, lots of stuff after the whistle. Five minute major for contact to the head call on DU at one point. 4. CC was sitting pretty at 4-1 until about six and a half minutes to play when DU scored to make it 4-2. From there on, DU pulled Matt Davis and CC had difficulty gaining control of the puck and getting it out of the zone. 5. Mbereko is an elite goaltender. The last handful of minutes, DU pulled Davis for an extra attacker and pretty much hemmed CC down in their own zone, applying big time pressure. Mbereko saved his teammates’ bacon on several grade A chances. These highlights don’t capture the two or three grade A chances DU had toward the end. Mbereko also got some major puck luck as well.

1. UND (split with Omaha) 2. DU (split with CC) 3. SCSU (split with Duluth) 4. CC (split with DU) 5. Western (sweeps Miami) 6. Omaha (split with UND) 7. Duluth (split with SCSU) 8. Miami (swept by WMU) If my predictions hold, I have WMU leapfrogging Omaha to win the tie breaker. If Western sweeps Miami and Omaha splits with UND, both teams would be tied in points at 37 but if I’m right, Western wins the head to head tie breaker over Omaha given they had 2 regulation wins over Omaha to Omaha’s 2 OT wins over Western. I don’t feel that DU will have a cakewalk with CC like they did back in November. CC has grown by leaps and bounds since that series and have a level of moxie, swagger, and confidence that I haven’t seen in them in over a decade. That said, I just don’t see DU getting swept by the Tigers. DU will lock up second place by virtue of earning 3 points to maintain their lead over St. Cloud who I think will split at Duluth and therefore, lock up 3rd place. Finally, CC will lock up 4th place by earning 3 points against DU. Even if CC gets swept, so long as Omaha doesn’t get at least 4 points (Omaha has the tie breaker with CC), the Tigers will finish with the final home playoff spot. Omaha has a lot more work ahead of them to catch the Tigers (get at least a regulation win and an OT loss to earn the 4 points needed to catch the Tigers). Did I miss anything or mis-state any of my comments?

Went to the CC game tonight. Luke Bast lost his marbles with the refs down the stretch. Admittedly, a very soft call was made on him and Duluth with 3 minutes to play and it still a one goal game. Slammed his stick in the penalty box multiple times. Then he took a slashing call a minute later after CC had scored on the power play.

So does a tie do anything for either Omaha or CC tonight, Pairwise speaking?

I will be at the Friday night CC/UNO game at Baxter Arena. It’ll be interesting to see how Omaha game plans against CC. It’ll also be interesting to see if CC has any sort of emotional let down against the Mavs. Something tells me that, win or lose, Mayotte’s going to have his boys prepared and will continue to play well. They’re now in the hunt for the Penrose, not to mention, cannot afford to risk losses down the stretch as they’re still in that danger zone Pairwise speaking.

Oh yah, and you make a good point on that. Embereko is such a positionally sound goalie, it’s ridiculous. Might be one of the best goalies I’ve seen over the years.

This doesn’t diminish my opinion that Embereko is the top goaltender in the conference but I agree, so many shots on him were logo buster-type shots. Need to shoot some low at his feet and hope for some garbage goals.

My buddy delighted in the fact he sold his three seats for last night’s game for $110 a piece and that whoever paid that much got to see UND get killed. He assumes it had to have been UND fans who bought those tickets. Can’t say for certain but likely it was some UND fans who purchased them. Doubt any CC fan would pay that much.

I’ve always been a CC fan but I bleed green through and through. This weekend fricking stings. I’m royally frustrated and pissed off.

Over/under on Berry doing a post game interview with Hennessy?

Probably UND fans that headed for the exits and to the bar.

Announcer just said CC has never taken a 4 game sweep of UND in program history.

Over rated chants. Can’t say I can blame the fans.

And here Berry was just interviewed the other day talking about how crisp and sharp the players looked in practice all week. He said this was the best week of practice he’d seen all season.

Another thing I will say about Kris Mayotte is, I have full confidence that he’s going to right the ship there at CC. Keep in mind that his predecessor dug this program into an incredibly deep hole. I’ve been going to CC games dating back to the Buetow days. I’ve been a season ticket holder since the Scotty Owens era. You cannot even begin to appreciate how bad CC was from about 2013 until now. It was absurd how bad this program had become. Careful what we CC fans wish for, I see Mayotte taking a similar path as Don Lucia in that he will bring the program back to national relevance and then other suitors from bigger programs will come calling. The structure with which CC plays and the elite goaltending they’re getting from Embereko make them a very, very difficult team to play. Last night, I was scratching my head wondering how we could take 3 of 4 against a DU team that is much more dynamic and talented then CC but then got to thinking more about it and DU can’t touch CC in terms of defensive zone play and goaltending this year. Even though DU made quick and easy work of CC back in early November, it seems like the Tigers have grown by leaps and bounds over the past couple of months and are playing with a swagger I haven’t witnessed in over a decade.