Godsmack

Yea, every team makes the playoffs. The rate we’re going, we’ll be on the road in the first round at somewhere like Denver or Western.

How does UND drop two spots following a win and a tie on the road???

What I witnessed last night at Robson was something I have not seen since toward the end of the Scotty Owens era, circa 2011 when the Tigers had the Schwartz brothers. Duluth came out looking flat and lethargic while CC was aggressive and in attack mode. Now, can they replicate that tonight?

My dad intimated that from what he heard about Tychonick’s post game interview, that he really dislikes UND. Did anyone hear the interview and your impressions?

Party time in C. Springs!

Yes, unfortunately.

My buddy ran into Coach Hakstol a week or so ago at an Avs/Kraken game and my buddy’s not really a UND fan but after the game he saw Hak walking in the concourse so he yelled, “Go Sioux!” and Coach walked over to my buddy and chatted with him for a couple of minutes! I thought that was pretty cool.

I got to listen to the has-beens podcast and Ausmus, Olson, and Gaber’s comments about reading stuff on the Sioux forum. Whoever from this forum here recommended to go listen to it, I want to say thank you! That was some funny sh*t! Just about peed my pants, I was laughing so hard!

Listening to last week’s The Has-beens episode with Gaber while folding laundry and the wife walks in the room and she can’t help but hear all the f bombs that Ausmus was dropping while talking about the UND/Gopher series. She’s like, “is that the only word in the vocabulary of a hockey player???” -I’m like, “yah pretty much.” Classic.

If it makes anybody feel any better or offer a different perspective, I recall many DU fans calling for the head of Carle two seasons ago as well as early on into last season. I’m betting those folks weren’t too dissatisfied with him come last April. Things can turn around for this UND team, we’ve seen it before.

Is it fair to say that UND losing to ASU may be a big point in their favor towards membership into the NCHC? Gotta think three straight wins over NCHC teams (even wins over lowly CC) would count for something for ASU.

I just don’t see the Big Ten member school presidents giving the green light to inviting UND into the conference as an affiliate member. We don’t fit their academic profile of J. Hopkins or Notre Dame. And I don’t say this to disrespect UND as an academic institution, just from what I know about the Big Ten, that’s the impression I get. Plus, economically speaking, how much would UND move the needle relative the Big Ten conference’s overall revenue stream? Why would they need UND to help Big Ten hockey?

Don’t know the stats but sweeps at Baxter seem rare for UND. I’m going with a split. Omaha treats this as a bigger rivalry series than we do so they get up for it to pull out at least one win.

Truth

https://www.uscho.com/2022/10/25/college-hockey-traveler-completes-lifelong-mission-of-seeing-mens-games-at-every-ncaa-d-i-rink/

This is the first time I’ve complained about the NCHC top 5 plays of the week…Senden’s goal where he batted it out of mid air into the open net didn’t make a top 5 play? And what was so special about Cruikshank’s #1 play of the week?? He cut in and banged in a nice centering pass but thought there would be at least one or two UND plays as good as that.

So I’d like to know everyone’s thoughts on what Motzko is saying to Pitlick right now. My guess is, as Coach Motzko is tucking Rhett into bed tonight, he’s telling him to sleep tight and get a very good night’s rest.

Seems to me the ref had the discretion to call a cross check on the Gopher player moments after Senden had scored.

Anyone know if there’s a link to watch all of last night’s game somewhere out there in Internet land? I’d kill to watch that game, especially the second period.

2:45 game at Magness today. Will be walking past the DU locker room rocking the green. I expect to run into some Pios players as rumor has it, coach Carle will have the boys watching Trainwreck from the stands to show them how the game is played.

I saw that a Gopher fan tweeted that it was classless of the UND fan to have tossed the twig back onto the ice. Wow, that’s rich.

On the recent GPL podcast with Brad Schlossman as their guest, the GPL guys basically said that Motzko didn’t have room for him given the # of high end recruits coming in. Sounds like he had no choice but to leave. Dang, wish either CC still had him or that UND could’ve snagged him.

Actually zero goals and one roughing penalty in last week’s 8-0 victory at DU’s Magness Arena.

I’d love to know both the weekend shots on goal differential as well as total shot attempts. Anyone know where I can find those stats?

Interesting. I wasn’t aware UND was in the running for Cooley.