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Server at Red Robin felt sorry for us tonight and not only did he say he’d request an extra dose of sympathy, he comp’d us on our fries!

Totally. I just watched the replay of it and that St. Cloud guy put a lot of heat and velocity on that shot. Puck took one bounce as it neared the goal and didn’t appear to slow down. Now maybe Mbereko could have come a bit further out of his net to cut off the angle but easy to say that in hindsight as that play developed so dang quickly out of nowhere. Edit: Not to mention, that shot was very high in the air and was dropping rapidly upon hitting the ice and bouncing back up.

Mbereko gave up a nearly 200 foot short handed goal but can’t say I entirely blame him. Those long range wrist shots sometimes have a lot of velocity and when they start skipping as they approach the goal, it’s probably difficult for a goalie to judge which direction they’re going to go.

3-3, Dogs and Broncos less than nine minutes into the game. Defense optional.

Bring in the General for a players’ only meeting! I recall Steph Pattyn having one of those one year and things turned around.

I’d argue the contrary, that they did not play their hearts out. Did anyone see Jandric half ass it back late in the game and a DU player raced back and darn near beat out an icing?

There’s a CC page on FB that’s just like that. We nicknamed it the “Rah Rah” page. Out of frustration and just weariness over reading the same types of posts, my buddy went and started another CC hockey discussion page where fans can be open and honest and yes, critical without being brow beaten as “not true Tigers hockey fans.”

Anyone hear Hennessy’s comments in the post game show just now about how these losses stick with the fans much more than with the players? I wonder what he was driving at? Are we as fans overreacting? Are we out of line for being frustrated?

Did anyone hear Costantini’s name called much tonight? I sure didn’t. To be fair, there were a lot of guys’ names not called much tonight.

Well, folks, I’m turning this trainwreck off and going to go watch some Oprah re-runs.

Last I heard, he was injured but I agree with you. Maybe he’s not the heralded high end recruit but his motor is always running and he brings an intangible to the team that can’t be taught. He brings it whenever he gets the opportunity to play.

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.