Godsmack

A few years ago, when UND played BC at MSG, Dave Starman commented how Jerry York was recruiting bigger, heavier players. Perhaps he might have more success with the smaller, quicker forwards that he had so much success with from 2000-2012?

I’m sure everyone knows I was referring to DU. I had a typo in there!

This pains me to say but DI looks like the most complete team in the conference, if not the country right now.

Does anyone here think that Air Force could be competitive in the WCHA?

That’s gotta suck being that extra skater and sitting there on the bench for the entire game.

I was never a huge Simonson fan over the four years but I’ll never forget him scoring UND’s first goal of the 2016 national tournament game against Northeastern.

This will be a good learning experience having gone into a really good team’s barn this early in the season and playing two closely contested games. Even though we didn’t come away with a win, I bet this series will help prepare us, especially down the road when going on the road in the first half of the season, facing the likes of Denver, Western, and St. Cloud.

DU laying the beat down on Boston College. DU got another freshman goalie from Europe to replace Filip Larsson and this guy is a monster. 6’6” 216 lbs.

What station is the hockey game on?

I just watched the highlights. That Mankato announcer reminds me of a person doing a soccer match. SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obnoxious.

Mankato has proven to me they belong in the NCHC. Just need a 10th team.

DU just scored an empty netter with 21 seconds to go up 2-0 on BC.

My buddy is at the DU/BC game tonight and he said that the Pios are all over BC but goalie Spencer Knight is standing on his head.

I’m biased but man, I love Michaud’s game!

I feel that the oddsmakers call for a Mankato victory but I see this UND team coming in with something to prove....UND wins tonight 5-3 (empty netter) on the strength of our defense and goaltending being the difference maker between the two teams.

You’d think Penn State want to schedule tougher competition for their non-conference schedule to prepare them and make them more battle tested come tournament time. Correct me if I’m wrong but Penn State got taken to the woodshed a few years ago by DU in the first round of the tournament. Maybe they hadn’t faced an opponent of that caliber during their regular season?

Uscho.com WCHA picks has Mankato sweeping UND. Good-let everyone think that’ll happen.

I think a good alternative to plopping down $29.95 for the UND/MSU series is watching the DU/BC series if you get NCHC.tv. That’s probably the series of the week on a national scale.

I highly doubt Goon gets compensated for the work he does and I find his articles informative and appreciate the time and effort he puts into them. Thanks Goon for your articles.

Why?

CC had an opportunity to sweep Minnesota tonight and blew it. After a fantastic first period where CC outscored the Gophers 2-0, things fell apart for the Tigers. They took 5 penalties in the second, got outshot 19-9, and Minnesota scored 2 power play goals. So basically, the two PK units were out on the ice so much, you have the non-PK guys sitting on the bench for 7-8 minute stretches, getting cold, and when they finally do get back on the ice, they’re ineffective. Also, CC blew two 2-goal leads tonight, at home. You don’t deserve to win if you do that. Credit Minnesota for not packing it in on either time they fell behind by two. The Halloran/Wilkie/Copeland line was fantastic this weekend, accounting for all but 1 of their goals this weekend. That’s great but if they want to be successful this season, they can’t be a one line team. Opponents will quickly key in on them. Also, CC went to the well too often on the PP tonight; they kept trying to set up Wilkie on the left point for the big one-timer but Minnesota, after getting torched last night on that, made the adjustments and scoped that out and deflected several cross ice passes. They need to not be so one dimensional on their power play.

I’m embarrassed about CC’s sweaters last night. My buddy asked me at the game last night if they were wearing their practice jerseys. Terrible. Those sweaters oughta be put away and never worn again.

Caulfield played last night. I saw him score 2 goals against Boston College!

I don’t know how other UND fans will take your backhanded compliment, but it cracked me up and is very apropos! Having spent a lot of time and money traveling out to Buffalo last year for the series, I will say that it was tough watching UND lose but I give Canisius a ton of credit that weekend, they won fair and square and deserved it.

That Halloran, Wilkie, Copeland line looked good all night. That could be a great line all season. CC hit two bars and two posts tonight.