Godsmack

While coaching CC, the only thing bigger than Pikes Peak was the Don’s ego.

Kawaguchi got the #4 play of the week on the USCHO top five plays of the week. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvignuqAdmw

Case in point: the game DQ Cole Smith received a few years ago when the DU guy skated into Smith’s back!

The skeptic in me says the B1G officials will assure that the home team gets plenty of power plays. I hope I am wrong.

DU looked like the DU of last year/year before tonight; they moved their feet, were creative in the offensive zone and just basically had Western chasing their own tails the entire game.

Traditional circle of sticks?

No, @Godsmack will not be playing tonight, but for a very good reason....Coach Berry has assigned him elsewhere for very important strategic purposes....he will be incognito at Magness Arena tonight, scouting the Broncos.

So who from last night isn’t playing tonight?

All of my DU fans agree-last year, they felt that the better team lost that playoff series. DU just happened to capitalize on their chances a little more plus had the benefit of home ice and last line change.

CC about to go on a 5 minute power play. Contact to the head and Ciskie lecturing the tv audience on why it’s the CC player’s fault for having to be shorter than the Duluth player.

CC and Duluth ties up at 1 with about four minutes left in the 2nd period.

By the same token, the points are just as precious to St. Cloud. After getting humbled at home by CC, I expect a desperate Huskies team to show up this weekend. We have to match their level of desperation and intensity.

No episode of Through These Doors this week???

Commodore doesn’t mince words, does he???

Maybe CBS Sports night broadcast the game? Didn’t they air the game at MSG?

I didn’t think he deserved a 5 for boarding on Saturday. The refs seemed more to call the result than the action.

I don’t doubt that they will. I only question their motives.

Trolling on GPL, fans are still lamenting the big change in college hockey. Why has it been difficult to cultivate a hated rivalry between the Gophers and, say, a team like Penn State? (Whereas you have UND and Denver which are also geographically far apart but that rivalry as we all know is off the charts). -I believe a large part of what’s missing in the B1G is time and history. A rivalry between Minnesota and Penn State, Ohio State or Notre Dame will require them to play and beat one another in games with a lot on the line to help cultivate and develop what Gopher fans miss so much of the good ole days in the WCHA. As an aside, some over there were talking about some sort of super western conference, intermingling the NCHC and the B1G. Screw that, any reason for the B1G wanting to do anything is going to be self-serving and not likely in the best interests of anyone outside their conference. The longer the NCHC has national success (or, conversely, the longer the B1G doesn’t have national success), the more desperate and radical the proposed ideas are going to come (remember Lucia’s age limit idea?).

The only thing I can say to Motzko’s defense is, you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken doo doo. If I’m not mistaken, during Lucia’s first couple of years at the helm of Minnesota, he didn’t get them into the tournament either. Motzko is understandably going to be given time by the decision makers to right the ship.

In my expert opinion, we’re winning games because we are scoring more goals than the opposition.

The scouts say nobody trips over the blue line with as much grace as @Godsmack.

Speaking of beer leagues, we’re playing on the Joy Burns rink at Magness tonight.

It must’ve been a tough weekend for @Goon being conflicted and all. Who do you root for? UND? Or does family come first?

If you watch the end of the highlights, they show the team surrounding Scheel, celebrating and then some of the players start making hand gestures back at the students. I figured they were probably flipping the players the bird.

Correct me if I’m wrong but those bench minors are on the coaching staff as well. Mis-communication between the coaches and the players as to who’s going out next.