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I expect that level of compete from a drafted player at an elite program- that's like looking for props for taking care of your children.

or get schooled by Toewser on the biggest international stage

So...we will have a terrible season. It will be attributed to being "young" and will be thought of as an anomaly based on Hak's track record. Next season we will bring in a super talented class and their talent will be so great that they will overcome the system and we will make a tourney run only to fall short on a flat performance. Great coaches get the most out of their players. The only time I have seen Hak get the most out of the team he has was the injury year winning the Final Five. That was the most out of a team for one tournament.

So...our most skilled forward doesn't fit the system... The junior line should really be a Fighting Sioux third line The freshman forwards have done zip We have zero toughness on the blue line. Our best dman is Stecher. Zane is inconsistent at best- Frazee anybody??? looks like a long year...

some of us sooner than others

The part that bothers me more than losing 4 straight conference games is that we look awful. It is unwatchable. No flow, no puck possession, no speed. The recruits haven't panned out, the pp is terrible...the sky appears to be falling.

ummm...1-4 in league play doesn't equal average in my head...

So they snapped out of their 10 period slump? Maybe I should keep "not watching"...Although now I'm getting my hopes up...

I'm not going to rant tonight or blast players...I'll put it to you all this way. So far this year, I have shut off 4 games early. I shut off maybe 2 games early the prior nine seasons.

Fixed your post

time to not only take away scholarships, but also start billing players' folks for sticks and meals...

When did Sioux hockey become almost unwatchable? This team is not playing a compelling or competing or entertaining brand of hockey right now.

I count 4 grade A Omaha scoring chances

Until it doesn't...

I'll take the bait... 2004-2005: Overachieve. First year head coach with Blaiser's recruits. One very skilled (NHL) line, one skilled and experienced line, and awesome D. Its an overachieve, because the prior year was stacked (Parise, Bochenski) and this team made it all the way to the title game when they appeared to be a weaker team than the prior year. 2005-2006: Underachieve. Probably the most stacked team in Sioux history NHL talent wise. This team won the Final 5 and made it to the Frozen Four, but looking back this team was loaded and should've won a title. Period. 2006-2007: Underachieve. The potent DOT line year. Frozen Four, but no other hardware. 2007-2008: Underachieve. The pact year. Frozen Four, but no other hardware. 2008-2009: Overachieve. This team won the WCHA, surprisingly. 2009- 2010: Achieve. This team lost Chay to injury. Came back to win the Final Five. 2010- 2011: Underachieve. Pony Express team. Nothing other than a national title for this team would be acceptable. 2011-2012: Achieve. If you consider the injuries at the end of they year, it might be an overachieve to have won the Final Five. For what that's worth. 2012-2013: Achieve. This team would go as far as Kristo and Knight could take them. For being a one trick pony, the season's results were about right. So, by my measure. We have 4 underachieves and 2 overachieves with 3 teams having years about how they should've. 2 underachieves by my measure were the best teams in the country (05-06 and 10-11) and should've won titles, and another underachieve (06-07) was maybe not the best team in the country, but certainly had the best line and could've won the NCAA with a great tournament. Not saying to fire Hak, I'm just giving my two-cent evaluation on the teams' performances. Winning a natty the two years where I say we had the best team in the country, and nobody is calling for Dave's head.

I did not see St Cloud trapping in what I was watching, although I quit watching both games before they were over. Having dmen jump into the rush to score goals is not a characteristic of any trap that I know of- left wing or a 1-2-2 or 1-1-3 forecheck. The measure of Hak as a coach will be can he get it done with a more "average" talent club

I've never been part of the pitchfork crew, but something needs to change- especially on the pp and the breakout. I am NOT saying fire Hak, but I am saying that Hak might have to do some thinking. As a professional, I don't lead all teams the same way, and I certainly have evolved my thinking now as compared to when I first started managing people. Maybe Hak's systems suck, and the success has been due to the players' God given capabilities and skills. I did think to myself during the SCSU series, "is SCSU better conditioned than we are?" It seemed like they were physically better...

I'm not upset about losing to St Cloud. What I'm upset about is our persistent inability to generate TEAM offense. Whether it be in the offensive zone or in transition, 5x5 or PP, it just aint there. Our scoring and scoring chances seem to all come from great individual efforts. See Jewels channeling Stevie Y circa 1988 and Rocco Mr. I get many breakaways and not many goals. I feel like a broken record, but we just don't attack and come through the neutral zone with speed and numbers. You have to be able to make somebody miss one on one and then you need to hit the tape with your passes. It wasn't that long ago that our identity was that of a transition team!

Good post- I think Miller and Matteau and Lemieux woulda helped... You know what I see way too much of? Guys that only know how to play systems - I attribute that to doing nothing but organized hockey. We need some good old fashioned improvising like we used to create on the outdoor

St Clair has to be hurt or else Hak is playing head games

allowing guilty men to go free is a small price to pay to avoid innovent people going to prison. You also can not condone vigilantism. There are times where force is justified, if it is measured. You can't simply walk around waiting for someone to wrong you or to find the opportunity to "make ammends" for some previous wrong committed against you. Agree that the current statist approach of choosing to obey or not obey laws based upon the discretion of the executive branch is scary. This is not new, but appears to have taken a giant leap of late.

Convicted criminals do get fewer rights.

The east bank mall area is not ugly at all...very classic.

No need to name call or get the testosterone up on an Internet forum. Violence ain't cool. There are times when it is appropriate if you had to defend your life, someone else's life, or your property. In those rare situations it also must be commensurate with the threat you face or else you change from the victim to the aggressor. The DA will weigh that. That guy in Texas who beat to death ( with his fists) the man sexually assaulting his little girl- no charges, because a reasonable person would likely have done the same thing. As a father, I probably would too in the heat of the moment. A stolen car, a pipe beating...just seems excessive. I had a car stolen once...I felt no need to beat the guilty party.

The DA will use discretion. If the guy had been reasonable in his violence- i.e. a punch or two there would not be charges. It wouldn't be worth anyone's time and energy. Clearly the beating was worse than that, and included a pipe...that is beyond a reasonable "violent" response to having your car stolen.