yzerman19

You too.

Danny played it the way you're coached. You let a puck carrier go 1-1 against a dman and the goalie, you prevent a pass.

Need to play fast, establish a strong forecheck, play the body, good crisp passes.

This thing with Rocco is RIDICULOUS. He is a top 6.

Danny is reading the trailer and looking to clear out a rebound to turn it back up ice. Possibly creating a 3-2 the other way. Joe didn't check him effectively, but still pushed Condon pretty wide. Let's not blame Joe or Clarke or Danny and call it like it is...that was just a beautiful snipe of the far-side upper from a tough angle.

Really? Wow. That would be surprising to me. You'd think that Hak would bring everyone down for this series.

It really is hatred. It is almost as if hockey is the allegory for something much larger... City vs Country Red State vs Blue State Big School vs Small School Entitlement, contempt, etc. Compound it with the fact that both teams are perennial powers...then make the geographic proximity such that you have to witness the one another's successes...it boils over

I'd throw O'Donnell back out there to see if a couple games off have helped him- Knight with Grimaldi and Kristo Rowney with Parks and Cagguilla Mac with Mac and O'Donnell Pattyn with Gleason and St Clair

100% true. Grant will tell you the same. Grant did not fit the mold of Blaiser's teams. Blais built teams around skating and speed. Grant Potulny has a lot of talents for hockey, but skating and speed are not at the top of the list. His intangibles, especially leadership, really were difference makers for every team he played on.

Parise was playing for Shattuck in 2001-2002. Oh, and Potulny is not Parise.

I did not research, just recollection. if you go back to 2002, it is actually 2-3 in ending seasons.

Tonight is going to tell us A LOT about this UND team

Ye of little faith...don't give up. We had a bad performance.

I disagree on a coaching change. It is January! Dean will not come back. Lucia has a losing record against UND. We failed to establish a forecheck. We failed miserably in our own zone. Our skating was poor, our passes were off, no physicality. BC got shelled by Minnesota- does anyone doubt that they will be in the mix in March/April?

Haha!

I think that's his girlfriend...

How many UND games have you watched this year? Do you know that the lines tonight were as follows: 1st- played together for the first time last weekend (Kristo and Knight have played together all year) 2nd- haven't played together since last season 3rd- never played together before 4th- never played together before We split with BU and Notre Dame, took 3 pts from Denver...split with SCSU... Don't talk paychecks...I'll keep it classy and not go down the road that makes me want to go...

It is January, not March or April...If I recall, even the Hrkac Circus team lost a game at Mariucci. The UND coaching staff is known for making late season pushes and getting better as the season wears on. We do not even have our lines set for crying out loud. Minnesota is a very quality team this year. To get beat on their ice is a great motivator and wake-up call. I am optimistic that we have not played our best hockey, and I believe that Minnesota is peaking early. I might be wrong, and they might just get better, but I believe that we will definitely get better. I do agree that we had no puck luck, but we didn't work hard enough to get it. Minnesota did a great job limiting our chances. Rarely did we have flow and good looks with numbers attacking. Tomorrow is another day

I've watched all of UND's games. This was not one of their better efforts. As far as the NCAA's...get a clue. We're a #2 seed right now, and have split against all top 10 teams we've played...lost a game tonight against a major rival, on their ice, Olympic ice, where we were 2-1 late, with one of our worst offensive and defensive efforts, without lines finalized.

You're entitled to your opinion. 1. You never let a team score with less than 10 seconds in a period. Tackle him if you have to. 2. You have to take the man when there are scrambles in the crease or in the slot. 3. Did you really think our d and our flow looked okay? 4. Did you really like completely changing up all the lines except for the first line? I'll give you that we didn't get run out of the place, but we had a poor performance

Are you insinuating that Rocco lacks the talent to play in the WCHA? Sorry, but that is just off-base.

Schmaltz needs to get it together. I don't fault Forbert as much, because he is stuck being paired with Schmaltz. Schamltz is a #1 draft pick...show me something kid. Simpson and Mac were not bad. We need to see Panzo tomorrow night.

Schmaltz was awful, so was Mattson. Gleason needs to hammer when he has no stick, not play patty-cake. Gophs looked like a contender, we looked like a pretender...no flow...best players were non-factors. As stated, D was horrible. Line-up decisions perplex me...i wouldn't have done what Hak did. I am disappointed that we looked so lost out there...slow, unsure of ourselves. All around a bad performance.

hmmmm...import is subjective...support is also a very loose term. In the early days it was a win-win: BSU, MSUM, SCSU get to play a relevant team, MN could look magnanimous while at the same time padding their record. Here are the incidents that probably bother Lucia: 1. Handshake Line Fight 2. Wehrs getting smoked by Frattin 3. Tony Lucia getting chirped at 4. Hak flipping the bird 5. Kangas' cell phone number 6. Holy Cross 7. Going 1-4 in season ending games vs UND 8. The F the Gophers chant 9. The throwing of plastic cups and bottles on the ice You compound all that stuff, and maybe it does need a cooling off period. Look, I love the rivalry, but it probably has gone over the top. I remember in the 2004 Final Five when the Gophers beat the Sioux in the final in an epic game, there was clearly respect among and between like Zach Parise and Drew Stafford and Matt Greene and Thomas Vanek and Keith Ballard and Paul Martin and, and, and...I don't know if that respect is still there among the players...

As a somewhat grounded member of the Sioux fanbase, I apologize for that behavior. It is unacceptable in any setting, and it is unfortunate that I share the same team allegiance as animals like that. Neither program has a monopoly on classless fans, but I sincerely apologize that your children were subjected to that. I would wish every fan visiting our arena (especially children) an awesome experience in all ways (except for on the scoreboard at the end of the game).