yzerman19

nice shift...vv and chay showing that leadership

We need to get our composure.

nice fing call. Last I heard this was a contact sport. Next goal wins this hockey game.

This is awful. Hak needs to throw some sticks in the locker room. Maybe burn some scholarships.

We owned the first period, they had nothing. They get two shots in the second and BE keeps up his attrocious save %. PP get one now!

Hook him

BE just lost his job if I'm Hak. Garbage. This is frustrating as we completely carried the play for 20 minutes and we are down.

MIne was great last night, sucks tonight. We are carrying the play to start the game. Let's pump one in here.

Goalies who play their angles well make all saves look pretty routine. Dell appeared very sound in that department.

The feed was pretty good. No complaints. I was just checking out the goaltending stats leaders on USCHO.com, and BE's .908 sv % puts him at #34 of 36...not insinuating anything, so no one have a heart attack...just not a good save percentage right now.

Being a fan of the team does not require you to be a fan of every player on the team. There are players I like for other teams and there are players that I am not a fan of on our team. This isn't squirt B where everyone needs to feel good about themselves and they hand out participation trophies. This is big time college hockey.

Home ice advantage equals classless. I am all for classless! Remember the smoke filled concourse at the old Ralph in the 80s? Fans swearing, crowd screaming...that's hockey. Hockey is not the Kentucky derby with flowers, hats, gloves, and mint julips! I've got a chant for Jacobs: F the Herald.

You can bet its going to be a lower scoring game. Our special teams have been great, but we've got to break this tendency to get checking from behind calls. We've had 3 in the first 5 games. They might be a by product of our relentless physical play, but we're going to get burned if we don't figure it out. Does Hak do any lineup changes tonight? I'd imagine Toews is back in, maybe Fienhage tonight? Hak has done zero line manipulation on the top 3 lines, which is different than we've seen. One thing that's been under the radar this year, but I think is a huge part of our success, is how strong we are up the middle. Our top 3 pivots are horses.

I would too, but rumor has it that Blaiser has an out clause in his UNO contract if offered the UMN job

waiting for anchorage, is there any video/

Cou"d it be related to the fact that Danny Kristo is playing like a puck hog? Oh, did I say that? Talented kid, needs to pick his spots. This is a message board for speculation, so I am not inclined to give privacy or leeway on the matter of a locker room issue. Ilove the way that everyone is playing so far with the exceptions of Kristo and Eidsness. Eidsness' stats are great, but watching him last weekend, dinking around outside the net; I'm not a big fan of his flopping around outside the crease and not controling rebounds. Kristo has mad stick skill. He just needs to stop gripping his stick so tight...its turning purple! Go Sioux!

Forbert and Mattson play immediately. Marto and Lapoint will play, and Blood and McWilliam. That's 6 regular D for sure. Gleason might be a role player, wherever he will fit. Fienhage needs to get ice to prove himself.

Someone commented on Kristo...the kid is snakebit and is trying to shoot his way through it...I'm not a big fan of that approach. In fact, I would strongly consider swapping him with Trupp right now on the top 2 scoring lines. He will be an impact player, but he needs to use his teammates. I bet he's beating himself up over that breakaway. Gopher passing was better with guys actually leading guys into open ice with their passes. Sioux passes were off. Malone almost got his neck broken in OT against the endboards, I know it was OT and everything, but that easily could've been 5, so surely should've deserved 2. Shepherd's penalty call on a cross check, when he's at center ice with the other official 10 feet away was b.s. Eidsness was not sharp on Saturday night...If I'm coach, we're getting a Dell on Friday in Alaska. Bariball's goal...all he did was wait for BE to go down, and he went upstairs...it doesn't get easier. The team leaders need to work out how to get the boys back up for Saturday games. We come out flying on Fridays, but Saturdays are a little slower. What can you say about Genoway...if he's not defensive player of the week, it is robbery. Marto is a gamer. Directly responsible for a two goal swing.

Leddy's a very talented young player, but WCHA defense is not something you jump into...look at the struggles that Ness had last year. Same could be said for any number of top-end d-men who have come into this league and moved on to the NHL I have no doubt that in the 2 years that you keep Leddy that he will become a big-time player, but for now I like Vande's chances against him 1:1 in the corners.

Experienced team that plays a defensive system looking for opportunities. They reminded me a lot of Wisconsin without some of the top-end talent that Wisconsin usually has. Well coached, good forecheck, cut off the passing lanes. I think our breakout is so designed for timing passes to move throught hte neutral zone in numbers and with speed, that when those passing lanes get disrupted we get a little flustered. We need to just relax and skate the puck up. Beat one guy then skate towards a defender making him play you, then make the pass to the guy he leaves. That's how yu beat that type of forecheck. Beat your guy first, then make the pass, as opposed to pass first then make the guy you've fed have to beat somebody. Find lanes! This weekend, the Gophs will not trap, it will be run and gun and should be a blast!

I think so too. I posted somewhere else that his little toe drag move to find a shooting lane followed by a rocket wrister off the crossbar was reminiscent of a couple guys I remember with inverse initials TJ JT. The freshmen did not play like freshmen. That 4th line makes us so unbelievably deep. We can actually compete for goals with our fourth line forwards and top dpairing going against other teams top scoring line and be successful.

Best part of "Youngblood" is the signs in the crowd at Thunder Bay. And I quote: "Sutton is a Fag" and "Pu$$ies on Ice". Classic

I hope Danny Kristo isn't gripping his stick too tightly. He is a kid who's used to scoring a ton of goals and he had a couple good looks this last weekend that just missed. I thought he might be trying to do a little too much himself at the end of last night's game. I'd like for his coming out party to be against the hated rodents. I'd love to see him get the first one, get the boys all jacked when they fish the puck out of the net for him. Knight and Cichy got their first this last weekend, Kristo and Rowney get 'em this weekend.