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I hope some of the apologists for the team also understand that effort is fine and dandy, but in the real world.... Results matter. Doesn't matter if a kid or coaches works till they drop, in the NHL AHL or as an accountant.... if there isn't production, the effort is mute. Sorry if that offends but, it's life. I hope our program is teaching and developing that reality in the kids too, it sure seems like in the past that the was the case.

Nope. deffinetly not pinning the loss on him, just observations on the play. He played well enough to win a hockey game, but .....the obvious ......zero goals scored.

Actually, Thome was fairly consistently a bit out of position, he definitely was drifting east west more than I think he'd like. That "Brilliant save" looked awesome but i think was going to go cross the crease. The Du guy didnt have the toe hold to wrap it in, if he did even a little it would have gone in, Thome was beaten badly being to far to his left. I think he is weak glove and squares more to that side to compensate on a weakness that is known and finds himself out to far, to often. DU wasnt good tonight, very beatable team (CC on line one, as you know). The goals he let in, I dont "fault" him... D got lazy didnt pick up a guy in the slot, thn a tip from blue line shot, I bet he would say, "yeah the kid beat me on the first one, and the second although i could have positioned better, once things are allowednto deflected that much, its a crap shoot" A D1 TOP CONFERENCE HOCKEY PLAYER ALONE UNMOLESTED IN THE SLOT SHOULD PROBABLY SCORE THAT PUCK MORE OFTEN THAN NOT..... our guys have either been missing the net or straight logo from there. UND has to be able to score 3 goals. They score 3 GPG... 11 more wins. Just 2 GPG 6 more wins and a few more ties.

you forgot about the errant pass, settle it down, wait for goalie to square,shoot sequence. The individual skill should really be improving, let alone the chemestry

Heres a classic Hawks hockey scenario.. Win 7-1 saturday night.... lose 1-0 on sunday.

The Black sweaters are done, the magic sucubused away by thebemblems of embarrassment on the shoulders. Wear them tomorrow for the funeral prosession, end the misery, then never wear the black again. Officially retire them.

Get used to it. This is Fighting Hawks athletics. We've gone from Tradition of Excellence to Memories of Mediocre

I dont know but hes probly one of our top scorers on the year

OHHHHH good Shaw's drawin something up. Is it possible he was doing up a resignation on the whiteboard?

Seems UND system all year was focused on winning board battle = sucess yet the next step of making a pass and getting a quality shot was just skipped over. like someone took those pages out of the book.

Yep switched over #PucktheFrivates

gutman just dove bad. no call

seem tonremember a long conversation on how this denvi tendybwas just struggling and fighting it forna few weeks. Rhis team cures that right quick

FYP

now it is

These announcers remind me of two brand new to hockey squirt dads just tippen'em back and blurting out their thoughts.

Sloppy sloppy sloppy... And yes announcers are putrid. Thome has been quite a bit oit of position... ooof

GF balancing teams is a good solution to AA parity, without it its still a contest for 2nd 9 out of 10 years. GFYH needs to lead that culture change at the youth levels. i.e. balance equal teams In the A and B bands throughout. Maybe a A class allows for equitable establishment of the new Legacy and WF teams when they inevitably come online. Who knows... What happened in GFPR in the last 5-8 years has a lot more bearing on the near future than the ancient history you referenced, sorry thats the facts. Grafton as a whole has been a yo yo of class movement in sports throughout the past 20 -25 years. Might have a bit of experience with this one. Maybe they'll have to prove they can restablish and maintain a cohesive youth program and then compete with the AA. Heck, allow the top A team each year to play up, hell maybe a relegation series, gives an interest to those team at the bottom of AA. Who knows....make it interesting. Its simply not now for most programs. Or just plan to play for no purpose or goal, that'll keep kids interested. Why is having differentiated classes of for youth, AA, A, B1, B different tourney brackets, but then suddenly stupid in HS?? Different talent levels, different competition bands. Anything, ideas, discussion, solutions > foolish stagnant moronic ignorance toward the issues. Issues, BTW, outlined at length and highly publisized on radio and social media the past month. Not sure you can see that through the incredibly small tunnel vision.

Whatever we all feel, it is well beyond time for the vested parties to conveen in VC and at least have the duscussion. HS coaches, ADs, Superintendents as well as the youth club representatives, USA hockey reps... All meeting with the silver haired unichs that envision themselves as the keeper of youth sports law. IF you think the current system is sustainable, that is a fool's road that leads to nowhere, or just are so blatently ignorant that there is no hope. This stinks of the moronic attitude of wanting your kid to given a spot on a higher team, just for the social status a parent can claim. Either way your, our I should say our opinions matter not. Everything is in the "capable" (hahahhahahahahha) hands of the VC kabal.

This is all accurate.

10 more reasons not to live in Jamestown. Sorry Jamestown, but well,....you know.

Absolutely do NOT need to have Jr gold join right away. BUT 1000% Watford Crosby Langdon do exactly that. 10 teams to start. Perfect. These all travel all over right now anyway, the travel argument is a nonstarter. Williston Dickinson Hazen Beulah Mandan Jamestown -VC May-Port Bottineau GFPR or Devils Lake. ( This would be the only schools that would be even a little irked, solved when a Langdon comes in) And for gods sake NO, these kids do not enjoy getting the piss knocked out of them all year, it does not have to be "the way it is.".... thats foolish.

Watford Williston Dickinson Hazen Crosby Bottineau Langdon Jamestown May-Port Mandan even... Zero chance to be competative in NDSHS Hockey single class ...Zero. None. Never. Why stay active, why make the move to HS? Either they need to all embrace the junior gold system or a simple easy to experiment with fix could be attempted. 1) Makes competition equitable. 2) Allows competative intrest to attract and retain more youth into HS program. 3) Allows large programs with huge feeder youth clubs to schedule more like competition, challenging those kids development as well. 4) Keeps more kids at home with friends and family vs. leaving home. Tier 1 travel is just travel, junior teams is not having precious time with your child for significant periods of time.

Howsabout, restructuring a system to mirror how EVERY OTHER SPORT in ND is run. And yes there are a lot of teams in smaller towns in MN, If those teams had to play EDINA and Duluth East a couple times a year, instead of similar like schools, how long would those kids stick around in the sport? Noncompetitive is Nonsustainable.

NO. Not welcome here again. That guy is dangerous and irresponsible. We've seen his self important song and dance scare tactics before. I can toss him at a dart board and end up as accurate as his forecasts.