That team would be way, way, way too much for the rest of the state. Unless of course the other major cities in the state did the same thing........
Probably a good enough reason not to.
Didn't you get the memo? There's an invisible warm front between Fargo and Grand Forks. The climate is just too cold north of that to build anything relevant. (sarcasm)
Berry is what he is. A solid assistant coach and an even better human being who just couldn't handle the rigors and pressure of running a program of this caliber, especially in March. I harbor no malice towards the man, but the coaching change has worked out better than anyone expected.
St. Cloud comes to Grand Forks for a key NCHC series. The Huskies are still in the mix for NCHC first round home ice, while the Fighting Hawks have a chance to clinch no worse than a share of the Penrose Cup with two regulation victories.
St. Cloud can score goals, but can also give up goals. If UND can play solid team defense and stay out of the box, I see two regulation wins and a share of the Penrose Cup for the home team.
I would argue Miami was much tougher to play against than St. Cloud will be. SCSU gave up a lot of goals this weekend. If we play lockdown defense and don't take stupid penalties, I think we get two regulation victories.
I never said gimme. But I think it's okay for us to expect wins at home against teams below us in the standings. The series at WMU will be much more difficult.
Thanks to the non-regulation win last night, we need CC to take at least one point from WMU in addition to us sweeping SCSU to clinch the Penrose outright next weekend. I'd say the odds of that happening are pretty good.