fightingsioux4life

A lot of things were tonight. Learn from it and get better.

The young guys need to understand that when you beat a team on Friday night, that team will come out harder on Saturday night to avoid getting swept. Lesson learned (I hope). This loss is way less damaging than Denver's loss last night to Lindenwood.

Does anyone else think the puck is bouncing on the ice more than usual this weekend?

I figured the Goofs would come out and play hard to avoid getting swept. We'll have to step up a notch or two in the next 40 minutes.

I think we were up 35-7 after 3 quarters. So we got outscored in the 4th quarter when there wasn't enough time left to come back.

I think this staff puts a lot of emphasis on getting the twos and threes real game experience whenever possible. That can lead to giving up points the starters maybe wouldn't have given up. But if that helps build depth, then I am fine with it.

Anyone want to claim this is still "Bubba Ball"? 😛

Some twenty somethings will read this and ask "What's a Holy Cross". 😉

Long lines in REA 12 minutes until doors open.

It helps our cause that Miami FB is even worse than their hockey program.

Solid article.

The sample size is very small for both teams. Expect the unexpected when these two teams face off.

We contained Youngstown's QB, we'll do the same with this guy.

Minnesota talent is known to pretty much everyone now. Teams like Colorado College, St. Cloud and Blais at UND started poaching kids in the 1990's and it has only increased.

I guess the people I am talking about are the casual Gopher fans who don't know anything about the sport of college hockey and think all that matters is the games they have with Wisconsin and Iowa. A lot of them used to pollute the old WCHA Final Five every March. I had to deal with more than one of them. I shouldn't care, but I do. I never hear Badger fans trash talking our program like that. It just makes me hate the Goofs even more.

Nope. Not even close. The decades of enmity between UND and UMN is simply unmatched. At least Denver fans recognize our program's place as one of the blue bloods in this sport. There are Goofer fans that don't think we belong amongst the mighty Golden Gophers, which is part of what fuels the rivalry.

A lot of those losses to Minnesota happened in the 1970's, which were not kind to UND.

I think this is the root of a lot of the problems regarding game day experience.

Personally, I agree with your take on his posts. However........ Aren't you all about the student-athlete and making sure they have a great experience here? Penalizing them because of something Sather said on social media is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

That is what usually happens between these teams. Not being in the same conference anymore does nothing to dimmish the importance of this rivalry for myself. They are the #1 enemy of this program (Denver is a distant second). Let's blow them out of the building this weekend!

I think 2001 was the best year ever.

I guess I was referring to having more than half of the roster turned over from last season and all the young players still learning how to play at this level. But long term, I think this team has the potential to be very good.

I predicted growing pains for this team early on. But I think we'll get better as the season goes on.