fightingsioux4life

Let's give them something to boo about!

People are still skittish after several years of lethargic play by the team. Similar to FB; people are still skittish about that team despite the fact that new management is in place. I think people should not overreact to the negative results of one game, especially in October. Let's see how this plays out.

Sandy is too old now. He's close to retirement.

Don't get @gfhockey started on that again. 😂

I am hearing some of the same things found on the FB threads this year (it's still Bubba Ball). 🙄 The Goofs played a more complete and disciplined game compared to Friday night (which I fully expected) and our relatively young team wasn't ready for it. Sometimes players have to learn these lessons the hard way; telling them isn't always enough. This team is also still learning how to play together; we had a lot of turnover from last season. So I am not going to overreact to last night's debacle. Having said that, there is no reason the coaches cannot sit players for performance reasons (Strinden) given the tremendous depth we have. I understand that we all have PTSD after the past 5 seasons or so, but I will reserve judgement on this team for now.

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.