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UND v American International and BU v U Mass Wisco v Bowling Green and Mankato v Omaha Minny v U Conn and St Clown v Q BC v Clarkson and Michigan v Duluth Gotta start somewhere, there are many of you who can shoot holes in this. What’s wrong with this one other than conference upsets that change the script?

Is there anyone who is predicting the brackets for the NCAA’s? Bracketology?

Line charts our yet? Anyone get injured last night? Mishmash still out?

Yes and an injured goalie it looks like

How much does it help that Olischefski sits tonight? He is their captain and gets minutes, but who’ll replace him?

How big is losing Oischefski, I know he is their captain and a regular player getting minutes, who do they have to replace him tonight? How much does i t help us? If it had happened with a couple minutes left in the game and he just got 5, it wouldn’t have changed anything.

It’s video but he was knocked unconscious for the duration of the video, it took him about 1.5 seconds to realize there was no call coming! It was a short video.

It’s your opinion, you are in the minority, suck it up and move on.

If you consider refs last night, there were many bad/missed calls. I am a Sioux fan but have to say that the missed calls favored Omaha more than UND last night. We can expect more of the same tonight. What UND has to take from the game last night, don’t take dumb penalties. Play physical and make them pay. Running 50 feet to nail someone is nothing but stupid. Grabbing a facemask is stupid. We were fortunate to win after taking all the bad penalties (also some bad calls) and we have to learn that if the refs are going to take every opportunity to make a call against us/for them, don’t be stupid!

Am I the only one who thinks Gabinet is the biggest ass of the coaches in the NCHC? The red head from Denver is close, but I just can’t handle Gabinet!

I’m watching Tim on the radio!

CBS sports

I’ve got a feeling, Scheel will score. This is his day! What have I got to lose.

Hain

Gain out with injury or just sore from that big hit last night?

Pinto

I have not renewed my NCHC subscription yet. Have been able to watch most games on Midco so far. Is it worth trying to get it for tonight’s game or will I be disappointed?

Where did you see the lines?

Agree! I was surprised that Thome did not start against Denver, not because Scheel did not earn it after his shutout but because everything we’ve seen in the past tells us we have two of the top 4 goalies in the NCHC. The way Chrona was playing for the first 45 minutes was the reason the game was so close. We need to see Thome, not because Scheel played poorly, we’ll need two goalies this season. I’ve not seen many other games, the Gophers look good, but Denver might be the 2nd best team in the country. I thought they were better than Duluth on Wednesday, but that is splitting hairs, they’re both good! Counting the December 8 game, we’ll play the Pio’s 5 more times minimum, this year, we want at least 3 more wins out of those five!

Hopefully they will all wait and compare options. Even first round draft picks have no where else to actually PLAY right now either.

I remember when we only had 17 healthy players, they did well and some players stepped up who had not seen much ice that season. But, how many can we carry on the roster? I do not mean to belittle Albrecht. Keene is a valuable forward who we will count on next year. Reiger may be in a defenseman numbers crunch if it comes down to losing one of our D recruits. So, how many we can carry on the roster? Is that a viable option to the numbers problem we may face next year. Carry more than we need and make everyone earn their ice time? It is just a question that I do not know the answer for.

Not necessarily in these positions but this team without new blood would make the top 15 pairwise: Three lines that would play on any team in the country and two sets of D that would also play major minutes anywhere: Mishmash-Adams-Guchi Weatherby-Pinto-Caulfield Hain-Senden-Blaisdell Keane-Albrect-Reiger Kierstad JDB Frisch Bast We’re pretty sure of some who are coming in but not all, Berry has some difficult decisions to make. He will have to do his best to convince someone(s) to hold back another year. I know there is a limit to how many can dress, but what is the limit of how many he can carry on the roster. If he does not know what to do with one of his returnees or recruits can he carry an extra player (defenseman) who may not see much ice unless we have injuries? Albrecht, for example, is a practice player and it appears he will not see ice time except for an exhibition game, how many can we carry like him rather than cut a returning player? Does he shorten the number we can have on the roster?

How many more Dogs will jump ship? Does anyone else feel bad about that?

Those are all good players and maybe would be great captains too. Guys in the past like “The General”, Lamoureux, MacWilliam were not considered great players, good yes but not great, but he/they were the kind of captain who team mates listened to. I don’t know the personalities of these guys well enough to comment much. Senden seems to be that guy who would skate through a brick wall, so he would be my choice. Maybe some one knows more than I, just that because you are a good athlete does not always equate to good captain.