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Gornal should play over simonson. Ausmus had stetcher the last two years, now he coasts to pucks and gives up possession.

The captain should not be in the top four D he has been brutal. #10 should not be playing at this level my god he panics with the puck and it's high off the glass and loses possession.

Berry, Jackson and Shaw need to shore up the special teams first off and this team will be fine, if you can't score on the pp you better be able to kill them off. maybe it's time for more line up changes, #10 doesn't seem to be able to compete this year at this level and he sure cannot put the biscuit in the basket but that is true with a lot of this team. The one poster was right you can not win the championship in oct, nov or dec but you sure could lose it.

Pogo-Rhett- smith. (Big body skates well) jj-hoff-wilkie fourth line can be switched by who is going in practice first line is a given

This offense is awful, that is all

Isn't there a former players topic open? If people come into this thread to check on early departures and your discussing who were the best four year players. Let's stay on topic.

What does this have to do with the 2016-2017 season or early departures

Lines for next year Boeser-Schmaltz-Gersich Wilkie-Jost-Hoff Poganski-Johnson-Gardner Olson-Simonson-Yon

Ok boys a little adversity let's see what this team is made of. If anyone would have predicted this record at the beginning of the year we would have all been giddy.

Maybe johnson(Cam) was a little too comfortable, three goals from far out over the glove, stand up man.

Upperclassmen or not he should sit out at least move him to thr fourth line. Wolarin would be a better choice at this point.

Or you ruff Ryder's could pony up for the Nodak Nation

New name, new logo maybe? New results hoisting #8 in Tampa.

Wow I wonder what some of these people do for a living and do their bosses hold them to such high standards, you sell the most cars this year or your done. Seems like unreasonable expectations to me. Hakstol is a awesome recruiter, great regular season coach and a stalwart for fighting Sioux tradition. Like a previous poster said he changed from big physical D man to puck moving offensive D men so he shows he can change. Maybe the next step is to change his offensive strategy and go to a more creative system which might lead to some losses in the regular season might more productive in the one and done format. I have had regular season tickets since 1984 and will keep them till I can't go to games anymore so I have seen good and bad from the Sioux, my wife hates it when the Sioux lose because my attitude sucks and she doesn't quite understand the investment fans make in their teams, emotionally or otherwise. The sun comes up the next day regardless but players like Pattyn spent four season plus off seasons grinding it out through practices, injuries etc and for them to fall short is way worse then us fans having to take another semifinal loss. Hak is still young shows he is willing to change and I will be sitting in my seats come October hoping to see my team win the last game of the year and if they don't I will be back again supporting my team.

I just figured it out. The last team to wear the Fighting Sioux logo will graduate and the curse will be over, We will win this next year bank on it!!! Is it Oct. yet.

In retrospect maybe firing Hakstol may not be the best thing but 8 frozen fours and one win, how can one team have such terrible luck? Zane doesn't give up three bad goals in five games and comes in and gives up three in one game. At least two pipes if one of those goes in early whole different game. I think and it's been hashed out in other threads that Hak is stubborn and won't change his systems but he did change his defense from physical, large D to mobil playmakers, time to chane the offense. Give the fowards some freedom to create don't just dump it in, cycle the puck and dump it out of our zone and give up possession(how many times has you seen a foward blindly through the puck off the boards/glass from their own zone gining up possession) come Hak time to change it up.

Maybe Hakstol has to do some soul searching on how he does things, maybe free up the forwards and pull back on the D some, trying doing something other then cycle the puck and grind it out on the walls, use the talent you recruit don't just use the system no matter what. I would love to see Hak win one but honestly with all the teams he has had I don't think it's going to happen. He hashad high end fowards, grinders, hard workers, awesome goalies but the results are all the same.

So are we know as the green chokers now, new logo.

Time to move on Hakstol, has lost in almost every way in the biggest game of the year. Players change every year but what is the common demoninator, hmmmmm They even changed one coach same results. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Time to try something or somebody different.

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We are supposed to have more talent then St.cloud so why is their power play better than ours?

roll these lines and remember Hak you can change things on the fly, cut down to three lines if we have any passengers. The players need to remember that there are no ships to go back to.

The stanchions on the glass were awful, someone should invest in seamless glass, St. Clouds second goal was a direct result of a bad bounce off one. The Sioux player was trying to dump it in and it took a target center bounce and it goes the other way for a two on one goal. Overall experience wasn't very good downtown St. Paul /xcel is in a class by itself. Target center had poor concessions, poor entrance policies on Friday anyway and downright lousy atmosphe

Murphy at least was giving a effort, which is better then some highly touted players we have. When will our coaching staff figure out that the dump snd chase especially on the PP just gives up possession. Come Hak time to change things up.