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This is 1 reason why i was not in favor of Berry giving an extension in the middle of the year. After the extension. 1. Have up 3rd period lead to Omaha to basically tie them. OT 3x3 win gave them 1/2 a Penne Rose cup and he was satisfied. 2. Next night sit the goaltender that was playing great the last month and get beat by 3 goals allowing Denver to share the cup and get the number #1. Also hurt pairwise ranking. 3. Next 2 games Sanderson is back and struggle to beat CC in two 2-1 games. Sanderson played great, but still struggled to beat the 7th best team in the league. 4. Lose to W. Michigan in front of Pro UND crowd. 5. Lost to Notre Dame and season done. Basically finished 2-3-1 after the contract extension with the 2 wins vs CC, the 2nd worst team in the NCHC. The loses vs 3 worst in NCHC, 3rd place team in NCHC and 3 best in Big Ten. All teams they should have beat. This team quit.

I don't get this crap about this team over performed. Sure they had a lot of turnover, but they brought in plenty of transfers, so its not like the were all freshmen. They were a 1st place team to start the new year so it not like they just came on in the 2nd half. They had 2 bad weekends in January, and they sh!t the bed in the playoffs. This program should never be in a position the be rebuilding, they should reload every year. Having to rebuild is a black mark on Berry. I would like to think they would have made a run in 2020, but after the last 2 years i'm more and more convinced they would have been 1 and done or maybe won a game.

I was surprised by the number of W. Michigan Underclassmen. I went and counted there roster and they have 31 players on the roster, so they have a bunch of upperclassmen also. That is a lot of healthy scratches.

I think that is the good thing about ESPN3 is they can show the games right away as they can show as many games at one time on ESPN3 since it is streaming.

In fairness i'm not sure UND wins the NC in 1997 or 2000 if it was best 2 out of 3. My guess is the number of banners would be similar.

Very Weird Topic. For me it is 2000. 1997 Lucked out with Michigan losing but that Sophomore class was loaded, and a very good team. Interesting that IMO the 1998 and 1999 teams were the best in the country, but didn't win the NC and the teams before and after them did. 2 NC in four year is what the Program deserved.

Agree with 3 out of the 4. Don't think the 2000-01 belongs in there. I would put the 2019-20 in the top 4 along with the other 3 your have. #5 would be the 1997-98 team. I would guess the 1979 team would be up there but i was 4 at the time so don't remember.

Some people are so clueless. The UMD group behind me at the championship game was talking about how W. Michigan had to win the tourney to get into the NCAA Tournament. I'm sure they are surprised to see Western as the highest seed out from the NCHC.

AHA: AIC/RIT/Air Force/Mercyhurst ECAC: Quinnipiac/Clarkson/Harvard/Colgate HEA: Northeastern/UMass/UM-Lowell/UConn CCHA: Minnesota State/Bemidji State B1G: Minnesota/Michigan NCHC: Denver/UND/WMU/UMD

2011-12 also didn’t have the transfer portal to help reload. Really like this team, but that team in 2012 is probably my favorite for what they accomplished with what they had.

or Hermantown should not be in the A Tournament.

Looks like there are 7 schools, but like you said almost all the the kids come from 2 schools. I get that they will would probably never compete at the AA level, but there are tons of programs in the same boat. I'm not sure why they are the exception.

Fair enough.

Transfer Portal sucks. Seems to force coaches to kiss the players A$$. Don't know what is going on behind closed doors. Wish there was some compensation the team getting the player had to give. Sucks when a coaching staff finds the diamonds in the rough, coaches them up and they leave. Loyalty seems to be gone.

And how do you hold a kid to that?

Do we know how the UNO fan is doing?

Pretty sure it is head to head. SCSU won in Regulation and SO. Duluth won in SO and OT.

Agree, but National Championships are a bigger deal. I will even go further and say if one NCHC wins a NC and the other wins the Conference championship the team that won the Conference Championship is the better team. I just want a coach that can also get it done the in NCAA tourney. Its been too long since they have been to the Frozen Four. Hope this is the year.

No true way of knowing. Who are the options? Do you believe there is no other coach better than him? To be clear I don’t want him fired, I just think wait til the season is done.

Why would you say that? I just think he needs to do better in NCAA tournament. Hopefully he does this year and contract is will deserved. Either way my life doesn’t change

TBH I'm so sick of hearing this. Its not like he just took the program over and everyone was leaving. Maybe he needed to do a better job of balancing the classes out. Weatherby leaving at the last minute hurt. I have him credit for bringing in Driscoll, Calder and Ford to have some older players. It not like when he had 8 Seniors last year people were saying he's not that great of a coach because he has 8 seniors. You need to win with who you got and that is on the head coach. And no I don't think he should be fired, I just think they should have have waited until he end of the season and see how things play out. He was under contract for over another year.

IMO. Get to the frozen four get an extension.

I do because I always thought it took more than luck to win one. I thought a great coach got his team to peak at the right time. I thought we needed the right players to get it done. Turns out all we needed was just Luck. Yes I get it the best team does not always win, but the expectations needs to be greater than 1 NCAA win since 2016. That can't be acceptable at UND. He has a chance to change that this year and I sure hope he does.

Got it. I guess we should not longer care about them as it is all about luck.

Of course you can. At UND we brag about the 8 National Championship not the conference championships. Need to get it done in the NCAA tourney.