Benny Baker

SCSU had 3 freshman and 3 sophomores see ice time this season. About as unbalanced as a team is going to get.

100%. The last 3 teams I want to see winning a title each season are: Minnesota (because it’s Minnesota) Michigan (9) Denver (8) Also, UND really dropped the ball on making the 2022 frozen four a battle between old 1950s WCHA foes and NCAA heavyweights. What a shame.

After all, he is “elite”, right? Sounds like he’ll fit in great.

Gotcha. I guess like he said, it’s possible to be a lurker. I’m on this site (and was before I had an account) multiple times a day for the past 15 years, but probably have less posts than most of you.

Yes, it does. I was confirming the post you responded to; i.e., what you wrote.

That was the narrative, though. Hak can’t win the big one. Berry and Jackson are the recruiters, anyway, so let’s turn the keys over to them.

Yes. Why do you ask—looking for volunteer video coach position?? I might be able to hook you up.

15 teams lose out in the NCAAs every year; 44 don’t even make it; 1 wins. Get used to it already.

Calder? Agree. 1 goal in his last 15 games (4 pts).

Agree. After watching old WCHA/Big 10 last few years and seeing the tournament at the Ralph last year, I think on-campus games are the way to go.

Their best crowd in a decade.

One game this weekend may not be a bad thing if you have to take a flight to play a Thursday afternoon regional in Albany next week.

Indeed it was.

Right. Especially the latter point. Would Miller want to come anywhere close to UND after they cut bait and hung him out to dry? I wouldn’t.

Would probably increase the likelihood.

So did Jonny Tychonick’s decision to head to Omaha to increase his offensive production work out? Stats say no. Speaking of familiar names with poor stats, Ryder Donovan … Yikes.

Yup. 2007 and 2012, at least. Frankly, happens too much to UND. And in 2011, UND won the final five in double OT against Denver only to have to beat Denver again a week later in the regionals to get to the frozen four. ***2017 too, FWIW. UND lost to Duluth in frozen face off final. NCAA sends UND and Duluth to the same regional the very next week. *****2015 too, as I come to think of it. UND lost to St Cloud in the frozen faceoff. UND beat St Cloud the next week in regionals.

Not a technical term. I just meant flip/change/switch/reverse UND’s comparison with Cornell that the pairwise rankings are based off of.

SiouxSports.com 2005-2015: Fire the coach, frozen four appearances are meaningless without a championship. SiouxSports.com 2016-2022: Fire the coach, a championship is meaningless without more frozen four appearances.

Does anyone know what, if anything, UND can do to flip the comparison with Cornell? Or are we just out of luck on that one ...

He seemed to get "'thee best' recruit" in the league. One of the reasons the 1997-98 and 1998-99 teams were so dominate is because Blaiser had three USHL players of the year on the team--Jeff Panzer, Karl Goehring, and Jason Blake*. Guys like Drew Stafford, Zach Parise, and Matt Greene were okay recruits too. *Yes, Blake transferred.

Karl tried to start an AAA/midget team at the hockey academy a few years ago. Idea was to provide a team for best ND kids to play against better competition. Outside of that, I think ND high school hockey should considering going to two classes perhaps with relegation and promotion. Top 10 teams in AA; bottom 10 teams in A.

For sure, big props to Coach Dan Frei.

They gutted out heroic performances against hockey powerhouses: #5 Williston; and #7 Bottineau/Rugby en route to Fargo.

Despite 2 seasons, disappointing that we’ll only get to see Sanderson in a UND jersey for 40-50 games total.