Benny Baker
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3 hours ago, Goon said:
I am going to drop this here. There's a message here. This kind of applies to our program, too.
It sucks that UND lost, but it's not the end of the world. Next year's team is going to be very good and will again be in the mix.
Someone asked me if this year's team might have overachieved or exceeded expectations. It might be possible.
Is it an apples comparison? The narrative is that UND is both losing on the ice and in recruiting. Not like UND has Cole Eiserman or 2 of the top 4 recruits coming in next season like UCONN women’s basketball.
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7 hours ago, Benny Baker said:
You’re right. Heck, I thought Denver made a drastic mistake getting rid of Gwoz and they would go downhill. But they just keep getting better with each new coach.
Considering this some more …
In his 8 seasons following a title, Berry is 1-4 in the NCAAs.
In his 8 seasons following back-to-back titles, Gwozdecky was 1-6 in the NCAAs.
Seems like things may have paid off by firing a coach who managed 1 NCAA win in 8 seasons despite prior national championship success.
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4 minutes ago, siouxweet said:
That's what we thought about Monty leaving a few years back and that didn't turn out too well.
You’re right. Heck, I thought Denver made a drastic mistake getting rid of Gwoz and they would go downhill. But they just keep getting better with each new coach.
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Hate shootouts.
Maybe in basketball, the best player on each team can play H-O-R-S-E to decide the winner. In football, we’ll just have a RB stand across from a LB at the 15-yard line and see if he can score.
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If Carle gets another title hopefully he starts garnering interest from the pros and leaves Denver.
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I don’t like the portal any more than I like the 1 year scholarships that schools offer student athletes.
If a university can’t commit to a student athlete for 4 years, I can’t blame a student for leaving either.
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19 minutes ago, SJHovey said:
We won a championship game with Coltyn Sanderson and Johnny Simonson playing center. They collectively had 16 goals over the course of eight years on the team.
Fair.
That same championship team also had 11 other skaters who spent time in the NHL though.
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Just now, siouxforce19 said:
It’s not like he’s the first player we’ve gotten that’s on his third team.
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Guess that’s cool we got a goalie. Not sure I’m over the moon that the goalie is a playing on his 3rd college team in 4 years though. That fact tells its own story.
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4 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Thanks @Benny Baker for finding that image.
You can't tell me that knee is in a good way right now.
Blake made a dumb move and got that. Much room to mature.
I'm thinking the same. Hope he's okay though.
Made the same comment to the group of people I watched the game with---Blake took and run and may have injured himself into playing one more year at UND.
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7 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
You're not wrong.
But as a pro coach Hafley has a front office dealing with the business side.
Hey, thought I heard we had the collective up and running to take care of our business side of things and to buy our transfer portal recruits? Just need to make sure our NIL collective and AD department are on the same page unlike Florida football and Jaden Rashada. Ugh, amateur athletics are becoming gross.....
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6 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Jeff Hafley left BC (FB HC) for NFL Green Bay (as DC). Reason? Portal, NIL, ...
He just wants to coach; can't blame him.
Portal = Free Agency
NIL = Endorsement Deals
College = Professional
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11 minutes ago, cberkas said:
One person is saying San Jose is wanting him in Denver.
Wouldn't this be a fun wrinkle to the transfer portal? NHL GMs directing their draft picks into the portal and onto a new team.
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3 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:
It didn’t. Pohlkamp is probably better.
USHL defenseman of the year; NHL draft pick; World Junior team member. "Probably" might be an understatement.
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14 minutes ago, SiouxFanatic said:
Chatter seems to indicate going to Denver rather than UND.
I have no inside knowledge.
However, I stayed at Holiday .... No, in all honestly, I read a Pioneer Press article a few weeks ago where Pohlkamp said his two options were Bemidji or Bowling Green, where both his brothers played. He said there was "no way" he was going to Bowling Green, and then the article when on to talk about how he wanted the opportunity to play in front of family.
Now maybe Pohlkamp is smarter than his age and deflected the real reason for avoiding the sh!tshow at Bowling Green right now. But if he wants to play in front of his family, sounds like North Dakota is a better option than Denver.
But I fear its Denver, too. When David Carle picked Pohlkamp over Livanavage for World Juniors, I wonder if it came with a side agreement ....
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27 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:
Well he wasn’t included in the Guenztel trade…so the Canes clearly value him (or Pitt doesn’t I suppose
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Right. I don’t think it’s that they don’t value him. To the contrary, sounds like they do. Just no AHL club for the Canes, and as Schloss pointed out, they could lose him as a FA if he returns to UND. So I think it’s an issue of trying to get value for him, if necessary.
I guess one positive of Schlossman’s article is that it didn’t read: Blake, who tore his ACL near the end of the Michigan, will sign to start his rehab process from within the Canes organization….
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7 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Schlossman has an article out giving first projections of a roster for 2024-25.
Excerpts:
The rest of the article reads like stuff talked about here: size, faceoffs, experienced defender,
Interesting. Thought I read both an Athletic and Hockey News article this month that said Carolina might try trading Blake for lack of room in their system.
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1 hour ago, TwamleyShuffle said:
If a team reaches 10 titles, UND is going to be further from the top of college hockeys national title winners
This is why I am (gulp) cheering for Boston at the frozen four. I long for the day where I can say that North Dakota has the most championships of all time in college hockey. Don’t want to go 2 back to a Michigan or Denver.
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This year’s NCAA champion will either be hanging title #10 or from Boston. Gross.
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1 minute ago, AJS said:
His SV % that year was .935. Maybe it’s just a feeling. I felt they could win it all with him. I felt the same with Scheel. I don’t believe Persson could.
I’m not high on Persson either. Just saying UND won with a goalie who was remarkably inconsistent. Scheel, on the other hand, extremely consistent.
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21 minutes ago, AJS said:
You cannot win a title with Persson. He’s way too inconsistent. Sometimes you might just be your numbers.
Cam Johnson was wildly inconsistent. I was always nervous which Cam would show up to games. The year he backstopped UND to a national championship included the following performances, for example:
pulled at Bemidji after 2 goals on 8 shots;
pulled at St Cloud after 3 goals on 13 shots;
4 goals on 23 shots against Omaha;
pulled against CC after 3 goals on 11 shots;
8 goals on 54 shots during a weekend at Denver;
pulled against Western after 3 goals on 4 shots;
4 goals on 26 shots against Duluth.
He had a helluva national championship game though to go along with that 4-game shutout streak against Denver, Duluth, and Huntsville. He also shut out Western Michigan 35 days before that performance where he allowed 3 goals on 4 shots against that same Western Michigan team.
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1 hour ago, brianvf said:
Kunz really stepped up his game 2nd half...a VandeVelde type SR year from him would be great.
7 g 6 a in last 15 games. Point per game production from Kunz next year would be huge. A Kunz, OMac, and Blake line could put up some big numbers next year.
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33 minutes ago, jk said:
I mean, they were seven years apart. It's not like the players experienced it and then forgot. Only fans got to relive it.
Right. Didn’t necessarily mean to equate the teams, but yeah from a fan perspective, they were almost identical scenarios in a national tournament. Just that one puck went in .6 seconds before and one went in .6 seconds after the horn.
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m not calling them excuses, but I think UND found fortune and still lost some of those games.
They were down by 2 to BU with 7 minutes left. If they don’t tie in the final minutes, it doesn’t even get to OT, and no one gets to talk about a 4th period or an “offsides” that wasn’t.
They were down by 2 to Duluth with 2 minutes left. If they don’t tie in the final minutes, it doesn’t even get to OT, and the “5OT against a rested team” narrative doesn’t occur.
They originally lost to Notre Dame 2-1 in regulation because no one backchecked to pick up the man in front at the end of the game. If video replay doesn’t show the puck go in a few milliseconds after the final horn, UND doesn’t even get the second chance to lose in overtime.
Like the recent Michigan loss, all of those games could have easily been regulation losses for UND, if not for some fortune on their end.