Benny Baker

Take out CC and Omaha, and North Dakota is 25-3-2 against the field. Not bad.

“Berg chin-tucked comes into the circle low and slow—the true veteran that he is—wins the draw back to Livanavage who claps an absolute bomb that goes bar down for the 1-0 lead.”

Midco needs to splurge on about 10-round trip Allegiant tickets a year and fly in Jordan Schmaltz from Scottsdale as the new analyst.

Sometimes it looked like the CBS line played cat-and-mouse with other teams. They would lose the puck only to see how quickly they could take it back from the other team. For all their scoring accolades, their back checking is what set them apart, in my opinion.

Jost played his first NHL game a few days after his 19th birthday. Blake will at least be 21 by the end of this summer. Hoping he comes back too.

Too much Penna Rosa last weekend? Ask Michael Scott, last night is what ends up happening when you carbo-load on pasta.

Of course he does! After all, I think I pointed out he scouted for Hak—in the same NHL you’re talking about. I just disagree that a winner in hockey is 95% determined by talent on the ice. I think it is much more a combination of talent, luck, mentality and determination, teamwork, goal-setting, leadership, coaching, physical endurance, etc. than any one predominant factor. Some nights, some factors play a larger role in who wins a hockey game. And that’s what makes hockey fun, and that’s why they play the game instead of deciding the winner based upon roster talent alone, or at least just for 95% of the games.

Well, former scout—even for Hak! Hey, I like the guy but I disagree with that comment.

My comment was tongue-in-cheek, Brendan Morrison. ‘97 Sioux deserved their title just as much as the Bulldogs deserved theirs, but certainly more than your Wolverines did, even if you were “the best team” out there that year! Hey, I like listening to Starman, too. But I also believe he’s a goalie coach for an NA3HL team, so I’m not granting him the word of gospel when it comes to hockey just quite yet.

And let’s not forget 1997, when (6) Cornell knocked off (3) Miami, giving UND an easier route to the frozen four to play (5) Colorado College who knocked off (1) Clarkson, before UND played (2) BU who knocked off (1) Michigan. Yes, upsets happen. North Dakota did what they had to do in those circumstances, but you can’t deny the good fortune UND had that led to their 1997 national championship.

All valid points. Unlike the on-ramp Gasparini, Blais, and Hakstol provided Berry, Mike Sertich’s lack of any success his last 15 years makes Sandelin’s 5 trips to the last 13 frozen fours fairly impressive. Sandelin had to build his tracks and steam engine from the ground up; Berry just needs to keep his from going off the rails.

Just curious. How is head to head tied when they beat us in regulation and we beat them in OT? Isn’t an OT win technically .55 is a win (or whatever) in college’s weird hockey rules?

Hey, I’m game with that. However, thought RPI was only part of the calculation for PWR comparison. In other words, you can have a higher RPI but still lose the comparison. (UND and CC, for example).

Right, but pairwise is based on how many comparisons you win against every other team. Right now, UND wins 60 comparisons, BU wins 62. Hey, I’m hoping for #2 overall too, but those CC loses could really come back to bite.

Are they though? Isnt UND (60) 2 comparisons back of BU (62)? I fear the comparison loss to CC will prevent UND from reaching #2 in PWR. The 0-4 record against them is a pairwise killer.

Yes, after he was committed to Omaha, but before he played at Wisconsin.

Neither. But boy, I wonder how he’ll handle Detroit/NHL where beat reporters actually offer critical takes about the teams they follow; maybe he transfers to the Grand Rapids Griffins?

“It’s too much pressure playing for this team that can’t win an NCAA tournament game, if we even make it, so I’ll just transfer to the reigning national champions.” Weird.

I don’t get the Minnesota comparison? They’ve won 5 NCAA games the last 2 seasons; those players got their team to overtime of the national championship last season. North Dakota, on the other hand, in the last 7 seasons, has only beat AIC in the national tournament. That’s it.

Bismarck High will be fine. Southport, South Bay, and Fox Island (all BHS) are the highest taxed properties in Bismarck. Lots of families with young hockey players and plenty of literal bays for them to play hockey on during the winter.

Travesty if true. World’s oldest hockey arena, I believe, and original home of the Boston Bruins.

Interesting. But I wonder how many collective minutes Celebrini, Hutson, and Willander played for BU tonight?

Those are excuses. One of those “top” players has only played 12 of 19 games this year anyway.

Lol. Just look to the last time Bubs lost an exhibition game—two years ago to the same US 18 team—and UND got bounced in the first round of playoffs.

I’m not much for positive spin, but… … this team will never play 3x3 OT during NCHC or NCAA playoffs … These 3x3 in overtime loses are meaningless when it comes to 5x5 hockey.