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I actually agree with him. BC has a crop of young (highly talented) kids and they have been missing Santini (defensive anchor) for almost a month now I believe. I would guess that BC would get much better by the end of the year as compared to their current state. They were actually solid before Santini was hurt.

Agreed I have always liked that one too.

I am definitely not a CHL guy nor am I a fan of their recruiting practices, however, there is definitely a misconception on this forum about those leagues. First off, the reason there is more scoring is because most teams are top heavy (first rounders playing against kids who will never make it past the CHL, in some cases players with NHL experience playing against 17 year old kids who are very average). Secondly, these kids do have time to work out and the coaching is very very good. It is arguably the best NHL development league for 16-20 year olds in the world. However, it really depends on when kids "figure it out". Poolman is a great example. He figured the game out at an older age so playing a few years of NCAA hockey will help him out if he wants to give pro hockey a try in the future. To me, if I was a bigger kid with potential, however I really needed to work on my offensive game (Michael McCarron) I think the CHL leagues would develop me quicker than NCAA hockey (depending on which conference you played in I guess). If I was an extremely gifted offensive player and would put up roughly 2 points per game at any level under the NHL/AHL I would go the NCAA route to continue to develop against bigger, faster, stronger players (ex. Nic Petan). Some of those kids in the CHL leagues put up so many points it's nuts and they continually are sent back to the CHL where they have absolutely nothing else to prove. They are almost stuck in limbo.

In looking at LSSU's gamelog, they sure give up a lot og goals. We need to get a few early both nights.

All your points are spot on, however I do think +/- is a valuable stat. Tambo's #12 is good though.

+12 is actually good.

Haha. You missed my recent post.

Well we now have the target on our backs.

Who knows. Tough to tell. I'm guessing he would have been a pretty good player for UND this year. Oh well though. As for the difference between CHL and NCAA, the CHL has more high end prospects (on average) while the NCAA has older, more mature, players. Neither option is the best option, it all depends on what you are looking for.

Yup

Very real possibility. We could see one huge departure after the season.

Agreed. Yeah, I forgot about Mankato. Tops in PW but did play a terrible opponent. Could make sense though.

Are we the new #1 this week?

Agreed. Additionally, these high end kids want to play with other good players to ensure their stats are good.

Again we looked much better than uno, they took a ton of perimeter shots. One thing, we almost let the game go in the third. Shocked we can lay down in the third. Either way a wins a win. Boys can work on things next weekend.

Ladue

You could be right, haven't went back and watched. However he had more than enoug time to settle down and dump the puck. He acted too quickly and sauced it off the glass right to their defender. Veteran players should know better. I have backed him for a bit but didn't think he played very well last night. However, to your point, there were several players that didn't play sharp last night.

Bofum

Great and we didn't play very good. Decent atmosphere though.

BSU is not a good team. Bad teams can beat good teams when good teams play terrible and bad teams play good . Both teams are not good. This is hockey we're talking about.

I'm glad someone else recognizes that UNO is overrated. I seriously thought that was one of the worst teams we've played this year. I couldn't tell a difference between them and CC. Their top line was barely noticeable. Their third line was better than their first and their first has done all the damage this year. We had to have dominated puck possession as well. Our defenders had the puck the entire game. We just had a few bad breaks and a no movement from our forwards. Oh….and our PP looks so bad.

I'm starting to concede, Mattson needs to sit. That second goal was all his fault and there were other times during the game where he attempted to make fancy passes only for him to giveaway the puck..

I don't think we played all that bad last night and by no means did Omaha dominate us last night. They outshot us by like 5 shots and they were throwing the puck at the net every time they crossed the blue line. There were times in the third that UNO actually looked decent but during the first two periods they looked either star struck or bad, one of the two. When we started moving our feet we were obviously head and shoulders above them. Their goalie played very well. Scoring chances is not a recognized stat but we had so many during the first and early second, just couldn't capitalize. I would say that we will come out and crush them tonight but UNO seemed to get better as the game went along last night.

I took it as u didn't really get how this whole thing worked.

Really?