scpa0305
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They beat DU in back to back OT games so you could argue those games could have easily gone the other way as well.
*and I think you mean Saturday/Sunday since there's no game Friday
A loss is a loss. Thanks for chiming in.
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they just swept denver in denver(granted denver has a few more issues than us right now). so uno isn't not as bad as us right now.
Ha just saw that, I knew someone was going to respond to my post. Well, they beat a Denver team which is also struggling. I believe they lost a few games to Alaska squads the week before. They way our team is playing right now we'll probably beat them up on Friday and get worked Saturday, however, these are two games we need to win.
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I think we'll get the sweep this weekend. Last weekend was an embarrassment. UNO has been pretty bad if I'm remembering right.
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I'm not upset about losing to St Cloud. What I'm upset about is our persistent inability to generate TEAM offense. Whether it be in the offensive zone or in transition, 5x5 or PP, it just aint there. Our scoring and scoring chances seem to all come from great individual efforts. See Jewels channeling Stevie Y circa 1988 and Rocco Mr. I get many breakaways and not many goals.
I feel like a broken record, but we just don't attack and come through the neutral zone with speed and numbers. You have to be able to make somebody miss one on one and then you need to hit the tape with your passes. It wasn't that long ago that our identity was that of a transition team!
I hear ya....those losses were painful to watch. We we get up 1....our team looks absolutely terrible. The best our team looks is right off the faceoff of a 0-0 game, after that it's all down hill.
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Tough weekend...the boys will put together another run to a decent season, they have too much talent. I don't think they have the makeup of a title team though. The focus and work ethic is definitely not there. Next year could be interesting if everyone stays, which they should. We have zero pro players on our team right now.
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Coming on a message board after a loss to a good team to say the team sucks is not being very supportive.
Choose your words more carefully.
You can be critical and still have faith and be supportive. They struggled this weekend. That's all you can say 6 games into the season.
Agreed, but they looked bad this weekend. Totally un-inspired, super embarrassing, etc.
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11 shots in 37 minutes. Hak sure has them firing tonight.
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We're getting swept at home. Tough weekend.
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No one is covering anyone out there.
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Who's number 20?
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We look bad
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First off, Sanderson on the third? Why not try Bryn there? Is Keaton ever going to play? He definitely should have played another year in the USHL, terrible for his development.
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Well, frankly, when the coaches all claim to have a "professional approach" to the game, and yet the team can't perform, then what is left but to blame the coaches? Honestly, the last decade has been a bust, and it's not looking good for the near future, either. At what point do you hold the coaches accountable?
Hak isn't going anywhere, however, looking at the players/teams who have came and gone over the past decade it is mind-boggling we didn't win a natty during that time. Especially since every time we we knocked out we pretty much shot ourselves in the foot. In recent years our teams simply can't put a full game together.
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Hak talks about playing 60 minutes but his teams rarely do. The 4 1/2 minutes to start the 3rd were embarrassing. Sleep walking...all 18 skaters. Puck was in our D zone for 4 of those minutes. At home with a lead...unacceptable to start the last period like that.
With that being said...I really thought we were good defensively minus that stretch. Stecher right now is our most complete D-man. Cue Wilbur.... Zane was hung out to dry on all 3 goals. He was solid. Hak's system offensively is so regimented that when we can't control the puck and cycle we get nothing. We have speed...carry the puck in on occasion! Chyzyk can work the walls and he can create offensively. I like his game so much more than Mitch and he got PP time. Seriously??? Mark Mac's line needs to be much better and so does Rocco. Thought Luke held his own and Drake is mini me Oshie. Love that kid.
As great as our PK is our PP is so brutal. The penalty with 3 minutes to go was the nail in the coffin. Would have been better off 5x5. Now that's sad to even suggest.
We gave away 3 points but I like the overall make up of this team. Just can't give a team like SCSU free minutes of ice time because we decide to take consecutive shifts off.
Agree with everything you said. Rocco in my mind has to pick it up big time. He is our star.
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Are you for real?
Haha that made me laugh.
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I just don't see enough firepower with this group this year - I feel the defense will mold into a great group but I don't see a lot of scorers. I am also somewhat disappointed that we are in the second year of this goalie tandem and neither one has stepped foreward to be the guy (even though Gothberg seems to have the edge).
Beside the Saturday Miami game gothberg has been fine. The problem has been with our lineup/line combinations. -
Is the correct answer to #5 Schmaltz?
Probably not.
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Another sore spot with me is the "young" label. UND has 11 upperclassmen. That has to be average among college teams. The "young" label just means the coaches have not done a great job of landing players at UND lately, which is why I suspect Eades was let go. However, in all fairness, this is not a "young" team.
I'm not using this as an excuse by any means but our team is young bud.
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in this i assume raw=young? that doesn't constitute their coaching being better than UND's.
Motzko is a great coach, he pulled in vanek at um which pretty much won two nattys, I would say he has out coached Hak. Given the opportunities our university would bring I would think he would do just fine coaching a similar program as ours.
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Wow - when did St. Cloud State get better than us?
They've been better for the past year or so.
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I think we have some great players on our team and we have had some great players come through this program over the last decade. We will also get better as the season goes. My one issue with the Sioux over the past 3-4 years is how they play when they have the lead. No matter what period it is it seems as though they are sitting back and waiting for the game to get over. Where are all the stat chasers? Where are all the guys who want to embarrass a team in their own building? This team tonight was playing for the 1-0 win and that's it. This has been a common theme in big games under the current regime.
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I miss Eades
Ditto
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What a bad loss...reminds me if that Yale game. Get up, sit back, hopefully we don't lose....we lose.
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I can already smell an empty netter. Frustrating but it's a young squad.
Time to Fire Dave Hakstol....
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Hak isn't going anywhere nor should he; his resume speaks for itself. We haven't had a bad season in quite a long time. I too wish we had a national championship (or two) over the past 10 years as we have had some special teams. However, hockey is an odd game and bad bounces often change a "one and done" game. Everything is cyclical, we'll get another one sooner or later.
Now for the constructive criticism; Hak has to learn how to motivate his players better. I think he waits too long before he interjects. By the time he attempts to start firing them up....they are already losing. That Friday game reminded me so much of the Yale loss last year. Our team was playing for the 1-0 win and that's it. Right when SCSU tied it up I (and the team) knew it was over. I truly believe this is all motivational.