Dustin

Kelly Howe says 24-14 Salukis.

They are not really calling this a "real" season. More like a preview for the fall season.

No Weah!

I read that comment, too, and thought the same thing. Danny for HC!

Who’s gonna start the official game specific thread??!!

Actually knocking down shots makes all the difference.

Sweep against the conference leader. Not a bad weekend.

I agree. too many seasons start with a game where a loss is expected, and when it happens we say, "so and so will be a truer test of our team." Southern Illinois is picked middle of the pack, just like us, and we get them at home. Let's make a statement right off the bat that we're ready for the MVFC.

I think I confirmed this. I looked at the UND schedule from the first season (1946-47) until the formation of the WCHA (as we once knew it) in 1959-60, and we played at least one game in the state of Minnesota every season. Since 1960, we've been a conference member with at least one team from Minnesota, so I am assuming that we played away games in one of those rinks ever since.

Also realized this morning that this has got to be the first UND hockey season with no games played in the state of Minnesota.

O-line: Nguon, Helgren, Waletzko, Ventrelli, Tobin

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Right. The press release states that nchc.tv will be broadcasting the quarterfinals. The quarters are usually best of 3 at home sites. Midco has broadcast every quarterfinal game from the Ralph since their contract started. But since this is the still the conference tournament, they might require nchc.tv subscriptions for the quarterfinals as a way to make money. Hope they let Midco put it on TV.

I wonder if Midco will be allowed to broadcast the quarterfinals. I am assuming it will be their broadcast team for NCHC.tv, and the league has let local stations broadcast quarterfinal games before.

So a chance to go to the Frozen Four without having to leave the state. Nice.

So, he selected UND over all of those other offers?! That sounds like a great get.

Perhaps it's been discussed earlier in the thread, but has the NCAA announced how it will pick and seed teams for the tournament?

Yeah, kind of a sad state of affairs.

Probably my favorite (possibly only) memory of him. That was so much fun to watch.

Glad we stole this one. We got lucky with those 2 missed shots at the end regulation.

Man I feel bad for these girls. Great effort to make a comeback both nights, but fall just short.

I would say 4-4 is the break even point. Anything less would be a disappointment. A fifth win would show we are making positive strides, even if 5-3 leaves us out the playoffs. A sixth win could potentially get us in the playoffs, and would go a long way in proving our program is MVFC level. If we get 7 wins (or 8), we should be good enough to make a run to the semi-finals or even championship game.

That's kind what my benchmark was; 5-3, win one of the wins against a Dakota school. Competitive in every game would be huge (no blowouts).

Pretty tall order. So are we sitting out the postseason?

Sooo, here we are just over 1 week away from camp (Jan. 22) and just over 5 weeks away from opening game (Feb. 20). The schedule is for 8 games, all MVFC. NCAA bracket is 16 teams, 11 auto-bids, 5 at-large. With all that laid out, what is a successful season this time? Or maybe a better question, assuming we don't win the conference auto-bid, what is it going to take be an at-large team?