GDPritch

You guys nailed it. Am sick and tired anymore these last 3 - 4 season seeing talk/articles saying the recruiting class coming in has all these blah-blah players that are draft picks, highly recruited by other big name hockey schools (which is true, unlike FCS football), and they're putting up all these points at their pre-UND level. Again, either we're not very bright at recruiting anymore or these scorers/finishers are not progressing once they arrive. I gotta think it's the latter otherwise other schools would not be recruiting them too. It's gotta change, real soon.

Yup, Denver lucked out only losing 1 out of 6 games to us this season. Huh?. All to do with puck luck and hot goalie. If Denver is a "bad hockey team" then WTH are we?!

Who?

Have we scored any man advantage goals this year?

Only if it teaches forwards how to score...

Okay, so likely not on him then. Frustrating though is DU get 1 goal on a deflection on just 17 SOG but we have 32 SOG and can't even get 1 greasy goal thru traffic past the DU goalie. Groundhog Day.

I'm not putting anything on Thome either regarding the lost when you give up just 2 goals against a top 10 tam and your own team is shut-out. However, he did give up 2 goals on I believe just 17 SOG (it wasn't like he faced even 25 - 30 SOG) so that save %, while not awful (.882) is certainly not top tier (unless we hung him out to dry on both goals?) and needs to be better. Again though, when your team does not score a goal then it doesn't matter if you have a .950 save %.

Ditto!

Yup, he gets it. Puts it all on a long nearing 2 seasons streak of bad puck luck and running into hot goalies.

Yup, that was very apparent as the season rolled on. At least tickets should go cheaper next season.

Ouch! And I believe our top goal scorer only has 10 goals. Incredible.

As bitter and frustrated as this old man is, I think they win Sat night simply based on law of averages, how evenly matched/alike these two teams are (despite us only having 1 win in 5 games this season vs DU), etc. Sunday night, no prediction yet.

Any clue as to what the Minn ST-Mankato coach makes? I would hope we could double his salary, couldn't we or is he getting big bucks down there? I realize they play in the weaker WCHA but he has them in top 10 or maybe even top 5 in the Pairwise in a college town similar in size to GF with no real hockey tradition of any pedigree and yet competing with ST Clown, Duluth, and U Minn. Plus, he was the recent US coach in the junior (under 18?) world championships this past winter. Some hockey experts must recognize he's got coaching talent, hey?

Spot on. It's one of two things or a combo-platter; either we are judging poorly in our recruiting or when players arrive here they are not developing as players. And I'm talking strictly offensive (forwards) players, defense and goal keeping aren't really the issue.

Well, "funeral" might be an apt description. Seriously, if we play like we did tonight and Den plays like they did tonight (uhhhh, minus us not scoring and them scoring 2 goals...) I like our chances of taking game 2.

Weeeeel,.....it is UND hockey for these last 2 seasons. For the last 20 years or so, no.

Hey, hey. Berry won us a natty. Fire Haks!

Let's hope so.....

You effin nailed it buddy. And right now I hear Tim Hennessey apologizing again for lack of scoring, basically saying bad puck luck ("no bounces"). This team's lack of ability at finishing/scoring is so inept they can't even buy a greasy goal.

Please...oh, please...bring in a few goal scorers or finishers next season...this is getting so freakin' old...or coach some of our underclassmen forwards on how to finish...bring in a new power play coach....please, just please...I beg you Berry...

Yah, I said the same thing. I noticed as soon as they showed the replay of the Sioux barrage on net he didn't bring up the point again so probably realized what he said was BS.

God, I sure hope he was being sarcastic...

Can just one or two effin upper classmen forwards (lower classmen for that matter, I don't care!) just step up and earn that scholarship. My God.

Edge in goaltending and I may be wrong but am guessing they didn't lose 2 out of 2 games to a "Canisius" type team or go winless in 2 games vs a "Bemidji" type team (UND did of course). That's probably the big reason for the difference in the two team's PW ranking I would guess.

Same verse, sing it again,...yoy, yoy, yoy