GDPritch

Uhhhh, yeah.

HUH? You have got to be kidding, right? UND was totally outplayed the last two periods. Tell me you're kidding, please.

I get your point but that's why you play the game. LOWLY Canisius swept us so why can't we, with a program of our stature and high-end recruits/draft picks, win one game or even sweep St Cloud?! Plus we're at home. Plus it's on NHL size rink. But no, we get embarrassed/outclassed the last two periods. There's gotta be change.

BB: Culture, we played hard, we... Me: UND totally out-classed, we are deficient in speed and offensive skills/finishing.

How could they not effin review that? They play the game about focus on player safety (i.e. contact to the head) but don't review knee to knee? WTF?

You said it, we were so over-matched skill and speed-wise. Embarrassing. And yes, our 2nd periods suck every game.

You summed it up. We all know the reason, the elephant in the room. There better be a change after this season or this cold go on for several years.

YES. Following the 1st period tonight, watching the 2nd and 3rd periods, it became so obvious to this non-hockey great mind and never played hockey that St Cloud is light years ahead of us speed-wise and offensive-skill wise. I'm not sure our 1st line is as good as their 3rd line. It's painful, how the eff did it get to this in just 2 seasons? Seriously. This has gotta change, no excuse for this proud program who lands top recruits.

f___ puck luck TH, we are inferior to half the teams in college hockey (i.e. average)

Isn't that a car?

In retrospect/hindsight is 20-20, 1st period was perfect.

Let freakin' go boys!!! If Canisius can sweep UND then by all means UND can freakin' sweeps St Clown! Are you all in for positive attitude? Good!!!

and when they outshoot teams by more than 10!!!

To be honest, I quit using it about 2 years ago due to my slice. It just wasn't worth it.

Hmm, Mondray (sp?) perhaps?

Yup, that's how we managed to make it "respectable" (losing by "just" 30 pts). Otherwise, the result would have been a 50 - 60 point loss (I am not kidding).

Seriously, in this day and age of the 3 point fg and defenders can't hand check players w/o being whistled for a foul, how can we only get 16 pts in a half with div 1 basketball players and be shooting 18% midway thru the 3rd qtr? It just boggles my mind. Are we recruiting that bad or are the players simply not improving after they arrive (prime example, senior Bailey Strand).

Now back to back to back losses. And tonight's 30 point loss (gulp) vs S Dak was not that close. We were down by 42 and the deficit growing but we had like a 12 point run in 4th qtr vs their subs. Shoot 24%, 1 of 15 on 3 pt fg attempts, and 23 turnovers. This is getting embarrassing, not even semi-competitive.

Yup, hole 8 is as tough a par 3 that there is (was?) around this neck of the woods and hole 9 was arguably the toughest par 4 in the Forks area (for this duffer anyhow).

Guessing you meant AFC East, Mafia Man?

I tip my hat to the Pats for their sustained success in this day and age, remarkable really, but it sure helps when you play in a piss-poor division and play those teams 6 times every season in grabbing home field advantage as they're nearly unbeatable at Gillette Stadium (realizing they played at Arrowhead yesterday).

Fine to say the KC defense can't stop anybody (admittedly they ain't da Bears) but at same time the Pats only gave up 6 less points than KC allowed so they didn't exactly stifle the Chief's offense.

Ahh, yah I suppose the Gophers and whomever else (?) might fit into that equation.

Certainly a possibility when one considers our 3-4-1 record (pulling out 2 ot wins & the other by 1 goal) vs PW powers Bemidji, Canisius, CC and Omaha. Optimistic view over next 8 games I see us going 3 - 5 at best (assuming we have puck luck & no more running up against hot goalie damn near every night out). We do have a winning record though vs nationally ranked teams though so can only hope that trend continues (I'll sure take being proved wrong).