GDPritch

Hmm, 2 straight losses for UMD but WMU is a very worthy opponent as we well know.

Nice, nice win tonight (didn't get to see it though, office Christmas party) but looking at the stats if we don't get more than 16 - 18 SOG tomorrow I think our chance of winning is at best 20%. I realize we were up 3-0 an obviously in defensive mode but that's gotta improve tomorrow night if we're to have a chance.

Fire Haks!

Just curious, did we even recruit either of them?

Exactly. They're usually the king, uh queen, of turnovers.

Ahh, that's right. Forgot about that. Yah, pretty good win although it could be closer if they're scheduled to meet up later again in the season. Man, GFC putting up some big numbers.

Still for sale? Is it 4 tickets each night vs Den? I'm only looking for 2 tickets for Sat night only (pending permission from my "boss").

Just think; if that presidential vote/count had happened on a Sat night that infamous headline would of been in the Tue print edition of the GF Herald. And that's called "progress" folks, don't ya love it!

Somewhat in line with what you say, my mother lived in GF early 80s to 99 then moved to Rochester (MN), where' she's lived ever since. She gets up here once a year to visit and 3 things (economically, with #3 being no surprise) always stick out to her. One; it always surprises how high priced housing is in GF in comparison to her expectation (keep in mind/comparing to Rochester, which is a Midwest "boom-town" akin to Fargo and Sioux Falls). Two; Hugos is high priced. Three; how high priced gas is (Linbergh baby!).

And halfway (or a third?) lost the GF Herald recently.

I realize this is about ND HS hockey but just for fun, where would EGF fit in there? I'm no great HS hockey mind by any means but my guess is 2, 3 or 4? Are they about on par with Davies and RR this season but well behind GFC?

No doubt, preference would be somewhere in the middle. Anyway, I would still take Bud. This ain't a football blog/site but to be fair to Bud Grant, they were pretty much the best team NFC team for much of the 70s but lost 3 SBs to pretty damn good all-time teams in Miami, Pittsburgh, and Oakland so it was really no tragedy losing to them. The KC loss though, ugh.

Hmm..., Mount Rushmore (and I'm not a Pats fan).

That stat, while nice, tells me then that overall (season as a whole) they're probably an average or slightly above average team. Maddingly they sometimes look like world beaters and sometimes they've looked like they can't beat anybody (just 1 win in 6 games vs Bem St, Miami-OH, and W. Mich).

I think his point though is a little more meaningful in that the 2016 team was really Hak's team while last season was obviously more so Berry's team.

Amen. Marv Levy and Bud Grant, who we all know lost multiple SBs, were arguably better coaches than T. Dungy and J. Gruden, regardless whether the latter two won SB titles.

That's my #1 pet peeve with basketball (besides the last 3 min taking 20 min in a close game) unless you're head and shoulders above another team good luck trying to win a non-conf game on the road. I say that as at least in a conf game on the road the refs are from the conf of both schools but I believe when they're non-conf games normally the refs are from the conf of the home team. If that's not right (after all, UND men did win at Milwaukee earlier this season) then I stand corrected.

Thx, interesting stats. 35th, slightly below average pp then so not quite as dour as suspected but obviously room for big improvement. Another interesting stat was goals for/against difference (scoring margin), we're tied with Minn at 0.0.

I hear you but I believe it's been woeful for the most part this season, hasn't it (not sure where their pp % ranks nationally)?

But didn't Scheel stand out in the 5 game win streak (though he started the bulk of those games)?

With apologies to the clowns.

Duluth ran into a hot goalie (believe I've heard that one before...) on Sat night. In all seriousness too, had Duluth not been so undisciplined and taken 7 called penalties then UND may not have won despite their woeful pp. At least those minutes short-handed kept Duluth on the defense rather than attacking. That is about the only "positive" I can take away regarding UND's pp.

Agree, saw a ref or two quickly step in halfway during the line handshake.

Agree. The Goofer football team fired their defensive coach 3 games ago and the turn-around in those last 3 games was night and day. Our head coach too should fire the pp coach for putrid power play performance/output. It could turn it around...

Stating the obvious but the 3rd period, I believe, is huge. I am not optimistic but I sure hope UND proves me wrong (they have a lot of times over the years when I've been Nancy negative lthough the past season and a half maybe not so true).